OWB 10gR2 - debug session "hangs"

Hi, I'm having a problem getting a debug session started. I start the debug session, it asks me to log in to the control center, and in the messages area it displays the following text:
Analyzing map for debug...
Retrieving Control Center connection info...
Connecting to Control Center schema...
Terminating debug session.
Analyzing map for debug...
Retrieving Control Center connection info...
Connecting to Control Center schema...
Connecting to Control Center schema...
Checking character set of Control Center schema...
Configuring sources and targets...
Also, in the status bar at the bottom it shows "Initializing for Stepping" and that its at 39%. However, it never seems to get past this point.
Any ideas on how to proceed?
Thx,
Scott

Ok, here's what happened....the debug session actually did eventually start up, but it took almost 15 minutes for it to do so...
Co-incidentally (or not?), the main query also takes about 15 minutes or so to run. Is the debug session somehow actually running the queries before it presents the dialog where you can limit it down to just a few test cases?
Scott

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Hi,
I'm looking to store "degenerate dimension" information in an OWB 10gR2 cube. Typically in a DW, I'd just add a column to the fact table to hold the information. However, in OWB 10gR2, I don't see any way to add a column to a "cube" object - everything appears to either have to be a dimension surrogate key, or a measure.
Not sure the best way to proceed. We've coded all our ETL using the standard cube objects and letting OWB do all the surrogate key lookup, etc. automagically for us, so I'd hate to be forced to go back to manually loading the fact tables. Is there an easier way?
Thanks,
Scott

Hi Scott,
The problems I've run into with dimensions and cubes are:
Dimensions abort if there are many roles - about 4 is the limit. This is very bad for the time dimension which should have 100s of aliases. Unfortunately I can't use the Time dimension wizard because we require ISO-Weeks. My workaround is to create several Time dimensions manually and assign 4 roles to each.
Naming - when I create several time dimensions with 4 roles each (see above), in the BI layer, the foreign keys in cubes are always named something like time_dim, time_dim_1, etc rather than named for role names. I have to manually rename them in tables and then when I deploy BI objects, manually rename them again in Discoverer Administrator.
Redeploying just about anything is broken. Table upgrade plans are invalid (even after running the grant scripts that support recommended), Redeploying BI objects runs successfully but if you read the job output, it does nothing since the objects already exist - again, the upgrade option does nothing.
Column ordering is random when deploying objects so I've taken to sorting alphabetically for our BI objects. Not ideal by any means.
As for the time savings with lookups, I don't save nearly that much. Due to many composite keys in our source systems, I assign surrogate keys in our staging area. These become the "business keys" in our DW layer and consequently I end up doing lookups against the staging MAP tables - really no more or less difficult than looking up dimension keys. That is more a design choice than anything and may just be my "Kimball" habits dying hard.
I'm encouraged to hear that you are having success. I chose to utilize the Dimensions and Cubes and so far am sticking with it. I'm hoping that there will be patches and/or point releases to OWB soon!

OWB 10gR2 on DB 11g and Workflow installation

Hi all,
my customer has a data warehouse running on Oracle DB 10gR2 - 2 nodes RAC - on Linux 32 bit (Red Hat enterprise 5);
ETL is developed with OWB 10gR2 and exploits Oracle Workflow (2.6.4).
They are going to upgrade the database to 11.1 (still 2 nodes RAC) on Linux 64 bit (Red Hat enterprise 5),
and they would prefer to avoid OWB upgrade.
On Oracle Support, it seems that OWB 10gR2 is certified on DB 11.1,
so our idea is to install a OWB 10gR2 repository on DB 11.1 and then export/import MDL
from current repository (OWB 10gR2 on DB 10gR2) to the new repository (OWB 10gR2 on DB 11.1).
My first question is related to Workflow:
is it correct to install Workflow on the new DB 11.1 using the software available in the home of OWB 11g software ?
is it guaranteed thet OWB 10gR2 installed on DB 11.1 will have no problems in using such installation of OWF ?
or should we install OWF 2.6.4 on DB 11.1 using the same software that was installed on db 10gR2 ?
My second question is related to *32 bit vs 64 bit platform*;
intuitively, we should install the 64 bit version of OWB 10gR2 (and OWF) on the new plaftorm hosting DB 11g:
is ita potential issue for the OWB repository migration ?
on our pc of course we will go on using OWB Client 32 bit: are there compatibility problems?
Thanks
Silvio

Hi Silvio,
is it correct to install Workflow on the new DB 11.1 using the software available in the home of OWB 11g software ?It is better to use Oracle Workflow from DB 11g.
is it guaranteed thet OWB 10gR2 installed on DB 11.1 will have no problems in using such installation of OWF ?As I know DB 11gR1 contains also 2.6.4 Workflow release, so you won't have any problem
My second question is related to 32 bit vs 64 bit platform;
intuitively, we should install the 64 bit version of OWB 10gR2 (and OWF) on the new plaftorm hosting DB 11g:
is ita potential issue for the OWB repository migration ?IMHO it is not problem
on our pc of course we will go on using OWB Client 32 bit: are there compatibility problems?There are no any problem with 32bit OWB client and OWB repository on 64bit platform
Regards,
Oleg

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