Traces of the Cognos components

The default location of traces of the IBM Cognos components are listed in this topic.

IBM Cognos JDBC logs

Windows IBM Cognos uses Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) for connectivity to these components. Trace data for the JDBC driver can be logged for Windows systems. If you have activated the logging of trace data, the location of the log file is [cognos_installation_directory]/bin/orajdbc.log.

IBM Cognos component logs

IBM Cognos installation includes several component-specific IPF client configuration files. These files can be found in …/configuration directory. The naming convention for these files isipfcompclientconfig.xml where comp is an IBM Cognos component.

The available IBM Cognos components, the files they use, and the information that can be captured for each component is listed in Table 1.

Tabela 1.
Name of the IBM Cognos component Name of the trace file Issues that can be analyzed and resolved
Content Manager ipfCMclientconfig.xml Content Store database access problems
Framework Manager ipfFMclientconfig.xml Framework Manager
Analysis Studio ipfANSclientconfig.xml Analysis Studio
XTS ipfXTSclientconfig.xml
  • Query Studio user interface
  • IBM Cognos Portal service
  • Agent Studio user interface
Dispatcher ipfDISPclientconfig.xml
  • Start-up (including services started by the dispatcher)
  • Load balancing
  • Performance
Bus ipfBiBusTKclientconfig.xml Low level communication between Dispatchers and Report Services
Cryptographic Provider ipfcryptoclientconfig.xml
  • Keystore access and synchronization
  • Access to AutoCA
  • SSL/Trust
  • Trusted Request
Access Manager ipfaaaclientconfig.xml Security issues
Cognos Application Firewall ipfCAFclientconfig.xml
  • Database access
  • Get Cognos 8 error details strip by the CAF secure error feature
  • Get details about CAF validation failures
  • Get textual descriptions of CAF configuration failures
  • Debug CAF internal failures

JSM

JS

DLS

ASV

EMS

MS

ipfSDSclientconfig.xml
  • Scheduling (JSM, JS)
  • E-mail delivery (DLS)
  • Agents (ASV)
  • Future scheduled events or schedules (EMS)
  • Tasks currently running in the background (MS)
Report Service ipfRSVPclientconfig.xml
  • Report Service and Batch Report Service
  • Reports and Queries
  • Performance
CQE ipfCQEclientconfig.xml
  • Trace logging, which records the input received by CQE (such as governor settings), warnings, and detailed information about input query translation to CQE internal logical and physical query trees
  • Performance logging, which records the time spent in CQE functions
  • Audit logging, which records all CQE query service API calls
User Defined Attributes ipfUDAclientconfig.xml Runtime queries problems
CRX ipfCRXclientconfig.xml Report expressions
DMB ipfDMBclientconfig.xml
  • Audit data: Audit.RTUsage.DAM.DMB records information about Public API function call (names and parameters): the XML model definition, the data streams, and the request to build the cube
  • Trace data: Trace.DAM.DMB records information about the Exceptions thrown in DMB, policy implementation, and specific failures
  • Performance data: Perf.DAM.DMB records information about the time spent to build the cube (time spent in DMB and PPDS)