Symptoms

Check the Cognos log file on the server for a more detailed error message, for example:

QE-DEF-0359 The query contains a reference to at least one object '[Changepoint].[Portfolios].[Portfolios].[Portfolios].[|ProjectManager Name]' that does not exist.

Note that expression contains [Portfolios] three times in a row. Depending on the query subject name, the expression might also contain [Requests] or [Projects] () ... three times in a row.


Resolution

This error occurs when the user inserts a field into a report by first searching for it in the data model tree view and then double-clicking it.

This is a defect acknowledged by IBM and it will be fixed in a future release.

To work around this problem, you can remove the item from your query and then reinsert it from the data model tree view, without performing a search first.