IBM® Cognos® BI, IBM® reporting, and domains

Before you begin, determine whether you are installing IBM® Cognos® BI in the same domain as the IBM® EMM suite. As a best practice, you are encouraged to install IBM® Cognos® and the IBM® EMM system in the same domain. If you do not, you must configure both IBM® Cognos® and IBM® EMM to use SSL.

After you install IBM® Cognos® BI, be sure to use Cognos® Configuration to configure the Cognos® URLs appropriately. On a Windows™ system, the default values for these URLs use the machine name "localhost." You must replace the "localhost" placeholder with the fully qualified host name, including domain.