The current issue prohibits the BusinessObjects system from running on the server. Database driver to be setup correctly

So BusinessObjects 3.1 SP2 Edge CMS would not start after an Oracle database driver upgrade to solve an LDAP imcompatibility on a Red hat installation

1) checked the tnsnames.ora

Status: OK

2) Checked my Connectivity through sqlplus

Status: OK

3) Checked the CMS Setup

[bobj@server bobje]$ ./cmsdbsetup.sh

err: ERROR Failed to get cluster name. (STU00165)

err: Error description: Database access error. Reason Loading shared object failed. First tried to load library clntsh and failed because of error: [clntsh: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]. Second tried to load library libclntsh.so and failed because of error: [libclntsh.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64].

4) Checked the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the profile of the bobj account

drwxr-x— 58 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 27 13:51 OraHome10gr2_32bit

$ cd

$ vi .bash_profile

Status: OK

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:

5) Tried changing to 32 bit libary path

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib32:

Status: libclntsh.so file was not there

6) Reset the rights for Read and Execute

chmod -R 755 lib32

Status: OK

7) Checked the file that BOE is looking for and it shows as a 64 bit file

libclntsh.so.10.1: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

This should be showing as the following as BOE requires 32 bit database drivers

libclntsh.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

Status: Issue

The current issue prohibits the BusinessObjects system from running on the server. Database driver to be setup correctly

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http://asugew.asug.com/displaymod/detailevent.cfm?conference_id=95&event_id=18468

1) This is a read only data mart not an operational system so there are single threaded ETL jobs and read only queries.  The ETL process handles the RI by loading the Dimensions and Facts as part of a single correlated load stream.  This means there are not outside applications adding and removing rows so RI can be maintained by the ETL application logic.

2) We are not rejecting fact records based on their keys.  If keys don’t match an appropriate value in a dimension, then the value is added to the dimension (e.g. new title is added)

3) We are not rejecting dimension records based on their keys.  If keys don’t match the lookup attribute table then the Unknown key is used (i.e. -1)

Example: So if a series of  web sites that have an invalid country code we are still going to load web site attributes into the sites dimension tables,  but we will insert the key for an “unknown” country into the country foreign key.

4) We needed to first load a significant amount of data in order to validate that the data model was going to match the proposed model.  We can always add foreign key constraints but since items 2 and 3 handle valid and invalid keys programmatically they constraints would not come into play.

From Oracle: “Unlike many relational-database environments, data in a data warehouse is typically added and/or modified under very controlled circumstances during the ETT process. Multiple users typically do not update the data warehouse directly; this is considerably different from the usage of a typical operational system. Thus, the specific usage of constraints in a data warehouse may vary considerably from the usage of constraints in operational systems”

Recommended reading:

Data Modeling Essentials -Graeme Simsion – ISBN 1-850-32877-3

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit – Ralph Kimball (and others) – ISBN 0-471-25547-5

I event spent the time to update the script syntax and find the proper location to execute the program

./boe_reposcan.sh -dbdriver oracledatabasesubsystem “-connect “UID=BO_data;PWD=b0_data;DSN=database-server;HOSTNAME=ip-address;PORT=1521” -repair -inputfrsdir “/usr/apps/bobj/bobje/data/frsinput” -outputfrsdir “/user/apps/boj/bobje/data/frsoutput” -scanfrs

But to no avail.  the program told me that my reports did not synch with the repository but I was on my own to republish them.  After all that work comparing I think a synch option would have been the perfrect match

I will add this as another item for Admin Launch for the future.

Report Launch’s “call report” is an application that will provide a consistent ways of calling both Crystal and Web Intelligence reports using single sign on.

It can also support the following formats

These are the basics. There are also more complex features for complex solutions.

- Challenge us with something you need and I can tell you if CallReport already handles that.

Kevin McManus

Address is
SMU – Plano Campus
5236 Tennyson Parkway
Plano, Texas 75024
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Just spoke at the Central Texas conference in March in San Antonio on Xceslius Project Management and will be speaking in May at SAPPHIRE in Orlando on Web Intelligence Data Tracking techniques.

Its good to see SFDC and SAP playing nice. Last year we released a connection that links SalesForce to SAP BusinessObjects. This reportlaunch is
useful for those SAP BO customers that need enterprise reporting embedded into SalesForce. Hopefully this will be a good trend of cloud to premise connections

Kevin McManus
www.mcmanussoft.com