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Hi sreedil,

    I am also newbie of Cognos. Your problem is caused of Oracle JDBC driver loading. So you copy classes12.jar (>= 10g) or classess12.zip (<=9i) in Oracle folder ($ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib) to cognos_home/c8/webapps/p2pd/WEB-INF/lib directory. You close Cognos Configuration and open it to start service.
Hope it useful,

Pham Min Truong, Vietnamese

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