Web Browser Settings

IBM® Cognos® Report Studio can be used in the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers.

To review an up-to-date list of the environments that are supported by IBM Cognos products, including information about operating systems, patches, browsers, web servers, directory servers, database servers, and application servers, visit the Software Environments site (http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042164).

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence uses the default browser configurations provided by Internet Explorer and Firefox. Additional required settings are specific to the browser.

For Internet Explorer, the following settings are required:

Allow Cookies
Active Scripting
Allow META REFRESH
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
Binary and script behaviors
Allow programmatic clipboard access
Userdata persistence
Enable pop-ups for the IBM Cognos BI server

For Firefox, the following settings are required:

Allow Cookies
Enable Java™
Enable JavaScript
Load Images
Enable pop-ups for the IBM Cognos BI server

Report Studio uses the native Microsoft Internet Explorer XML support, which is a component of the browser. ActiveX support must be enabled because Microsoft implements XML using ActiveX. IBM Cognos BI does not provide or download ActiveX controls. Only the ActiveX controls that are installed as part of Internet Explorer are enabled through this configuration.

For more information about the Web browser configuration and cookies used by IBM Cognos BI, see the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Installation and Configuration Guide.