(Orginal link: http://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/virtualization_or_raw_metal)

With the growing number of customers who want to run the Oracles EPM/BI (or other Fusion Middleware Software) in a virtualized environment, we face a growing number of people asking if running Oracle Software within VMware is supported or not.

Two KM articles reflect Oracles policy towards the use of VMware:
249212.1 and
1063937.1.

The bottom line is: “you may use it at your own risk, but Oracle does not recommend it”.

So far we have seen few problems with the use of VMware (other than performance and the usual limitations) but Oracle does not certify its software for the use in VMware (and specifically for RAC Software actively refuses any support) and any issue that may occur will be fixed for the native OS only.

It is on the customer to prove that the issue is NOT due to VMware in case that an issue is encountered.

See: “Oracle Fusion Middleware Supported System Configurations page”

And also

“Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Fusion Middleware”

Thanks,
Shiva

1. Open Instanceconfig.xml file from the location <MW_HOME>\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1
2. Make a backup copy of this file before making any changes as you may risk not being able to start BI service
3. Add the following parameters

<Charts>
<SectionSliderDefault>5</SectionSliderDefault>
<SectionSliderLimit>100</SectionSliderLimit>
</Charts>

4. Restart all BI services either from EM or using commands
<MW_HOME>\instances\instance1\bin\opmnctl stopall
<MW_HOME>\instances\instance1\bin\opmnctl startall.

For more information refer http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10541/prescatadmin.htm. It covers many more parameters, that may be needed to do other, additional customizations, too.

Thanks,
Shiva

Recently I came across a scenario where my customer created RCU schemas with Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU) version 11.1.1.3.0 and Installed OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0. Now after new OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 release he wants to upgrade his application from 11.1.1.3.0. But he is not interested at the In-place upgrade. So we uninstalled weblogic and OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0 and started RCU 11.1.1.3.0 to drop the _BIPLATFORM and _MDS schemas.

The RCU shown up with successful message and so we thought everything is cleaned up and it’s good to create schemas again. I started RCU 11.1.1.5.0 and selected Oracle Business Intelligence component and given prefix as DEV. But am not able to assign this prefix and got a message like “The specified prefix already exists”.  Though I got successful dropped schemas message, just for cross check I looked at database for the DEV_BIPLATFORM and DEV_MDS schemas. There I am not seeing any of them.

Then I checked at dropped schemas log generated by RCU and realized that there is an entry in System.SCHEMA_VERSION_REGISTRY$ table which is stopping me to assign the same DEV prefix which we used for earlier version schemas.

Actually the RCU should drop schemas using mdsschemamanager.pl script. This script has capability to do cascade delete and will delete entries in System.SCHEMA_VERSION_REGISTRY$ table.

To make sure this log into RCU DATABASE as sys and run the following SQL Query:

Select * from System.SCHEMA_VERSION_REGISTRY$;

If this query returns any record then it means the RCU didn’t drop the schemas properly.

Actually what happened in this case is the RCU schemas were not dropped using mdsschemamanager.pl script, it’s just dropped with normal schema delete and the resulting repository record for the schema is not clean. Keep in mind, this is just in case if you want to use same prefix. Otherwise RCU will let you proceed to create new prefixed Schemas.

If the RCU schemas have been deleted incorrectly using the RCU drop user command, then We need to clean these entries before starting new repository schemas creation.

To do this, run the following SQL*Plus command as sys to complete the removal of the RCU schemas records in the repository database:

delete from System.SCHEMA_VERSION_REGISTRY$;

Once you confirmed there are no entries in System.SCHEMA_VERSION_REGISTRY$  table and start the RCU to create repository schemas with the prefix (DEV in my case). The RCU will go smooth and wont complain with any error.

Hope this helps you in your RCU issues troubleshooting.

Thanks,

Shiva

With Fusion Middleware Audit Framework you have an option to store the auditing data into a database instead of a log file, which is the default option. Once you enable the database storage option, that means you have your auditing data (or, user report access data) in your database tables, now no brainer, you can start visualize the data, create reports, analyze, and share with BI Publisher.

So, first, let’s take a look on how to enable the database storage option for the auditing data.

How to Feed the Auditing Data into Database

First you need to create a database schema for Fusion Middleware Audit Framework with RCU (Repository Creation Utility). If you have already installed BI Publisher 11G you should be familiar with this RCU. It creates any database schema necessary to run any Fusion Middleware products including BI stuff. And you can use the same RCU that you used for your BI or BI Publisher installation to create this Audit schema.

Create Audit Schema with RCU

Here are the steps:

1. Go to $RCU_HOME/bin and execute the ‘rcu’ command
2. Choose Create at the starting screen and click Next.
3. Enter your database details and click Next.
4. Choose the option to create a new prefix, for example ‘BIP’, ‘KAN’, etc.
5. Select ‘Audit Services’ from the list of schemas. 
6. Click Next and accept the tablespace creation.
7. Click Finish to start the process.

After this, there should be following three Audit related schema created in your database.

• <prefix>_IAU (e.g. KAN_IAU)
• <prefix>_IAU_APPEND (e.g. KAN_IAU_APPEND)
• <prefix>_IAU_VIEWER (e.g. KAN_IAU_VIEWER)

Setup Datasource at WebLogic

After you create a database schema for your auditing data, now you need to create a JDBC connection on your WebLogic Server so the Audit Framework can access to the database schema that was created with the RCU with the previous step.

• Connect to the Oracle WebLogic Server administration console:
  http://hostname:port/console (e.g. http://report.oracle.com:7001/console)
• Under Services, click the Data Sources link.

• Click ‘Lock & Edit’ so that you can make changes

• Click New –> ‘Generic Datasource’ to create a new data source.
• Enter the following details for the new data source:
  Name: Enter a name such as Audit Data Source-0.
  JNDI Name: jdbc/AuditDB
  Database Type: Oracle

• Click Next and select ‘Oracle’s Driver (Thin XA) Versions: 9.0.1 or later’ as Database Driver (if you’re using Oracle database), and click Next.
• The Connection Properties page appears. Enter the following information:
  Database Name: Enter the name of the database (SID) to which you will connect.
  Host Name: Enter the hostname of the database.
  Port: Enter the database port.
  Database User Name: This is the name of the audit schema that you created in
  RCU. The suffix is always IAU for the audit schema. For example, if you gave
  the prefix as ‘BIP’, then the schema name would be ‘KAN_IAU’.
  Password: This is the password for the audit schema that you created in RCU.

• Click Next.
• Accept the defaults, and click Test Configuration to verify the connection.
• Click Next
• Check listed servers where you want to make this JDBC connection available.

• Click ‘Finish’ !

After that, make sure you click ‘Activate Changes’ at the left hand side top to take the new JDBC connection in effect.

Register your Audit Data Storing Database to your Domain

Finally, you can register the JNDI/JDBC datasource as your Auditing data storage with Fusion Middleware Control (EM). Here are the steps:

1. Login to Fusion Middleware Control

2. Navigate to Weblogic Domain, right click on ‘bifoundation…..’, select Security, then Audit Store.

3. Click the searchlight icon next to the Datasource JNDI Name field.

4.Select the Audit JNDI/JDBC datasource you created in the previous step in the pop-up window and click OK.

5. Click Apply to continue.

6. Restart the whole WebLogic Servers in the domain.

After this, now the BI Publisher should start feeding all the auditing data into the database table called ‘IAU_BASE’. Try login to BI Publisher and open a couple of reports, you should see the activity audited in the ‘IAU_BASE’ table. If not working, you might want to check the log file, which is located at $BI_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/AdminServer/logs/AdminServer-diagnostic.log

to see if there is any error.

Once you have the data in the database table, now, it’s time to visualize with BI Publisher reports!

Create a First BI Publisher Auditing Report

Register Auditing Datasource as JNDI datasource

First thing you need to do is to register the audit datasource (JNDI/JDBC connection) you created in the previous step as JNDI data source at BI Publisher. It is a JDBC connection registered as JNDI, that means you don’t need to create a new JDBC connection by typing the connection URL, username/password, etc. You can just register it using the JNDI name. (e.g. jdbc/AuditDB)

1. Login to BI Publisher as Administrator (e.g. weblogic)
2. Go to Administration Page
3. Click ‘JNDI Connection’ under Data Sources and Click ‘New’
4. Type Data Source Name and JNDI Name. The JNDI Name is the one you created in the WebLogic Console as the auditing datasource. (e.g. jdbc/AuditDB)
5. Click ‘Test Connection’ to make sure the datasource connection works.
6. Provide appropriate roles so that the report developers or viewers can share this data source to view reports.
7. Click ‘Apply’ to save.

Create Data Model

1. Select Data Model from the tool bar menu ‘New’
2. Set ‘Default Data Source’ to the audit JNDI data source you have created in the previous step.
3. Select ‘SQL Query’ for your data set
4. Use Query Builder to build a query or just type a sql query. Either way, the table you want to report against is ‘IAU_BASE’. This IAU_BASE table contains all the auditing data for other products running on the WebLogic Server such as JPS, OID, etc. So, if you care only specific to BI Publisher then you want to filter by using  ‘IAU_COMPONENTTYPE’ column which contains the product name (e.g. ’xmlpserver’ for BI Publisher).

Here is my sample sql query.

Once you saved a sample XML for this data model, now you can create a report with this data model.

Create Report

Now you can use one of the BI Publisher’s layout options to design the report layout and visualize the auditing data. I’m a big fan of Online Layout Editor, it’s just so easy and simple to create reports, and on top of that, all the reports created with Online Layout Editor has the Interactive View with automatic data linking and filtering feature without any setting or coding. If you haven’t checked the Interactive View or Online Layout Editor you might want to check these previous blog posts. (Interactive Reporting with BI Publisher 11G, Interactive Master Detail Report Just A Few Clicks Away!) But of course, you can use other layout design option such as RTF template.

Here are some sample screenshots of my report design with Online Layout Editor.

Visualize and Gain More Insights about your Customers (Users) !

Now you can visualize your auditing data to have better understanding and gain more insights about your reporting environment you manage. It’s been actually helping me personally to answer the  questios like below.

• How many reports are accessed or opened yesterday, today, last week ?
• Who is accessing which report at what time ?
• What are the time windows when the most of the reports access happening ?
• What are the most viewed reports ?
• Who are the active users ?
• What are the # of reports access or user access trend for the last month, last 6 months, last 12 months, etc ?

I was talking with one of the best concierge in the world at this hotel the other day, and he was telling me that the best concierge knows about their customers inside-out therefore they can provide a very private service that is customized to each customer to meet each customer’s specific needs. Well, this is true when it comes to how to administrate and manage your reporting environment, right ? The best way to serve your customers (report users, including both viewers and developers) is to understand how they use, what they use, when they use. Auditing is not just about compliance, but it’s the way to improve the customer service. The BI Publisher 11G Auditing feature enables just that to help you understand your customers better.

Happy customer service, be the best reporting concierge!.

(Original post: http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/how_to_visualize_your_audit_da)

Thanks,

Shiva

Then I founded interesting news about this and actually the DXE Execution means “Data Transformation Engine which handles post-processing of the BIServer results within OBIPS”.

The post-processing can involve resorting, filtering, aggregating, and/or indexing the original BIServer result set so that the data can be consumed by a view’s renderer. And It can be automatically kicked off when the BIServer query finishes.

So if the DXE Execution is running long time, Then it’s time to open your arms to tune your report UI/Presentation Server.

Of course if the sql query is taking long time, We know how to tune DB(A)’s  .

Thanks,

Shiva.

This clip shows how you can create multi lingual reports with BI Publisher using its advanced industry leading translation framework. With BI Publisher, creating translation for your report is easy and simple, and the cost of the maintenance is dramatically reduced.

Thanks,

Shiva

If you want to display OBIEE 11G content in any other portals using IFrames, You will end up with a message “OBIEE content cannot be displayed in an IFrame”. Because In OBIEE 11G, Oracle added framebusting check, to avoid the clickhacking security atatck.

To control the IFrame rendering we need to add the following tags in instanceconfig.xml within security key and restart the OBI Presentation Service.

<Security>

<InIFrameRenderingMode>allow</InIFrameRenderingMode>

</Security>

OBIEE 11G support 3 modes of IFrame bursting checks

1. prohibit: Never allow OBIEE 11G content to be rendered in IFrame.

2. sameDomainOnly: Allow rendering in IFrame if enclosing page was generated by the server in same domain.

3. allow: Always allows in-IFrame rendering.

So based on your requirement you need to change/add the IFrame bursting configurations to your OBI Presentation Server.

Thanks,

Shiva

To Export more than 6500 OBIEE 11g records to Excel, perform the following steps:

1. Backup Instanceconfig.xml file from location:

<Middleware_HOME>\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\

coreapplication_obips1\instanceconfig.xml

2. Edit instanceconfig.xml, with, for example, the content specified as following:

<Views>

<Pivot>

<DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>75</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>

<DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>500000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>

<DisableAutoPreview>false</DisableAutoPreview>

<MaxVisibleColumns>300</MaxVisibleColumns>

<MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>

<MaxVisibleRows>1000</MaxVisibleRows>

<MaxVisibleSections>30MaxVisibleSections>

<DefaultRowsDisplayed>50</DefaultRowsDisplayed>

<MaxCells>500000<MaxCells>

</Pivot>

<Table>

<DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>75</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>

<DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>500000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>

<MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>

<MaxVisibleRows>1000</MaxVisibleRows>

<MaxVisibleSections>30</MaxVisibleSections>

<DefaultRowsDisplayed>50</DefaultRowsDisplayed>

<MaxCells>500000<MaxCells>

</Table>

<Charts>

<MaxVisibleColumns>2000</MaxVisibleColumns>

<MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>

<MaxVisibleRows>2000</MaxVisibleRows>

<MaxVisibleSections>30</MaxVisibleSections>

<JavaHostReadLimitInKB>4096</JavaHostReadLimitInKB>

</Charts>

</Views>

3. Save the file and re-start all of the BI Services through Enterprise Manager.

Now you should be able to export more than 6500 records to excel.

Thanks,

Shiva

Filed under: BI Publisher, OBI EE, OBIEE 11g ]]> http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/export-more-than-6500-obiee-11g-records-to-excel/feed/ 5 shivamolabanti http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/list-of-bug-fixes-included-in-obiee-11-1-1-5-0/ http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/list-of-bug-fixes-included-in-obiee-11-1-1-5-0/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:30:47 +0000 Shiva Molabanti http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/?p=573 ]]> When OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.3.0) released it has so many bugs including some spell mistakes too. Somebody might have got patches from oracle support for those issues.

Mostly, all of them are fixed in new OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 release. for benefit of OBIEE supporters I am listing out full list of bugs fixed in OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 release gathered from Oracle support.

The following is the list of Bugs fixed in OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 Release including BI Publisher grouped by component :

Admin Tool

• 7538753 SAP BW IMPORT DOES NOT RETRIEVE UNIQUE NAME FOR MEASURE COLUMNS
• 10012297 ADMIN TOOL CRASH ON VERY LARGE EXPRESSIONS – OVERFLOW AT APPROX 3200 CHARACTERS
• 10032385 TABLE MISSING IN SQL “FROM” CLAUSE – FWD PORT 8308443 TO 11G
• 10045212 EQUALITY EXPRESSION IN LTS “WHERE” CAUSES INTERNAL SQORRQLIST ERROR ON QUERY
• 10264475 ADMINISTRATION’S “SHUTDOWN SERVER” MENU SHOULD BE REMOVED
• 10265121 ADMIN TOOL EXPRESSION BUILDER CRASHES ON DOUBLE-BYTE LOGICAL COLUMN NAME
• 10394725 ON-LINE MODE CHECK-IN OF DYNAMIC INIT BLOCK CAUSES [43058] REFRESH LOCK FAILURE

Answers

• 6521146 ERROR: “NO FILTER” WHEN USING “COMBINE WITH SIMILAR REQUEST” – UNION
• 7534635 INACTIVATING DRILLDOWN ON COLUMN VALUE ALSO INACTIVATES COLUMN HEADER LINK
• 9026854 CLARIFICATION REGARDING DATA FORMAT WHEN COMBINING REQUESTS
• 9107277 KEEP THE NUMBER PRECISION IN DATABASE WHEN “DOWNLOADING TO EXCEL”
• 9524080 PIVOT TOTAL DIFFERENT TO TABLE TOTAL WHEN REPORTAGGREGATEENABLED TRUE
• 9697529 JAPANESE CHARACTER SET NOT PASSED CORRECTLY TO DRILL REPORT IN FIREFOX BROWSER
• 9871470 SORTING ON A NULL VALUED COLUMNS GIVES ASSERTION ERRORS
• 9886904 CORRECT DOC FOR ADDING CUSTOM DATE FORMAT STRING
• 9918283 CORRECT DASHBOARD FORMATTING PROBLEMS WITH SCROLLING
• 9928318 ROW HEADER MISSING AT PIVOT TABLE VIEW FOR MIGRATED REPORTS IN 11G
• 9968574 SOME UPGRADED 10G CHARTS SHOW UP JAVA EXCEPTION
• 10023165 MAPS DO NOT WORK IN MAP VIEWS WHEN JOIN COLUMN CONTAINS A “&” CHARACTER
• 10065166 GAUGE RANGE IS NOT UPDATED WHEN IT CHANGES THE FIELD VALUE
• 10078041 ACTION LINK DOES NOT WORK WHEN COMPOUND LAYOUT ONLY HAS A MAP VIEW
• 10091354 “SCALE MARKERS” OPTION IS MISSING IN VERTICAL AXIS 2
• 10147762 CANNOT SET GAUGE FOOTER (TITLE), KEEPS SHOWING “UNDEFINEDUNDEFINEDUNDEFINED”
• 10182955 BUBBLE CHART IS NOT BEHAVING AS EXPECTED
• 10213761 CONDITIONAL DASHBOARD SECTIONS (GUIDED NAVIGATION) ALWAYS RUNS REPORTS
• 10229397 CANNOT SAVE REQUEST USING STANDARD DATE FORMATS.
• 10282140 CELL IMAGE AT BLANK CELL OF PIVOT TABLE IS NOT DISPLAYED WHEN USING COND FORMAT
• 10296730 UNABLE TO USE PRESENTATION VARIABLE IN SCALE MARKERS
• 10312496 CHARTS. MEASURE LABEL IN GRAPH PROMPTS DOES NOT CHANGE CONTENT OF THE CHART
• 10312795 ACTION LINK ON COLUMN HEADING NAVIGATION DOES NOT CONSIDER PROMPT VALUES
• 10329343 CLICKING A LINE GRAPH BETWEEN TWO DATA POINTS DRILLS TO LAST VALUE IN HORIZONTAL
• 10337649 PIVOT TABLE SHOWS BUTTONS FOR SORTING ON CALCULATED ITEMS.
• 10402102 INCORRECT RESULT WHEN USING [NEW CALCULATED ITEM] PROP IN PIVOT TABLE
• 10414887 DRILL DOWNS NOT WORKING IN CHART PIVOTED TABLE SELECTED FROM VIEW SELECTOR
• 10418875 CHART SIZE IS CHANGING AFTER WEBCAT UPGRADE FROM 10G
• 10634175 GRAPH ENGINE IS NOT RESPONDING
• 10639913 COMPLETE TEXT IS NOT SAVED IN DB IF CURSOR IS MOVED AWAY DURING INSERT
• 11711658 FILTER NEEDS TO SUPPORT UNTYPE LITERAL FOR RANK OPERATOR AS 10G DOES
• 11805468 CUSTOMIZED GAUGE VIEW IS NOT CONSISTENT WHEN EXPORTED AS PDF,HTML AND XLS
• 11817696 INCORRECT FILTER IS BUILT IF FILTER IS CONTRUCTED BEFORE SELECTING REQ. COLUMNS
• 11845286 PIVOT TABLE WITH PERCENTAGES, GRAPHED PERCENTAGE VALUES DISPLAYED ARE INCORRECT
• 11894921 GRAPH LABEL OPTIONS NOT AVAILABLE IN 11G
• 11895279 INCORRECT FILTER VALUE WHEN USING ACTION LINK WITH GRAPH
• 12412666 ALL PAGES LOSES CONDITIONAL FORMATTING
• 12561361 PSE FOR BASE BUG 10295403 ON TOP OF 11.1.1.5.0 FOR GENERIC OS

CHARTING

• 8990756 MISLEADING INFORMATION IN DOC REGARDING PIVOT TABLE SETTINGS

DASHBOARDS

• 7459700 ABILITY TO SPECIFY FIXED COLUMN WIDTH TO A DASHBOARD PROMPT
• 10177865 OBIEE 11G : DEFAULT VALUES CANNOT BE DE-SELECTED FROM MULTI SELECT PROMPT
• 10279722 DASHBOARD SLIDER PROMPT SHOWS THUMB VALUES WITH TWO DECIMAL PLACES FOR INTEGERS
• 10279829 DASHBOARD SLIDER PROMPT SHOWS WRONG VALUES FOR “ALL COLUMN VALUES” OR “SPECIFIC
• 10310511 “REQUIRE USER INPUT” MESSAGE APPEARS THE FIRST TIME ONLY FOR THE REQUIRED PROMPT
• 10389799 DASHBOARD NAVIGATION MAY CAUSE GETELEMENTBYTAGNAME ERROR IN IE
• 10411545 PROMPT WITH BETWEEN OPERATOR AND SQL DEFAULT VALUES ARE NOT UPGRADED PROPERLY
• 11056057 ERROR WHILE UPGRADING THE DASHBOARD WITH CERTAIN FILTER FUNCTIONS
• 11076452 ABILITY TO CONSTRAIN PROMPTS AGAINST A SLIDER PROMPT
• 11717024 ERROR 500 OCCURS WHEN SETTING ACCESSIBILITY MODE TO ON
• 12620143 PSE FOR BASE BUG 12561330 ON TOP OF 11.1.1.5.0 FOR LINUX X86 [46] (PSE #602152)

INSTALL

• 9459177 PREREQUISITES FOR DEPLOYMENT ON SEPARATE MACHINES
• 9540009 UNIXCHK.SH ENCOUNTERS HOST NOT FOUND ERROR WHEN DNS IS NOT AVAILABLE.
• 10071302 ENTERPRISE INSTALL: CONFIGURE PORTS : FORMAT OF INI FILE
• 10126542 OBIEE 11G INSTALATION FAILS AT AS INSTANCE CREATION DUE TO PERM SIZE ERROR
• 10287335 CANNOT START BISERVER1 . SWITCH TO JSSE FRAMEWORK REQUIRED
• 10302421 OBIEE 11G WINDOWS PROMPTS FOR USERNAME / PASSWORD AFTER ENCRYPTING CREDENTIALS
• 11849674 SAG: DISCREPANCY IN DOCUMENTED ORACLE DATABASE REQUIRED FOR MAPVIEWER

MIGRATION

• 7432799 ORACLE EUL CONVERTER CRASHED WHILE GENERATING A REPOSITORY

REL_NOTES

• 12604761 TWO STEPS OF THE UPGRADE TO 11.1.1.5.0 ARE NOT CLEARLY DOCUMENTED

SCHEDULER

• 10036466 “RE-RUN INSTANCE(S) NOW” MENU IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMPLETED JOB INSTANCES

SECURITY

• 8996295 PROVIDE DETAIL INFORMATION TO SETUP WNA(KERBEROS) FOR OBIEE AUTHENTIFICATION
• 9216995 PROVIDE LATEST DETAIL INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO SETUP LDAP SSL FOR OBIEE
• 10194154 TECHNOTES- PROVIDE DETAIL INFORMATION TO SETUP WNA(KERBEROS) FOR OBIEE AUTHENT
• 10198837 BIEEHOME LOGIN PAGE IS NOT DISABLED EVEN AFTER ENABLING THE SSO
• 10218031 USING EXTERNAL DB TABLE TO SET ROLES SESSION VARIABLE DOESN’T ACCEPT LONG NAMES
• 10373788 IF OBJECTGUID PUBLISHED AND SAMACCOUNTNAME CHANGED USER CANNOT CONNECT ANYMORE
• 11731080 QA:SECURITY GUIDE NEEDS UPDATE FOR DEFINING A USER SESSION VARIABLE

SERVER

• 6510747 NETWORK FAILURE DURING PHYSICAL QUERY HANGS END USER WITHOUT ERROR MESSAGE
• 6836444 OBIEE SERVER SYSTEM DATE IS WRONG AND DOES NOT MATCH MACHINE SYSTEM DATE
• 8371912 BI SERVER CRASHES ON NAVIGATION SPACE MAP RACE – SR 3-887711721
• 9433198 DOCUMENT SYSLOG ENTRIES IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE
• 9696424 DOC INSTANCECONFIG PARMS ALLOWEDLANGUAGES & ALLOWEDLOCALES IN SYSADMIN GUIDE
• 9954411 PSR:MOD_SUPPORTED NOT ENABLED FOR TERADATA AND CAUSES CAMPAIGN SLOW PERFORMANCE
• 10258683 REQUEST WITH COMPLEX FILTER IS CONSUMING ALMOST ALL CPU & NO SESSION IS CREATED
• 10258755 EXCEL FAILS TO CONNECT TO 11G BI SERVER USING ODBC DSN
• 10335924 REPORT-BASED TOTALS FAIL ON MEASURES CONTAINING AGGREGATION EXPRS SUCH AS FILTER
• 10374571 NEED FLEXIBILITY TO OVERRIDE HOSTNAMES WHEN CUSTOMER DNS IS INCORRECT OR BROKEN
• 10650122 PIVOT VIEW WITH UNION OF NON – COMPATABLE TYPE ERROR IN OBIEE 11G AFTER UPGRADE
• 11804596 NQQUERY LOG LEVEL 2 IS TOO VERBOSE – BACKPORT 10308263 TO 11.1.1.5
• 11809295 NQUDMLGEN NOT GENERATING UDML FILE IN UTF FORMAT

UPGRADE

• 9886765 ERRORS ENCOUNTERED WHEN UPGRADING WEB CATALOG USING UA.BAT
• 10121344 ERROR IN LOG USING UA TO UPGRADE BI SCHEDULER SCHEMA ON SQL SERVER DATABASE
• 11069928 UPGRADE SHOULD HANDLE PROMPT WITH INCONSISTENT VALUES AS 10G DOES

WEB_ADMIN

• 8564456 SHARED FOLDER ACCESS PERMISSION ISSUE
• 9381764 CATALOG MANAGER COPY FUNCTION NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED
• 9739865 EXITING MANAGE SESSION RESULTS IN HTTP ERROR
• 10016252 LACKING INFORMATION ON FORCEABSOLUTECOMMANDURL FOR ABSOLUTECOMMANDURLPREFIX
• 10144989 WEB CATALOG DOES NOT UPGRADE TO 11.1.1.3.0
• 10218524 VALIDATION ERROR AFTER THE UPGRADE OF WEBCATALOG TO OBIEE 11G
• 11723425 INCORRECT DEFAULT VALUE OF DEFAULTROWSDISPLAYED IN THE INSTANCECONFIG.XML
• 11827202 OPMN NOT STARTING AFTER SETTING UP THE REPLICATION AGENT

WEB_GNRL

• 10191078 FILTER VALUES ARE RESET IN GO URL WHEN COLUMNS ARE SORTED OR RE-ARRANGED
• 10360461 NEED ABILITY TO CONTROL NEW, DASHBOARD AND OTHER HEADER LINKS
• 11780508 10G COLUMN FILTER PROMPT WITH PROMPTCAPTION ATTR NOT UPGRADING
• 12416695 TOOLTIP EMPTY IN MAPVIEWER

WEB_INTGRT

• 10294759 FMAP-REFERENCED IMAGES IN ANALYSIS HEADERS DON’T APPEAR IN DOWNLOADS TO EXCEL

WEB_MKTG

• 8692820 DIRECT DATABASE CAMPAIGN LOAD FORMAT COMBINED LISTS FAILS
• 9908019 SAW SERVER CRASH WHEN LOADING A PARTICULAR CAMPAIGN
• 9935859 UNGROUP OF SEGMENT BLOCKS CORRUPTS SEGMENT DEFINTION AND BAD COUNTS
• 10331355 MOVING CRITERIA WITHIN A SEGMENT’S GROUP CORRUPTS THE INCLUSION OPTIONS

• Report output format type
• Layout Template name
• Reporting locale
• If the reports is run online (on-demand) or through the scheduler
• Processing time
• Reporting data size
• Report error message
• Scheduled job information

And these information can be all available through the database tables so you can use BI Publisher to generate your Auditing reports or visualize the data to gain more insights about how your users are doing on your reporting platform.

A detailed walk through video on this New feature can be found here:

Thanks,

Shiva

When we are moving from OBIEE 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5 there are two ways to upgrade our environment.

1. out-of-place upgrade : This is quite simply installing new OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 by uninstalling 11.1.1.3.0 or maintaining two Middleware homes.
2. in-place upgrade : This upgrade operates on existing files. Moving from one 11g release to another 11g release. The advantage of this is we can still have custom configurations which are configured in 11.1.1.3.0 version. Because technically this just upgrade the new BI binaries not the configurations.

As you all know how to do the out-of-place upgrade. Today am going to explain about in-place upgrade.

Here are the basic steps of the ‘in-place upgrade’. And also you can find the upgrade document @ http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e16452/bi_plan.htm#BABECJJH

1. Download the appropriate Product Installers
2. Patch Oracle WebLogic Server to the latest version (10.3.5)
3. Run the Oracle BI Product Installer, and perform a Software Only installation, specifying the existing Middleware home to be upgraded.
4. Run the Patch Set Assistant for each of the Oracle BI schemas created with RCU.
5. Upgrade BI system components
6. Update Fusion Middleware Shared Libraries
7. Update configurations and stores
8. Upgrade code grants (that is, security policy artifacts) for Oracle BI
9. Upgrade OBIEE catalogs
10. Start servers and processes.

Before you start perform the following general pre-upgrade tasks:

• Stop all WebLogic Servers, Node Manager, OPMN, and OPMN-managed system components that are part of all Oracle BI domains that use the Middleware Home that you must upgrade.On Windows systems, also stop the component that is called Oracle WebLogic NodeManager (name).
• Back up directories.

Patch Oracle WebLogic Server to the latest version (10.3.5):

With OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0 installation we will have WebLogic Server (WLS) is 10.3.3. But the new OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 requires weblogic 10.3.5. so you need to upgrade this to 10.3.5 before installing/upgrading OBIEE. In order to upgrade weblogic you will need this 10.3.5 upgrade version of WLS, which you can download from Oracle Metalink site.

Upgrade WebLogic Server

1. After unzip the downloaded file, launch wls1035_upgrade_generic.jar if you’re on Windows 64bit family.(e.g.: java –jar wls1035_upgrade_generic.jar)

2. Accept all the default values and keep ‘Next’ till end, and start the upgrade.

Once the upgrade process completes you’ll see the following window. But don’t select Run QuickStart checkbox and click Done button.

Run the Oracle BI Product Installer, and perform Software Only installation:

Download the OBIEE 11.1.1.5 version from  OTN page.

1. Launch the installer by double click ‘setup.exe’ (for Windows)

2. Select ‘Software Only Install’ option

3. Select your original Middleware Home where you installed OBIEE 11.1.1.3.

4. Click ‘Install’ button to start the installation.

This upgrades the OBIEE System to 11.1.1.5.0 from 11.1.1.3.0

Run the Patch Set Assistant for each of the Oracle BI schemas created with RCU:

You need to upgrade the BIPLATFORM and MDS Schemas. Run the Patch Set Assistant for each of the Oracle BI schemas created with RCU.Update the MDS schema first.

1. MDS
2. BIPLATFORM

psa.bat -dbConnectString Shivapc:1521:orcl -dbaUserName sys -schemaUserName DEV_BIPLATFORM

Upgrade BI system components:

This step is required for any system component that is associated with a WebLogic domain.

After you have patched your system component software that is associated with a WebLogic domain, you must run E:\MW\Oracle_BI1\opmn\bin\upgradenonj2eeapp.bat (on Windows operating systems) script to update your system components.

Before running this script, make sure:

1. The Administration Server is up and running.
2. The OPMN instance in the bin directory in the Instance home is up and running.

Here is the syntax for the ‘upgradenonj2eeapp.bat command.

And here is an example:

Update Fusion Middleware Shared Libraries:

Upgrade Shared Library (JRF)

For each WebLogic Server domain, you must run the updateJRF() WLST command to update the shared libraries in your domain. Before you do this, you need to stop all running instances, Managed Servers, Administration Server, and Node Manager in the domain.

Here is an example of the ‘upgradeJRF()’ command:

Upgrade Fusion Middleware Security (OPSS)

For each WebLogic Server domain, you must run the upgradeOpss() WLST command to update your configurations and stores from previous releases to Release 11.1.1.5.0 configurations and stores using a system-jazn-data file in Release 11.1.1.5.0. You can use ‘upgradeOpss()’ WLST command. Here is a syntax for the command.

The ‘existing jps-config.xml file can be found under E:\MW\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\config\fmwconfig\jps-config.xml and the ‘system_jazn_data_file’ can be found under E:\MW\oracle_common\modules\oracle.jps_11.1.1\domain_config\system-jazn-data.xml.

And here is an example:

Upgrade Code Grants for Oracle BI Domain

If you are updating to the latest version of Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) from Release 11.1.1.3.0, you must run the bi-upgrade.py script in each Oracle BI domain. This script configures the code grants necessary to ensure that SSL works correctly for Oracle BI, and must be run even if SSL is not used. And if you have multiple BI domains (Enterprise deployment) then you need to run this on each domain.

Here is an example:

Upgrade OWSM Policy Repository

This is to upgrade OWSM (Oracle Web Service Manager) policy repository, you can use WLST command ‘upgradeWSMPolicyRepository()’. In order to run this command you need to have your WebLogic Server up-and-running. Here is an example.

Upgrade OBIEE catalogs:

When updating your Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) software from Release 11.1.1.3.0 to 11.1.1.5.0, you must manually update your Oracle BI Presentation Catalogs. Instructions are provided below:

• Shut down Oracle BI Presentation Services using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Back up your Release 11.1.1.3.0 catalogs by using the 7-Zip utility to create a compressed file for it.
• Create a backup copy of the instanceconfig.xml file.

The instanceconfig.xml file is located in the E:\MWH\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\ coreapplication_obips1.

Change the upgradeAndExit option to true in the instanceconfig.xml file.

Find the following code:

<ps:Catalog xmlns:ps=”oracle.bi.presentation.services/config/v1.1″>

   <ps:UpgradeAndExit>false</ps:UpgradeAndExit>
</ps:Catalog>

Change it to the following:

<ps:Catalog xmlns:ps="oracle.bi.presentation.services/config/v1.1">
   <ps:UpgradeAndExit>true</ps:UpgradeAndExit>
</ps:Catalog>

• Start Oracle BI Presentation Services using the following OPMN command the update the catalogs:
• opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obips1

For example, On a Windows operating system:

cd E:\MW\instances\instance1\bin
opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obips1

• After the catalogs are updated, edit the instanceconfig.xml file again and change the upgradeAndExit option back to false.
• Restart Oracle BI Presentation Services using Fusion Middleware Control.

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Thanks,

Shiva

Below I have listed out few resources links.

OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 and OBI Apps 7.9.6.3 download link:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/biee-111150-393613.html

OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 documentation link:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/bi.htm

OBI Apps 7.9.6.3 documentation link:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E20490_01/index.htm

Thanks,

Shiva

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        The DVTChartProcessor sets decimalDigitUsed to true if this is a percentage pie slice –>

   <ViewFormat decimalDigit=”2″ decimalDigitUsed=”false”/>

 </SliceLabel>

<SeriesItems>

<Series id=”0″ color=”#ff0000″ borderColor=”# ff0000″/>

<Series id=”1″ color=”#00ff00″ borderColor=”#00ff00″/>

<Series id=”2″ color=”#0000ff” borderColor=”#0000ff”/>

</SeriesItems>

</Graph>

You need to add the extra series values depends on no.of series or default colors you want to configure.

Thanks,

Shiva