OWB 10g iAS requirements

I read in other forum threads that the 9i database came with an HTTP server that was sufficient to run the OWB reports. I'm running a 10g database and OWB. I can't find an HTTP server that came bundled with the 10g DB. Also, the "standalone" 10g HTTP server that I downloaded from OTN doesn't have a DAD configuration option. I interpret that to mean that the 10g standalone HTTP server isn't sufficient to run the OWB reports. The full 10g iAS server has memory requirements that prevent it from installing on my box. Do these observations/conclusions make any sense? Any recommendations for the simplest method of getting access to the 10g OWB reports?
My underlying problem is that when I deploy, I get Failure messages. The text behind the failure messages refers me to the "Impact Report". The help text indicates that an iAS Portal is required to view the Impact Report. Something to help me understand the failure messages, even if it didn't involve iAS or the HTTP listener would also be appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian

I installed the 10g standalone HTTP server, but the initial welcome page didn't offer a DAD configuration link that was mentioned in some of the OWB configuration instructions on a different thread in this forum. Does that mean that I set up the HTTP server wrong, or that the DAD can't be configured through the browser, or that the 10g standalone HTTP server doesn't come with a DAD feature, or something else?
Brian

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We are using OWB 10g Release 1.
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No; you CAN have only one design repository and in this, as many runtime connections as you would like: (development, test, education,pre-production, production etc). This might go against good application development practice, but it is possible, and can be perfectly ok in smaller warehouse projects with few developers. And thenyou don't have to go through the hazzle of moving metadata between repositories, in the correct order. One advice though: Have different passwords for the runtime connections, so you don't connect to the wrong runtime environment by mistake ;-)
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Hi,
Does anyone know how much the new licenses (per DB server CPU) for OWB 10g R2 (Paris) cost?
Is it correct that the features for the modeling of SCD 1 and 2 are not included in the basic "Core ETL Features"?
If I'm using the the SCD 2 features to develop the OWB mappings do I also need to license the "Enterprise ETL" for the production server?
Related to the previous question: for the production DB where I only need the runtime part of the repository is it required to license any options?
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PS: 2 links related to these questions:
http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/05/owb_10g_release_2_now_availabl.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/htdocs/owb_10gr2_faq.htm#HowisOWBPackaged

Maurice, not sure what to say. If you've been using OWB, then you don't lose any functionality going to the new version, and it will be "free". You simply won't get any of the new functionality (all of the old functionality is included in the "core" features)
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Yes, indeed that's what we were after. We basically wanted to be sure we are not breaking an internal policy that says that "Oracle directory objects can not be located on NAS shares". The reasoning behind this policy is that NAS shares are not deemed highly available or high I/O devices hence our Oracle DBAs will not allow us to create any Oracle directory objects in NAS shares. The policy states that all database data should be stored in SAN shares which are directly attached to the servers and are therefore high I/O devices. It is arguable if the OWB data we want to load is really part of a database, we believe it is not. There are other implications in our environment about using NAS instead of SAN (NAS can run in active-active mode across different data centres, whereas SAN requires replication since it doesn't usually work well in an active-active mode across different data centres). So based on your answer we should be fine since OWB reads and writes directly to the files without using Oracle Directory Objects which supports our theory that these are not DB specific files and are only "OWB App" files which can then sit on a NAS without breaking the above stated policy.

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I am loading data on the test datawarehouse server. The time taken for loading data is very high. The size of data is around 7 GB (size of flat files on the OS).
The time it takes to load the same amount of data on the production server from the staging area to the presentation area(datawarehouse) is close to 8 hours maximum.
But, in the test environment the time taken to execute one mapping (containing 300,000 records)is itself 8 hours.
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Hello Harshad,
2 GB of RAM doesn't seem to be very much to me. I guess your bottleneck is I/O. You've got to investigate this (keep an eye on long running processes). You didn't say very much about your target database design. Do you have a lot of indexes on the target tables and if so have you tried to drop them before loading? Do your OWB mappings require a lot of lookups (then apropriate indexes on the lookup table are very useful)? Do you use external tables? Are you talking about loading dimension or fact tables or both? You've got to supply some more information so that we can help you better.
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Jörg

Experts VS Process Flows on OWB 10g Release 2 (Paris)

I was looking at the the new features list for OWB 10g Release 2 (Paris), and I notices the new feature called Experts. Does anyone have any insight into when an Expert would be used instead of a Process Flow? It doesn't look like Process Flows are going away, so I was trying to get a grasp of the use for Experts.
From Here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/htdocs/owb10gr2%20new%20features.htm
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Hi,
Just to start with the Experts capabilities, they can be used for designing schema objects.......I tried with an expert for sampling the source files, creating External Tables on top of it....validating and deploying..........itz very interesting to work with.........I am unable to see the practical use of this for end users.....
where as we all know, the PF can only be for executing the deployed objects.....
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When will the new OWB 10g release 2 be available?

HI...
I would like to know if there is a timetable to
download in the OTN site about the new version of OWB 10g release 2..
I saw the the new version of this tool last year in the Oracle Open World and I am very curious to do some test and implement in our production environment.
We are using OWB 10.1.0.2..
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Scania Latin America ltda

Good morning Tracy,
According to Oracle OWB is going to be part of Oracle Business Intelligence... at some stage in the future.
Right now BI10g consists of the following (check link at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html):
Oracle Business Intelligence
... Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer
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OWB 10g Release 2 from 32 bit to 64 bit on Linux

Hi guys,
I have a client who is planning to migrate their Linux server from 32 bit to 64 bit and migrate their Oracle database from 10.2.0.3 from 32 bit server to 10.2.0.3 from 64 bit server.
We have OWB 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3) installed in the 32 bit server.
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Will the following work?
1. Install the OWB 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3 or 10.2.0.4) 64 bit in the new 64 bit Linux 64 bit server
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3. Install the OWB repository in the new 64 bit server
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OR
Since our DBA is planning to move the entire database to the new server including the OWB repositories
1. Install the OWB 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3) 64 bit in the new 64 bit Linux 64 bit server
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Please someone shed some light on this. Your help is appreciated
Thanks in advance....
Edited by: user528846 on Feb 11, 2010 11:59 AM
Edited by: user528846 on Feb 11, 2010 11:59 AM

Does this mean, ... we have to install the OWB 64 bit and install a new repository in the 64 bit server?In my opinion you don't need to create new repository.
After migrating database to 64bit perform steps from Metalink note 434272.1 "How To Update Warehouse Builder 10.2 After A Database Cloning".
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Regards,
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OWB 10g repository assistants no longer work on 10.3.0.1 win2003

Just posted this to the database forum... oops.... now that I'm in the right spot...
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Hi Experts,
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SCD type 2 in OWB 10g R2

Hello,
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Hi Roelant,
I think it is important to be aware that although Paris - 10gR2 - is not actually buggy (in this respect!), it is really quite idiosyncratic in exactly how it processes SCDs.
I followed up on your and Mark's comments, and did an in depth analysis of this topic. It is at http://www.donnapkelly.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/documents/OWB_10gR2_SCD.pdf
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Cheers,
Donna
Message was edited to add the words: "in this respect"

OWB 10G R2 with 9.2 DB....

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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/htdocs/owb_10gr2_faq.html#37
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/htdocs/owb_10gr2_faq.html#35
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Hi,
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We are using OWB 10G R2 on Oracle 9.2.
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Regards
Amit
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OWB 10g -- Can't Create Database Links for Data Source and Target

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Class Name: CacheMediator.
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Testing...
Failed.
API2215: Cannot create database link. Please contact Oracle Support with the stack trace and the details on how to reproduce it.
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Hi All,
Is there any place where there is a proper documentation of the above release? OWB 10g R1 has documentation in OTN site but is there any specific OWB 10g r2 documentation in OTN ??
Regards
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Hi,
the level of the docs is not consistent: sometimes you'll find truly good explanations, in other places there is not more than a step by step description of trivial operations. But the real desaster is the Scripting manual. It looks generated by a machine and never formatted by a human being. The examples are poor. Each OMB script or expert is a new expedition to unknown places. You must be really good in guessing and trying. But it has one advantage. When your expert succeeds finally, you'll feel good and happy ...
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