Business Objects Planning Database Upgrade

I have attempting to upgrade Business Objects Planning from version 11.2 to 11.6. The upgrade appears to run successfully, however, when I attempt to start the Planning Application Services, the service fails to start up, stating the current DB version is less than the working version. I have spoken to our consultant, who stated he knew nothing of any changes that must be made to the database. The first portion of the error log is copied below. I have tried an incremental step of upgrading from 11.2 to 11.5 and have received the same error. What must I do to configure the database either before or after the upgrade?
Application is set up as single server.
OS is windows server 2003
Database is Oracle 10.2.0.4.
Database user is SRCAdmin, and is an owner of the db.
FATAL|04/08/2009 13:52|General|Server startup...
INFO|04/08/2009 13:52|Sql|Current DB Version 11.2 is less than the working version 11.6. Requesting upgrade lock
ERROR|04/08/2009 13:52|Sql|ORA-06550: line 1, column 77:
PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_LOCK' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 77:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 1, column 147:
PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_LOCK' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 137:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored

hi Santhosh,
you may be able to use the query builder tool to do this.
BusinessObjects Query builder - Basics
if you need further info on using this particular tool let me know & i'll move your question to the bi platform space.
you can also look into 3rd party tools such as rpt inspector which may be able to do this.
-jamie

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