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Cognos 8 BI 8.4.1 FP3 Fix List

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Abstract

A comprehensive list of defect corrections for major releases, refresh packs and fix packs of Cognos Business Intelligence 8.4.1.

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Cognos 8 BI 8.4.1 Fix Lists

Issues corrected since IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence 8.4.1 Fix Pack 2.
Number Description
PK87995RECEIVE ERROR WHEN RUNNING THE GO MOBILE RICH CLIENT ON BLACKBERRY DEVICE: MOB-ERR-2000 AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURRED.
PK98281CNC-ASV-0001 [JAVA.LANG.NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION] RUNNING EVENT WHEN ON-ERROR TASK EXPECTS PARAMETERS.
PM02713BURST REPORT FAILS
PM03137PRS-INS-1425 ERROR IN DRILL THROUGH PROPERTIES TARGET TAB AFTER UPGRADE
PM03903CM-REQ-4029 ERROR OCCURS WHEN TRY TO OPEN A REPORT IN QUERY STUDIO WITH A USER THAT ONLY HAS TRAVERSE AND EXECUTE PRIVILEGES.
PM04942BUBBLE CHARTS WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF DATA POINTS DO NOT RENDER TOOLTIPS
PM04951MAIL.ATTACHMENT.LIMIT SHOULD ONLY CHECK IF ATTACHMENTS SHOULD BE REPLACED AFTER EMAIL COMPRESSION TAKES PLACE
PM05136CANNOT UPDATE CLOB DATATYPE AGAINST ORACLE
PM05635HEADER TRUNCATED IN GO MOBILE REPORTS AFTER APPLYING 8.4.28.74 UPDATER KIT
PM05741RSV-DST-XXXX ERRORS WHEN SEVERAL BATCH PROCESSES EXECUTE CONCURRENTLY
PM05838UNABLE TO RUN A REPORT WITH OPTIONS FROM THE PORTAL AND HAVE IT DELIVERED TO A MOBILE DEVICE
PM06548QE-DEF-0260 PARSING ERROR BEFORE OR NEAR POSITION: 58 OF
PM07196EXCEL CHARTS VERY SMALL WHEN RENDERED IN EXCEL 2002 FORMAT BUT OPENED IN EXCEL 2007 SP2
PM07240EXD-ERR-1011 WHEN CREATING DASHBOARD USING PROMPT REPORT CREATED IN RS
PM07618"DRILL FROM AS TO RS REPORT FAILS WITH ERROR 'QE-DEF-0260' WHEN DYNAMIC FILTERING IS USED AND APOSTROPHE IN MEMBER CAPTION."
PM07762BUILDING CUBES HAVE A PERFORMANCE ISSUES WHILE READING DATA SOURCE AGAINST IQD
PM07851TEXT CARRIAGE RETURNED IN REPORT HEADER AND BODY IN BLACK BERRY
PM07934ABLE TO RUN REPORT WITHOUT COMPLETING A MANDATORY INTERVAL PROMPT AT RUN TIME
PM08536WINDOWS SERVICE REMAINS IN STARTING (START_PENDING) STATUS
PM08631ABAP DUMPS WHILE REPORTING VS SAP WITH INCOMPLETE SIGNON CONFIGURED
PM09338GO MOBILE :: NEW BLACKBERRY DEVICE COMPATIBILITY BOLD 9700 AND STORM2 9550
PM09384MULTIPLE FIXED-SIZE CROSSTABS DO NOT LINE UP PROPERLY IN MOBILE OUTPUT OF REPORT HEADER
PM10326INTERMITTENT DPR-ERR-2077
PM10474IN QUERY STUDIO, QUERY ENGINES FORGETS TO QUOTE CERTAIN FILTER VALUES.
PM10645BLACKBERRY CLIENT DRILL THROUGH FUNCTIONALITY ISSUE
PM10768"UPGRADE 8.2 TO 8.4 PROMPT PAGE RENDERING PERFORMANCE ISSUE WITH MULTI-SELECT TEXT PROMPT."
PM10847REPORT CONTAINING A UNION RETURNS ERROR MESSAGE OF RQP-DEF-0182 THE QUERIES OF SET OPERATION IS INCOMPATIBLE.
PM11078EMAILS NO LONGER BEING SENT - CNC-SDS-0408 THERE ARE EMAIL MESSAGES WAITING TO BE SENT
PM11152UNABLE TO INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS IN CC OPTION WHEN BURSTING A REPORT
PM11255ATTEMPTS TO MODIFY A STEP IN A JOB TO DESELECT THE SAVE OPTION WHEN SENDING A REPORT BY EMAIL IS PERMITTED AND THE JOB WILL FAIL
PM11383GO! OFFICE : LOST COLUMN HEADER FROM CROSSTAB REPORT AFTER IMPORTATION
PM11851HTML EMAIL IS RECEIVED AS PLAIN TEXT IN MS OUTLOOK AND OTHER CLIENTS
PM11857CHART WITH BENCHMARK NOT RENDERING CORRECTLY IN EXCEL 2007 SP2
PM12134COGNOS VIEWER IS FREEZING WITH INTERNET EXPLORER 8 IF AN ERROR OCCURS DURING A REPORT RUNNING IN ASYNCH MODE
PM12209RANGE VALUES FOR TEXT BOX PROMPT ARE INCORRECTLY APPLIED TO SAP/BW NATIVE QUERY
PM12322"METADATA NOT FOUND" ERROR WHEN SCHEDULING EVENT
PM12362CASE STATEMENT ON JOINED QUERY ERRORS AFTER UPGRADE TO 8.4.1
PM12407COMBINATION USE OF CASCADE PROMPT AND SEARCH AND SELECT PROMPT GENERATES ERROR RSV-SRV-0040.
PM12829INTERMITTENT DPR-ERR-2056/ DPR-ERR-2077 ERROR AND DMP FILE GENERATED
PM12913"NO RELATED LINKS AVAILABLE FOR THIS REPORT" ON POWERPLAY DRILL THROUGH
PM12972CUBE VIEW DISAPPEARS IN POWERPLAY STUDIO WHEN IE 8 BROWSER SETS TO 100% ZOOM LEVEL
PM13109DM-DBM-0402 UDA DRIVER ERROR ON CONNECT ATTEMPT TO MS SYNAMICS NAV
PM13198BURSTING NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SCHEDULING A REPORT VIEW AND 'SEND A LINK TO THE REPORT BY EMAIL' CHOSEN
PM13310MISSING BURST OUTPUTS AFTER UPGRADE
PM13336DYNAMIC DRILL THROUGH ISSUES USING HYBRID DATE DIMENSIONS WHEN DRILLING THROUGH FROM OLAP TO RELATIONAL REPORT
PM13402CASCADING PROMPT NOT WORKING CORRECTLY IN 8.4.1
PM13492PROMPT PAGE GOES INTO LOOP DURING REPORT VALIDATION PHASE
PM13606DELAY WHEN RENDERING REPORT
PM13696REGULAR USERS ARE ABLE TO CANCEL RUNNING SCHEDULES FROM OTHER USERS, INCLUDING ADMINISTRATORS
PM13751EXECUTION OF THE REPORT GENERATES BIBUS DUMPS
PM13786THERE MAY BE BLACK LINES DISPLAYED TO THE RIGHT OF IMAGES WHEN THE IMAGES ARE PLACED SIDE BY SIDE
PM13825CM-REQ-4011 ATTEMPTING TO EXPAND PUBLISH FOLDERS N POWERPLAY ADMINISTRATION
PM13898FULLTABLE SCAN WHEN USING ATTRIBUTE FILTER IN AN INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS
PM13916REPORT UPGRADED FROM 8.2 FAILS WITH PCA-ERR-0024 THE "INTERSECTSET" OPERATOR IS ONLY APPLICABLE ON SETS WITH THE SAME DIMENSIONS
PM14168GETTING OP-ERR-0001 WHEN TRYING TO RUN A REPORT THAT WORKED IN 8.3
PM14175Role or Group Based Routing Rules will not be applied to schedules
PM14225GO TO PAGE DRILL DEFINITION OUT OF ORDER
PM14358Currency formatting does not get applied to aggregates when using SAP BW.
PM14392UPGRADE LIST HEADER MISSING WHEN PAGE IS A PART OF A PAGE SET
PM14407ADDITION/SUBTRACTION OF TUPLE VALUES ARE INCORRECTLY CALCULATED
PM14471UNNECESSARY "S' FLAG ON GET_MEMBER() CALL FOR MUN WITH SAP BW
PM14505"QE-DEF-0283 THE CONNECTION IS AMBIGUOUS" WHEN RUNNING AN EVENT STUDIO AGENT
PM14527DRILL THROUGH ON SECURED CUBES PASSES NO VALUES IN THE FILTERS
PM14564PPDSWEB CRASH WHEN DRILL THROUGH FROM ALTERNATE HIERARCHY IN POWERPLAY STUDIO
PM14565QUERY STUDIO REPLACES ANY FRAMESETS THAT MAY BE LOADED WHEN OPENING A REPORT
PM14569SORTING BY MODIFIED DATE RESULTS IN PF-VAL-6165 SECURITY REJECTION IN NAVIGATOR PORTLET
PM14738SESSIONS NOT EXPIRING IN CONTENT MANAGER CAUSING MEMORY TO BUILD UP
PM14928CATEGORY COUNT MEASURE FROM A CUBE BUILT IN TRANSFORMER 8.4.1 NOT FILTERED BY MULTI-MEMBER CONTEXT FILTER
PM15058BURST REPORT UPGRADED FROM 8.2 TO 8.4 LOSES SUMMARY SUBTOTALS
PM15297LOGIN ISSUE WITH CAM-AAA-0055, CAM-AAA-0036, CAM-AAA-0125
PM15300FILTER DEFINED FOR QUERY SUBJECT DO NOT SHOW THE FILTER NAME NOR THE DROP-DOWN VALUES
PM15325CANNOT PUSH GO MOBILE CLIENT TO A BLACKBERRY HANDHELD WITH OS 5
PM15346CANCEL BUTTON RETURNS TO PUBLIC FOLDERS NOT PREVIOUS REPORT AFTER DRILL THROUGH
PM15404MOVABLE CALCULATIONS IN A CUSTOM SUBSET REORDERS ITSELF AND LOSES ITS MOVABLE OPTION AFTER VIEW IS SAVED
PM15471TOO MANY FOLDERS CAN'T NAVIGATE THEM ALL HITTING NEXT FOR PACKAGE SELECTION
PM15485DATE PROMPT GUI (EDIT BOX) LEAVES BLANK BOX ON SCREEN AFTER REPROMPT
PM15530SQL Server 2005 Synonyms are not imported in Framework Manager.
PM15553FRAMEWORK MANAGER CRASHED WHEN A QUERY ITEM IS UPDATED
PM15675SELECT WITH SEARCH PROMPT MISSING OPTION TO TYPE IN VALUES WHEN CREATING FILTER IN QUERY STUDIO
PM15958SCHEDULED POWERPLAY REPOTS STAY IN EXECUTING STATE AFTER SECOND REPORT IS RUN ON SAME CUBE
PM16025BASELINE MARKERS NOT DISPLAYED CORRECTLY IN PDF
PM16063UDA-SQL-0107 A GENERAL EXCEPTION HAS OCCURRED DURING THE OPERATION "PREPARE"
PM16113USING A LAYOUT COMPONENT REFERENCE FOR A LAYOUT CALCULATION WITH DATE OR TIME CAUSES INCORRECT FORMAT IN EXCEL
PM16121BURSTED REPORT RUN IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES WILL SEND ALL LANGUAGE VERSIONS TO HANDHELD
PM16124WHEN USING CASCADING PROMPTS AN ADDITIONAL PROMPT PAGE IS SHOWN
PM16248"INCLUDE A LINK TO REPORT" OPTION MISSING WHEN USING THE 'SELECT RECIPIENTS' OPTION
PM16343PASS THROUGH SQL (ORDER BY … DESC) NOT RESPECTED IN PROMPTMANY MACRO
PM16404(TR3703) THE USER ID OR PASSWORD IS EITHER MISSING OR INVALID
PM16407A TABLE HEADER IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANOTHER TABLE HEADER
PM16412ACCOUNT IS LOCKED OUT AFTER 2 FAILED ATTEMPTS DESPITE THE PWDMAXFAILURE SET TO 3 WITHIN TIVOLI DIRECTORY SERVER
PM16435DATA FORMAT GETS LOST IN EXCEL 2002 REPORT WHEN IT IS DEFINED WITHIN A CONDITIONAL BLOCK OR BLOCK
PM16614WHEN DRILL THROUGH FORM POWERPLAY STUDIO CUSTOM SUBSET TO REPORT STUDIO REPORT, NOT ALL VALUES ARE PASSED
PM16644INCORRECT AGGREGATE VALUE RENDERED IN TM1/COGNOS LDAP SECURITY
PM16646SECURED ELEMENTS ARE RENDERING IN DEFAULT LANGUAGE IGNORING CONTENT LANGUAGE SET IN COGNOS
PM16696THE IBM Cognos 8 REPORT SERVICE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE 'XSD:ANYTYPE' ATTRIBUTE VALUE 'XSD:ANYTYPE' SPECIFIED ON THE 'CAMCREDENTIAL' ELEMENT
PM16778DRILL THROUGH FROM ALTERNATE HIERARCHY IN POWERPLAY STUDIO DOES NOT RETURN
PM17023REPORTS.MAXVERSIONS PARAMETER VALUE SEEMS TO BE SPREAD ACROSS ALL RECIPIENTS OF A BURSTED GO MOBILE REPORT
PM17121ATTACH THE REPORT' OPTION IS NOT HIDDEN IN ALL SCENARIOS USING UI_HIDE
PM17253CROSSTAB DISPLAYS MEASURE FOR A PREVIOUS MEMBER WHEN SUPPRESSION IS ENABLED
PM17320DPR-ERR-2077 THE REQUEST FAILED BECAUSE THE ASSOCIATED REPORT SERVICE PROCESS WITH PID IS UNAVAILABLE
PM17338WORKING HOURGLASS DOES NOT GO AWAY ON DASHBOARD
PM17361NOT ALL PARAMETER ARE LISTED WHEN REFERENCING A PARAMETER MAP IN A QUERY OF THE TARGET REPORT WHILE DEFINING DRILL THROUGH
PM17568PROGRESS OPENEDGE PERFORMANCE PROBLEM OR FAILURE IN 8.4 (UPGRADE FROM 8.3)
PM17603PARSING ERROR AFTER PACKAGE UPGRADE
PM17736Invalid EMAIL HEADER (RFC 2822 violation) WHEN SENDING EMAIL TO LDAP OR ADS GROUP
PM17993AGGREGATED CROSSTAB CALCULATIONS RESULTS IN -- AFTER UPGRADE
PM18112NESTED PAGE BREAKS DO NOT WORK PROPERLY WHEN USING PAGE RENDER VARIABLES
PM18245GET_CELL CALL GETS INVOKED AT THE WRONG TIME WHEN USING SAP BW
PM18299There is an error in xml file
PM18446TUPLE BASED ON CALCULATED MEASURE FROM MONDRIAN RETURNS INFLATED VALUES WHEN USED IN SECTIONED CROSSTAB
PM18622SECTIONED CROSSTAB WITH SAP BW AND RELATIONAL DATA RETURNS AND ERROR
PM18677QE-DEF-0480 ERROR FOR UPGRADED REPORTS BASED OF A DMR MODEL WITH CALCULATED MEASURES
PM19131HUNG BIBUS PROCESS
PM19197DPR-ERR-2074 THE REPORT SERVER PID IS NOT RESPONDING
PM19314SEARCH PATH ERRORS WHEN OPENING REPORT WITH ACCENTS IN NAME IN REPORT STUDIO
PM19460HOURGLASS STAYS WHEN ACTING DRILL THROUGH AT PORTAL TAB
PM19508ENH: SAVE PROMPT VALUES WHEN REPORT IS SAVED AS A REPORT VIEW
PM19511INCREASE SIZE OF BUBBLES IN BUBBLE CHART
PM19563DPR-ERR-2056 THE REPORT SERVER IS NOT RESPONDING WHEN BURSTING REPORT
PM19952A PAGE IS SHOWN TWICE IN IMPORTED ELEMENTS WHEN REFRESHING THE DATA AFTER UPGRADE FROM COGNOS OFFICE CONNECTION TO GO! OFFICE
PM19969REPORT WITH LAYOUT COMPONENT REFERENCES EXPORTED TO EXCEL 2002 FORMAT DISPLAY INCORRECTLY IN EXCEL 2002 AND 2003
PM20106GO DASHBOARD DRILL DOWN ERROR:: EXD-ERR-1038 EXD-ERR-1038 SOME PARAMETERS WERE NOT SATISFIED
PM20185HUNG REPORT EXECUTION IN MULTI-USER TEST
PM20427SECTIONED CROSSTAB WITH SAP AND RELATIONAL DATA RETURNS AN ERROR
PM20788TRANSFORMER ERROR USING REPORT DATA SOURCE WITH USER DEFINED SQL
PM21087CANNOT USE A DISPLAY VALUE IN THE DEFAULT SELECTIONS PROPERTY OF A VALUE PROMPT AFTER APPLYING 8.4.29.1278
PM21256REPORT STUDIO REPORTS BASED ON TM1 DATA OPEN SLOWER IN 8.4.1 THEN IN 8.4
PM21489EXD-ERR-1011 EXD-ERR-1011 无法载入请求的报表数据
PM22007POWERPLAY HANGS AFTER RECEIVING UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ERROR
PM22193Content Manager crash in CMCacheLib CMCacheGetSearchPath. NULL name passed to SymbolTable::strQuotedLength
PM23406CCLOUTOFMEMORY ERROR WITH REPORT USING TM1 AS A DATA SOURCE ON AIX

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 November 2022

UID

swg27020391