Newbie questions on Admin, Deployment & Answers

Hi Gurus,
Sorry to be raising questions that may have been repeated over again. I tried to search thru the net/forums but cudn't find anything useful. Really wud appreciate any help/directions/links to the answers I seek
Developement and Production Proposed environment
- OBIEE Client Tools - Windows based
- OBIEE Apps Server - Unix (HP-UX)
- DB Server - Oracle 10g
Based on our Dev R&D, we have one physical layer, 5 business models and 5 corresponding presentation layers.
Currently we are facing some issues with the Unix setup so we are proceeding with our development R&D on Windows whilst re-installing the Unix box
Administration
A1. Currently we are using our Data Source Connection Type is ODBC 3.5. As we are plan to have the Dev and Prod on Unix, what is the best Connection Type we should use?
A2. Is there any configuration when we use Unix?
Deployment
B1. Since we are performing our Dev R&D, is it possible to move all our work from the current windows environment into our Dev Unix environment?
From the forum, I found there are 2 methods
B2. - copy the directories (C:\OracleBI\server\Repository and C:\OracleBIData\web\catalog) over for Windows. Is it possible to do the same from Windows to Unix?
B3. - using Catalog Manager. How do I use this? (Cudn't find any docu for it)
Answers
C1. The total number of records is 9 but when we pull the data out from Answer the records are grouped returning only 8 records. Is there a config setting to return all the rows?
Also wud appreciate if you experts can share any tips/common practises that you practise for easier development/deployment etc? e.g. creating alises instead of using the imported table.
Thanks
B

A1. It's better to use Oracle native drivers connection for an Oracle database (OCI).
A2. See [this thread|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=845201].
B1. Yes, no issues.
B2. Yes, no problems. Just use FTP.
B3. Open two instances of Catalog Manager (one for your Windows Server and one for your Unix Server) and then just do Copy/Paste between them. Although it's simpler and better to copy the whole catalog using FTP as you mentioned in B2.
C1. Grouping is done by default because you have aggregable measures. Include the field that will break the records if you want to see them all. You can include a field in the criteria tab and hide it if you don't want to see it. This will force OBIEE to select it and show all records.

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