Cognos 8.4 Installation with Oracle 10g

[joshtheflame]

Hi All,

I just tried to install Cognos 8.4 on virtual machine (XP 32bit + SP3) with Oracle 10.1.2 database.

Installed cognos without any problem and got configuration page then went to FILE menu and save the configuration.

After saving the configuration it check so many things but got error on content manager and mail server. At the end it was unable to start the cognos service...when I checked the installation guide it says the Oracle database NLS_CHARACTERSET must be AL32UTF8 ...

Do i need to uninstall Oracle actually I have installed the database for INFORMATICA and wanted to utilize the database for INFORMATICA AND COGNOS both. do i have a choice?

Anyway just removed COGNOS from the system and going to remove 10g as well...please give me guideline or tell me things which is essential to start the cognos service. Please help.

thanks

[MFGF]

Hi,

Did you change the configuration to use ORACLE as your content store, or did it still have the default entry looking for a DB2 database?

MF.

[SomeClown]

You need to specifically change the oracle charsets - the default installation of Oracle is not compatible with Cognos - it's in the documentation as to which ones you should use (I don't remember which ones - I always look it up)

[gouravatalkar]

hi all,
this is gourav from bisp i just stucked in cognos installation i know the H/W requirement but not able to install
could you tell me the the proper steps to follow 

[sir_jeroen]

You will have to drop the Oracle db and recreate it with the proper character set...