Product:
Cognos BI 10.1.1

Symptom:
How do I change the Logo in Cognos Connection to be my companies logo ?

Solution:

Download the company logo as a small GIF file.

In our example we call the company NIPPON, so save the gif file as NIPPON_logo.gif.

Go to your Cognos Gateway server, copy the folder \program files\ibm\cognos\c10_64\webcontent\skins\corporate and content to folder \program files\ibm\cognos\c10_64\webcontent\skins\NIPPON folder.

Place the NIPPON_logo.gif file in folder \program files\ibm\cognos\c10_64\webcontent\skins\NIPPON\branding.

Surf to your Cognos Connection.
Launch Cognos Administration.
Select Configuration tab.
Click on Styles (on the left side).
Click on the New Style icon (on the top right side).
Enter NIPPON as name and click next.
Enter NIPPON as Style resources location and click Finish.

Now you have your company NIPPON in the list of styles.
Click on icon for My area options (on the top right side).
Select My Preferences
From the drop down menu at Styles select your company NIPPON.
Click OK.
Click on HOME icon.

You account in Cognos Connection are now using the new style NIPPON.
But it look the same as corporate - because we have not changed anything.

Go to your Cognos BI report server.
Go to folder c:\program files\ibm\cognos\c10_64\templates\ps\portal
Make a backup copy of the file system.xml, name it system_org.xml.
Open your system.xml file in notepad.
Search for param name="OEM"

...........................Below from original system.xml.........................

<!-- Custom OEM headers -->
<param name="OEM">
<!--
Specify custom Cognos Connection / Cognos Viewer left side header here in the form of XHTML snippets. Custom headers can be style-specific.
Example:
<customHeader showContext="true" contextDelimiter=" - ">
<style styleFolderName="corporate">
<table style="background-color:#ffffff">
<tr>
<td><img src="/../skins/corporate/branding/my_logo.gif"/></td>
<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>
</tr>
</table>
</style>
<style styleFolderName="classic">
<table style="background-color:#cccccc">
<tr>
<td><img src="/../skins/classic/branding/my_logo.gif"/></td>
<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>
</tr>
</table>
</style>
</customHeader>
-->
</param>

.........................................................................................

Change above text to below instead;

<!-- Custom OEM headers -->
<param name="OEM">

<customHeader showContext="true" contextDelimiter=" - ">

<style styleFolderName="NIPPON">
<table style="background-color:#fffff">
<tr>
<td><img src="/../skins/NIPPON/branding/NIPPON_logo.gif"/></td>
<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"></td>
</tr>
</table>        
</style>

</customHeader>

</param>


Save system.xml file in folder \program files\ibm\cognos\c10_64\templates\ps\portal\

Restart the IBM Cognos windows service on the Cognos BI report server.

Surf to Cognos Connection.
Go to my folders.
Now you should have the NIPPON logo in the top left corner

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