Trouble installing Service Release of Hyperion 9.3.1

Question

Hi,
I have 2 questions posted towards the end of this long message.
Currently, in our production environment, we use Hyperion 9.3.1 and specifically we only use the following components.
Hyperion Shared Services
Hyperion Web Analysis
Hyperion Workspace
The backend is Oracle 10g. Therefore, in order to re-construct the BI infrastructure in our development environment, I only had to install the following components.
V11229-01.zip (Hyperion Shared Services)
V11205-01.zip (Hyperion Reporting and Analysis - Client Release)
V11207-01.zip (Hyperion Reporting and Analysis - Services Release)
V11223-01.zip (Hyperion Reporting and Analysis - UI Services Release)
I figured out how to install/configure Hyperion Shared Services on our Windows 2003 development server and am still playing with the Web Analysis components...
I intend to install and configure V11207-01.zip, followed by V11223-01.zip, then, lastly I plan to install V11205-01.zip
When installing V11207-01.zip on our development server (Windows 2003 Server), I ran into an issue already:
According to the instructions on page 28 - 31 of hs_windows_install_reporting&analysis_931.pdf, I need to "Configure Oracle" first, and
this is what I did:
1. Dedicate a tablespace to Reporting and Analysis.
Open a command window:
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0Serve\db_1\BIN> set ORACLE_SID=MYORCL0430
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0Serve\db_1\BIN>sqlplus / as sysdba
2. Create an Oracle account for Reporting and Analysis.
In SQLPlus, did the following:
CREATE TABLESPACE HYPUSERDATA
DATAFILE 'C:\databaseFiles\MYORCL0430\HYPUSERDATA.dbf' SIZE 500M AUTOEXTEND
ON
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE
LOGGING
ONLINE
PERMANENT
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
SQL> CREATE USER biplus identified by xxxxxx default tablespace HYPUSERDATA temporary tablespace TEMP;
3. Give the user database connection privileges:
SQL> grant connect, resource, create view to biplus;
Grant succeeded.
4. Set the NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS to CHAR.
Log into oracle (sqlplus / as sysdba)
Before I perform any change,
SELECT *
FROM nls_database_parameters shows nls_length_semantics = byte
select * from nls_instance_parameters shows nls_length_semantics=byte
then,
SQL>ALTER SYSTEM SET NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR scope=both;
Then,
SQL> shutdown immediate
SQL>startup
This will make the change effective.
After the change, I’d get
SELECT *
FROM nls_database_parameters shows nls_length_semantics = byte
select * from nls_instance_parameters shows nls_length_semantics=char
Then, step 5 at the beginning of Page 31 says,
"5. Set the necessary environment variable:
For Core Services and Job Factory Service - Use the System option in the control panel or the Set command from the Windows command prompt to set the LIBPATH environment variable to the locatoin of the oracle client libraries."
My FIRST QUESTION is: I am not sure how to set this. so, I skipped this step completely.
Then, I started the installing of the V11207-01.zip software.
On page 46, step 8, it says
"The new installatoin default path is C:\Hyperion\BIPlus"
but, during my installation, when I reached that screen where the first line reads
"Select Hyperion Home Directory".
The single line edit box below it had
C:\Hyperion in it but the single line edit box is grayed out, and the "Browse" button at the lower right corner is also grayed out,
which means I am unable to change the Hyperion Home Directory location to the C:\Hyperion\BIPlus directory or anything else.
So, I canceled and did not proceed with the install.
My SECOND QUESTION is: Is this normal? if not, what did I do wrong? does this have anything to do with my skipping of
"Set the necessary environment variable" step?
thanks in advance for your help!
ST

Answer 1

This is normal.
The "Hyperion Home" is picked up by the installer if the environment variable and/or previous configuration files are found. In your case, "C:\Hyperion" is the Hyperion Home and automatically filled by the installer and can't be changed.
You said this was a service release, so you should be good to go after making a backup of the current installation.