REP-0189: Cannot write to Reports Server cache

We had seen one issue in EBS R12 in which simple report porgamrs like “Active users”  were throwing erorrs like below:

 Enter Password:
 REP-0118: Unable to create a temporary file.

REP-0189: Cannot write to Reports Server cache
 REP-0069: Internal error
 REP-57054: In-process job terminated:Terminated with error:
 REP-189: Cannot write to Reports Server cache
 this is the error in Log file
 APPLLCSP Environment Variable set to :

Current NLS_LANG and NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS Environment Variables are :
 American_America.UTF8

Remember that Reports Server cache points to $REPORTS_TMP path so issue could have occurred if

• the $REPORTS_TMP path path was not writeable
• the $REPORTS_TMP path was inaccessible
• the $REPORTS_TMP path was Full.

On verification we found that Filesystem was full:

$ df -h /fs01
 Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
 /dev/vx/dsk/dg0071-01/fs01vol
 84G 84G 0K 100% /fs01

Clearing up the filesystem helped in correcting the error.

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Brijesh Gogia

I’m an experienced Cloud/Oracle Applications/DBA Architect with more than 15 years of full-time DBA/Architect experience. I have gained wide knowledge on Oracle and Non-Oracle software stack running on-prem and on Cloud and have worked on several big projects for multi-national companies. I enjoy working with leading-edge technology and have a passion for Cloud architecture, automation, database performance, and stability. Thankfully my work allows me time for researching new technologies (and to write about them).

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