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Hi,
I have a problem when installing cognos 8.3 in Linux.
I got error when test connection to content store database :

Quote[Content Manager database connection]
1. [ ERROR ] The database connection failed.
2. [ ERROR ] Content Manager is unable to access the content store. Verify your database connection parameters, and then contact your database administrator for assistance.

I'm using Linux Redhat 4, apache webserver 2.2, db2 9 in other server, and db2 8 client in cognos server.

When I tried to connect db2 server using db2 command :
db2 connect to cm user db2inst1 using password
It was working, but in cognos configuration, it didn't work.
I already copied db2java.zip and rename it into db2java.jar.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

Have you copied the jar files for db2 into <cog_install_dir>/webapps/p2pd/WEB-INF/lib

Thanks for your reply,
I already copied db2java.jar into <cog_install_dir>/webapps/p2pd/WEB-INF/lib, but I still have this problem

Hi,

1.Check your DB2 data base (strat DB2 ,DB2 user id and Password)....

2.Check your install location DB2 and cognos....

3.Check your connectivity

4.Did u copy db2 java.zip and db2jcc.jar files  to cognos folder?

5.Did u copy cognos .jar file to java_home?

Thanks
Senthilkumar

Hi kolonell,

Thanks for your advise, Did as you said and it worked like a charm :)

Regards,
Aash

p.s. somehow tomcat refuses to start even when I have changed the server port as stated in the manual but it starts up after I change the "<Server port="8085" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">" server shutdown port to something else than the default 8005!!!