Cognos ReportNetTM Installation and Configuration Guide

Chapter 3: Installing ReportNet on Windows
Steps for Oracle
1. Set the appropriate environment variables for the Oracle database.
Environment variable
ORACLE_HOME
TNS_ADMIN
NLS_LANG
Description
The top level directory that contains the
database client software or the entire
database installation.
The directory that contains the Oracle
file tnsnames.ora. This file calls the
Oracle database to determine the
required server connections.
This setting provides support for
multilingual databases. Its three
components are: language, territory,
and character set:
NLS_LANG =
language_territory.charset
Ensure the charset is UTF8, UTF16,
AL32UTF8, or AL16UTF16.
2. If you use Oracle 8.1.7, ensure that the compatibility level parameter of the content store is
set to 8.1 and not to the default setting of 8.0.
For information about changing an instance configuration parameter, see the Oracle
documentation.
3. In SQL Plus, determine if the database is unicode by typing the following select statement:
select * from NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS
The result set returns NLS_CHARACTERSET is UTF-8 or UTF-16, or AL32UTF8 or
AL16UTF16, or not unicode.
4. If the result set returns NLS_CHARACTERSET is not unicode, create the database.
• For Oracle 8.1.7, ensure that you specify UTF-8 or UTF-16 as the character set for the
national character set and the database character set parameters.
• For Oracle 9i, specify AL32UTF8 or AL16UTF16 as the character set for the national
character set and the database character set parameters.
5. Determine which user account ReportNet will use to access the content store.
6. Grant create and drop table privileges for the content store to the user account.
Ensure that the user account is granted the CONNECT and RESOURCE roles.
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