Reporting CLOB columns in Analysis

Hi,
I've created a view in the database which has a CLOB column. For this column I've use the DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR(<Clob column>) as detailed in the following forum note
Reporting on CLOB not working in OBIEE
The CLOB column in the RDP Physical and BMM layer is set to LONGCHAR(100011)
This works successfully when the CLOB column value doesn't exceed 4,000 characters, anything greater than 4,000 we get the following error in nqserver.log and the report errors :-
[2012-12-31T13:40:31.000+00:00] [OracleBIServerComponent] [ERROR:1] [] [] [ecid: 477a8593d286d46a:-205e2257:13b6331390c:-8000-000000000003d5eb] [tid: 463f5940] [nQSError: 43119] Query Failed:
[2012-12-31T13:40:31.000+00:00] [OracleBIServerComponent] [ERROR:1] [] [] [ecid: 477a8593d286d46a:-205e2257:13b6331390c:-8000-000000000003d5eb] [tid: 463f5940] [nQSError: 17012] Bulk fetch failed. [[
[nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 12801, message: ORA-12801: error signaled in parallel query server P039
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-06512: at line 1
at OCI call OCIStmtFetch.
[nQSError: 43119] Query Failed:
[nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS.
Anyone been able to implement this successfully in OBIEE 11g?
Any help on this would be great
Rgds

Hi Robert,
This can be done by generate a report using Catalog Manager->Tools-Create Report and also Repository Document using Admin tool and compare.
You need to save it csv format using catalog manager.
Pls mark if helps.

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Marc

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I have a template, Standard Revenue from Standard, I have cloned for a Classic report.
Application ###>Shared Componets>Templates>Edit Report Template
Column Template 1 looks like:
<td#ALIGNMENT# headers="#COLUMN_HEADER_NAME#" class="t1data_revenue">#COLUMN_VALUE#</td>
I have set Column Template 1 Condition to:
"Use based on PL/SQL expresiion"
I have tried several expression in "Column Template 1 Expression" - last one is:
case
when #COLNUM# <= 2 then false
when #COLUMN_VALUE# < 0 then true
else false
end case;
I am trying to use the value in "Column Template 2" when to value of the #COLUMN_VALUE# < 0
where "Column Template 2" is :
<td#ALIGNMENT# headers="#COLUMN_HEADER_NAME#" class="t1data_revenue_negative">#COLUMN_VALUE#</td>
I get the following error when I run the page:
ORA-01403: no data found
and
ERR-1025 Error processing PLSQL expression. case when #COLNUM# <= 2 then false when #COLUMN_VALUE# < 0 then true else false end case;
Any help will be appreciated.
thank you,
jwm

Hi,
That's actually easier. See: [http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=267:60]
The SQL for both reports is:
SELECT EMPNO, ENAME, NVL(SAL,0) SAL, NVL(COMM,0) COMM
FROM EMP
ORDER BY EMPNOThe SAL and COMM columns have been formatted using:
999G999G999G999G990D00For the Row Template, the Row Template 1 setting contains an empty space (you have to have something in there otherwise Apex adds back in a default row containing five cells!). The condition for this is:
TO_NUMBER('#COMM#','999G999G999G999G990D00') < 100The template will see the data as a string, so we use the same number format to convert that string back into a number and compare this to 100. If we didn't use formatting on the numbers and we are sure that every row contained a number (hence the use of NVL()), then you could use:
#COMM# < 100Row Template 2 contains the format for the rows that need displaying:
<tr>
<td class="t18Data">#1#</td>
<td class="t18Data">#2#</td>
<td class="t18Data" style="text-align:right">#3#</td>
<td class="t18Data" style="text-align:right">#4#</td>
</tr>and is unconditional.
The only other settings on the Row Template are the Before Rows:
<table class="t18Standard" style="border-collapse:collapse; border:1px solid black;">
<tr>
<th class="t18ReportHeader">Empno</th>
<th class="t18ReportHeader">Ename</th>
<th class="t18ReportHeader" style="text-align:right">Sal</th>
<th class="t18ReportHeader" style="text-align:right">Comm</th>
</tr>and After Rows:
</table>Of course, you will note that the record counters at the bottom still show the number of records in both reports - as the SQL still outputs the same data, this doesn't change.
Andy

How to retreive soap xml data from clob column in a table

Hi,
I am trying to retrieve the XML tag value from clob column.
Table name = xyz and column= abc (clob datatype)
data stored in abc column is as below
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:head="http://www.abc.com/gcgi/shared/system/header" xmlns:v6="http://www.abc.com/gcgi/services/v6_0_0_0" xmlns:sys="http://www.abc.com/gcgi/shared/system/systemtypes">
<soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
<RqHeader soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="http://www.abc.com/gcgi/shared/system/header">
<DateAndTimeStamp>2011-12-20T16:02:36.677+08:00</DateAndTimeStamp>
<UUID>1000002932</UUID>
<Version>6_0_0_0</Version>
<ClientDetails>
<Org>ABC</Org>
<OrgUnit>ABC</OrgUnit>
<ChannelID>HBK</ChannelID>
<TerminalID>0000</TerminalID>
<SrcCountryCode>SG</SrcCountryCode>
<DestCountryCode>SG</DestCountryCode>
<UserGroup>HBK</UserGroup>
</ClientDetails>
</RqHeader>
<wsa:Action>/SvcImpl/bank/
SOAPEndpoint/AlertsService.serviceagent/OpEndpointHTTP/AlertDeleteInq</wsa:Action></soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<v6:AlertDeleteInqRq>
<v6:Base>
<v6:VID>20071209013112</v6:VID>

<v6:Ref>CTAA00000002644</v6:Ref>
</v6:Base>
</v6:AlertDeleteInqRq>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
And i want to retrieve the values of tag
<ChannelID> and <v6:VID>
can somebody help, i have tried with extractvalue but not able to get the values

I have used the below two queries but not able to get the expected results. Both queries result into no values.
select xmltype(MED_REQ_PAYLOAD).extract('//ClientDetails/Org','xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" || xmlns="http://www.abc.com/gcgi/shared/system/header"').getStringValue() from ESB_OUTPUT_TEMP where SOAPACTION = '/SvcImpl/bank/alerts/v6_0_0_0/SOAPEndpoint/AlertsService.serviceagent/OpEndpointHTTP/AlertDeleteInq'
select EXTRACTVALUE(xmltype(MED_REQ_PAYLOAD),'/RqHeader/) from ESB_OUTPUT_TEMP where SOAPACTION = '/SvcImpl/bank/SOAPEndpoint/AlertsService.serviceagent/OpEndpointHTTP/AlertDeleteInq'
Well, for starters, both queries are syntactically wrong :
- non terminated string
- incorrect namespace mapping declaration
- unknown XMLType method "getStringValue()"
Secondly, all those functions are deprecated now.
Here's an up-to-date example using XMLTable. It will retrieve the two tag values you mentioned :
SQL> select x.*
2 from esb_output_temp t
3     , xmltable(
4         xmlnamespaces(
5           'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' as "soap"
6         , 'http://www.abc.com/gcgi/shared/system/header' as "head"
7         , 'http://www.abc.com/gcgi/services/v6_0_0_0' as "v6"
8         )
9       , '/soap:Envelope'
10         passing xmlparse(document t.med_req_payload)
11         columns ChannelID varchar2(10) path 'soap:Header/head:RqHeader/head:ClientDetails/head:ChannelID'
12               , VID        varchar2(30) path 'soap:Body/v6:AlertDeleteInqRq/v6:Base/v6:VID'
13       ) x
14 ;
CHANNELID VID
HBK        20071209013112
You may also want to store XML in XMLType columns for both performance and storage optimizations.

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