IBM Cognos Business Intelligence - Change History

TKU November

(BMC Atrium Discovery version 8.2 and later) Updated the pattern to run privileged execution for file versioning if non-privileged execution fails.

TKU May

The following improvements were made:

• BIServer SI now contains the following components:
  
  • SI: BI Application Services
  • SI: BI Content manager
  • SI: BI Gateway
  • SI: Database Server that stores all information
    including optional:
  • SI: Metrics Manager Application Services
  • SI: Metrics Manager Gateway
• Updated the key for BI server so that it consists of the following components:
  • SI_type
  • database name
  • SI key for the database server
• Developed new patterns for the following components:
  
  • SI: BI Application Services
  • SI: BI Content manager
  • SI: BI Gateway
• Updated the trigger from the Java process to the SI of "Application Server" (because the default path to Cognos can be changed):
  • "Apache Tomcat Application Server"
  • "BEA WebLogic Application Server"
  • "IBM WebSphere Application Server"
  • "Oracle Application Server"
  • "Red Hat JBoss Application Server"
  • "SAP Java Application Server"
  • "Sun Glassfish Enterprise Server"
• Added extended search for Cognos installation on the Tomcat Application server.
• Added support for distributed Cognos BI installations or distributed Cognos BI with Metrics manager installation.
• Modified the ReportServer pattern to "stub" because it represents just one of the services of the BI Application Tier.
• Updated the list of supported versions.
• Updated the list of known builds.
• Updated list of simple identities.
• Added a communication link to the used database server.

TKU June 2012

The following improvements were made:

• Improved search queries.
• Improved the trigger for the BIServer pattern.
• Added a dbname attribute for BI Content manager.

TKU July 2012

Updated BIApplication and ContentManager pattern regexes to support IPv6 protocol.

TKU August 2012

The following improvements were made:

• Merged the BIApplication and ContentManager patterns to improve performance.
• BIApplication pattern: Updated link management code and added SI management code.
• BIGateway pattern: Added SI management code.

TKU February 2014

The following improvements were made:

• Updated the BIApplication, ContentManager and BIGateway patterns with additional methods to check if an SI is installed and obtain versions for it (QM001812391).

• IBM Cognos Content Manager: Updated database link creation for IBM Cognos Content Manager.

TKU July 2014

Added support for the following components:

• "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Graphics Service"
• "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Metadata Service"

TKU April 2019

Updated the pattern to use runCommand functions.

TKU December 2021

Updated linking to databases.