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reports in dashboard generate an error XQE-MD-0007 Unable to establish a metadata connection to data source

Troubleshooting


Problem

Visualization in dashboard failed with following error message
Error message in xqe_xxxx.log has the following error

XQE-MD-0007 Unable to establish a metadata connection to data source

Error.</errorCode>

     <bus:message>

      <messageString>XQE-MD-0007 Unable to establish a metadata connection to data source 3247174913_a4c88d0e30274938b9eaa267de2ffb7d_sessionTemp12 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error.

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Modified date:
14 January 2026

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ibm11288744