Cognos Express 10.2.1 Client Installation Problem

[tony.wijaya]

Hi All,

We are using Cognos Express 10.2.1 and want to perform Xcelerator (perspective) client installation.

As we know, there are two methods to intall the Cognos Express Xcelerator client for user:
1. Copy the installer from installation folder (C:\Program Files\IBM\Cognos Express\ClientInstallers\IBM_CX_XceleratorClient) using cxinst_xcel_cl_HTcxhost_PTcxport_E.exe file. But user need to key in the host name and port number.
2. Download the installer from http://<servername>:19300/cognos_express/manager/welcome.html and perform installation

The problem is both of methods require the installer to download another base installer from the server. If i look at the temporary folder, i can see the installer is trying to download silent installer with 900MB+ size. So it is very annoying because users need to wait for 3-4 hours just to install the Xcelerator client.

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Silent Installer inside temporary folder under C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\cog@xx

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Inside silent installer folder

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Does everyone experience the same thing? Is there any workaround to do offline or standalone installation?
That does not make any sense that user needs to wait for 3-4 hours (depend on network connection) only to install the Xcelerator client.

[tomago]

I too need a silent install option
any updates on this anybody

[homebunny]

I'm searching for the same thing, have you find a solution?

[declanr]

Just take the whole bin folder from a PC where the client has been installed (note that OS's must be the same etc.)