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  • 1.  Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Tue December 04, 2018 12:40 PM
    Hello,
        I was wondering if anyone has experience getting Cognos Server to run inside a docker container?

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    John Hutchinson
    Senior Certified IT Specialist
    IBM
    Poughkeepsie NY
    845-435-4994
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  • 2.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Wed December 05, 2018 07:33 AM
    The product architecture is changing to allow for containerization. Currently only dashboard is available. https://developer.ibm.com/data/cognos-dashboard/

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    NORBERT Bracke
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  • 3.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Mon December 10, 2018 08:22 PM

    I do not understand the reference to Cognos Dashboard Embedded in regards to a question on running Cognos in a docker container.

    There may be scenarios where an application provider has simpler use cases where the function can be rewritten to work on CDE, but the number of dashboarding use cases supported by a full server is orders of magnitude above what CDE can do, from authoring to runtime.



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    Denilson Nastacio
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  • 4.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Thu December 06, 2018 03:13 PM
    Yes, we run 11.1 in docker containers for development purposes. In general, we use the silent installer to create a base "cognosbi" image and then create other images on top of it to configure the base installation as needed (e.g. DB connections, Namespaces, mail server, etc) .

    I would be glad to talk more about it.

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    Denilson Nastacio
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  • 5.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Fri December 07, 2018 05:21 AM
    @Denilson
    I would be really interested to hear more about this.

    I have recently been reading about Docker but I am unsure on what it's benefits for Cognos would be?
    Is the main benefit being able to create, test and run many versions of Cognos?
    Being able to start them up very quickly? Would it mean that you can repeatedly start with a know configuration, test something then discard it?
    My understanding is that there are security implications to using Docker that need advanced understanding to control. So would it only be safe to use for internal use where we can trust employees, but not safe to use publicly/with clients?
    Would this only work with the Linux version of Cognos in a Linux container or would it work with Windows version in a Windows container as well?
    Thanks
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  • 6.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Mon December 10, 2018 08:16 PM

    You are correct about "Is the main benefit being able to create, test and run many versions of Cognos?"

    In our scenario, we have long-lived VMs running Cognos, but there are complex setup scripts that can really damage the setup of a VM if not tested properly ahead of time. Docker allows us to have a near-exact copy of thse long-lived setups inside a container and then dispose of the docker instance once development is done.

    As for security implications, I don't see any additional exposure relative to other packaging and scheduling alternatives. I would be safe with running those types of images in production.

    >> Would this only work with the Linux version of Cognos in a Linux container or would it work with Windows version in a Windows container as well?

    We have only used Linux containers and have not had reason to try Windows.



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  • 7.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Wed July 31, 2019 09:15 AM
    Hi,

    I succeeded to install IBM Cognos 11.0.13 on a RHEL 7.6 docker. :)

    You can find it in my Blog at: http://jenkinsmanagment.wordpress.com

    Regards, Adi

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    Adi Ben David
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  • 8.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Wed October 30, 2019 09:27 AM
    I am getting following error during the Cognos install on a container> i followed the procedure to create dockerfile as in your blog post.

    Can you suggest where repo.zip file available. I do not find it in my package and preferably files needs to be placed under Resources and InstalledFiles directory.

    List of files required.

    CARepositoryState.install
    Status: ERROR
    Additional Notes: ERROR - com.zerog.ia.api.pub.FatalInstallException: Failed to open repository: file:/opt/ibm/cognos/Resources/repo.zip does not exist.

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    Venkataramana Cheppali
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  • 9.  RE: Cognos running in Docker Container

    Posted Wed October 30, 2019 09:28 AM
    I am getting following error while installing on a container.

    Where is this file available. I do not find it in my package installer


    CARepositoryState.install
    Status: ERROR
    Additional Notes: ERROR - com.zerog.ia.api.pub.FatalInstallException: Failed to open repository: file:/opt/ibm/cognos/Resources/repo.zip does not exist.Adi Ben David

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    Venkataramana Cheppali
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