title: COGNOS - XQE-JDB-0004 A pr0blem occurred finding the driver class "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
body: <p>I'm on a Windows 8 machine and attempting to connect IBM's COGNOS BI (I'm using the trial version - it's on the cloud) to MySQL, upon setting up the connection COGNOS always feed back </p>
  
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    <p>XQE-JDB-0004 A problem occurred finding the driver class "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver".</p>
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  <p>I have added a system variable that specifies CLASSPATH and the full path to <em>mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar</em>; however, I'm unsure if the software, being on the cloud, would even be capable of finding my CLASSPATH. This error seems like nonsense to me. </p>
  
  <p>Is COGNOS broken, or am I missing a step?</p>