Installing Cognos UI and Error String Customization Toolkit

After you install and configure IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence software, you can install the IBM Cognos User Interface and Error String Customization Toolkit to enable you to customize the messages and user interface text in certain IBM Cognos products.

The Cognos UI and Error String Customization Toolkit is available through the Cognos Software Development Kit installation. For more information, see the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Installation and Configuration Guide. It can be installed on the same computer as the product you customize, or on a different computer.

Supported Environments

To review an up-to-date list of supported environments for IBM Cognos products, visit the software environments page (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27037784). The website provides information about requirements related to the following parts of your environment.
  • Operating systems
  • Patches or service packs or equivalent
  • Web browsers
  • Web servers
  • Directory servers
  • Database servers
  • Application servers

Unless otherwise indicated, IBM Cognos products are compatible with later versions of patches/service packs from the versions stated.

It is important to note that the Linux operating system is available in a number of distributions and supports a number of hardware platforms. Ensure that the combination of the operating system and hardware that you are using is supported.