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Install Translated Product Documentation

To access translated user documentation, you must install it from IBM Cognos 8 Supplementary Languages Documentation.

English product documentation is installed when you install the IBM Cognos 8 gateway component. The Installation and Configuration Guide, the Quick Start Installation and Configuration Guide, and the Readme are the exceptions, and are available in all supported languages.

Before installing the Supplementary Languages Documentation, ensure that

Steps
  1. In the location where the Gateway component is installed, insert the IBM Supplementary Languages Documentation CD or go to the directory where the installation files were downloaded and extracted.

    On UNIX or Linux, mount the CD using Rock Ridge file extensions.

    On Windows, the installation wizard starts automatically from the product disk.

  2. To manually start the installation wizard, go to the operating system directory and do the following:

  3. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard to copy the required files to the same location where you installed gateway components for IBM Cognos 8.

    Install in a directory that contains only ASCII characters in the path name. Some Web servers do not support non-ASCII characters in directory names.

    The supplementary languages documentation components is selected by default.

  4. Choose the option you want in the Finish page of the installation wizard.