PM56840: COGNOS MOBILE: LOCATION-AWARE REPORTS BASED ON GPS COORDINATES

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The Cognos Mobile Installation and Administration Guide and the
  Proven Practices document 'Creating and Using Location Aware
  Reports for GO Mobile' describe how to create Location-aware
  Reports. ??When Defining report prompts based on GPS coordinates
  as describe in the product documentation, the mobileService is
  unavailable.??Log in to /m fails with following message:
  ??Sorry! The following error occurred while making your
  request:?Unable to load balance the request because no nodes in
  the cluster are available, or no nodes are configured for the
  service: mobileService.??As of Defect:COGCQ00139620, a
  misconfigured location.xml file prevents Mobile startup.
  

Local fix

• Working location.xml
  ============================
  
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <location>
          <projection active="true">
          <proj4>
              +init=epsg:2263 +x_0+984252
          </proj4>
          <columns x="x_coord" y="y_coord"/>
          </projection>
  </location>
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * IBM Cognos Mobile 10.1.1 user creating Location-aware        *
  * Reports based on GPS coordinates as described in the Cognos  *
  * Mobile Installation and Administration Guide.                *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * See error description.                                       *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * Upgrade to Cognos BI Server 10.2                             *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Code Fix
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  COG8 GO MOBILE

• Fixed component ID

  5724W20GM

Applicable component levels

• RA20 PSN

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