Oracle data lookup (read) - Licensing query

Hi,
We are running SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise with Oracle 9.2.0 as the backend database (on Windows Server 2003 OS).
Our Oracle license is embedded with SAP i.e., not acquired separately.
For business needs we intend to make read only queries to the backend database (Oracle database lookup) programmatically through Microsoft's SharePoint portal.
For the access methods, one option is to use Business Data Catalog - BDC of sharepoint which queries the Oracle database directly (xml).
Would appreciate comments on whether this is authorized or we need any additional Oracle component / license.
Thank you

Hi,
+Would appreciate comments on whether this is authorized or we need any additional Oracle component / license. +
This should be raised with the SAP Portal, as per your scenario Oracle is not going to support you directly in any case. SAP is going to support you. You can raise SAP Service resquest and can check with them. anyway you'll not be allowed to get lisence seperatly for your existing SAP Database.
Regards,
Vijayaraghavan K

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Not finding the right forum to post this query, so i hope the coffee shop folks can be helpful
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Hi Jurjen / Hi Matt
Thanks for the responses. These have been very helpful
A couple of followup thoughts:
1. Actually, the current need i am trying to fill is to read the 'reports to' relationship from SAP so as to fill the manager field/attribute in the Sharepoint User profile. I understand that the right way to do this is through standard interfaces of SAP like RFC/BAPI with the authorization checks in place but unfortunately, my sharepoint developer is unable to use RFC with Business Data Catalog (xml based). Says only a database query is possible. Perhaps he is wrong and i am trying to confirm this. If you have any thoughts on it, please do share.
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null

Scott C. Tavares (guest) wrote:
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scott --
which jdbc versionare you using ??
if not the 816sdk -- try it ...
make sure you match up with the jdk version ...
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used -- the oracle client version,
it's always better to provide too much detail with java
issues than just an error message ...
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Poor MDX performance on F4 master data lookup

Hi,

I've posted this to this forum as it didn't get much help in the BW 7.0 forum. I'm thinking it was too MDX oriented to get any help there. Hopefully someone has some ideas.

We have upgraded our BW system to 7.0 EHP1 SP6 from BW 3.5. There is substantial use of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 (BOXI) and also significant use of navigational attibutes. Everything works fine in 3.5 and we have worked through a number of performance problems in BW 7.0. We are using BOXI 3.1 SP1 but have tested with SP2 and it generates the same MDX. We do however have all the latest MDX related notes, including the composite note 1142664.

We have a number of "fat" queries that act as universes for BOXI and it is when BOXI sends a MDX statement that includes certain crossjoins with navigational attributes that things fall apart. This is an example of one that runs in about a minute in 3.5:

SELECT { [Measures]. [494GFZKQ2EHOMQEPILFPU9QMV], [Measures].[494GFZSELD3E5CY5OFI24BPCN], [Measures].[494GG07RNAAT6M1203MQOFMS7], [Measures]. [494GG0N4P7I87V3YBRRF8JK7R] } ON COLUMNS , NON EMPTY CROSSJOIN( CROSSJOIN( CROSSJOIN( CROSSJOIN( CROSSJOIN( [0MAT_SALES__ZPRODCAT]. [LEVEL01].MEMBERS, EXCEPT( { [0MAT_SALES__ZASS_GRP]. [LEVEL01].MEMBERS } , { { [0MAT_SALES__ZASS_GRP].[M5], [0MAT_SALES__ZASS_GRP].[M6] } } ) ), EXCEPT( { [0SALES_OFF]. [LEVEL01].MEMBERS } , { { [0SALES_OFF].[#] } } ) ), [0SALES_OFF__ZPLNTAREA].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS ), [0SALES_OFF__ZPLNTREGN]. [LEVEL01].MEMBERS ), [ZMFIFWEEK].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS ) DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME, MEMBER_NAME, MEMBER_CAPTION ON ROWS FROM [ZMSD01/ZMSD01_QBO_Q0010]

However in 7.0 there appear to be some master data lookups that are killing performance before we even get to the BW queries. Note that in RSRT terms this is prior to even getting the popup screen withe "display aggregate".

They were taking 700 seconds but now take about 150 seconds after an index was created on the ODS /BIC/AZOSDOR0300. From what I can see, the navigational attributes require BW to ask "what are the valid SIDs for SALES_OFF in this multiprovider". The odd thing is that BW 3.5 does no such query. It just hits the fact tables directly.

SELECT "SID" , "SALES_OFF" FROM ( SELECT "S0000"."SID","P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000"."SALES_OFF" = "S0000"."SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BI0/D0PCA_C021" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BIC/DZBSDBL018" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BIC/DZBSDOR028" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BIC/DZBSDOR038" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BIC/DZBSDOR058" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BIC/DZBSDOR081" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "S0000"."SID" IN ( SELECT "D"."SID_0SALES_OFF" AS "SID" FROM "/BIC/DZBSDPAY016" "D" ) UNION SELECT "S0000"."SID" ,"P0000"."SALES_OFF" FROM "/BI0/PSALES_OFF" "P0000" JOIN "/BI0/SSALES_OFF" "S0000" ON "P0000" . "SALES_OFF" = "S0000" . "SALES_OFF" WHERE "P0000"."OBJVERS" = 'A' AND "P0000"."SALES_OFF" IN ( SELECT "O"."SALES_OFF" AS "KEY" FROM "/BIC/AZOSDOR0300" "O" ) ) ORDER BY "SALES_OFF" ASC

I had assumed this had something to do with BOXI - but I don't think this is a MDX specific problem, even though it's hard to test in RSRT as it's a query navigation. Also I assumed it might be something to do with the F4 master data lookup but that's not the case, because of course this "fat" query doesn't have a selection screen, just a small initial view and a large number of free characteristics. Still I set the characteristic settings not only to do lookups on the master data values and that made no difference. Nonetheless you can see in the MDXTEST trace that event 6001: F4: Read Data. Curiously this is an extra one that sits between event 40011: MDX Initialization and event 40010: MDX Execution.

I've tuned this query as much as I can from the Oracle perspective and checked the indexes and statistics. Also checked Oracle is perfectly tuned and parameterized as for 10.2.0.4 with the May 2010 patchset for AIX. But this query returns an estimated 56 million rows and runs an expensive UNION join on them - so no suprise that it's slow. As a point of interest changing it from UNION to UNION ALL cuts the time to 30 seconds. Don't think that helps me though, other than confirming that it is the sort which is expensive on 56m records.

Thinking that the UNORDER MDX statement might make a difference, I changed the MDX to the following but that didn't make any difference either.

SELECT { [Measures].[494GFZKQ2EHOMQEPILFPU9QMV], [Measures].[494GFZSELD3E5CY5OFI24BPCN], [Measures].[494GG07RNAAT6M1203MQOFMS7], [Measures].[494GG0N4P7I87V3YBRRF8JK7R] } ON COLUMNS ,
NON EMPTY UNORDER( CROSSJOIN(
UNORDER( CROSSJOIN(
 UNORDER( CROSSJOIN(
 UNORDER( CROSSJOIN(
 UNORDER( CROSSJOIN(
 [0MAT_SALES__ZPRODCAT].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS, EXCEPT(
 { [0MAT_SALES__ZASS_GRP].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS } , { { [0MAT_SALES__ZASS_GRP].[M5], [0MAT_SALES__ZASS_GRP].[M6] } }
 ) ), EXCEPT(
 { [0SALES_OFF].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS } , { { [0SALES_OFF].[#] } }
 ) ), [0SALES_OFF__ZPLNTAREA].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS
 ) ), [0SALES_OFF__ZPLNTREGN].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS
) ), [ZMFIFWEEK].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS
DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME, MEMBER_NAME, MEMBER_CAPTION ON ROWS FROM [ZMSD01/ZMSD01_QBO_Q0010]

Does anyone know why BW 7.0 behaves differently in this respect and what I can do to resolve the problem? It is very difficult to make any changes to the universe or BEx query because there are thousands of Webi queries written over the top and the regression test would be very expensive.

Regards,

John

Hi John,
couple of comments:
- first of all you posted it in the wrong forum. This belongs into the BW forum
- MDX enhancements in regards to BusinessObjects are part of BW 7.01 SP05 - not just BW 7.0
would suggest you post it in the BW forum
Ingo

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