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Praveen Inaganti's profile image
Praveen Inaganti posted 08/18/26 04:42 PM

I created api key from PA instance as below and try to connect from bob.  But it failed to connect, Please suggest the steps.

Here is my mcp config file format for mcp.json  file.

{
"mcpServers": {
"ibm-pa-tools": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://us-east-1.planninganalytics.saas.ibm.com/api/<tenantId>/v0/agentic-ai/ibm-pa-tools/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Basic <base64 apikey>",
"Accept": "text/event-stream",
"Cache-Control": "no-cache"
}
}
}
}
Christophe Delauré's profile image
Christophe Delauré posted 08/18/26 06:18 PM

Hello Praveen 

Do you have the PA Agent license?

It is required to access the MCP servers and the tools 

If you have it, you may ask Bob to troubleshoot the MCP configuration

the other setting you might want to use is 

"timeout": 120000,

in the  "ibm-pa-tools": { section

Christophe

George Tonkin's profile image
George Tonkin IBM Champion posted 08/19/26 01:28 AM

Hi Praveen,

Assuming you have a license per Christophe's reply, maybe my configuration used in connecting IBM Bob to the IBM PA Tools can help you:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "planning-analytics": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://eu-central-1.planninganalytics.saas.ibm.com/api/<tenant>/v0/agentic-ai/ibm-pa-tools/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Basic YXBp...Tk=",
        "Accept": "application/json, text/event-stream",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Cache-Control": "no-cache"
      },