To ensure your product works properly, apply all required operating system patches and use only the versions of third-party software that are supported for a Cognos product.
To review an up-to-date list of environments supported by Cognos products, such as operating systems, patches, browsers, Web servers, directory servers, database servers, and application servers:
Visit the Cognos Global Customer Services Web site (http://support.cognos.com).
It is important to note that the Linux operating system is available in a number of distributions and supports a number of hardware platforms. Ensure that the operating system and hardware combination you are using is a supported combination.
When you install Cognos 8 on Linux, Framework Manager is not installed. The BMTScriptPlayer is a command-line utility that interfaces with the Framework Manager engine, allowing you to run Framework Manager action logs. Because Framework Manager is not installed, the BMTScriptPlayer will not work.