Appendix B. Troubleshooting; Accessing Error Message Help; Known Issues When Modeling In Ibm Cognos Transformer; Bapi Error Occurs After The Prompt Specification File Edited Manually - IBM Cognos User Manual

Appendix B. Troubleshooting

This section describes issues and limitations that may be encountered by Cognos
Transformer users working in a PowerPlay, and IBM Cognos BI environment, with
suggested workarounds.

Accessing Error Message Help

Error message help is provided in cases where the basic error message is not
sufficient to resolve the problem. The purpose of these help topics is to provide
more detail about the cause of the problem, often an example of how the problem
manifests itself in the Windows interface, and a possible solution or workaround.
If you are working on the Windows interface when a process fails or when Cognos
Transformer encounters an invalid entry or request, one or more error messages
usually appear.
Procedure
1. You can click the Help button in the message window, where available, to open
2. You can also access these topics, organized by TR number, from the index.

Known Issues When Modeling in IBM Cognos Transformer

Documented in this section are known issues and limitations when modeling in
IBM Cognos Transformer.
BAPI Error Occurs After the Prompt Specification File Edited
Manually
In Transformer, you create a prompt specification for a SAP-based package.
You edit the prompt specification file, prompt.xml, manually and save your
changes. After editing the file, you attempt to generate a PowerCube using the
command line options, for example,
cogtr -fpromptspecfilename -n cubename.mdl
but the PowerCube is not generated and you receive a BAPI error.
The error is caused by an invalid member unique name (MUN). Because editing
the prompt.xml file manually is error prone, we recommend that you do not edit
the prompt.xml file manually but create an alternate prompt specification instead.
Unable to Access an IQD Data Source Using a Sybase
Database Connection
In Framework Manager, you use an IQD file to externalize a model using a Sybase
database connection.
When you attempt to import the data source file into Transformer, you receive the
following error message:
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an Error Message help file, which you can search by TR number.
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