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Cognos Installation

Troubleshooting


Problem

When trying to launch Cognos Administration from within Maximo Report Administration Application - it gives an error:

Symptom

"Log on - the provided credentials are invalid"

Cause

The mxcognosdatasources.properties has incorrect credentials.

Environment

Maximo 7.6 with Cognos

Diagnosing The Problem

Edit the mxcognosdatasources.properties.
Check each property value for spaces at the end of the line.

Resolving The Problem

Remove the spaces and save the file.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSLKT6","label":"IBM Maximo Asset Management"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"Cognos Integration","Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"7.1.1;7.5;7.6;Version Independent","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB59","label":"Sustainability Software"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21698086