Oracle® Essbase Analytics Link for Hyperion Financial Management

Release 11.1.1.4.000 Patch Set Update (PSU): 11.1.1.4.002

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About This Patch. 1

New Features. 1

Patch Type. 1

Prerequisites. 2

Supported Platforms. 2

Supported Languages. 2

Release Compatibility. 2

Defects Fixed in Patch 11.1.1.4.002. 2

Known Issues in This Patch. 3

Applying This Patch. 3

 

About This Patch

This Readme file describes the defects fixed in this patch set update and the requirements and instructions for applying this patch.

Caution: You are urged to carefully read and understand the following requirements. Failure to comply may result in applying a patch that can cause your application to malfunction, including interruption of service and/or loss of data.

New Features

Oracle® Essbase Analytics Link for Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.1.4.002 includes the following new features:

·        Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 5.3 (64-bit) for the following configuration:

o   Integration with Enterprise Performance Management System 11.1.2.1

o   Analytics Link Server deployed on WebLogic Server (64-bit)

·        New security migration mechanism

Patch Type

Analytics Link 11.1.1.4.002 requires a fresh installation. Previous releases of Analytics Link must be deinstalled before installing Release 11.1.1.4.002.

See Applying This Patch for important configuration information.

Prerequisites

Required Microsoft Patch

Microsoft has identified a security issue that could allow a hacker to compromise your Windows-based system. You MUST install the Microsoft VC 2005 SP1 ATL redistributable pack before applying this patch.

The updated VC 2005 redistributable is available here for both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766A6AF7-EC73-40FF-B072-9112BAB119C2&displaylang=en

Supported Platforms

Before installing this release of Analytics Link, verify that your system configuration, related Oracle Hyperion product versions, relational database version, and operating system platform match the system requirements listed in the Oracle Essbase Analytics Link for Hyperion Financial Management Installation Guide.

Supported Languages

This patch set update is available only in English.

Release Compatibility

Analytics Link 11.1.1.4.002 supports Enterprise Performance Management System Release 11.1.2.1.

Analytics Link does not support some features of Enterprise Performance Management System 11.1.2.x products (such as localization).

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Defects Fixed in Patch 11.1.1.4.002

Defect Number

Defect Fixed

13501386

Update data agent stops. The following error message is written to the eal.log file:

[HR12968]: database is inconsistent

13007944

Unable to migrate user and data security from Financial Management into Essbase. The following error message is written to the eal.log file:

Cannot set filter. Essbase Error(1051239): Row string length exceeded the maximum length of 65520 for filter EAL_P_0. Filter create/alter failed

11928287

When EAL Web Server runs as service, sometimes ESSBASEPATH is incorrectly defined for the service, which can cause the creation of a partition between Data Synchronization Server and an Essbase database to fail.

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Known Issues in This Patch

The following issues are the noteworthy known issues of this patch.

Defect Number

Known Issues

13525701

Analytics Link application is not created in Shared Services when OpenLDAP is not used as the Native Directory Server (EPM 9.3.x and 11.1.1.3). The following error message is written to the config.log file:

User not found

12595391

When the Entity dimension uses the Dimension Mapping transformation type, Analytics Link Data Synchronization Server encounters an error while extracting data to an RDBMS bridge target. The following error message is written to the dss.log file:

HR#13538: error in open calling SQLNumResultCols ([Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid column name 'EALEntity_ParentId'. [state=S0022 code=207])

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Applying This Patch

The section includes important information about applying this patch set update for Analytics Link.

This patch is a full-installation package of Analytics Link 11.1.1.4.002.

Analytics Link must be installed using Oracle Universal Installer 11.2. The Analytics Link installation package contains the installation package for Oracle Universal Installer 11.2.

For installation instructions, see the Oracle Essbase Analytics Link for Hyperion Financial Management Installation Guide for Analytic Links 11.1.1.4.002.

When configuring Release 11.1.1.4.002, in the Analytics Link Configuration Tool:

·        On the Configure Analytics Link Repository page, you must select Clear DB to clear the data from an existing Analytics Link repository.

·        On the Configure Data Synchronization Server page, you must select Reset Data Synchronization Server to delete all Data Synchronization Server databases that were created in the previous release of Analytics Link before you can use Data Synchronization Server in the release that you are currently installing.

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