A considerable time passed by last week trying to install IBM Cognos Express. I didn’t read the requirements beforehand. I couldn’t have anyways, just as I am typing this blog entry, I find out the requirements link on the IBM website is dead.
Started by installing Windows 7 Professional – which takes about two to three hours until it’s up to date. Wrong: Installing Office 2013 64 bit – only 32 bit is supported by Cognos Express. Wrong: Installing Office 2013 32 bit – Cognos only works with Office up to 2010. Wrong: trying to uninstall Office 2013 and install Office 2010 – the installation is broken afterwards. Wrong: trying to install the Cognos client software before it is absolutely sure there are no updates for Windows and Office anymore. This took me about two days…
Right:
- Fresh install of Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit are fine).
- Update until Windows Update is showing no more updates.
- Install Office 2010 32 bit
- Update until there are no more updates shown for Office 2010.
- Install Cognos Express
- Open Cognos Express Manager and wait for the installation to finish
- Install subcomponents of Cognos within the web interface, wait for the installation of those to finish
- Download and install the client components of the welcome page
This took another day, but it finally works. So for anybody who wants to try the Cognos Express trial version: make sure you take these steps (all installations were done using a dual core, four GB RAM virtual machine).
Gut zu wissen; allerdings sind dir einige dieser Dinge passiert, da du kein langjähriger Windows-Anwender bist. Dass man Office – bis heute – niemals in der 64-Bit-Variante installiert, ist leider traurige Routine. Und übrigens auch Infor PM – dessen Excel-Integration der von TM1 historisch bedingt sehr ähnlich ist – musste viele Jahre lang stets mit Vorversionen von Office betrieben werden. Bei BO ist meines Kenntnisstandes nach auch nicht anders…
Nun, ich kann sagen: meine TM1 Installation läuft vorzüglich mit Office 2013 64 bit. Die entsprechenden Binaries hätte IBM also (deswegen habe ich das auch anfänglich gar nicht als Problem gesehen).
Nebenbei: ich hatte meinen ersten 64-Bitter ca. September 2004 bekommen.