Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Release Notes

• 1.1 How to Use These Release Notes
• 1.2 General Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.2.1 Certification Information
  • 1.2.2 Installation and Upgrade
    • 1.2.2.1 Maintain Side-By-Side Environments When Upgrading
    • 1.2.2.2 Installation Error Caused By Invalid Characters in Installation Directory Names
    • 1.2.2.3 Requirement for Certain Platforms to Install Informatica PowerCenter 8.1.1 SP5 Emergency Bug Fix
  • 1.2.3 Documentation Corrections
    • 1.2.3.1 Corrections to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Installation Guide for Informatica PowerCenter Users
    • 1.2.3.2 Corrections to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Configuration Guide for Informatica PowerCenter Users
    • 1.2.3.3 Corrections to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Upgrade Guide for Informatica PowerCenter Users
    • 1.2.3.4 Corrections to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Security Guide
    • 1.2.3.5 Corrections to Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Data Model Reference
• 1.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications: General
  • 1.3.1 Issue Including Subject Areas from Two Different Sources into One Execution Plan
  • 1.3.2 Incremental Aggregation Tasks Can Run Slowly in Multisource ETL Situation
  • 1.3.3 Incorrect Name for SA System Presentation Column Prevents Delivery of iBots to Applications Users
  • 1.3.4 Lack of Time Zone Setting Prevents Delivery of iBots to Applications Users
  • 1.3.5 Large Dimensional Tables Causing Slow Fact Lookups
  • 1.3.6 Issue with Exchange Rates and Transaction Currencies
  • 1.3.7 Issue with Mapping in Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 7.7.1.x Versions
  • 1.3.8 Contact Geography Attributes in Campaign Contacts_Segmentation Catalog Do Not Join Appropriately
  • 1.3.9 Issues With Multi-Source ETL
  • 1.3.10 Email Personalization for Siebel 8.0
    • 1.3.10.1 Updating The Repository
    • 1.3.10.2 Updating The Campaign Load Format and Email Server Format
  • 1.3.11 Incorrect Username Displayed in the Greetings Message in Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards
  • 1.3.12 Missing Language Folders
  • 1.3.13 Extraneous Dimension in Campaign Contacts_Segmentation Subject Area
  • 1.3.14 Changes In Calculating '# of offers' Metric In Marketing Analytics
  • 1.3.15 Restoring a Repository in Informatica in a Non-English Operating System
  • 1.3.16 Error in Reports Based on 'Opportunity' Under Opportunity Contact Segmentation
  • 1.3.17 Filter Non-position Based Forecasting Records in Siebel 8.1
  • 1.3.18 Teradata Connection Configuration
  • 1.3.19 Bitmap Index W_GL_REVN_F_F57 Incorrectly Marked as Type ETL
  • 1.3.20 Installation Errors With Oracle Applications Server Advanced Security Option
  • 1.3.21 SDE_ORA_ExchangeRateGeneral Failure With Oracle DB Version 8i
  • 1.3.22 No Data Is Loaded Into W_BOM_ITEM_F and W_BOM_ITEM_FS
  • 1.3.23 Issue with DB2 9.1 Databases During Full ETL Loads
  • 1.3.24 Issue with DB2 Databases running Pharma Analytics on AIX and UNIX Platforms
  • 1.3.25 Error Running ETL Using Pharma 8.1.1 CRM
  • 1.3.26 Oracle Business Intelligence AA Financials Do Not Support Extracting Statistical GL Balances or Journals
  • 1.3.27 Division Name Pointing to an Obsolete Column in Oracle Sales Analytics
  • 1.3.28 FIND_AUDIT_VALUES Transformation Inside SDE_OptyStgFact is Missing in the Teradata ETL Repository
  • 1.3.29 EMPLOYEE NAME (From POSITION Dimension) Shows Incorrectly in Reports
  • 1.3.30 Securing the Employee Dimension
  • 1.3.31 Quote Item Fact Not Secured By Position Hierarchy