Cognos Now! 4.3 and 4.3.1 Appliance - Software Environments

Updated: July 20, 2007

 

Cognos Now! is only distributed as a bundled hardware appliance. Thus the supported software environments listed only relate to external components which may or may not be present for a specific solution.

Software environments for Cognos Now! are listed as active, compatible or not supported. Environments denoted as active are the environments tested by Cognos. Although environments denoted as compatible may also be tested, testing may be limited or support may be based on upward compatibility statements from Cognos partners and third-party vendors. Older releases of environments may transition from active to compatible over time as significant testing would have occurred in previous Cognos releases.

 

Fact Sheet

• For more details, see the Cognos Now! fact sheet 

 

Software Environment Section Navigation

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DATABASE SUPPORT VIA JDBC	PLATFORM	COGNOS LAVA SUPPORT
MS SQL Server 2000 via Microsoft V 2.2.0029+ driver	Windows	Compatible
MS SQL Server 2005 Standard and Enterprise Editions via Microsoft 1.0.809.102+ driver	Windows	Active
Oracle 9.2 via Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 driver	Windows/Unix	Compatible
Oracle 10G Release 1 via Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 driver	Windows/Unix	Compatible
Oracle 10G Release 2 via Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 driver	Windows/Unix	Active
DB2 UDB 8.1 via Type 2 or 4 driver	Windows/Unix	Compatible
DB2 UDB 8.2 via Type 2 or 4 driver	Windows/Unix	Compatible
Sybase 12.5.0.1 via jConnect 6.05 driver	Windows/Unix	Compatible
MySQL 4.1.X via MySQL Connector/J 3.1 driver	Windows/Unix	Compatible
MySQL 5.X via MySQL Connector/J 3.1 driver	Windows/Unix	Active
PostgreSQL 8.2.3+ via PostgreSQL 8.2+ driver	Windows/Unix	Active
HP Neoview R2.0	Windows	Compatible
DATA VIA MESSAGE ORIENTED MIDDLEWARE (Enterprise Appliance Only)	PLATFORM	COGNOS LAVA SUPPORT
IBM Websphere MQ 5.3	Vendor supported	Active
IBM WBI Server Foundation 5.0.2+	Vendor supported	Compatible
BEA Weblogic Integration	Vendor supported	Active
TIBCO EMS 4.0 or 4.1	Vendor supported	Compatible
WEB BROWSER SUPPORT	PLATFORM	COGNOS LAVA SUPPORT
Internet Explorer 7.0 with Macromedia Flash 8+ plug-in	Windows XP	Active
Internet Explorer 7.0 with Macromedia Flash 8+ plug-in	Windows 2000/2003	Compatible
Internet Explorer 6 SP1 with Macromedia Flash 8+ plug-in	Windows 2000/2003	Compatible
Internet Explorer 6 SP2 with Macromedia Flash 8+ plug-in and patch KB918899 removed	Windows XP	Compatible
DIRECTORY SERVERS	PLATFORM	COGNOS LAVA SUPPORT
SUN ONE Directory Server 5.1 SP1	Windows/UNIX	Compatible
SUN ONE Directory Server 5.2	Windows/UNIX	Compatible
Microsoft Active Directory Server 2000	Windows	Compatible
Microsoft Active Directory Server 2003	Windows	Active
IBM Directory Server 5.2	Windows/UNIX	Compatible
IBM Directory Server 6.0	Windows/UNIX	Compatible
Other LDAP v3 compliant servers	Windows/UNIX	Compatible
AUTHENTICATION PROVIDERS		COGNOS LAVA SUPPORT
CA Netegrity SiteMinder 5.5		Compatible
CA Netegrity SiteMinder 6.0		Compatible
Access Manager LDAP Namespace (versions 6.x)		Compatible
Access Manager LDAP Namespace (versions 7.x)		Compatible

 

 

Footnotes

(1) + indicates higher versions of the last number specified. For example, 1.4.1_02+ includes versions 1.4.1_02 through 1.4.1_99.