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IBM Cognos Cube Designer failed to connect with data

Troubleshooting


Problem

When expanding Datasources, great_outdoors_warehouse is displayed with little exclamation warning sign. Everytime metadata is refreshed it returns an error message "jdbcDriverNotFound"

Symptom

Error displayed when opening the sample cube model in Cube Designer (model.fmd)
from the (..\webcontent\samples\models\great_outdoors_dynamiccube\sqlserver) folder.
When expanding Datasources, great_outdoors_warehouse is displayed with
little exclamation warning sign. Everytime metadata is refreshed it
returns an error message "jdbcDriverNotFound"

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Modified date:
13 January 2026

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