Product:
Cognos Planning 10.1.1
Windows 2008 R2 server
Symptom:
Error when starting the Cognos Planning Analyst on a 64 bit server.
Cognos Planning Analyst only works for the account that was used during installation.
Error Message:
A Fatal Error has occured in the startup section of the application.
The application will be terminated.
Please report the following information:
Function name: SystemIniGet
Namespace: #._US
=============================
RegOpenKeyA returned a nonzero error code
SystemIniGet[10]Hkey,,0 MyOpenKey Key
Solution:
You need to update the current users registry with some values.
In notepad you need to create two text files with similar content as below:
—————–File 1—————————————————-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cognos]
“Analyst”=”d:\\cognos\\c10\\bin\\”
—————–File 2—————————————————–
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst]
“-“=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\Analysthelp]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\AnalystMessageLibs]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\BX]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\Compatibility]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\CP]
“CubeStackBytes”=”1024”
“DataMacros”=”0”
“EditMacros”=”0”
“MaxTranscriptBytes”=”400”
“MaxViewCells”=”10”
“NotEnoughMemFlag”=”Yes”
“StackBytes”=”1024″
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\Custom]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\Main]
“DefaultUser”=”Admin”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\MRU]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\Settings]
“LastLib”=”0”
“Position”=”23 0”
“Size”=”840 1260”
“State”=”Maximised”
“Language”=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Analyst\StartUp]
@=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Contributor]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\Cognos\Planning101\Contributor\Settings]
“Language”=””
Name the files with REG endings and then you can click on them to install the values.
At below site you have complete instructions on how to do it:
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?mynp=OCSSPN2D&mync=R&uid=swg21472649&myns=swgimgmt
(Only edit the Windows registry if you know what you are doing.)