Configure Cognos Business Intelligence to use IBM HTTP Server

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence uses the same IBM HTTP Server as IBM Connections, but configure Cognos Business Intelligence to work with that server.

After configuring IBM HTTP Server as described in the section Configure IBM HTTP Server, complete these tasks to configure the Cognos BI Server and the Cognos Transformer components to use HTTP:

Important: To ensure that community metrics runs smoothly, one HTTP Server setting needs to be changed. In the plugin-cfg.xml file of the HTTP Server, change the ServerIOTimeout value for Cognos Server. The plugin-cfg.xml file is located in <WAS root>\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\<CellName>\nodes\<HTTPNodeName>\servers\<HTTPServerName>. Search for the Cognos server-related section and modify ServerIOTimeout. By default the value is set to 60 (seconds), which is not enough in most situations. The recommended value is 300 or 5 minutes. Save the file, synchronize, and restart the entire IBM Connections environment.

Check LotusConnections-config.xml to ensure the web addresses specified in the href and ssl_href of the Cognos application have been updated to the HTTP server.

1. Configure Cognos BI Server to use HTTP
   Configure the Cognos BI Server to use the IHS that operates with the Connections deployment.

2. Configure Cognos Transformer to use HTTP
   Configure the Cognos Transformer to use the IHS that operates with the Connections deployment.

3. Configure Cognos for SSL
   Set up IBM Cognos to handle secure https URLs.

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