Cognos service fails to start by error –
” CFG-ERR-0103 Unable to start IBM Cognos service. Execution of the external process returns an error code value of -1 ”
When this error happens it happens mainly due to issue related to content store.
a. test content store. If its working then it might have got corrupted.
b. dispatcher port may be in use.
Source:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21599720
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