Discoverer Report Ownership and Exports

Question

We are currently upgrading to R12 from 11.5.10 and I’m looking to migrate discoverer with it. The environment and set up of disco has been completed however there are a few issues around migrating the existing reports and EUL I’m not sure about. I would appreciate some views / advice on the following:
1) We have reports owned by a lot of people across the organisation, many of these I cant see as the discoverer admin user (but can from the DB tables), meaning I cant migrate them as .eex without getting the owner to share the reports out to out disco admin user.
2) For the ones I can see if I import them I get a message in the log that I cant modify a report I don’t own, whilst taking ownership by saving the report is an option, the report must then be visible to the original owner in the new environment so requires sharing with them (but done for 700+ reports)
3) I need to migrate associated EUL objects with the reports however without going through each report manually I cant see which reports are dependant on which EUL object (I assume this is available in the DB somewhere but I’m new to this so I’m still looking)
The method of exporting as .eex files and importing into the new environment doesn’t appear to be cutting it for this task. I have read there are ways to export or clone the EUL and reports as a whole however we don’t want to take everything across only a selection of reports from the old environment.
There must be a better way of migrating the required reports and associated EUL objects and resolving ownership and sharing?
any help would be appreciated
Edited by: SolHill on 11-Oct-2011 09:11

Answer 1

Thanks for the replies – they are very helpful
I have been looking at the Java Command line interface and attempting to share out workbooks to my user on our DEV environment with some small success
I tried the following:
-connect EUL_US/EUL_US@DB –grant_privilage –workbook_access “WORK_BOOK_1” –roll “SOLHILL”
This gave me the following message:
“A Subdirectory or file . already exsits.”
“Command Complete”
But didn’t appear to actually do anything, the workbook remains unshared
I played with the command and used the following:
-connect DISCO_ADMIN_USER /pswrd@DB –apps_user –apps_responsibility “Discoverer_admin” –grant_privilage –
workbook_access “WORK_BOOK_1” –roll “SOLHILL”
This gave the following message
“A Subdirectory or file . already exsits.”
“afenv: can’t open registry key”
“afenv: can’t open registry key”
“afenv: can’t open registry key”
“afenv: can’t open registry key”
…….(17 times)
“Command Complete”
But did update the workbook and gave it the apps responsibility “Discover_admin” (not to the SOLHILL)
So -
1) In the Oracle Documentation it says the EUL_US (eul owner) needs some permissions granted such as “CREATE_TABLE” “CREATE_PROCEDURE” etc… is it possible that this is stopping the EUL_US login from updating the tables? if not any ideas why the command sucseeds but nothing happens?
2) what’s incorrect about the second command line script that it doesn’t do as I intend?
Thanks for your support
Sol