Usage Tracking with Display_Name

Hi experts!
I have implemented usage tracking on obiee 11.1.1.5.0 and all works fine. I need an additional data in my subject area of UsageTracking, DISPLAY_NAME.
I can see users with your login but I can't see name of these users.
I try to modify script code to create a table (S_NQ_ACCT Table) adding DISPLAY_NAME but don't work...
Any help¿?
Thanks!!

Hi All, no need to create that manually, it will come in default. The main use of Usage tracking is you can see how many users are using how many tables in how many times and wat will be the timings. Once you give the usage tracking credentials in EM, If you run the reports you can check the the columns in physical layer by update by count option, it will show . before that you have to import that S_NQ_ACCT table into physical layer. Hope it will be useful for u guysss.

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That's probably just a side-effect of having two repositories. Keep in mind that having multiple repositories and multiple presentation servers is not support by Oracle, so they were not on the hook to modify the Usage Tracking algorithm to write to two different databases. It seems to me like they either didn't anticipate this scenario, or they didn't want to program for this scenario.
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