I am struggling to define the details of the issue I am having. I'll try; maybe I can add more details soon.
First of all, we were running 4.1 SP01 Patch 2. On March 7, 2014 I upgraded our environment to 4.1 SP01 Patch 6. Things seem to be working fine, but there is no way I can run every single report in our system. So I cannot say for sure if the problem we are having now was happening immediately after the upgrade or not. I do know it was not happening before the upgrade.
Just yesterday a user reported getting the following error...
This report isn't used regularly, so I believe this was probably the first attempt to run it since the upgrade. This report is built on a UNX universe on top of a SQL Server 2008 R2 database.
Now for more background information which may or may not be pertinent. There are 8 other reports that are based on this same universe. Only one other report is having issues (same errors). The thing that the two reports having issues have in common is that they both prompt for a context. That isn't all that surprising given the error messages. However, Google and SAP xSearch yield exactly zero results. Well, I am about to change that with this post.
The user that was getting this issue also has the Rich Desktop Client installed. She tried to run the problematic report there and got the same error. I received the same error when running the report through the browser, but not in Rich Desktop Client on my machine. However, I have not had the opportunity to update the client tools on my machine to 4.1 SP01 Patch 6, but my user that reported the issue has upgraded. So all of that together makes me suspicious that the upgrade is the issue.
We cannot go back. We need a work around. Perhaps I need to update my client tools and rebuild and redeploy the universe.
Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Noel