Configuring HTTP manually for Cognos® Transformer
If your IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence server runs on IBM® AIX® or Linux™ and does not provide a graphical user interface, you can configure HTTP settings manually.
About this task
You can configure HTTP by adding a component to the Cognos® Transformer’s cogstartup.xml file and then customizing it for your deployment.
For more information, see the Cognos® information center.
Procedure
-
On the computer where you installed Cognos®
Transformer, navigate to the /configuration directory within the installation
location of the Transformer component (specified by the
cognos.transformer.install.path
property in the cognos-setup.properties file); for example:- IBM® AIX® or Linux™: /opt/IBM/Cognos/Transformer/configuration
- Microsoft™ Windows™: C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Cognos\Transformer\configuration
- Make a backup copy of the cogstartup.xml file.
- Open the working copy of the cogstartup.xml file for editing.
- In the file, locate the following parameters and update
their URI port references from
90xx
to port80
:IIn this file, the URLs must be updated to point to the HTTP server's host name and port number. The port number must be included even if it's the standard port 80.
<crn:parameter name=
gateway
sdk
After your changes, those parameters should look like the ones that follow:
<crn:parameter name="gateway"> <crn:value xsi:type="xsd:anyURI">http://cognos.example.com:80/cognos/servlet/dispatch</crn:value> </crn:parameter> <crn:parameter name="sdk"> <crn:value xsi:type="xsd:anyURI">http://cognos.example.com:80/cognos/servlet/dispatch</crn:value> </crn:parameter>
- Save and close the file.
- Validate the modified file: by running the following command:
./cogconfig.sh -config
You do not need to restart the Transformer component.
What to do next
Verify that Cognos is mapped to the IBM HTTP Server URLs in LotusConnections-config.xml. For more information, see Updating IBM Connections to use the HTTP server.