Business Objects - Lifecyle Management Services

Is there anyone who knows about BOE LCM? We are planning to install a 3-tier (Dev/QA/Prod) Business Objects environments. Our desire is to develop in Dev, move to QA for testing and Prod. We would prefer not to have end users develop Xcelsius dashboards in production. Just looking for anyone with experience or additional SAP documentation I can not find.
Thanks,
John

Hi John,
SAP BusinessObjects has develpoed its own integrated version control solution product named "LifeCycleManager (LCM)"
Please find the relavant documents below -
- [Release Notes|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_ReleaseNotes_en.pdf]
- [User Guide|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_User_en.pdf]
- [Install Guide|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_Install_en.pdf]
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Subhodeep

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My company has a requirement to deploy Business Objects 4.0 as well as Data Services.
We are going to be deploying them on Windows Server 2008 R2, hosted on a VMWare cluster. I have reviewed the PAM, but my question is:
Will these run using SQL Server 2008 R2 as a database? I see "SQL Server 2008" and I am just curious whether R2 is also supported?
Thanks.

Hi,
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Exposing Business Object as Web Service

Hi,
I've designed a Business Object and would like to expose its findAll Operation as a web service. The wizard tells that the operation has Improper operation message cardinality". While browsing through saphelp I found this: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/44/24128b347c1c9fe10000000a11466f/content.htm
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edit:
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CE/CAF: Expose service as Webservice

Hi,
you need to create wrapper method of findAll,
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Business OBjects Metadata Management Installation

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to install Business Objects MetadataManagement on WIndows Server 2003 and we have BOE 3.1. When the wizard is installing BOMM I get the following error:
[E-3026031] 2009-05-22 16:23:18.734 Argument C:\Program Files\Business Objects
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Octavio Reyes

Hi John,
SAP BusinessObjects has develpoed its own integrated version control solution product named "LifeCycleManager (LCM)"
Please find the relavant documents below -
- [Release Notes|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_ReleaseNotes_en.pdf]
- [User Guide|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_User_en.pdf]
- [Install Guide|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_Install_en.pdf]
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Subhodeep

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Dear all Experts,
Since MM is no longer found in BI 4.0, we would like to know, is that possible to install MM 3.1 and connect to BI 4.0 platform? (we are currently going to launch a Platform upgrade project, from XIR2 ( BO and Data Integrator) to BI 4.0.)
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Hi,
yes - the CMS has to run during the setup. Starting and Stopping mechanisms are in the setup included.
Regards
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$CDC_DATE = nvl (cast(sql('Target', 'SELECT MAX(BATCH_END_DATE) FROM BATCH_CONTROL WHERE BATCH_NAME = {$BATCH_NAME}
AND BATCH_STATUS = \'SUCESS\' '), 'date'), cast(to_date('1900-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD'), 'date'));
#Mark an entry in Batch_Control
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So I resolved the first error now I am receiving this long error any ideas?
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|Session Table_Incramental_Load
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System Exception <ACCESS_VIOLATION> occurred. Process dump is written to <C:\Program Files (x86)\Business
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Objects\BusinessObjects Data Services\log\BODI_MINI20140522103951_13388.DMP> and <C:\Program Files (x86)\Business
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Objects\BusinessObjects Data Services\log\BODI_FULL20140522103951_13388.DMP>
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Process dump is written to <C:\Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Data
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Services\log\BODI_MINI20140522103951_13388.DMP> and <C:\Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Data
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0023:00D305BA, TrCallStatement::process_dbdiff_xform_new()+6666 byte(s), x:\src\parser\process_predef_xform.cpp, line 7281
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0067+0017 byte(s)
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0023:00C313A5, TrCallStatement::processStatement()+0789 byte(s), x:\src\parser\dataflowstm.cpp, line 3307
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0023:00402AE9
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Registers:
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EAX=056E85F0 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000010 EDX=02250048 ESI=056E85F0
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EDI=056E85A8 EBP=04A7C590 ESP=002700F0 EIP=00D305BA FLG=00010206
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CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B
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Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
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Fault address: 00D305BA 01:0029A5BA C:\Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Data Services\bin\acta.dll

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Does anyone know a reason why you cannot select certain operations like "findall" when trying to expose a business object as a webservice?
Regards
Dan

Hi,
There is a excerpt in the CE 7.1 Doc that says:
Some of the operations cannot be exposed as Web service. For example, the query operations of the business objects cannot be exposed as Web services because they have output with multiple cardinality. All changes of input or output parameters of the business object or application service operations you expose as Web services reflect to the generated WSDL.
The page is:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/44/24128b347c1c9fe10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
I don´t understand the reason quite well.
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what i need to do in order to deploy
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Hi,
You deploy all the web applications provided by BOE with the use of Wdeploy tool installed with BOE installation, for details please reffer the following document
[BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Web Application Deployment Guide for UNIX*|http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000715844%26_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202]
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Edited by: Gowda Timma Ramu on Nov 9, 2010 8:39 PM

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Hi everyone,
We wish to install and use Web Intelligence (Business Objects Enterprise Premium). I understand that Web Intelligence requires universes and that they can be generated via Universe Designer or Universe Builder. With these tools, we can generate a universe using the metadata from the source (BW from example).
1. Is having the metadata available at the source a requirement to generate a universe? If not, what are the other options available? Best practices?
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Nathalie

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Hi guys,
i have a requirement where i need to link external business object like BUS2080(Service Order),BUS2088(Service Notification) in record of UI component CRMCMP_CMG(CRMCMP_CMG/RecordTree ).
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/59/ae4484488f11d189490000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
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Attributes
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Methods
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Implementation Business Objects in CAF and developing WDJ application

Hi Experts,
I've read some articles about SAP CE CAF from SDN and I'm making some exercises according those guidence. Right now I have a problem and want to get suggestion from you.
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Thanks.
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Hi Richard,
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What are you using and trying to do?
In your post, you mention the following technologies:
Business Objects Unified Web Services
Report Application Server XI Release 1 COM SDK - CrystalReports11.ObjectFactory.1
The former uses HTTP SOAP stack via the dsws web service deployed with Enterprise XI Release 1.
The latter uses CORBA TCP/IP to communicate directly with the Report Application Server.
They're different channels, that use different services on BusinessObjects Enterprise.
So it's not clear what you're trying to do, or whether you're starting off in the right direction using the right technology and SDK for your task.
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