Publish Content on Windows

On Windows, to make IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence content available to an enterprise search engine, such as Google Search Appliance, you must create and publish index search cards. The enterprise search engine indexes the cards, in the same way as it indexes other content, to make the Cognos content available for searching. When a user runs an enterprise search, the results can include Cognos content.

Procedure

  1. Before generating index search cards, set the Index Data Service advanced setting CSN.StoreXML to true.

    For information about where to set the CSN.StoreXML parameter, see Change Index Data Service Parameters.

    Existing content will need to be reindexed if you want it stored as XML documents.

  2. Open the card.xml file in an XML or text editor.
  3. Modify parameters to specify the location of IBM Cognos components and to change other default process settings.
  4. Open a command prompt window and go to the \bin\card location in the IBM Cognos BI installation.
  5. Run card.bat.

Results

The index search cards are created by default in installation_location\indexes\card. Ensure that the enterprise search engine has access to the cards for indexing. You must regenerate the cards to include changes in the Cognos content.
Parent topic: Publish Content to an Enterprise Search Engine