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  • 1.  How to configure SSL in Congos Analytics(HTTP to HTTPS)

    Posted 06/22/20 04:55 PM
    Hello Guys,

    I would like to know how to configure SSL in Cognos Analytics(11.0.9), as we are using IIS as a gateway and we have imported a new server certificate into it. Can anyone help me with how to make use of the certificate and what are the changes that need to do in the Cognos configuration, like changing HTTP to HTTPS and setting the port to 443, etc?

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    Kumar
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    #CognosAnalyticswithWatson


  • 2.  RE: How to configure SSL in Congos Analytics(HTTP to HTTPS)

    Posted 06/23/20 04:32 AM

    In IIS you can simply alter the website to bind on port 443 and select your imported certificate from there. For example click on Default Website and select bindings from the Actions pane on the right. Add a binding to https and select the certificate you had imported.

    In Cognos Configuration simply modify your Gateway URI to use HTTPS and the port that you are using (443 by default). Remember to do this for your client tools also (framework manager / transformer / etc)

    If you are using WebDAV to imbed images in your reports you will need to import your certificate into the Cognos Analytics keystore in order for CA to trust the webserver and retrieve images successfully -> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/importing-certificate-ssl-enabled-website-cognos-analytics 

    All in all HTTPS on the gateway is fairly straightforward. You should be able to get documentation if you search based on the basic information above.



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    Luke Peterson
    Business Analytics Advocate
    IBM
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  • 3.  RE: How to configure SSL in Congos Analytics(HTTP to HTTPS)

    Posted 09/07/20 01:45 PM
    Hi Peterson,

    Thanks for your reply,

    I have implemented the following steps that you have said and it worked for us, when a user tried to log in it passes through a secure connection(https), but our client is asking us to make the other URI's to change from HTTP to HTTPS. I tried by changing all other URIs and restarted the configuration but when I tried to open the Cognos web portal I am unable to get the login page and showed an error page(No errors found while restarting the services). After implementing the SSL we are facing an error that our Autosys jobs are getting failed, it generally uses Cognos IIS gateway URI but for time being we changed it to dispatcher URI and it is working.

    Kindly help us if you have any inputs.

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    Kumar IBM cognos administrator
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