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You can just give Read and Execute access alone to the UserClass the User belongs to, in the newsbox property from Upfront. Hope this helps -Magesh

Change them to run all the cognos related service with ADMIN account. Local system account may not have all required permission to create files especially if urs is a distributed install.

This could be becuase of insufficient access right to the temporary folder. Just to confirm this, please run all Cognos related service with admin id and test for the availability of the report.

Please check/attach message from the crnserver.log file for more detail information to resolve the error. The above msg is a common err displayed if not all the services related to reportnet started successfully.

anybody have found any solution for this request? I have got a similar requirement to modify the login page to add some custom information. Appreciate your help, Magesh

ReportNet have stored all the XTS files in cache mode in one of the jar and it uses this file by default. So, the changes made to the XTS, XSL files etc., will not get reflected even if you restart the service as reportnet uses this jar file. To fix this problem delete the portal.jar file from...

Hi David, Delete the portal.jar file from webapps\p2pd\web-inf\lib folder and then restart the cognos reportnet service. Your changes will now get reflected in Cognos connection page. Thanks, Magesh.

If your requirement is to move the complete upfront setup with all the newsbox to a new server instead of using upfront package command, can you try upfront backup and restore command. I have use this command to restore the upfront newsbox and thought this could be a possible workaround but not...

For me, the request are transferred to the Server based on the order of apperence in the server level mirroring. ie., If I have the ServerA, ServerB, ServerC as mirrored server in the dummy dispatcher server then the request will be transferred to ServerA and then if this is busy then ServerC...

Anybody tried changing the XTS file in CRN. I made some changes to this files and they are not getting reflected after restarting the service. However any changes to XML files are working fine. Anybody have any clue on this? Thanks, Magesh.

Have anybody tried changing the Logoff URL of Cognos ReportNet? We are using SSO for authentication. So, the user here has to get logged off from the third party tool apart from regular Cognos logoff. I am thinking of two optoins here. a) Take the Logoff url from the Cognos Connection page. b)...

Have anybody able to transfer the request to the PPES server in round robin fashion? I am trying to have the best configuration with load balancing and failover for PPES server. To achieve this, I am having a dummy PPES dispatcher which will act as a router and transfer the request to other...

ReportNet creates numerous table in the Database mentioned in the content manager. 1. There will be 45 tables created with the table name starting with CM. 2. 48 tables with the name starting with NC 3. 11 tables with the name starting with R 4. 5 views with the name starting with V

There are some set of 100 tables that get created in the content storage database when the configuration is applied successfully. These tables are automatically created by cognos reportnet when the configuration is saved. Please check the database and confirm this.

I tried to change value of a particular property of Configuraton manager by directly editing the saved ccs file. Afterwards, this file was opened from Configuration manager and the changed value was visible and I did a validate and apply successfully with out any issue. Now, when I try to do...