This preface describes changes to the Oracle BI Publisher Administrator.
This section includes new features and changes for Oracle BI Publisher 12c (12.2.1.4.0).
Enable Diagnostic Logs for Online Reports
You can enable diagnostic logs for online reports. See Enabling Diagnostics for Online Reports.
Purge Scheduled Job History Data
You can purge the history of old scheduled jobs. See Purging Job History.
Set Memory Guard Property for Bursting Data Size
You can set the server.BURSTING_REPORT_MAX_DATA_SIZE memory guard property to limit the size of bursting data. See Memory Guard Properties.
Generate Command-Line Utilities
You can run the GenerateBIPUtility script to generate the utilities for configuring memory guard properties (BIPCONFIGSERVICE.ZIP) and for managing catalog (BIPCATALOGUTIL.ZIP). See Using Command-Line Utilities.
This section includes new features and changes for Oracle BI Publisher 12c (12.2.1.3.0).
Job Priority and Recovery
You can set the priority of each report to avoid delays of critical jobs and recover interrupted jobs to increase the success rate of running jobs. See About Prioritizing Jobs and About Job Recovery.
Restricting Embedding of BI Publisher in iframes
You can prevent embedding of BI Publisher in iframes. See Restricting Embedding of BI Publisher in iframes.
This section includes new features and changes for Oracle BI Publisher 12c (12.2.1.2.0).
Memory Guard Properties
Memory guard properties are the same as in 12.2.1.0.
New runtimepropertiesconfig.sh command line utility is available for setting the memory guard properties.
For a description of memory guard properties, see Memory Guard & Data Model Properties.
This section includes new features and changes for Oracle BI Publisher 12c (12.2.1.1.0).
Content Server as a Data Source
Content Server data source enables you to retrieve data from a text file stored in Oracle WebContent Center (formerly known as Universal Content Management) server and display the data in a report output. See Setting Up a Connection to a Content Server.
Self-Service Feature to Upload and Manage Fonts
BI Publisher includes a standard set of fonts. You can use the standard fonts and you can upload additional fonts for use in reports. See Managing Custom Fonts.
Dynamic Data Size Limit to Optimize Memory Guard for Different Outputs
Memory guard configuration has been enhanced to make it dynamic. You can now define separate memory guard thresholds for each template type and configure its memory estimate formula, which can adjust dynamically based on the report data size. See What Are Memory Guard Features?