This is an archive related to a previous version of Esri Maps for IBM Cognos. If you need the current version go to http://doc.arcgis.com/en/maps-for-cognos/.
Once Esri Maps for IBM Cognos is installed and configured in your environment, report authors can create reports augmented with maps. If your organization wants to standardize a template, or default, from which report authors start creating maps, you can ask a report author to create the default map using Esri Maps Designer.
Once the default map has been configured, the map specification (accessed through Advanced > Show map specification in the map in Esri Maps Designer) can be copied to the appropriate section in defaultMap.json.txt, which is located at em4c_location/webcontent/esrimap/em4c-bisprovider/defaults/defaultMap.json.txt on each EM4C Gateway in your environment.