Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Oracle Business Intelligence

• 1.1 Patch Requirements
  • 1.1.1 Obtaining Patches from My Oracle Support
• 1.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Issues and Workarounds Identified or Changed Since the Last Revision
• 1.3 Which Releases Are Covered by These Release Notes?
  • 1.3.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Issues and Workarounds that Apply Only to Release 11.1.1.3
  • 1.3.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Issues and Workarounds that Apply to IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris and HP-UX
• 1.4 Oracle Business Intelligence General Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.4.1 Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Not Included in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, Releases 11.1.1.5 and Later
  • 1.4.2 Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office Not Supported in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, Releases 11.1.1.5, 11.1.1.6.0, and 11.1.1.6.2
  • 1.4.3 IBM LDAP Based Authentication is Not Supported on Linux x86-64 and Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit)
  • 1.4.4 Oracle BI Server Fails to Start Due to Missing Connect String in tnsnames.ora File
  • 1.4.5 Issue with JAR File Size When Moving from a Test to a Production Environment
  • 1.4.6 Adobe Flash Player Version 10.1 or Later Required to View Graphs and Scorecards
  • 1.4.7 The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator Crashes While Closing
  • 1.4.8 ODBC System DSN Set With a Wrong Driver File Path on Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit)
  • 1.4.9 Hyperion Financial Management Data Sources Only Available for Windows Deployments
  • 1.4.10 Siteminder Not Supported with Full-Text Catalog Search with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • 1.4.11 Windows Native Authentication Not Supported with Full-Text Catalog Search with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • 1.4.12 Full-Text Search Not Finding BI Publisher Reports by Report Column
  • 1.4.13 Specifying Folder Names for Data-Loading the Catalog
  • 1.4.14 SSL Not Available when Using Full-Text Search with Oracle Endeca Server
  • 1.4.15 Issue with Email Notifications on Data Loads for Searching
  • 1.4.16 Stopping a Data Load for Full-Text Searching with Oracle Endeca Server
  • 1.4.17 Out of Memory Error When Crawling the Catalog
  • 1.4.18 Multibyte Characters Are Displayed as NCR When Using Attribute Categories
  • 1.4.19 Hebrew Fonts Might Be Displayed in the Wrong Direction on Windows
  • 1.4.20 Problems Installing in Thai and Turkish Locales
  • 1.4.21 Graph Subtypes Are Not Refreshed in BI Composer
  • 1.4.22 Dashboards and Scorecards Whose Paths Contain Multibyte Characters Do Not Display on ADF Pages
  • 1.4.23 Characters Supported in Folder Names by BI Presentation Services Not Supported by BI Publisher
  • 1.4.24 Configuring SSO for Essbase and Hyperion Financial Management Data Sources with Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.3
  • 1.4.25 Configuring SSO for Essbase and Hyperion Financial Management Data Sources With Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.5, 11.1.1.6, and 11.1.1.6.2
    • 1.4.25.1 Configuring SSO for Essbase and Hyperion Financial Management Release 11.1.2.1 or Later
    • 1.4.25.2 Configuring SSO for Essbase and Hyperion Financial Management Release 11.1.2.0 or Earlier
  • 1.4.26 Patch Available to Hide Selected Consistency Check Warnings
  • 1.4.27 Issues with WebLogic LDAP User Passwords
  • 1.4.28 Configuring the GUID Attribute in the Identity Store
  • 1.4.29 Messages Might Be Garbled When Running WebLogic Command Files
  • 1.4.30 Rendering Issues Might Occur in Presentation Services When Using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.x
  • 1.4.31 Poor Performance Starting Up WebLogic Server
  • 1.4.32 Analysis State Is Not Maintained for Breadcrumbs
  • 1.4.33 Enhancements to Accessibility Features
  • 1.4.34 Incorrect DataDirect License File for DataDirect 7.0.1 Drivers on Linux
  • 1.4.35 Using Non-Native Characters In ODBC Data Source Administrator Wizard
  • 1.4.36 Excel 2003 Support to Be Removed in Future Releases
  • 1.4.37 Change in Permission Inheritance for Users and Application Roles
• 1.5 Oracle Business Intelligence Installation Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.5.1 Error When Installing Oracle Business Intelligence Against a SQL Server Database
  • 1.5.2 Scale-Out Scenarios Are Not Supported on OS with Different Patch Levels
  • 1.5.3 Need to Correctly Create the Oracle Central Inventory in a UNIX Environment
  • 1.5.4 Antivirus Software Might Block the Installation in a Windows Environment
  • 1.5.5 Oracle Business Intelligence Installer Stops at Administrator User Details Screen
  • 1.5.6 Issues When Installing Oracle Business Intelligence on Windows 2008
  • 1.5.7 Installing Oracle Business Intelligence on a Shared Drive Might Fail
  • 1.5.8 Configuring DB2 to Support Multibyte Data
  • 1.5.9 Using Multibyte Data Causes Issues with Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Driver in Oracle BI Scheduler
  • 1.5.10 Job Manager Does Not Start Due to Insufficient Permissions on Windows Operating Systems
  • 1.5.11 Oracle Essbase Fails to Start on Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit)
  • 1.5.12 Missing Locale Causes Oracle Business Intelligence Installation to Fail on UNIX
  • 1.5.13 Ignore FAT File System Error Message When Performing an Enterprise Installation
  • 1.5.14 Job Manager Might Fail to Launch from the Start Menu
  • 1.5.15 Job Manager Cannot Launch if the Client Tools Install Path Includes Multi-Byte Characters
  • 1.5.16 Error Occurs When RCU is Invoked For a Second Time to Create Only MDS/Platform Schemas on IBM DB/2
  • 1.5.17 Financial Reporting Print Server Not Enabled
  • 1.5.18 Oracle Hyperion Calculation Manager does not work correctly without Adobe Flash Player
  • 1.5.19 Oracle Universal Installer Incorrectly Reports "No IPv4 Network Interfaces Found"
  • 1.5.20 Oracle Business Intelligence Installation Fails to Respond
  • 1.5.21 Binaries Fail to Redirect the Output to Log File
• 1.6 Oracle Business Intelligence Upgrade Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.6.1 General Upgrade Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.6.1.1 Conditional Formatting Might Not Work After Upgrading from Oracle Business Intelligence Release 10g to Release 11g
    • 1.6.1.2 Issues Exporting Large Data Sets to Microsoft Excel
    • 1.6.1.3 Managed Server for Oracle BI Encounters Issues After Upgrade from Release 11.1.1.3
    • 1.6.1.4 MapViewer Runtime Failure After Upgrading from Release 11.1.1.6 to Release 11.1.1.7
    • 1.6.1.5 Setting the DISABLE_FLOOR_IN_DIVISION Variable to Restore Division Expressions to the Previous 10g Behavior
  • 1.6.2 Security-related Upgrade Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.6.2.1 Warnings Might Be Reported When Upgrading an RPD with Non-English User or Group Names
    • 1.6.2.2 Users or Groups With Names Containing Invalid Characters Are Not Upgraded
    • 1.6.2.3 RPD Upgrade Process Fails If the 10g Administrator UserID or Password Contains any Non-Native Characters
    • 1.6.2.4 Errors Might Be Reported In Upgraded Analyses that Contain EVALUATE_ Database Analytic Function
    • 1.6.2.5 Configuration Assistant for Update BI Domain Steps Incorrectly Reports an OCM Configuration Error at 91% Complete when Moving from Earlier 11g Releases
    • 1.6.2.6 SSL Configured in Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.5.x or 11.1.1.6.x Fails After Upgrading to 11.1.1.7
• 1.7 Oracle Business Intelligence Installation Guidelines for 64-Bit Platforms
  • 1.7.1 Prerequisites for Software Only Installation on 64-Bit Platforms
  • 1.7.2 Supported Installation Types for Oracle Business Intelligence on 64-Bit Platforms
  • 1.7.3 Considerations and Limitations of Enterprise Install Type for Scaling Out Existing Installations
• 1.8 Oracle Business Intelligence Analyses and Dashboards Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.8.1 General Analyses and Dashboards Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.8.1.1 Existing Dashboard Prompts Based on Columns Renamed in the Business Model Do Not Work
    • 1.8.1.2 Gauge Views Might Be Cut Off and Not Visible Under Certain Conditions
    • 1.8.1.3 Numerical Units on a Dashboard Prompt Slider Might Not Be Translated Correctly
    • 1.8.1.4 After Printing a Dashboard Page Using the Safari Browser on Windows, the Page No Longer Responds to Certain Left Clicks
    • 1.8.1.5 Scorecard Diagrams on Dashboard Pages Might Print as Tables
    • 1.8.1.6 Using Maps with Column Selectors
    • 1.8.1.7 Issue with Wrap-Around Feature for Maps
    • 1.8.1.8 Inability to Delete Map Tiles in MapViewer
    • 1.8.1.9 Support for Rendering Small Form-Factor Graphs
    • 1.8.1.10 Analyses Whose Paths Contain Latin Supplement Characters Fail to Open on Dashboard Pages
    • 1.8.1.11 In Selection Steps Search for Members in Hierarchical Columns That Are Non-Text Yields No Results
    • 1.8.1.12 Interactions on Right-Click Menus Are Not Translated
    • 1.8.1.13 Issues with the Alignment of Trellis Views
    • 1.8.1.14 Characters in Trellis Title Display Incorrectly in Certain Languages
    • 1.8.1.15 Export to Excel 2007+ and Export to PDF Do Not Support Custom CSS Styles
    • 1.8.1.16 Items Not Supported When Using Custom Print Layouts
    • 1.8.1.17 Grand Total Shows Zero in Reports After Applying BI 11.1.1.7.1 Patch
    • 1.8.1.18 Viewing Updated Results After Write Back
  • 1.8.2 Actions Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.8.2.1 EJBs in Action Framework Must Be Deployed to the WebLogic Managed Server
    • 1.8.2.2 UserScripts.js File Must Be Backed Up and Reinstated After Every Patch or Upgrade
  • 1.8.3 Scorecards and KPI Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.8.3.1 No Results Returned When Searching in the Related Documents of Scorecards or Scorecard Components
    • 1.8.3.2 Accessing a Smart Watchlist from the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Results Page Causes an Error
    • 1.8.3.3 Item Stale Error When Editing a Shared Scorecard in Parallel
    • 1.8.3.4 Scorecard Pie Chart and Gauge Labels are Not Readable in Chrome
  • 1.8.4 Agents Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.8.4.1 Agent Deliveries Fail with Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle Virtual Directory
    • 1.8.4.2 Agent Incorrectly Delivers Content to Active Delivery Profile When Only the Home Page and Dashboard Option Is Selected
  • 1.8.5 Microsoft Office Integration Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.8.5.1 Using Microsoft Office 2007 with Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office
    • 1.8.5.2 Server Connections Are Not Automatically Shared by Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
    • 1.8.5.3 Previous Installation of Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office Must Be Manually Uninstalled
    • 1.8.5.4 Install a Language Pack for Non-English Languages
    • 1.8.5.5 Errors in the Online Help for Oracle BI Add-In for Microsoft Office
    • 1.8.5.6 Refreshing Table or Pivot Table Views with Double Columns in Page Edge Might Result in Error
    • 1.8.5.7 Double Column Cascading Results in Incorrect Display Values
    • 1.8.5.8 Intermittent Timeout Errors
    • 1.8.5.9 Lack of Support for Vary Color By Target Area
    • 1.8.5.10 Measure Column Labels Might Display Incorrectly When Inserted into Microsoft Excel
    • 1.8.5.11 Stacked Graphs Do Not Display Negative Values
    • 1.8.5.12 Scatter Graphs with Lines Display as Default Scatter Graphs in Excel and PowerPoint
    • 1.8.5.13 Graphs With Section Edges Are Not Supported Starting With Release 11.1.1.6.x
    • 1.8.5.14 Refreshing Table Views in Arabic or German Versions of Excel Result in Incorrect Data Values
    • 1.8.5.15 Inserting a View With a Grand Total Column or Row into Microsoft Office Might Cause Issues
    • 1.8.5.16 Time Displayed in Table or Pivot View Title Might Be Incorrect after Insertion
    • 1.8.5.17 Graphs Might Be Displayed Differently After Insertion into Microsoft Office
    • 1.8.5.18 Legends in Bubble and Scatter Graphs Might Display Differently After Insertion into Microsoft Office
    • 1.8.5.19 Help System Does Not Work When Running Oracle BI Office for PowerPoint in Norwegian or Polish
    • 1.8.5.20 Protected Worksheet Causing Incorrect Message When Inserting View in Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office
    • 1.8.5.21 Column Data in Section Edge Is Not Obtained
• 1.9 Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile Issues and Workarounds
• 1.10 Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile App Designer Issues and Workarounds
• 1.11 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Reporting and Publishing Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.11.1 General Oracle BI Publisher Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.1.1 JDBC Driver Throws Unsupported Function for setBigDecimal
    • 1.11.1.2 Searching the Catalog from the Oracle BI Publisher User Interface Does Not Work When BI Publisher Is Integrated with Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
    • 1.11.1.3 Data Source List in BI Publisher Administration Page Includes Data Sources That Are Not Supported
    • 1.11.1.4 Menu Items Do Not Display When Using Internet Explorer 7 or 8 with a Bidirectional Language Preference
    • 1.11.1.5 Data Source Definition for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Does Not Get Saved
    • 1.11.1.6 Issues with Viewing Some Report Formats on Apple iPad
    • 1.11.1.7 BI Publisher Objects Exhibit Unexpected Behavior When Located Inside a Folder Named with a Single Quote Character
    • 1.11.1.8 Components Folder Missing from SampleApp Lite Web Catalog
    • 1.11.1.9 Boilerplate Templates in the Components Folder Do Not Display Table Borders Properly in Chrome Browsers
    • 1.11.1.10 Local Policy Attachments (LPAs) Removed from Web Services in Release 11.1.1.5
    • 1.11.1.11 Oracle BI Publisher Requires Oracle WebLogic Server to Run in en_US Locale
    • 1.11.1.12 Search Might Return Incorrect Number of Results
    • 1.11.1.13 Schedule Report Option Is Not Displayed Correctly for Non-Administrator Users
    • 1.11.1.14 Additional Setup for BI Publisher Desktop Tools in 11.1.1.6.2
    • 1.11.1.15 Oracle Endeca Search Does Not Work from /xmlpserver URL
    • 1.11.1.16 Older Version of Adobe Flash Player Packaged with the Google Chrome Browser Might Cause Unexpected Behavior in the Interactive Viewer
    • 1.11.1.17 "Failed to Add" Error When Adding Report Objects to Favorites
    • 1.11.1.18 Cannot Add Reports with Multibyte Character Names to Favorites Using the Catalog Task Option
    • 1.11.1.19 Excel Analyzer and Online Analyzer Deprecated in Release 11.1.1.7
  • 1.11.2 Oracle BI Publisher Security Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.2.1 Limitations for Administrator Username in LDAP Security Model
    • 1.11.2.2 Oracle E-Business Suite Security Requires the BI Publisher Server Operating System Language to Match an E-Business Suite Enabled Language
  • 1.11.3 Oracle BI Publisher Delivery Manager Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.11.4 Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.4.1 Scheduler Does Not Support Multibyte Characters When Schema Installed on Microsoft SQL Server
    • 1.11.4.2 URL in E-mail Notification of Recurring or Future-Dated Jobs Might Fail to Display Job History for the Job
    • 1.11.4.3 After Editing an Existing Job, Immediately Creating a New Job Using "Submit as New" Overwrites the Original Job
  • 1.11.5 Oracle BI Publisher RTF Template Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.5.1 RTF Templates in 11g Require Number Conversion on String Expressions
  • 1.11.6 Oracle BI Publisher Excel Template Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.6.1 Limitations for Excel Template Output on Apple iPad
  • 1.11.7 Oracle BI Publisher Desktop Tools Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.7.1 Oracle BI Publisher's Template Builder for Microsoft Word Is Not Compatible with Microsoft Office Live Add-in
    • 1.11.7.2 Excel Analyzer Does Not Support 64-Bit Windows Platform
  • 1.11.8 Oracle BI Publisher Layout Editor Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.8.1 Editing an XPT Layout and Clicking Return in Layout Editor Results in Exception
    • 1.11.8.2 Interactive Viewer Might Return Unexpected Results from Formula Columns
    • 1.11.8.3 Interactive Viewer Returns Incorrect Results for Data Aggregation Functions When the Data Set Is Not a Single, Flat Data Set
    • 1.11.8.4 Division Results Rounded Inconsistently When Used with the #,##0 Custom Format Mask
  • 1.11.9 Oracle BI Publisher Data Model Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.9.1 Data Model Is Not Editable When Created by Upgrade Assistant
    • 1.11.9.2 Issues with Upgraded 10g Data Models That Include Ref Cursors and Stored Procedures
    • 1.11.9.3 After Editing a View Object Data Set, the Elements Are Duplicated
    • 1.11.9.4 Excel Workbooks Used as Data Sources Cannot Contain Ampersand (&) in the Sheet Name
  • 1.11.10 Oracle BI Publisher Report Building Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.11.10.1 Use Oracle BI Publisher Conversion Assistant to Convert Oracle Reports to Oracle BI Publisher 11g
    • 1.11.10.2 "Enable Bursting" Report Property Displays Enabled State When Disabled
  • 1.11.11 Oracle BI Publisher Documentation Errata
    • 1.11.11.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
    • 1.11.11.2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
• 1.12 Oracle Business Intelligence Metadata Repository Development Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.12.1 General Metadata Repository Development Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.12.1.1 Use of NQClient (BI ODBC Client) Utility Is Deprecated
    • 1.12.1.2 Update Logical Table Source Modeling when Using paint.rpd for Testing
    • 1.12.1.3 FIRST and LAST Aggregation Rules Cause Inconsistent Sorting for Time Dimensions
    • 1.12.1.4 Oracle OLAP Jars on JavaHost Computer Must Be Updated When Using Oracle OLAP 11.2.x
    • 1.12.1.5 Must Use JDBC Connection String When Importing from Oracle OLAP
    • 1.12.1.6 Using the BIServerT2PProvisioner.jar Utility to Change Connection Pool Passwords
    • 1.12.1.7 Configuring a Servlet for Oracle BI Server Communication with Oracle OLAP
    • 1.12.1.8 Enhancing Performance of Aggregates with TimesTen Release 11.2.2.3 or Later
    • 1.12.1.9 Performing Merges on Repositories That Contain System-Generated Tables Can Cause Loss of Metadata
    • 1.12.1.10 Create Aggregates Operations Can Time Out for TimesTen Targets
    • 1.12.1.11 Logical Display Folders Are Deleted During MUD Publish
  • 1.12.2 Oracle BI Server Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.12.2.1 Oracle Call Interface (OCI) Issue Causes Oracle BI Server Crash on Windows when Under Heavy Load and Connecting to Oracle Database 11g
    • 1.12.2.2 Configuration Required for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle BI Summary Advisor
  • 1.12.3 Oracle BI Administration Tool Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.12.3.1 Administration Tool Incorrectly Displays Option for Generate Deployment File
    • 1.12.3.2 Issue with Online Import Object Checkout
    • 1.12.3.3 Ignore RPD Consistency Warnings Related to Required Database Feature Changes for Oracle OLAP
    • 1.12.3.4 Select Nullable Option for Root Member of Parent-Child Hierarchies from OLAP Sources
    • 1.12.3.5 Administration Tool Fails to Launch from the Start Menu
    • 1.12.3.6 Problems with Icons in Some Administration Tool Installations
    • 1.12.3.7 Oracle BI Repository Can Become Corrupt When Objects Are Deleted in MUD Environments
    • 1.12.3.8 Manually Map DFF VOs from ADF Data Sources into the Business Model and Mapping and Presentation Layers
    • 1.12.3.9 Error Message Text Missing when Using Summary Advisor in Client Installations of the Administration Tool
    • 1.12.3.10 Model Checker Not Enabled in Release 11.1.1.6.2
    • 1.12.3.11 Publishing a Duplicate Dimension Object in a MUD Environment
• 1.13 Oracle Business Intelligence System Administration Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.13.1 General System Administration Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.13.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.13.2.1 Removal of DefaultImageType and HardenXSS Elements
  • 1.13.3 Deployment, Availability, and Capacity Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.13.4 Sign-in and Security Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.13.4.1 Permission Required to Open Catalog Manager in Online Mode
  • 1.13.5 Oracle BI Scheduler Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.13.6 Oracle Essbase Suite Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.13.6.1 Ensure that the Installation Uses a JDK Installed into a Folder that Does Not Contain Spaces
    • 1.13.6.2 Essbase SQL Interface Using Oracle Call Interface (OCI) to Connect to Oracle Requires Oracle Instant Client
    • 1.13.6.3 Options to Set Accessibility Preferences When Using Workspace Are Not Available
    • 1.13.6.4 Issue with Dashboards Menu in EPM Workspace
    • 1.13.6.5 Merant 6.1 ODBC Drivers Are Not Configured on Linux
• 1.14 Oracle Business Intelligence Integration and API Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.14.1 General Integration Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.14.2 Oracle Business Intelligence API Issues and Workarounds
• 1.15 Oracle Business Intelligence Localization Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.15.1 Product Localization Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.15.1.1 Unable to Save Strings with Multibyte Characters to an External File Using ANSI Encoding
    • 1.15.1.2 BI Publisher User Interface Components Do Not Support Supplementary Characters
    • 1.15.1.3 Non-English Log Files Displayed Incorrectly in Fusion Middleware Control
    • 1.15.1.4 Error Messages in BI Publisher Data Model Editor Honor Server Locale Setting
    • 1.15.1.5 Incorrect Layout in Tables and Pivot Tables in PDF Files and PowerPoint Presentations When Locale for BI Server Is Arabic or Hebrew
    • 1.15.1.6 Excel2007 Output in BI Publisher Does Not Honor Locale Settings for Number and Date Format
    • 1.15.1.7 Excel2007 Output in BI Publisher Supports Gregorian Calendar Only
    • 1.15.1.8 Template Builder for Microsoft Word Chart Wizard Does Not Format Dates
    • 1.15.1.9 Number and Date Format Issues with Charts in BI Publisher Layout Templates
    • 1.15.1.10 BI Publisher Report Creation Wizard "Select Columns" Step Does Not Render Properly When UI Language Is Francais
    • 1.15.1.11 Albany Fonts Delivered with BI Publisher for PDF Output Do Not Support Bold and Italic for Multibyte Characters
  • 1.15.2 Help System Localization Issues and Workarounds
    • 1.15.2.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Help Systems Are Not Translated
• 1.16 Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine Issues and Workarounds
• 1.17 Oracle Business Intelligence Documentation Errata
  • 1.17.1 General Oracle Business Intelligence Documentation Errata
  • 1.17.2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Quick Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 1.17.3 Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
    • 1.17.3.1 Installation Guide Contains Misinformation About Installing the Client Tools
    • 1.17.3.2 Installation Guide Contains Misinformation About pasteBinary Script
    • 1.17.3.3 List of Supported Oracle BI Client Tools for Microsoft Windows x64
    • 1.17.3.4 Installation Guide Contains Misinformation About Installing on a Hardened Database
  • 1.17.4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.4.1 Incorrect Information on Aggregation
    • 1.17.4.2 Incorrect Information on Database Authentication
  • 1.17.5 Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.5.1 Oracle BI Mobile: Embedding a Dashboard or Answers Report Link in an E-mail
    • 1.17.5.2 Oracle BI Mobile: Easy Access to Dashboards
    • 1.17.5.3 Information about Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office Must Be Ignored
    • 1.17.5.4 Columns from Multiple Subject Areas Included in a Single Query Must Be Compatible
    • 1.17.5.5 Error in the "How Will Prompts Created in Previous Versions Be Upgraded?" Topic in Chapter 6, "Prompting in Dashboards and Analyses"
    • 1.17.5.6 Content Missing from Appendix E, "User Interface Reference," "Edit Page Settings dialog" Topic, Prompt Buttons Field
    • 1.17.5.7 Incorrect Default Pixel Value Specified in Chapter 6, "Prompting in Dashboards and Analyses" and Appendix E, "User Interface Reference"
    • 1.17.5.8 Error in the "Actions that Invoke Operations, Functions or Processes in External Systems" Topic in Chapter 10, "Working with Actions"
    • 1.17.5.9 Error in the "Show More Columns dialog" Topic in Appendix E, "User Interface Reference"
    • 1.17.5.10 Error in the "New Filter dialog" Topic in Appendix E, "User Interface Reference"
    • 1.17.5.11 Information on View Latest Version Feature in Error
    • 1.17.5.12 Changes to the Instructions for Installing and Configuring BI Composer
    • 1.17.5.13 Mentions of the KPI Editor: Data Input Security Page Must Be Ignored
    • 1.17.5.14 Misinformation About Oracle Endeca Server and Full-Text Search
    • 1.17.5.15 Breadcrumbs Disabled for Embedded Objects in ADF
    • 1.17.5.16 Note on Fixed Headers with Scrolling Content Is Incorrect
    • 1.17.5.17 Misinformation About Adding HTML Code in Prompt Labels
    • 1.17.5.18 Enable on Totals for Action Links Not Described
    • 1.17.5.19 Use of Multiple Values in Presentation Variable on Dashboards Not Described
  • 1.17.6 Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile
  • 1.17.7 Oracle Fusion Middleware Metadata Repository Builder's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.7.1 Important Changes to Essbase Preconfiguration Instructions
    • 1.17.7.2 Manual opmn.xml Edits Needed to Use Teradata as a Data Source
    • 1.17.7.3 Updates to Text for Consistency Check Warnings 39009 and 39059
    • 1.17.7.4 Other Changes to List of New Consistency Check Warnings
    • 1.17.7.5 Select the Virtual Private Database Option when Authenticating Against Essbase or Hyperion Financial Management Using a Shared Token
    • 1.17.7.6 Manually Updating the Master MUD Repository
    • 1.17.7.7 Configuration Required for Client Installations of the Administration Tool to Perform Offline Imports from Oracle OLAP and Hyperion Financial Management Data Sources
    • 1.17.7.8 Database Client Installation Required for Client Installations of the Administration Tool when Importing from Oracle Database and Oracle OLAP Sources
    • 1.17.7.9 Initialization Block Failure at Server Start-Up Causes Connection Pool to be Blacklisted
    • 1.17.7.10 Merge Local Changes Step Does Not Lock the Master Repository
    • 1.17.7.11 Information Now Available for All Import Metadata Wizard Screens
    • 1.17.7.12 Remove Smart View Mention in Appendix C
    • 1.17.7.13 Explicitly Check Out Projects to Add Objects in a Multiuser Development Environment
    • 1.17.7.14 Changes to DataDirect Drivers and Directories
    • 1.17.7.15 Additional Information Available on SCM Configuration Template Files
    • 1.17.7.16 Additional Information Available on TimesTen Compressed Tables
    • 1.17.7.17 Statement on Aggregate Creation Failure is Incorrect
    • 1.17.7.18 Prefer Optimizer Estimates Option Available for Summary Advisor in Release 11.1.1.6.2, Bundle Patch 1
    • 1.17.7.19 Statement on Most Restrictive Security Attribute is Incomplete
    • 1.17.7.20 Changed Location and Name of Adapter Required for SAP/BW Data Sources Connection
  • 1.17.8 Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.8.1 Event Polling Tables Must Be Created Using the Repository Creation Utility (RCU)
    • 1.17.8.2 Use of ps: Prefix in Elements Is Unnecessary
    • 1.17.8.3 Lowercase for Boolean Values for Configuration Elements
    • 1.17.8.4 Removal of Section 11.5, "Configuring to Download Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office"
    • 1.17.8.5 Issue Copying a Jar File when Registering with EPM Workspace Release 11.2.3.00
    • 1.17.8.6 Incomplete Information in "Validating the Catalog" Section
    • 1.17.8.7 Missing Privilege for Using the Full-Text Catalog Search
    • 1.17.8.8 Error for Configuring the Data Source for the Full-Text Catalog Search
    • 1.17.8.9 Removal of Section 19.7.2.6, "Including Links with Analyses on Dashboards"
    • 1.17.8.10 MaxColumns Element Not Supported
    • 1.17.8.11 Error in Section 22.3.2, "Specifying Defaults for Styles and Skins"
    • 1.17.8.12 Clarification of CaseInsensitiveMode Element
    • 1.17.8.13 Updates of Information About the Catalog
    • 1.17.8.14 Section on Manually Configuring for Interactions In Views Does Not Apply
    • 1.17.8.15 Omission of Enabled Element in Custom Links Section
    • 1.17.8.16 Omission of Section on Updating Java Development Kit (JDK)
    • 1.17.8.17 Remove Mention of pasteBinary Script
    • 1.17.8.18 Parameter Descriptions Missing or Inaccurate in NQSConfig.INI File Configuration Settings Appendix
    • 1.17.8.19 Incorrect Commands to Start and Stop Administration Server on a Windows Environment
  • 1.17.9 Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.9.1 SASchInvoke Always Prompts for the Password in 11.1.1.5
    • 1.17.9.2 Setup Multiple Authentication Providers
    • 1.17.9.3 Error in Code Example for Refreshing User GUIDs
    • 1.17.9.4 Adding UserName Attribute Properties user.login.attr and username.attr to Identity Store is Not Applicable
    • 1.17.9.5 Removal of Invalid LDAP Configuration Properties when Setting Up SSL
    • 1.17.9.6 Error in Code Example for Configuring a Database Adaptor
    • 1.17.9.7 Error in Code Example for Configuring the WebLogic Server Environment
  • 1.17.10 Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 1.17.11 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.11.1 Error in the "Passing Business Intelligence Content with the Oracle BI EE Contextual Event Action" Topic in Chapter 1, "Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in ADF Applications"
  • 1.17.12 Oracle Fusion Middleware Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 1.17.12.1 Addendum to the "Overview of Integrating with Oracle Business Intelligence" Topic in Chapter 10, "Integrating Other Clients with Oracle Business Intelligence"
  • 1.17.13 Oracle Fusion Middleware XML Schema Reference for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
  • 1.17.14 Oracle Business Intelligence Help System Errata
    • 1.17.14.1 Incorrect Statement on Source Control Management and Multiuser Development in Administration Tool Online Help
    • 1.17.14.2 Addendum to the Oracle BI Server DSN Configuration Wizard Help

2 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications and Data Warehouse Administration Console

• 2.1 Patch Requirements
  • 2.1.1 Obtaining Patches from My Oracle Support
• 2.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Release Notes
  • 2.2.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Issues and Workarounds Identified Since the Previous Revision
  • 2.2.2 General Issues and Workarounds for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
    • 2.2.2.1 Patch Installation Instructions for Informatica Repository in Oracle BI Applications Release 11.1.1.5.2
    • 2.2.2.2 About Issues For Both Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
    • 2.2.2.3 CONFIGURE_RPD.PY Script Does Not Set Connection Pool for Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager
    • 2.2.2.4 Using Multiple Execution Plans Using Different Source Connection Names But Running On The Same BI Server
    • 2.2.2.5 NLS:SDE_FUSION_DOMAINGENERAL_SALESINVOICESOURCE_FULL Failed With Syntax Error
    • 2.2.2.6 Informatica License Dis-associating After Installation
    • 2.2.2.7 JAZN File Not Translated
    • 2.2.2.8 Duplicate Rows in GL Account Segment Hierarchy Tables
    • 2.2.2.9 Rename Informatica Files With Upper Case XML Extension To Lower Case
    • 2.2.2.10 Instructions to Change Create Navigate Actions and Create Invoke Actions to BI Author
    • 2.2.2.11 Extracting Fusion Descriptive Flexfield (DFF) Information Into Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse
  • 2.2.3 Installation Issues and Workarounds for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
    • 2.2.3.1 Installing Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1 On Mount Points with Free Disk Space in Terabytes
    • 2.2.3.2 Restarting Components After Completing The Post-Installation Setup Steps
    • 2.2.3.3 Customer Cost Lines and Product Cost Lines Configuration is Missing From FSM Tasks for Oracle Financial Analytics
  • 2.2.4 Upgrade Issues and Workarounds for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
  • 2.2.5 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Offering/Module-specific Issues
    • 2.2.5.1 Issues for Oracle Customer Data Management Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.2 Issues for Oracle Financial Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.3 Issues for Oracle Human Resources Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.4 Issues for Oracle Marketing Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.5 Issues for Oracle Partner Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.6 Issues for Oracle Product Information Management Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.7 Issues for Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.8 Issues for Oracle Project Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.9 Issues for Oracle Sales Analytics Offering
    • 2.2.5.10 Issues for Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics Offering
  • 2.2.6 Translated Content in Non-English Reports and Dashboards
  • 2.2.7 Error in Execution of Task SDE_FUSION_PayrollRunBalanceDetailFact
  • 2.2.8 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Configuration Manager and FSM Issues
  • 2.2.9 Security-related Issues for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
  • 2.2.10 Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Documentation Errata
    • 2.2.10.1 General Oracle Business Intelligence Documentation Errata
    • 2.2.10.2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
    • 2.2.10.3 Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager Help System
    • 2.2.10.4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
• 2.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console (DAC) Platform Release Notes
  • 2.3.1 DAC Issues and Workarounds Identified Since the Previous Revision
  • 2.3.2 DAC General Issues and Workarounds
  • 2.3.3 DAC Installation Issues and Workarounds
  • 2.3.4 DAC Upgrade Issues and Workarounds
  • 2.3.5 DAC Documentation Errata
    • 2.3.5.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Administration Console
    • 2.3.5.2 DAC Client Help System

3 Oracle Real-Time Decisions

• 3.1 Oracle RTD General Issues and Workarounds
  • 3.1.1 Transient Likelihood Problems
  • 3.1.2 Use Development Deployment State Only
  • 3.1.3 Error Deploying Inline Services from Command Line if Inline Service Uses Certain Functions
  • 3.1.4 Ensuring Unique Batch Names Across a Cluster
  • 3.1.5 Safari and Chrome Accessibility Items
  • 3.1.6 Learning Service May Skip Processing of Some Learning Records if SDDB is on Oracle RAC Database
  • 3.1.7 External Rule Editor Does Not Work in Mozilla Firefox Version 16
• 3.2 Oracle RTD Installation Issues and Workarounds
• 3.3 Oracle RTD Upgrade Issues and Workarounds
• 3.4 Oracle RTD Configuration Issues and Workarounds
• 3.5 Oracle RTD Security Issues and Workarounds
  • 3.5.1 Decision Center Logout Not Redirected Correctly for Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11g Form-Based Authentication
• 3.6 Oracle RTD Administration Issues and Workarounds
• 3.7 Oracle RTD Integration Issues and Workarounds
  • 3.7.1 Java Smart Client Run Configuration Changes Required for Different Properties Files
• 3.8 Oracle RTD Decision Studio Issues and Workarounds
  • 3.8.1 Mapping Array Attributes in a Multi-Level Entity Hierarchy
  • 3.8.2 Issues When Trying to Enable Caching for Some Entities
  • 3.8.3 Terminate Active Sessions in Cluster Works Only on Decision Server Receiving Deployment Request
• 3.9 Oracle RTD Decision Center Issues and Workarounds
• 3.10 Oracle RTD Performance Monitoring Issues and Workarounds
• 3.11 Oracle RTD Externalized Objects Management Issues and Workarounds
• 3.12 Oracle RTD Localization Issues and Workarounds
• 3.13 Oracle RTD Documentation Errata
  • 3.13.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Real-Time Decisions
  • 3.13.2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform Developer's Guide for Oracle Real-Time Decisions
    • 3.13.2.1 External Rules Development Helper Mismatch between Code and Manual Description
    • 3.13.2.2 Save Choice IDs in Inline Services Rather Than Choices
• 3.14 Oracle RTD Third-Party Software Information
  • 3.14.1 Displaytag Download Location