Using Cognos SDK for running and saving reports to file system - Issue

[Kathir]

Dear experts,

I have a requirement to run and save report (pdf format) to the file system.  The code which I had written some time back was working fine with out any issue, and is now failing on the same environment.

Even I tried reinstalling Cognos BI server, and tried various combination of run options, but no luck.

I have Cognos 10.1.1  32 bit - Windows installed on my dev environment.

Here are the options which are being passed, and the error message I am getting.

I have gone through the SDK guide, and did googling as well, but nothing helped so far.

Please help me with this.

Error

SOAP-ENV:Client,  Fault String - CNC-BAL-0503 The Client has failed.
SOAP-ENV:detail
error Code: CNC-BAL-0502 Error Number: MSG_DS_INVALID_PROPERTIES
Error Message : CNC-DS-0024 Unable to write the report output because one or more output properties are missing or invalid

Run options being passed

/* Setting run options  */
      /* option to save output */
     
      RunOptionBoolean repSaveOutput = new RunOptionBoolean();
      repSaveOutput.setName(RunOptionEnum.saveOutput);
      repSaveOutput.setValue(false);
      reportRunOptions[0] = repSaveOutput;
     
      RunOptionBoolean repArchiveOutput = new RunOptionBoolean();
      repArchiveOutput.setName(RunOptionEnum.archive);
      repArchiveOutput.setValue(true);
      reportRunOptions[1] = repArchiveOutput;
     
      RunOptionBoolean repPrompt = new RunOptionBoolean();
      repPrompt .setName(RunOptionEnum.prompt);
      repPrompt .setValue(false);  // disable prompting for values, as filters are being passed through SDK for report generation
      reportRunOptions[2] = repPrompt ;

      /* option to set the archive location */
      ArchiveOptionSearchPathSingleObject repArchive = new ArchiveOptionSearchPathSingleObject();
      repArchive.setName(ArchiveOptionEnum.archiveLocation);
      repArchive.setValue(new SearchPathSingleObject(reportSavePathCS));   // "/configuration/archiveLocation[@name='" + orgName + "']"
      reportRunOptions[3] = repArchive;

      /* Setting the file name for saved report */
      ArchiveOptionString repName = new ArchiveOptionString();
      repName.setName(ArchiveOptionEnum.filenameStub);
      repName.setValue(reportSaveName.toString());// reportName_OrgName_Date
      reportRunOptions[4] = repName;

      /* option to resolve conflict during file save */
      ArchiveOptionConflictResolution conflictResolution = new ArchiveOptionConflictResolution();
      conflictResolution.setName(ArchiveOptionEnum.conflictResolution);
      conflictResolution.setValue(ArchiveConflictResolutionEnum.replace);
      reportRunOptions[5] = conflictResolution;

      /* option to choose the output format e.g., pdf, html, csv */
      RunOptionStringArray repOutputFormat = new RunOptionStringArray();
      repOutputFormat.setName(RunOptionEnum.outputFormat);
      repOutputFormat.setValue(new String[] {reportOutputFormat});  //pdf
      reportRunOptions[6] = repOutputFormat;

      /* set report orientation ( only for PDF format) */
      RunOptionString repOrientation = new RunOptionString();
      repOrientation.setName(RunOptionEnum.outputPageOrientation);
      repOrientation.setValue(reportOutputPageOrientation);  // landscape
      reportRunOptions[7] = repOrientation;

     
      /* set report output Locale */     
      RunOptionLanguageArray repOutputLocale = new RunOptionLanguageArray();
      repOutputLocale.setName(RunOptionEnum.outputLocale);
      repOutputLocale.setValue( new String[] {reportOutputLocale});  // "fr-fr"
      reportRunOptions[8] = repOutputLocale;
     
      /* option to choose the primary time period threshold to wait till the report is generated */
      AsynchOptionInt primaryWaitValue = new AsynchOptionInt();
      primaryWaitValue.setName(AsynchOptionEnum.primaryWaitThreshold);
      primaryWaitValue.setValue(ASYNC_OPTION_PRIMARY_WAIT_THRESHOLD); // 7 secs
      reportRunOptions[9] = primaryWaitValue;

      /* option to choose the secondary time period threshold to wait till the report is generated */
      AsynchOptionInt secondaryWaitValue = new AsynchOptionInt();
      secondaryWaitValue.setName(AsynchOptionEnum.secondaryWaitThreshold);
      secondaryWaitValue.setValue(ASYNC_OPTION_SECONDARY_WAIT_THRESHOLD);  // 30 secs
      reportRunOptions[10] = secondaryWaitValue;

Following 2 Runoptions were recently added, thinking that it will resolve the issue observed, and output Locale option is a requirement.

      RunOptionBoolean repSaveOutput = new RunOptionBoolean();
      repSaveOutput.setName(RunOptionEnum.saveOutput);
      repSaveOutput.setValue(false);
      reportRunOptions[0] = repSaveOutput;

      RunOptionBoolean repPrompt = new RunOptionBoolean();
      repPrompt .setName(RunOptionEnum.prompt);
      repPrompt .setValue(false);  // disable prompting for values, as filters are being passed through SDK for report generation
      reportRunOptions[2] = repPrompt ;

      /* set report output Locale */     
      RunOptionLanguageArray repOutputLocale = new RunOptionLanguageArray();
      repOutputLocale.setName(RunOptionEnum.outputLocale);
      repOutputLocale.setValue( new String[] {reportOutputLocale});  // "fr-fr"
      reportRunOptions[8] = repOutputLocale;

Thanks for your time in advance.

Thanks,

Kathir

[Kathir]

Could any of you throw some light on why this error is being thrown, when attempted to run and save report to file system.

Thanks,
Kathir