Oracle Business Intelligence and HP Neoview 2.4 & 2.

5 Configuration Steps
An Oracle White Paper August 2010

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Oracle Business Intelligence and HP Neoview 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 Configuration steps 1. Introduction: Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (EE) is an innovative and comprehensive market leading BI platform that delivers the full range of BI capabilities on a next-generation architecture designed for true enterprise deployment. It enables IT organizations to define a single, logical view of all enterprise data whether in a single data warehouse or across multiple operational and analytic sources and provide business users with new levels of self-sufficiency to access, interact with, and utilize this information to increase effectiveness. The Systems Requirement and Supported Platforms is the source of certification information. The following software configuration has been tested: Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1and higher with HP Neoview 2.4 & 2.5
The specifics tested were Answers, Dashboards, and Web Admin components of Oracle BI EE with the BI RPD pointing to Neoview Data source

This note contains the configuration required for the use of Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 with Hewlett Packard Neoview Enterprise Data Warehouse Platform 2.4 & 2.5. When used with the Data Direct Driver Manager on AIX/Solaris/HPUX/Linux the steps to configure the driver manager is the same on all of these platforms. Note that OBIEE on Windows will have different configuration steps. The documentation covers the correct configuration, best practices, and limitations when using this combination. 2. Post-Install Configuration There are a number of additional tasks you must complete in order to properly configure Oracle BI Server components. The number of post-installation data source configuration tasks you must complete depends on the nature of your deployment.

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For Oracle Business Intelligence deployments that use integrated data applications, you must reconfigure all the database connections appropriate to your environments. Reconfiguration includes the following steps:

Changing the database types Changing the database connections Updating the user names and passwords as required

The full configuration text is contained with the Oracle BI EE Installation Guide Chapter 8 3. Required Configurations Oracle BI EE It is required to use the following ODBC driver < ODBC3.5> it is also required to turn off the cot and truncate features. The HP Neoview feature set is based on ODBC (basic/advanced) with the following feature tuning: CHECK the Following Features On: right outer join, full outer join, nested outer join, union, union all, date_literal, time_literal, Date_time literal, char_length, octet_length, position, locate, ascii, trim, cast, dervied tables, predicate_scalar subquery, value subquery, correlated subquery, comparison subquery, exists subquery, in subquery, nullif,

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UNCHECK the following Features: null values sort first cot truncate remove quote char HP Neoview Please follow the HP Neoview documentation on how to setup HP Driver Manager on various kind of platform. Language Considerations on Unix systems If Oracle BI Server is running on Unix-flavored platform, and the HP Neoview database is an ISO 88591 System and contains non western-European data, the following configuration is needed. 1) Oracle BI EE Server Repository Configuration: Use the ODBC3.5 call interface in the repository for all the databases that references a Neoview database. 2) Lookup the correct IANAAppCodePage identifier for your HP Neoview database. [ODBC] Trace=O TraceFile=/tmp/odbctrace.out TraceDll=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbc/lib/odbctrac.so InstallDir=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbc UseCursorLib=0 IANAAppCodePage=<value need to change> To look up the correct IANAAppCodePage, uses the following website. http://www.datadirect.com/support/troubleshooting/su_faq_iana/index.ssp For example, for Czech-republic customers, if the data was inserted using HP Neoview loader, and when data is inserted, the $LANG setting is iso88592, then the IANAAppCodePage will have to set to 5 when using Oracle BI EE Server to retrieve data. This is due to HP Neoview driver is not a Unicode aware driver, and Oracle BI EE Server relies on Driver Manager to do the translation.

4. Limitations The following items are limitations of the current testing effort: AggrPersist is not available with Neoview db script Usage Tracking is not available with Neoview db script HP Neoview is not supported as a Scheduler database.

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5. ODBC Configuration on Unix (AIX, HPUX, Linux, Solaris) Following are the steps to configure Neoview ODBC data source on a unix like operating system: 1. Go to the Oracle Business Intelligence installation directory OracleBI_HOME/setup 2. Edit the odbc.ini file

Sample odbc.ini file configuration [ODBC] Trace=O TraceFile=/tmp/odbctrace.out TraceDll=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbc/lib/odbctrac.so InstallDir=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbc UseCursorLib=0 IANAAppCodePage= <Value needs to change. See Language Considerations> [ODBC Data Sources] NEO_DataSource=HPODBC <Name is case sensitive>

[NEO_DataSource] <Name is case sensitive > Description=Neoview Data Source Driver=/usr/lib/libhpodbc_drvr.so <This value depends on where the driver is installed on the OS > Catalog=NEO Schema=TEST <This will depend on which schema customer will like to use > DataLang=0 FetchBufferSize=SYSTEM_DEFAULT Server=TCP:128.0.0.1:18650 <Change to reflect Neoview IP address > SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT=SYSTEM_DEFAULT SQL_LOGIN_TIMEOUT=SYSTEM_DEFAULT SQL_QUERY_TIMEOUT=NO_TIMEOUT ServiceName=HP_DEFAULT_SERVICE

6. ODBC Configuration on Windows Following are the steps to configure Neoview ODBC data source on Windows environment.
1.

Open ODBC Data Source Administrator Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC) OR

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Start > Run > odbccp32.cpl Screen shown below will appear.

2.

Click on Add button. Screen shown below will appear.

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3.

Select HP ODBC 2.0 and click on Finish. Screen shown below will appear.

4.

Type appropriate value in text fields and click on Next. Screen shown below will appear.

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5.

Type IP Address and Port number (default is 18650) of the NeoView and click Next. Screen shown below will appear.

6.

Type Schema name and click on Next. Screen shown below will appear.

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7.

Click on Next. Screen shown below will appear.

8.

Click on Next. Test Connection screen will appear.

9.

Click on Test Connection button. Screen shown below will appear.

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Enter appropriate User Name, Password, and Schema name. Click Ok button. It should display Connection Successful message.

11.

7. Oracle BI Server Configuration

The following parameters were set in NQSConfig,.INI file:

[ CACHE ] ENABLE = NO; DATA_STORAGE_PATHS = "C:\OracleBIData\cache" 500 MB; MAX_ROWS_PER_CACHE_ENTRY = 0; MAX_CACHE_ENTRY_SIZE = 10 MB; MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES = 1200; POPULATE_AGGREGATE_ROLLUP_HITS = NO; USE_ADVANCED_HIT_DETECTION = NO; [ SERVER ] SERVER_NAME READ_ONLY_MODE offline MAX_SESSION_LIMIT MAX_REQUEST_PER_SESSION_LIMIT SERVER_THREAD_RANGE = "Oracle_BI_Server"; = NO; = 5000; = 5000; = 40-700; # This is for both online & # 0 is unlimited size

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SERVER_THREAD_STACK_SIZE default DB_GATEWAY_THREAD_RANGE DB_GATEWAY_THREAD_STACK_SIZE default MAX_EXPANDED_SUBQUERY_PREDICATES MAX_QUERY_PLAN_CACHE_ENTRIES MAX_DRILLDOWN_INFO_CACHE_ENTRIES MAX_DRILLDOWN_QUERY_CACHE_ENTRIES INIT_BLOCK_CACHE_ENTRIES

= 0; = 40-700; = 0; = 8192; = 1024; = 1024; = 1024; = 5000;

# default is 256 KB, 0 for

# default is 256 KB, 0 for # default is 8192 # default is 1024 # default is 1024 # default is 1024 # default is 20

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Oracle Business Intelligence and HP Neoview 2.4and 2.5 Configuration Steps August 2010 Author: Jane Tsai, Ling Ni, Alice Chen, Gerald Bellot, Chirag Bhalgami Contributing Authors: Anny Tay, Shad Reeves, Alan W. Lee, Matt Bedin, Raghuram Venkatasubramanian, Prem Jha, Deirdre Rosen, Gangadhar Ronanki, Alin Craciun, Roger Bolsius Oracle Corporation World Headquarters 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 U.S.A. Worldwide Inquiries: Phone: +1.650.506.7000 Fax: +1.650.506.7200 oracle.com Copyright 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 0408