Test (Oracle) connection in connection manager failed in Cognos configuration

[twohis]

Hi,

I get the following error: Content Manager database connection]
1. [ ERROR ] The database connection failed.
2. [ ERROR ] Content Manager encountered an error while trying to verify the database configuration

user=cognos with dba privilege(to be sure)
My database is oracle10g defined on port 1522
I have copied ojdbc14.jar,classes12.jar and classes12.zip  to cognos\c8\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
My database characterset is: AL32UTF8

when starting then the task:testing content manager connection failed with the same error as above. :(

Any suggestion?

Thanks.

Twan.

[SomeClown]

Wasn't 10g for ojdbc5.jar while 9g was ojdbc14.jar?   I always have to look that up.  (you are using 10g client-side?)

[twohis]

Yes 10.2 for windows. In the jdbc/lib you have only ojdbc14.jar and classes12.jar . In 11g you have ojdbc5.jar and ojdbc6.jar

Yes my client is also 10g client.

I am new in regards of installing Cognos.

The database specifier is: localhost:1522:demo10 where demo10 is my service name defined in tnsnames.ora. I have no problem connecting with cognos/password@demo10 using sqlplus or sqldeveloper or toad...

ps: when will the "content" tables created...?

Twan

[tupac_rd]

Cogserver.log file might have bit more details about the error

[koharish]

Hi,

I get the following error: Content Manager database connection]
1. [ ERROR ] The database connection failed.
2. [ ERROR ] Content Manager encountered an error while trying to verify the database configuration

user=cognos with dba privilege(to be sure)
My database is oracle10g defined on port 1522
I have copied ojdbc14.jar,classes12.jar and classes12.zip  to cognos\c8\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
My database characterset is: AL32UTF8

when starting then the task:testing content manager connection failed with the same error as above. :(

Any suggestion?

Thanks.

Twan.

Hi Dear Twan

only copy ojdbc14.jar not classes12.jar and classes12.zip


if you already copied classes12.jar and classes12.zip

delete these two

see this video

i think it will helpful for you

http://www.youtube.com/koharish#p/a/u/1/ZW9uhBAiRz8

Thank you

Harish

[twohis]

Hi Koharish,

I saw your excellent video.

but I installed bi server version 8.3 and Cognos 8 BI Server 8.3 SP2 Windows/xp/sp3

I installed apache 2.2 also but at port 8080 because i already installed IIS on port 80

i deleted the classes12.jar and classes12.zip but get still the same error.

i changed http://localhost:8080/cognos8/cgi-bin/mod_cognos.dll and
http://localhost:8080/cognos8/controllerServer because the apache port is 8080

my java version is
C:\>java -version
java version "1.4.2_14"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_14-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_14-b05, mixed mode)

bu i see that cognos use jre 1.5.0 (C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\bin\jre\1.5.0)

could u check which java version u use.

Question 1: you need to start the apache server before testing?
Question 2: is it ok for cognos that the apache server is started on a
differtent port?
Question 3:  can i use IIS instead of apache or should I use sqlserverexpress
instead when using IIS?

Thanks,