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Error running a Cognos BI extract against an Oracle source: ORA-01858

Troubleshooting


Problem

Running a Cognos Business Intelligence metric extract against an Oracle relational source, the extract fails with error.

Symptom

PD-MD-0089 An error occurred during the metric values query for the extract '<EXTRACT_NAME>'.

RQP-DEF-01777 An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlOpenResult' status='-28'.

UDA-SQL-0114 The cursor supplied to the operation "sqlOpenResult" is inactive.

UDA-SQL-0107 A general exception has occurred during the operation "open result".

ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found when a numeric character was expected

[{"Product":{"code":"SSEP7J","label":"Cognos Business Intelligence"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Metrics Designer","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"10.1;10.1.1;10.2;10.2.1;10.2.1.1;10.2.2;8.4.1","Edition":"All Editions","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}},{"Product":{"code":"SS6G84","label":"IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":" ","Platform":[{"code":"","label":""}],"Version":"","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}}]

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Modified date:
08 May 2025

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