Questions[cognos](server)

Previously in Cognos 10 you could customize the connection portal by adding a company logo and/or fonts and colors. These settings could be changed by editing the banner.css file on the gateway web server and editing the system.xml file on the app tier.

I installed Cognos 11.1.6 but it looks like the steps previously used to update these environment configurations are no longer used, or this is no longer the preferred method to make the changes. I'm looking to add a company logo and to edit some colors to the connection portal. If somebody has experience with this in Cognos 11 I would greatly appreciate the assistance.

Thanks

I'm running Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 and restored a bunch of reports from the previous server that was running 10.2.2. A user mentioned that when she clicks a report on the 11 instance she is required to enter a user id and password for the data source in order to view/run the report which is not ideal. I don't want to be sharing out sql account information to users.

In the admin console the data source this specific report is using has a 'signon' configured with a local sql account that connects to the necessary sql server. If I test the connection it comes back successful. Can somebody please explain/assist on what I need to do in order to prevent the user id / password prompt from appearing when users run Cognos reports?

I have very limited Cognos experience and IBM's documentation is lacking. Thanks!

I am using IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1 on WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.37 for AIX 7.1.3.45 TL03. Every time my system undergoes a heavy usage period, which currently happens pretty often due to corporate end-of-quarter reporting, after about 15 minutes my dispatcher app locks up and displays a 500 Internal Server Error and I have to restart it. This didn't happen when the Cognos app on a server that is very similarly configured to the one we're currently using.

Any ideas on how to keep my Cognos app stable?

When i place ojdbc5.jar in the c8\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib directory... i receive the error below. And yes the content store is on an oracle 11g RAC database. I am running Oracle11g Client. Cognos version is 8.3 SP4.

[Content Manager database connection] 1. [ ERROR ] The database connection failed. 2. [ ERROR ] Content Manager failed to start because it could not load driver "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.