Please see responses to the queries
1- What is the data source?(For eg: Oracle, SQL server........) : [Ans]: Using Oracle with CR DataDirect 6.0 ODBC Driver (32-bit)
2- Did you configure and check the data source connectivity on all nodes on the BusinessObjects server(linux)? [Ans]:Yes.
3- If you have set up the data source then is it 32-bit data connection or 64-bit? [Ans]: using 32-bit ODBC driver, however the system OS is 64-bit.
4- Assumption: If you are using Oracle as data source for CMS and same for reporting then you need to configure both (32-bit and 64-bit data connection)connections on the server [Ans]: Using Sybase that comes shipped with BI4 for CMS datasource.