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  • 1.  Cloudera Impala Driver / Datasource for Cognos Analytics 11.2.

    Posted Tue August 30, 2022 08:28 AM
    Hi all.

    We are trying to connect to a Cloudera Impala data source but can't logon to the datasource.

    Driver (downloaded from Cloudera Homepage): ClouderaImpala_JDBC-2.6.15.1017 (copied to cognos/drivers folder)

    While testing the data source, we get following error message:

    XQE-DS-0006 Unable to logon to the data source.

    [Cloudera][ImpalaJDBCDriver](500593) Communication link failure. Failed to connect to server. Reason: Socket is closed by peer. OpenSession.

    [Cloudera][ImpalaJDBCDriver](500593) Communication link failure. Failed to connect to server. Reason: Socket is closed by peer. OpenSession.

    Socket is closed by peer.

    Do you have any ideas? Is something missing or do we need an other version?

    Thanks for help

    Jens



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    Jens Bäumler
    Senior Consultant and Trainer
    Apparo Group
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  • 2.  RE: Cloudera Impala Driver / Datasource for Cognos Analytics 11.2.

    Posted Tue August 30, 2022 09:40 AM
    Hi Jens,

    Which Cognos version do you use? v11.2.0 or later.

    It seems for instance that with v11.2.1 and later, only Cloudera Impala version 3.1 and later are supported.

    Best regards,

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    Patrick Neveu
    Positive Thinking Company
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  • 3.  RE: Cloudera Impala Driver / Datasource for Cognos Analytics 11.2.

    Posted Thu September 01, 2022 03:28 AM
    Edited by System Admin Fri January 20, 2023 04:09 PM
    Hi Patrick. 

    We have Cognos Analytics running in Version 11.2.1.

    The Data Source is a Impala Version 3.2.0 on Cloudera CDH 6.3.2.

    Should we try other JDBC drivers?
    Or do we have to add connection properties? (we only use a connection string like this jdbc:impala://<host>:<port>/<databasename>)

    Thanks Jens

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    Jens Bäumler
    Senior Consultant and Trainer
    Apparo Group
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  • 4.  RE: Cloudera Impala Driver / Datasource for Cognos Analytics 11.2.
    Best Answer

    Posted Thu September 01, 2022 06:07 AM
    Succsess: Now it is working with following configuration (we had to copy an additional file for the java keystore):

    Connection String
    jdbc:impala://<host>:<port>/<databasename>

    ConnectionProperties
    SSL=1;AuthMech=3;SSLTrustStore=C:\<filelocation>\cacerts.jks

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    Jens Bäumler
    Senior Consultant and Trainer
    Apparo Group
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  • 5.  RE: Cloudera Impala Driver / Datasource for Cognos Analytics 11.2.

    Posted Sun September 04, 2022 10:21 AM
    Edited by System Admin Fri January 20, 2023 04:39 PM

    Review your connection definition regarding what name-value pairs you may be missing that the driver requires.

    Further, you are using an older Impala driver circa (July 2019).

    Please ensure to review any changes the Cloudera (Simba) introduced in more recent releases re name-value pairs etc.

    If your company scans for CVE's, note that in more recent releases Cloudera (Simba) remediated issues re log4j and so on.



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    NIGEL CAMPBELL
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