Internal LDAP Session Variable Population

All,
I can find plenty of documentation on how to populate a session varible from an external LDAP server. How do you populate a session variable from the internal LDAP server? I can't find documentation on this anywhere.
Thanks in Advance,
Josh

Turribeach,
In my .RPD I am trying to populate some of the system session variables, such as 'USER', 'DISPLAYNAME', 'GROUP', etc. from the out of the box, internal to Weblogic, DefaultAuthenticator, LDAP. I have found numerous blogs on how to connect to an external LDAP for authentication, at which point one can populate the system session variables from the external LDAP in an session variable initialization block. I can't find any documentation/blogs on how to use the internal LDAP to populate such system session variables. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I did find the system function 'user()' returns the user currently logged in, so that's a bit of a temporary workaround for the 'USER' system session variable.
Thanks,
Josh

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Hello,
We are about to implement row level security in our BI project using OBIEE, and the solution we found most convenient for our requirement was to use session variables with initalization blocks.
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Alternative Security Administration Options - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
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How confusing... what is the best practice then?
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Joao Moreira

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ok so when my users login I establish session variables. one of these is employee id. in my Application.cfc I have this at the top:
<cfscript>
this.name = "My App";
this.sessiontimeout=CreateTimeSpan("0", "0", "45", "0");
this.SESSIONMANAGEMENT="YES";
this.SetClientCookies = "true";
this.setDomainCookies = "true";
</cfscript>
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Here is the diagnostic error information. Where you see [omitted] i've changed the URL for the purposes of displaying this detail in a public forum:
struct
Browser
Mozilla/4.0   (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR   2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0;   InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8)
DateTime
{ts   '2011-02-21 20:59:21'}
Diagnostics
Element   EMPLOYEENUMBER is undefined in SESSION. <br>The error occurred on line   162.
GeneratedContent
<!DOCTYPE   html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">    <head>  <title>My Home</title> <meta   http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;   charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet"   href="mm_training.css" type="text/css" /> <link   rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../template/organized.css">   </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"   onLoad="onInit()">
HTTPReferer
http://[omitted]/mypage/myhome.cfm?CFID=101686&CFTOKEN=53097237
Mailto
[empty   string]
Message
Element   EMPLOYEENUMBER is undefined in SESSION.
QueryString
[empty   string]
RemoteAddress
10.x.x.x   [remote address omitted for purposes of this forum]
RootCause
struct
Detail
[empty     string]
ErrNumber
0
Message
Element     EMPLOYEENUMBER is undefined in SESSION.
Resolvedname
SESSION
StackTrace
coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedElementException:     Element EMPLOYEENUMBER is undefined in SESSION. at     coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.resolveCanonicalName(CfJspPage.java:1659) at     coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolve(CfJspPage.java:1612) at     coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1747)     at     coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1740)     at cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815._factor14(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:162)     at cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815.runPage(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:1)     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:196) at     coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:370) at     coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at     coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:273) at     coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)     at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at     coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86) at     coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at     coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:2 8)     at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at     coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at     coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at     coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at     coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175) at     coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at     jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at     coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42 )     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at     jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)     at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at     jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)     at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)     at     jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)     at     jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)     at     jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)     at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)
TagContext
array
1
struct
COLUMN
0
ID
LINE
162
RAW_TRACE
at         cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815._factor14(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:162)
TEMPLATE
D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm
TYPE
CFML
2
struct
COLUMN
0
ID
CF_MYHOME
LINE
1
RAW_TRACE
at         cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815.runPage(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:1)
TEMPLATE
D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm
TYPE
CFML
Type
Expression
element
EMPLOYEENUMBER
objectType
object of java.lang.Class
Class       Name
java.lang.Class
Methods
Method
Return Type
asSubclass(java.lang.Class)
java.lang.Class
cast(java.lang.Object)
java.lang.Object
desiredAssertionStatus()
boolean
forName(java.lang.String,         boolean, java.lang.ClassLoader)
java.lang.Class
forName(java.lang.String)
java.lang.Class
getAnnotation(java.lang.Class)
java.lang.annotation.Annotation
getAnnotations()
java.lang.annotation.Annotation[]
getCanonicalName()
java.lang.String
getClassLoader()
java.lang.ClassLoader
getClasses()
java.lang.Class[]
getComponentType()
java.lang.Class
getConstructor(java.lang.Class[])
java.lang.reflect.Constructor
getConstructors()
java.lang.reflect.Constructor[]
getDeclaredAnnotations()
java.lang.annotation.Annotation[]
getDeclaredClasses()
java.lang.Class[]
getDeclaredConstructor(java.lang.Class[])
java.lang.reflect.Constructor
getDeclaredConstructors()
java.lang.reflect.Constructor[]
getDeclaredField(java.lang.String)
java.lang.reflect.Field
getDeclaredFields()
java.lang.reflect.Field[]
getDeclaredMethod(java.lang.String,         java.lang.Class[])
java.lang.reflect.Method
getDeclaredMethods()
java.lang.reflect.Method[]
getDeclaringClass()
java.lang.Class
getEnclosingClass()
java.lang.Class
getEnclosingConstructor()
java.lang.reflect.Constructor
getEnclosingMethod()
java.lang.reflect.Method
getEnumConstants()
java.lang.Object[]
getField(java.lang.String)
java.lang.reflect.Field
getFields()
java.lang.reflect.Field[]
getGenericInterfaces()
java.lang.reflect.Type[]
getGenericSuperclass()
java.lang.reflect.Type
getInterfaces()
java.lang.Class[]
getMethod(java.lang.String,         java.lang.Class[])
java.lang.reflect.Method
getMethods()
java.lang.reflect.Method[]
getModifiers()
int
getName()
java.lang.String
getPackage()
java.lang.Package
getProtectionDomain()
java.security.ProtectionDomain
getResource(java.lang.String)
java.net.URL
getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String)
java.io.InputStream
getSigners()
java.lang.Object[]
getSimpleName()
java.lang.String
getSuperclass()
java.lang.Class
getTypeParameters()
java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable[]
isAnnotation()
boolean
isAnnotationPresent(java.lang.Class)
boolean
isAnonymousClass()
boolean
isArray()
boolean
isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class)
boolean
isEnum()
boolean
isInstance(java.lang.Object)
boolean
isInterface()
boolean
isLocalClass()
boolean
isMemberClass()
boolean
isPrimitive()
boolean
isSynthetic()
boolean
newInstance()
java.lang.Object
toString()
java.lang.String
StackTrace
coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedElementException:   Element EMPLOYEENUMBER is undefined in SESSION. at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.resolveCanonicalName(CfJspPage.java:1659)   at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolve(CfJspPage.java:1612) at   coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1747) at   coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1740) at   cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815._factor14(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:162) at   cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815.runPage(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:1) at   coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:196) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:370)   at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at   coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:273) at   coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)   at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at   coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86) at   coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at   coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:2 8)   at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at   coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at   coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at   coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at   coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175) at   coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at   jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at   coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42 )   at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) at   jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)   at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at   jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at   jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) at   jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) at   jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)   at   jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)   at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)   at   jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)   at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)
TagContext
array
1
struct
COLUMN
0
ID
LINE
162
RAW_TRACE
at       cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815._factor14(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:162)
TEMPLATE
D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm
TYPE
CFML
2
struct
COLUMN
0
ID
CF_MYHOME
LINE
1
RAW_TRACE
at       cfmyhome2ecfm1641837815.runPage(D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm:1)
TEMPLATE
D:\[path_omitted]\mypage\myhome.cfm
TYPE
CFML
Template
/[omitted]/mypage/myhome.cfm
Type
coldfusion.runtime.CfErrorWrapper

System session variable USER

Hi,
i have setup-ed the action links and used the USER variable for the EBS secuirty context init block as this
EBS_RESP_ID
EBS_RESP_APPL_ID
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"To set up LDAP authentication:
Create an LDAP Server as follows:
Select Manage then Identity in the Oracle BI Administration Tool to launch the Security Manager.
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Right-click in the right pane in Security Manager and select New LDAP Server. The LDAP Server dialog is displayed.
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Define a system variable named *USER* and map the USER variable to an LDAP attribute (uid or sAMAccountName)."
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Referencing GROUP session variable in initialization blocks for different types of authentication
http://108obiee.blogspot.com/2009/10/referencing-group-session-variable-in.html
Users are assigned to multiple groups from external table with semicolons, see example two and three from the post.
Regards
Goran
http://108obiee.blogspot.com

How to a session variable in another initialisation block?

Hello all,
I think I overlook something. So hope someone please can help me out.
I have 2 initialisation blocks.
The first one has as a source a LDAP server.
Now I fill a session variable called mail by the LDAP server.
When I click on test I will see my mail address.
lets say I see [email protected]
No I want to do something with that subdomain.
So I made a new initialisation block with the database as the source.
And made a query
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also when I change the query in:
select case when upper('[email protected]') like 'SUBDOMAIN%' then A else 'NO Domain found' END from dual
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Best regards,
Remc0

Does the Init Block really fails? Could you please set the logging level to 2 in that user and review both the NQuery and Presentation Services log files? Can you try with a simply select statement:
SELECT upper(VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.MAIL)) FROM DUAL
to make sure the new variable is getting initialized? It could be that the value from the LDAP server has trailing or leading spaces?
Also I don't see why you need to put the domain on another session variable, you could do your filter using the case statement directly. Unknown to many a CASE statement can be used in a WHERE clause as well. Sample SQL:
WHERE COLUMN = (case when upper(VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.MAIL)) like '%SUBDOMAINY%' then 'SUBDOMAINY' else 'NO Domain found' END)

Session variable in obiee 10g

Hi i have requirement like this i would like to display the Ename, empno, Hiredate, leavedate,salary. Here i would like to pass the session variable for the salary column which returns multiple values and the report should change based on the date i am selecting from the prompt.
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I have created session intiallization block and for the target i have selected row wise.
select 'var1', salary from emp where hiredate<='VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.var1)' .
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OBIEE 11g Session variables

Would anyone know who to setup the USER session variables in the RPD for OBIEE 11g?
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All,
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Add additional session variable on login?

Hi,
at first, sorry for my bad englisch. Maybe anyone here can speak german.
Is there any way to save an additonal session variable on login without it is required to store this variable in a table column.
A short description:
I have a member table, that contains the login information (id, password, level) and further information about the member. A second table contains different sportevents.
Now i would create a login form, which has 3 input fields, one for the member id, one for the password and one select field, who the member can choose the sportevent. For further work, i need the member id, the member level and the sportevent id as a session variable. There is no problem, with the member id and the level id, this both variables i can get with the ADDT login wizard, but how can i safe the event id during the login as session variable?
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.
Rico

Hi Rico,
Maybe anyone here can speak german
na komm, dein Englisch ist ziemlich gut, und ich möchte deine Frage lieber in Englisch beantworten, damit andere ADDT-User auch was davon haben :-)
There is no problem, with the member id and the level id, this both variables i can get with the ADDT login wizard, but how can i safe the event id during the login as session variable?
What I´m saying now, is somewhat experimental, because I didn´t try that myself so far -- but I think this should work:
a) add another numeric (int) column to your ADDT login table that´s going to hold the selected value from your "events" menu -- let´s call this column "current_event_id"
b) on the login page: create a recordset which retrieves the "event_id " and "event_name" values from your "sportevents" table -- guess that´s what you already did for populating the "events" menu you mentioned
c) switch the login page to CODE. When scrolling down, you´ll see these 2 lines below the // Add columns comment:
$loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_user", "STRING_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_user");
$loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_password", "STRING_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_password");
below that, add another line like this:
$loginTransaction->addColumn("current_event_id", "NUMERIC_TYPE", "POST", "events");
In order to convert the submitted "events" menu - value to a session variable, you should add the new column "current_event_id" to ADDT´s list of default session variables
(Control Panel)
Does that work ?
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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anybody explain me about the system and non system variables?
i am very confusing with the documents available in google.
can you please provide me with small example?
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Edited by: user12077461 on Dec 19, 2010 11:48 AM

Hi,
System session variables are pre-defined variables which get populated while someone access the system like USER, GROUP,PASSWORD etc. Non-System Session variables can be defined by the user for different purposes.
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          "David" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >
          >I keep getting the annoying error as listed, and the server also keeps
          >reporting
          >that I can only connect from 0 unique ip addresses. Has anybody else
          >seen these
          >type of frustrations on 8.1 sp2, or can explain them.
          >
          >With as much detail omitted for simplicity;
          >
          >Frustration 1.
          >I have a 8sp2 server running all ok, occasionally after a redeploy of
          >an ear file
          >I attempt to load a jsp file, and the error below is thrown.
          >
          >The JSP has a bean which is session based, and as from following the
          >stack trace
          >it is around some weblogic code which tests if my license allows access
          >to the
          >http session (on a developer license). I then have to start another
          >server instance
          >and do a deployment of a v.simple war, and access this, then deploy the
          >same war
          >to the broken server and access that, then the initial jsp works fine.
          > no code
          >changes just environment stops, starts and redeploys!
          >
          >Frustration 2
          >Server runs ok, tray and connect from two machines (I have an ldap server
          >that
          >wants to 'broadcast' messages to my server), error of too many connections.
          >The ip connection issues can in most cases be removed with a server restart.
          >
          >
          >EXCEPTION TRACE
          >
          >java.lang.IllegalStateException: Internal Servlet Session Process Error
          >Found!
          >
          >With the following stack trace:
          >
          >java.lang.IllegalStateException: Internal Servlet Session Process Error
          >Found!
          >     at weblogic.servlet.internal.session.SessionData.checkProcess(SessionData.java:1148)
          >     at weblogic.servlet.internal.session.SessionData.setAttribute(SessionData.java:501)
          >     at jsp_servlet._security.__changeprofile._jspService(__changeprofile.java:135)
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          >     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:402)
          >     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:446)
          >     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:305)
          >     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6350)
          >     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:317)
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          >     at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
          >     at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:170)
          >
          >

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Hi,
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Database level design
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Repository level design
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In the Connection Pool --> Connection Script Tab --> Execute before query, I wrote the below query using the repository variables FROM_DT and TO_DT to execute the procedure -
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package_name1.package_body(v_from_dt,v_to_dt);
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Need help on this.
Is it possible to "write back" a new value to a session variable ?
Any other alternatives.
Thanks
Nusrat
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Sandeep, I found a several topics where users describe saving values in DB through stored procedure or function. For example, [How to store OBIEE presentation level variable values in DB |http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=892006] I tried it and get an error
*10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 14551, message: ORA-14551: cannot perform a DML operation inside a query ORA-06512*
It's not a BI error. This error are generated by Oracle DB. If I write next:
SELECT MyPLSQLFunction(p1,p2) FROM DUAL
I get the same error.
Oracle doesn't allow DML operations in SELECT.
Did you relalize this feature yourself? Where did I mistake?

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