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Oracle Business Intelligence andHP Neoview 2.4 & 2.5Configuration Steps

An Oracle White Paper

August 2010



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1. Introduction:

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (EE) is an innovative and comprehensive marketleading BI platform that delivers the full range of BI capabilities on a next-generation

architecture designed for true enterprise deployment. It enables IT organizations todefine a single, logical view of all enterprise data — whether in a single datawarehouse or across multiple operational and analytic sources — and providebusiness users with new levels of self-sufficiency to access, interact with, and utilizethis information to increase effectiveness.

The Systems Requirement and Supported Platforms is the source of certificationinformation. The following software configuration has been tested:

• Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1and higher with HP Neoview 2.4 & 2.5The 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 10.1.3.4.1with Hewlett Packard Neoview Enterprise Data Warehouse Platform 2.4 & 2.5.

When used with the Data Direct Driver Manager on AIX/Solaris/HPUX/Linux thesteps to configure the driver manager is the same on all of these platforms. Notethat OBIEE on Windows will have different configuration steps. The documentationcovers the correct configuration, best practices, and limitations when using thiscombination.

2. Post-Install Configuration

There are a number of additional tasks you must complete in order to properlyconfigure Oracle BI Server components.The number of post-installation data source configuration tasks you must completedepends on the nature of your deployment.




For Oracle Business Intelligence deployments that use integrated data applications,you must reconfigure all the database connections appropriate to yourenvironments. 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 GuideChapter 8

3. Required ConfigurationsOracle BI EE It is required to use the following ODBC driver < ODBC3.5> it is also required to turnoff the cot and truncate features.

The HP Neoview feature set is based on ODBC (basic/advanced) with the followingfeature 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,




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 Manageron various kind of platform.

Language Considerations on Unix systems

If Oracle BI Server is running on Unix-flavored platform, and the HP Neoviewdatabase is an ISO 88591 System and contains non western-European data, thefollowing configuration is needed.

1) Oracle BI EE Server Repository Configuration: Use the ODBC3.5 callinterface in the repository for all the databases that references a Neoviewdatabase.

2) Lookup the correct IANAAppCodePage identifier for your HP Neoviewdatabase.

[ODBC]Trace=OTraceFile=/tmp/odbctrace.outTraceDll=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbc/lib/odbctrac.soInstallDir=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbcUseCursorLib=0IANAAppCodePage=<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 HPNeoview loader, and when data is inserted, the $LANG setting is iso88592, then theIANAAppCodePage will have to set to 5 when using Oracle BI EE Server to retrievedata. This is due to HP Neoview driver is not a Unicode aware driver, and Oracle BIEE Server relies on Driver Manager to do the translation.

4. LimitationsThe 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.







5. ODBC Configuration on Unix (AIX, HPUX, Linux, Solaris)

Following are the steps to configure Neoview ODBC data source on a unix likeoperating system:

1. Go to the Oracle Business Intelligence installation directoryOracleBI_HOME/setup

2. Edit the odbc.ini file

Sample odbc.ini file configuration

[ODBC]Trace=OTraceFile=/tmp/odbctrace.outTraceDll=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbc/lib/odbctrac.soInstallDir=/app/oracle/bi/server/odbcUseCursorLib=0IANAAppCodePage= <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 SourceDriver=/usr/lib/libhpodbc_drvr.so <This value depends on where the driver is installed on the OS > Catalog=NEOSchema=TEST

<This will depend on which schema customer will like to use >DataLang=0FetchBufferSize=SYSTEM_DEFAULTServer=TCP:128.0.0.1:18650 <Change to reflect Neoview IP address > SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT=SYSTEM_DEFAULTSQL_LOGIN_TIMEOUT=SYSTEM_DEFAULTSQL_QUERY_TIMEOUT=NO_TIMEOUTServiceName=HP_DEFAULT_SERVICE

6. ODBC Configuration on Windows

Following are the steps to configure Neoview ODBC data source on Windowsenvironment.

1. Open ODBC Data Source AdministratorStart > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC) OR




Start > Run > odbccp32.cplScreen shown below will appear.

2. Click on Add button. Screen shown below will appear.




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 belowwill appear.




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

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




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.




10. Enter appropriate User Name, Password, and Schema name. Click Okbutton.

11. It should display Connection Successful message.

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; # 0 is unlimited size

MAX_CACHE_ENTRY_SIZE = 10 MB;

MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES = 1200;

POPULATE_AGGREGATE_ROLLUP_HITS = NO;

USE_ADVANCED_HIT_DETECTION = NO;

[ SERVER ]

SERVER_NAME = "Oracle_BI_Server";

READ_ONLY_MODE = NO; # This is for both online &

offline

MAX_SESSION_LIMIT = 5000;

MAX_REQUEST_PER_SESSION_LIMIT = 5000;

SERVER_THREAD_RANGE = 40-700;




SERVER_THREAD_STACK_SIZE = 0; # default is 256 KB, 0 for

default

DB_GATEWAY_THREAD_RANGE = 40-700;

DB_GATEWAY_THREAD_STACK_SIZE = 0; # default is 256 KB, 0 for

default

MAX_EXPANDED_SUBQUERY_PREDICATES = 8192; # default is 8192

MAX_QUERY_PLAN_CACHE_ENTRIES = 1024; # default is 1024

MAX_DRILLDOWN_INFO_CACHE_ENTRIES = 1024; # default is 1024

MAX_DRILLDOWN_QUERY_CACHE_ENTRIES = 1024; # default is 1024

INIT_BLOCK_CACHE_ENTRIES = 5000; # default is 20



Oracle Business Intelligence and HP Neoview 2.4and 2.5 Configuration Steps

August 2010

Author: Jane Tsai, Ling Ni, Alice Chen, Gerald Bellot, Chirag BhalgamiContributing Authors: Anny Tay, Shad Reeves, Alan W. Lee, Matt Bedin, Raghuram Venkatasubramanian, Prem Jha, Deirdre Rosen, Gangadhar Ronanki, Alin Craciun, Roger

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