Uninstalling Cognos® Business Intelligence server

You uninstall Cognos® by uninstalling the Cognos® Business Intelligence server and Cognos® Transformer and removing the powercube refresh scheduler .

Procedure

  1. Stop the Cognos® server from the application server list on the IBM® WebSphere® Deployment Manager.
  2. Remove the Cognos® server node from the Deployment Manager by navigating to System Administration > Nodes and then select the node containing Cognos® and click Remove Node.
    Note: Do not remove the node if other servers on this node should remain in the DMGR cell. If this node should remain in the cell, please use a new node for the Cognos® server that will be used with Connections 5.0.
  3. Uninstall the Cognos® application on the IBM® WebSphere® Deployment Manager if it still exists by navigating to Applications > Application Types > Websphere enterprise applications > Select Cognos and then click Uninstall.
  4. On the machine where the Cognos® application is installed, remove the Cognos® server instance in WAS by using the following command:
    wsadmin -lang jython -conntype NONE -c "AdminServerManagement.deleteServer('NODE_NAME', 'cognos_server')"
    Where NODE_NAME is the name of the node that the cognos_server is in. Also, change cognos_server to be the actual server name if that has been changed. This command is run from the $WAS_HOME/bin folder.
  5. Make sure that the following Cognos® processes have stopped before proceeding to the next step.
    • IBM® AIX® or Linux™: cgsServer.sh and CAM_LPSvr processes
    • Microsoft™ Windows™: cgsLauncher.exe and CAM_LPSvr processes
    These processes should have stopped within a few minutes after the Cognos® application stopped.
  6. From the operating system command line, change to the Cognos_BI_install_path/uninstall directory.
    1. At the command prompt, enter the following command:
      • Windows™: uninst -u
      • UNIX™ or Linux™ with XWindows: ./uninst -u
      • UNIX™ or Linux™ without XWindows: ./uninstnx -u -s
    2. Then follow the prompts to complete the IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence Server uninstallation.
  7. Delete the folder that Cognos® Business Intelligence Server was installed.
  8. From the operating system command line, change to the Cognos_Transformer_install_path/uninstall directory.
    1. At the command prompt, enter the following command:
      • Windows™: uninst -u
      • UNIX™ or Linux™ with XWindows: ./uninst -u
      • UNIX™ or Linux™ without XWindows: ./uninstnx -u -s
    2. Then follow the prompts to complete the IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence Transformer uninstallation.
  9. Delete the folder where Cognos® Business Intelligence Transformer was installed.
  10. Delete all the files from the path where the powecube file was stored.
  11. Remove the powercube refresh scheduler as follows:
    • Windows™:
      schtasks /delete /tn MetricsCubeDailyRefresh /f
schtasks /delete /tn MetricsCubeWeeklyRebuild /f
    • UNIX™ or Linux™: 
      crontab -e
      Edit the file opened to remove the lines that contain the following path, then save the change. 
      Cognos_Transformer_install_path/metricsmodel/daily-refresh.sh
      Or 
      Cognos_Transformer_install_path/metricsmodel/weekly-rebuild.sh