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Administering Configuration Keys for the Marketing Module


Settings for the segmentation and list generation functions of the Oracle BI Presentation Services are contained in a configuration file named instanceconfig.xml. The configuration keys in this file control path names for the Marketing File System, logging levels, and other properties. Table 2 shows some of the configuration keys that apply to the Marketing module. For a complete explanation of configuration keys and how to edit the instanceconfig.xml file, see Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Table 2. Marketing Parameter Default Settings
10g Release Configuration Key
11g Release Configuration Key
Default Value
Description

MarketingCacheMaxEntries

MaxEntries

500

Maximum number of database cache entries.

-

CleanupFrequencyMinutes

60

Performs a cleanup of the cache every 60 minutes.

MarketingCacheMaxExpireMinutes

MaxAgeMinutes

1440

Maximum time that a database cache entry can exist before it is expired and removed.

MarketingDataValidation

DataValidation

False

Replaces control characters in the column data with spaces. If this parameter is set to true, control characters in the column data whose ASCII value is less than 32, such as the carriage return and the line feed characters, are replaced by spaces before writing out to any list files.

MarketingEnableNodeProfiling

EnableNodeProfiling

True

Enables or disables the hyperlink to the profile dashboard from counts in the Segment Designer and Segment Tree Designer.

MarketingFileEncoding

FileEncoding

UTF8

Character set encoding of the List Format files generated.

MarketingFileSystem

FileSystem

\\<hostname>\Lists\

File system path used by Siebel Marketing to store output list files. This path must be accessible to the BI Presentation Services, must have write permissions for the user under which BI Presentation Services is started, and must end with a backslash.

The Marketing transactional application must use the same location as the Marketing File System. In the following situations, BI Presentation Services must have access to the path specified in the MarketingFileSystem parameter:

  • In an environment in which Siebel Enterprise Server and BI Presentation Services are running on the same platform (homogenous), this path matches the Marketing File System server parameter.
  • In an environment in which Siebel Enterprise Server and BI Presentation Services are not running on the same platform (heterogeneous), the Siebel File System must be made visible to BI Presentation Services by running a third-party application (such as Samba) where the Siebel File System resides and by exporting this path such as in the following example:

    /export/home/Siebel/filesystem (BI Presentation Services running on UNIX)

MarketingJobsLogDetailLevel

JobsLogDetailLevel

1

Amount of debugging information saved for each job.

0 : No Details
1 : SQL Execution Manager
2 : SQL Execution Manager Ordering
3 : Cache Management Details
4 : Internal SqlNodes structures
5 : Internal RqtNodes structures
6 : Object XMLs

MarketingJobsLogSize

JobsLogSize

100

Maximum number of jobs in the job history log. After the maximum is reached, the oldest 25% of jobs are expired and removed.

MarketingJobsWaitSeconds

JobsWaitSeconds

20

Duration between successive checks on the status of a Marketing job run from the User Interface. The jobs include Segment Counts, Segment Tree Counts, Saved Result Set Creation (in the Segments user interface or the Segment Trees user interface) and Purge and List Format Preview/List Generation. The wait-refresh cycles keep the browser from timing out while waiting for the jobs to complete.

MarketingPreviewPath

PreviewPath

\\<hostname>\Lists\Preview\

File system path where preview and output list files are written.

MarketingPreviewSize

PreviewSize

500

Number of default records shown in the List Format Designer when a user selects Generate Preview. This parameter can be overridden by the end users in the Preview user interface by entering a different preview size in the Preview Parameters dialog box.

MarketingUseBOM

UseBOM

True

Controls writing of the Byte Order Mark (BOM) characters at the beginning of list files. Typically, applications see BOM characters to identify the encoding of the data.

  • When set to true, BOM characters are inserted at the start of the list file, identifying the character encoding used in the file.
  • When set to false, the BOM characters are not written.
  • If you set the character set encoding to ANSI then no BOM is written.

MarketingWrapColumnHeaders

WrapColumnHeaders

True

Applicable only when files are being written out in the Delimited format and when a Text Qualifier is specified.

  • When the default value is true, the column headers are wrapped using the text qualifiers specified in the List Format Options tab.
  • When the default value is false, column headers are not wrapped.

-

URL

http://hostname.com:port/

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from where to access the content server.

-

FileSizeMB

3

Sets a limit to the content server file size, in mega bytes.

-

SocketTimeoutSec

60

Specifies the number of seconds that the socket waits for the Content Server to respond while transferring records. The default value is 60.

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