42 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications and Data Warehouse Administration Console

42.1.2.1 About Issues For Both Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Some issues that apply to Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence may also apply to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications. Such issues and their workarounds, if any, are documented in the Oracle Fusion Applications release notes and not in this chapter. To quickly locate issues that apply to both Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, you can search the Oracle Fusion Applications release notes for the text string "This issue also applies to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications."

42.1.2.2 CONFIGURE_RPD.PY Script Does Not Set Connection Pool for Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager

This issue affects Releases 11.1.1.5.1 and 11.1.1.5.2.

The setup script configure_rpd.py does not configure the connection pool for Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager in the Oracle BI Applications RPD file. You must configure the connection pool manually, as described in the workaround below.

Workaround

1. Use the Oracle BI Server Administration Tool to open the repository.

2. From the Manage menu, select Variables.

3. Locate and provide values for the variables CM_DSN and CM_USER.

   1. For CM_DSN, provide the complete connect string in the Default Initializer box.

   2. For CM_USER, provide the same information as the Data Warehouse Schema user in the Default Initializer box, enclosed in single quotation marks.

4. In the Physical layer, navigate to and click on BI Applications Configuration Data Source, and then click on Catalog.

5. Provide the password of the Configuration Manager schema user in the dialog that opens.

42.1.5.1 Issues for Oracle Customer Data Management Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Customer Data Management Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.2 Issues for Oracle Financial Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Financial Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.3 Issues for Oracle Human Resources Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Human Resources Analytics Offering.

42.1.5.4 Issues for Oracle Marketing Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Marketing Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.5 Issues for Oracle Partner Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Partner Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.6 Issues for Oracle Product Information Management Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Product Information Management Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.7 Issues for Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.8 Issues for Oracle Project Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Project Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.9 Issues for Oracle Sales Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Sales Analytics Offering.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.5.10 Issues for Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics Offering

This section describes issues and workarounds related to Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics Offering.

• Obsolete Task in Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics Fusion Edition in Releases 11.1.1.5.1 and 11.1.1.5.2.

  In Functional Setup Manager for Oracle BI Applications, the "Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics Fusion Edition" task list > "Order Management Functional Area Specific Configurations" task list displays the following task:

  "Configure Reporting Parameters for Default Aging Method displayed in AR Aging Reports"

  This task is obsolete and should be ignored. No functional configuration is required for this task. Invoking this task via the 'Go to Task' button displays the Reporting Parameters UI with no rows.

42.1.8.1 General Oracle Business Intelligence Documentation Errata

This section describes general errata in the Oracle Business Intelligence documentation.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.8.2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

This section describes documentation errata in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications for Release 11.1.1.5.2.

There are no known issues at this time for Release 11.1.1.5.1.

• Section 4.3.2.1 'Creating Oracle BI Applications Schemas Using Oracle BI Applications RCU' should include the following information about the location of the Oracle BI Applications RCU zip file:

  The Oracle BI Applications RCU zip file named rcuHomeBIApps.zip is located in the Fusion Applications software repository under installers/biapps_rcu/<OS - either Linux or Window>. (The Fusion Applications software repository is obtained when you download and unzip the Oracle Fusion Applications 11g parts available in the Oracle Fusion Applications Media Pack on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.) Extract this zip file into a folder, for example, BIA_RCU_HOME.

• Section 4.3.4.2 'Locations of Installation Files for Informatica PowerCenter and Hotfix 11' should read as follows:

  The Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1 and HotFix 11 installation files, license key, and user documentation are provided as zip files. These zip files are located in the Fusion Applications software repository under /installers/powercenter. (The Fusion Applications software repository is obtained when you download and unzip the Oracle Fusion Applications 11g parts available in the Oracle Fusion Applications Media Pack on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.)

  The powercenter folder contains four Informatica PowerCenter zip files. Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1 Client Tools install files are available in V22464-01_1of2.zip. The HotFix 11 files for PowerCenter Client Tools are available in V22464-01_2of2.zip. The other two zip files contain the operating system-specific files for Informatica PowerCenter Services. The first of these zip files in each media pack (1of2.zip) includes the Informatica PowerCenter Services 8.6.1 install files. The second of the zip files (2of2.zip) includes the Informatica documentation, the license key, and the HotFix 11 installation file for PowerCenter Services.

• Section 4.3.5 'Step 5: Install Oracle BI Administration Tool', should include the following information about the location of the Oracle BI Client Installer executable:

  You install Oracle BI Administration Tool using the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Client Installer. The Oracle BI Client Installer executable is named biee_client_install.exe and this file is available in the installed BI Middleware Home: bi/clients/biserver.

• Section 4.3.12 'Step 12: Install DAC Client' should include the following information about the location of the Oracle BI Applications Client installer:

  Step 1 should be: Download the part for the Oracle BI Applications Client Installer from the Oracle Fusion Applications Media Pack on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

• In Section 4.3.7 Step 7: Configure the Oracle BI Repository File (RPD), the description for the DW_DB_CONNECT value includes a JDBC string as an example. This example should include the following OCI/TNS string:

  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=orcl)))

42.1.8.3 Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager Help System

This section describes documentation errata in the Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager Help System.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.1.8.4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

This section describes documentation errata in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.2.5.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console

This section describes documentation errata in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console.

There are no known issues at this time.

42.2.5.2 DAC Client Help System

This section describes documentation errata in DAC Client Help System.

There are no known issues at this time.