PDS-PCT-0020 Unable to open the PowerCube: (Open Data Cache). Cube path/name ma

[pass_cognos]

Cognos Gurus,

I am currently having a major issue publishing and viewing recently published Cognos 8 Transformer cubes since our servers underwent an outage a few weeks ago.

For a little now the Cognos 8 servers and the Cognos 8 Transformer application has been stable and working fine and now all of sudden I am receiving the following error message from Cognos 8 Transformer  and Cognos 8 Analysis Studio when I try and view a particular cube that I try to publish.

A bit of background on the situation that may have caused these errors, apparently the network administrator here did a server outage including an outage of the Cognos servers recently and since then, I have not been able to publish cubes and/or view the newly attempted published cubes.

From Transformer 8 when publishing the cube via the Publishing Wizard, I receive ...

"PDS-PCT-0020 Unable to open the PowerCube: (Open Data Cache).  Cube path/name may be incorrect; cube may be corrupt or may not be a PowerCube."

When trying to view the cube in Analysis Studio 8 I receive ...

"BMT-MD-6003 - No connection to the data source could be established."

What a fine mess I'm in!!!!

Any clues, comments, e.t.c would be greatly appreciated!

Kind Regards
Cogs in a Machine (with a spanner in the works!)

[josepherwin]

Before we even going to open the cube in Cognos Connection even Analysis Studio, can you please check:
1. Open the model and perform a test build without any security, then view the cube using PowerPlay Client 8.4 (if you have it)
2. Build and publish the cube from Transformer 8 instead of from Command Line and see if you still have the same issue.

[cognostechie]

It somehow cannot access the location where the cube is sitting. Check the permissions of the file system/folders etc. If it is on a network folder, try to share that folder.