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OBIEEImpactAnalysisWhatifIdeleteacolumnfrom
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IngeneraleveryOBIEEApplication
user/developerneedstoknowtheoriginofthe
datadisplayedonreports.Thegeneralquestions
thateveryonelooksforanswerstounderstand
theirapplicationare:
Howthereportcolumnsaredefinedbackinmetadata?
WhataretheOBIEEobjects(Analysis,BIPReports,Promptsandfiltersetc.)thatarebeing
referencedbyacolumn(s)?
Howcolumnsaremappedthroughmetadata?
Whoaretheownersofreports?
Andmore
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Andalsoifyouwanttomodify/updateyourmetadatadefinition,thedeveloper/BIAnalystshould
beawareoftheimpactofthatchangeinalreadydevelopedcontent.
Toanswerallthesequestions,weneedtobuildacolumnlineage,fromdashboardtosubjectarea,to
physicalcolumn,andthentocolumninsourcesystem.WehavesomanytoolstobuildthisData
lineage,butwithinOBIEEitself,wehavesomegreatinformationthatcanbeusedtobuildthisData
Lineagetoanswermanyofquestionsbutnotall.
TobuildOBIEEDataLineage,Weneedtoextracttheobjectsinformationfrom
1. OBIEEWebCatalogand
2. OBIEERepository(RPD).
OBIEEWebCatalogData:
TheAllWebCatalogobjectsinformationcanbefoundusingCatalogManagerReport.Generatea
catalogreportusingCatalogmanagerandthenexportittoatabdelimitedCSVfile.
ToexporttheOBIEEWebCatalogreporttoaCSVfile:

OpenOBIEECatalogManagerandconnecttothecatalogthatcontainsthemetadatathatyou
wanttoincludeinthelineage.Forexample:
E:\OBIEE\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplicat
SelectTools>CreateReport.
IntheCreateCatalogReportdialog,selectthefollowingcolumnstoincludeinthereport:
Owner,Folder,Name,SubjectArea,Formula,Table,andColumn.Ofcourse,thisdependson
whatkindofanalysisyouaretryingtodo.
ClickOK,togeneratethereport.

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Savethereportinatemporaryfile,forexamplec:\temp\catalog_data.csv.
ClickOK.
ThefilewillbesavedastabdelimitedCSVfilewithalltheinformationofthecolumnsthatwe
pulled.
OBIEERepositoryData:
AllrepositoryobjectsinformationcanbegeneratedwithRepositorydocumentationutilityavailable
withinOBIEEAdministratortool.Generatetherepositorydocumentationandexporttoatextfile.
ToexporttheOBIEERepositorydocumentationtoatextfile:
OpentheOracleBIAdministrationtoolandconnecttotheOBIEERepositorycontainingthe
metadatathatyouwanttoincludeinthelineage.Forexample,SampleAppLite.rpd
IntheOBIEEAdministrationtool,selectTools>Utilities.
IntheUtilitiesdialog,selecttheRepositoryDocumentationutilityandclickExecute.

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Savetherepositorydocumentationinatemporaryfile,forexamplec:\temp\RPD_Data.csv.
ClickSave.
LetsseehowtomakeuseofthisRPDandWebCatalogdatatobuildcolumnLineageinmynext
blogpost.(https://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/obieeimpactanalysiswhatifideletea
columnfromrpdwhatarethereportsthatarebeingaffectedpart2/)
Thanks,
Shiva
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PostedbyShivaMolabantionMay8,2013inBIPublisher,OBIEE,OBIEE11g,Weblogic
Tags:BIanswerscolumns,catalogmanager,catalogobjects,columnlineage,columnusageintheBI
reports,DataLineage,metadatadefinition,OBIreportslineage,OBIEEimpactanalysis,Physical
columndependency,presentationserverreportsusage,Reportstophysicalcolumns,Rpdcolumn
usageinreports,RPDLineage

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columnfromRPD,whatarethereportsthatarebeingaffected?
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Raj
May8,2013at4:02pm
Nicepost,eagertoknowhowtousetheinformationtobuiltcolumnlineage
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bestincensesticks
August5,2013at5:41pm
Ihardlyleavearesponse,butafterbrowsingalotofresponseson
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columnfromRPD,whatarethereportsthatarebeingaffected?
Part1|OBIEEbyShivaMolabanti.Idohaveafewquestionsforyouifitsallright.Coulditbe
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Adam
May14,2014at12:12am
FantasticpostShivabutjustaquickquestion.
IsallofthisdataintheOBIdatabaseitselfthatwecouldpotentiallyaccessinsteadofexporting
andimportingsomewhereelse?
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ChandraReddy
April11,2015at7:27am

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OneIntervieweraskedthisQuestion..Iguessitsstupiditytoaskthesekindofquestionsin
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ChandraReddy
April11,2015at7:27am
ThanksshivafortheBlog
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