Get Informatica 9.x Domain Details from Metadata
When setting up Informatica Client tools you might get stuck wondering what settings to use for the Domain and Port number. Presumably you will know the machine host name to use. You can use some sql...
View ArticleGet Informatica Node Name
Further to my earlier post where I queried the metadata schema to get various Informatica parameters, I thought I would share this quick snippet… In order to get the Informatica Node name you can run...
View ArticleCommunication error with the OPMN server local port
I ran into an interesting problem the other day when trying to start OBIEE components via OPMN. I kept getting the following message: “Communication error with the OPMN server local port” After a lot...
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New Oracle BI EE Tutorial
Oracle have added another BI EE tutorial to their Learning Library. This one is based on the latest version (11.1.1.6.2 with BP1) and covers how to create and customise Analyses use them to build...
View ArticleBriefing Book Table of Contents Page
Quick tip… You can define the front page of PDF Briefing Books by editing toc-template.rtf found in this directory:...
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Action Link text is Exported to Excel
On a recent customer project I came across an interesting scenario when trying to export a report to Excel. The report in question contained Action Links (invoking a Browser Script) and when exported,...
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Informatica: Impacted Sessions Error
I came across an interesting error when trying to run a customised Informatica Workflow. It failed and this message appeared in the log file: “The Repository Service marked the session or session...
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5 BI Publisher Blogs
It occured to me the other day that I’ve never posted anything concerning BI Publisher. To address that I thought I’d share a few of the better blogs on the subject that I’ve come across over the...
View ArticleImages with Relative Path not Exported to PDF
Just a quickie… We ran into an interesting situation today when exporting some dashboard contents to PDF. It seems the PDF conversion mechanism can’t reproduce images when they are referenced with a...
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BI Publisher Best Practices
Here’s a useful presentation I found the other day on the Oracle website. BI Publisher Best Practices
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Performance Testing/Tuning OBIEE
Recently I’ve been heavily involved with Performance Testing and Tuning a new OBIA system for a client. I thought I’d share some of the interesting reading I’ve come across. I hope to write a more...
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Populating OBIEE Event Polling Table via Trigger
When using Oracle BI Applications there is often the need to invalidate OBIEE’s query cache once new data has been loaded into the Data Warehouse to prevent users from seeing stale data in the reports....
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