New Features for Oracle Business Intelligence Integrators

This preface describes new features and upgrade considerations in Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1).

This preface contains the following topics:

• "New Features for Oracle BI EE 12c (12.2.1)"

New Features for Oracle BI EE 12c (12.2.1)

This section describes new features for Oracle BI EE 12c (12.2.1). It contains the following topics:

• "New Service"

• "New Structures"

• "New Methods"

• "Updates to Oracle BI Server XML Procedures"

New Service

Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1) includes the following new service:

• "AnalysisExportViews Service"

New Structures

Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1) includes the following new structures:

• "ReportHierarchicalColumn"

• "ReportRegularColumn"

• "Prompt Structures"

• "AnalysisExportExecutionOptions Structure"

• "AnalysisExportResult Structure"

• "ForgetAccount Structure"

• "ForgetAccountResult Structure"

• "ForgetAccountsStatus Structure"

• "RenameAccount Structure"

• "RenameAccountResults Structure"

• "RenameAccountsStatus Structure"

New Methods

Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1) includes the following new methods:

• "getReportColumns Method"

• "getPromptedColumns() Method"

• "getReportElements Method"

• "initiateAnalysisExport () Method"

• "completeAnalysisExport () Method"

• "getUserHomeDirPath() Method"

• "forgetAccountsEx() Method"

• "renameAccountsEx() Method"

• "reloadMetadata() Method"

Updates to Oracle BI Server XML Procedures

Updates were made to the Oracle BI Server XML procedures. These updates are described in the Chapter 4, "Using the Oracle Business Intelligence Server Metadata Web Service.":

• The TARGET_RPD_PASSWORD parameter was added to the Extract Project procedure. See "Extract Project Procedure" for more information.

• The ORIGINAL_RPD parameter was removed and the GROUP_NAME parameter was added to the Modify Metadata procedure. See "Modify Metadata Procedure" for more information.

• The UID_FLAG parameter was added to the Query Metadata procedure. See "Query Metadata Procedure" for more information.