Using Essbase as a source

Have anyone of you used Essbase as a source for OBISE1? Do you find any restrictions on it?

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OBIEE with Essbase as datasource-what I need to know
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OBIEE Fragmentation using Essbase as data sources

Hi-
How can we create a fragmentation on OBIEE taking data sources from 2 cubes? For example:
I have 3 dimensions (same outline on both cubes):
Account:
- Account 1
- Account 2
Product:
- Product 1
- Product 2
Year:
- Y2008
- Y2009
And how can we set the fragmentation, if we want to take Y2008 data from cube 1, and Y2009 data from cube 2?
I've tried to set:
on BMM:
Account:
-source:
--cube1
aggregation content, group by: Logical level
fragmentation content: cube1."year"."Gen2,year" = 'Y2008'
--cube2
aggregation content, group by: Logical level
fragmentation content: cube1."year"."Gen2,year" = 'Y2009'
Year:
-source:
--cube1
aggregation content, group by: Logical level
Mapped Year to Gen2,year
fragmentation content: cube1."year"."Gen2,year" = 'Y2008'
--cube2
aggregation content, group by: Logical level
Mapped Year to Gen2,year
fragmentation content: cube1."year"."Gen2,year" = 'Y2009'
It still only taking the data from cube 1.
And when I tried to check the: "This source should be combined with other sources at this level" it returned error:
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 42043] An external aggregate is found in an outer query block. (HY000)
Please advise,
Kind regards

Hello,
I'm having the same problem as you.
Have you found a solution?
Can you share
Thank you

Essbase as a source in OBIEE 11g and using lookup to Relation database

Hello All,
We are trying to implement Essbase as primary source for our obiee 11g repository and using relational database as secondary source of data.
I was using a lookup functionality in repository to lookup value from one of the Essbase's Dimension's attribute to relational database, however, there is error when testing this in OBIEE Dashboards.
And tried to look this error in support.oracle and googled it but was not able to find anything on it.
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS. [nQSError: 43119] Query Failed: [nQSError: 46008] Internal error: File server\Query\Src\SQLookupUtility.cpp, line 145. (HY000)
Have you had any such issue and how can we pass this issue?
I am trying to find if there are any quick resolution before going to oracle support.
TIA.
Parish

Is Essbase 11.1.1.3 supported as a source for OBIEE 11g?From the certification matrix (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/bi-11gr1certmatrix-166168.xls) we can see that only Essbase 9.3.3+ and 11.1.2+ are supported, not 11.1.1.3
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Using Essbase as source for OBIEE 10.1.3.3

Our company is in the process of implementing OBIEE 10.1.3.3 and I was trying to import an Essbase database (7.1.6) as a source for the Physical layer. However it looks like there was a change from 10.1.3.2 to the version we have. The docs show you can select File/Import/XMLA, however in the newer version instead of XMLA you have "From Multi Dimensional...". When I select this option and fill in the Essbase Server name,ID & pswd it crashes the OBIEE Administrator client.
The error I get before it wants to "Send the Report" mentions this:
AppName: admintool.exe AppVer: 10.1.3.3 ModName: essapinu.dll
ModVer: 7.1.6.6218 Offset: 00008282
I then tried another way by right clicking on the Physical layer and choose "New Database". In there you have a option for the database of "Essbase". However, even when I fill in the server and ID & pswd I can't find anything in the docs showing you how to have it list the Essbase applications and Databases. According to the Oracle Support the docs for 10.1.3.2 are the latest docs which don't mention anything about connecting to Essbase that I can see.
Has anyone tried to use Essbase as the database source for OBIEE 10.1.3.3 and been successful? Any info would be helpful!!
Thanks!

It is my understanding you need at least 10.1.3.3.2 (upgrade/patch).
I'm currently on 10.1.3.3.0 and will be using ESSBASE shortly - so we actually have purchased 10.1.3.3.3 (OBIEE Plus).

Unable to load data into Essbase cube using Essbase Studio

Hi
We are creating an essbase cube using Essbase Studio using flat files as data sources.
We have taken different hierarchies into different flat files and created one fact file having dimension intersection along with data.
We are able to create the cube and the hierarchy but not able to load any data.
We are getting the following error
Failed to deploy Essbase cube.
Caused by: Unable to perform dataload from more than one flat file.
Could anyone please help on this?

Oh this was killing me, so I did this test in 11.1.1.3:
1) Excel 2007 format -- no go, Essbase didn't see it
2) Excel 2003 format, three sheets -- only the first sheet was read into an empty rule
3) Excel 2003 format, one sheet -- the first sheet was read into an empty rule
4) Excel 95 format, one sheet -- the first sheet was read into an empty rule
The lesson?
1) Excel 2007/2010 sheets don't work (no surprise there as the .xlsx format isn't supported).
2) Excel 2003 and lower (hey, if you have Excel 4, I'll bet that works as well) work, but only the first sheet is recognized.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Throws severe error in OBIEE SA with Essbase Cube as Source

Hi All,
Currently we built the SA using Essbase ASO cube as source.Wehen we are trying to drag more then 4-5 dimension hierarchies it throws an severe error
Essbase Error: Query is allocating too large memory(>4GB) and cannot be executed.Query allocation exceeds allocation limits(HY000)
I am not able to identify the same in Essbase Excel addin.All are single-level based hierarchies and the count of dimensions is not more than 1000.
Can someone help me out to find out a way to resolve this issue or any work around.
Thanks,
SatyaB

What is the version that you using for OBIEE and Essbase ?? This is a know bug when Essbase as a source is used for OBIEE reporting. Try to get in touch with Oracle Support by raising an SR and getting correct patch (set of library files) for your system.
This shud solve your problem.

Using Essbase security filter in OBIEE request ?

Hello,
We would like to use OBIEE 11.1.1.6 with Essbase source. We already use Essbase security filter (on dimensions).
For example, "userA" is allowed to access to Entity A and not Entity B and the opposite for "userB".
If I loggin as "userA" in OBIEE, is it possible for OBIEE to connect to Essbase with "userA" so that Essbase return data only on Entity A and not Entity B ?
Thanks!

Hi,
The way let OBIEE users, have Essbase security filters running for them, is by integrating OBIEE and EPM using Single Sign On. When, both OBIEE and EPM talk to the same Identity Store like OID/MSAD, you can set this up. For more integration steps, refer to http://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Ftechnetwork%2Fmiddleware%2Fbi-foundation%2Fhfm-sso-obiee-1112x-1835570.pdf&ei=O7ElUeCTApGzrAeelIHwCw&usg=AFQjCNE1BzMQU6Cwny-0IwcvxkfxeqlONg&bvm=bv.42661473,d.bmk
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Essbase as data source 10.1.3.4

Hi,
I am trying to use Essbase as a datasource in OBIEE 10.1.3.4 - but when the source is imported I do not see any ALIAS values.
Is it possible to use the EVALUATE syntax to effect a function call on Essbase - by creating a calculated column to get around this problem - if so can anyone kindly assist on the syntax??
thanks,
Robert.

Hi robert,
Check these might be of help too http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/bi/biee/r1013/essbase/biee_essbase.htm#t1
http://oraclebiblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/essbase-alias-tables-universal-language.html
Cheers,
KK

Using a SQL data source and XML data source in the same template

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Hi Pablo
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Error 1030723 Unable to get UTF-8 locale when using Essbase API 11.1.1

Now I got a question about how to connect to an Essbase Server by using essbase client API (11.1.1). I encountered an error “Unable to get UTF-8 locale” when I tried to EssInit((pInitStruct, phInstance) API.
However, I had no problem to call the API if I uses essbase previous client APIs (7.1 or 9.3).
I passed the “ESS_API_UTF8” to usApiType field in the ESS_INIT_T struct. When I openned the “essapi.h” header file, I found these are some new fields (highlighted in red color below) added in the essbase client API (11.1.1)
ESS_TSA_API_typedef_struct(ess_init_t)
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_ULONG_T, Version); /* This should be set to ESS_API_VERSION */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PVOID_T, UserContext); /* void pointer to user's message context */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_USHORT_T, MaxHandles); /* max number of context handles required */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_SIZE_T, MaxBuffer); /* max size of buffer that can be allocated */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_STR_T, LocalPath); /* local path to use for file operations */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_STR_T, MessageFile); /* full path name of message database file */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PFUNC_T, AllocFunc); /* user-defined memory allocation function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PFUNC_T, ReallocFunc); /* user-defined memory reallocation function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PFUNC_T, FreeFunc); /* user-defined memory free function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PFUNC_T, MessageFunc); /* user-defined message callback function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_STR_T, HelpFile); /* user-defined help file path */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PVOID_T, Ess_System); /* reserved for internal use */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_USHORT_T, usApiType);
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PCATCHFUNC_T, CatchFunc); /* user-defined kill-own-request signal callback function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PCATCH_INIT_FUNC_T, CatchInitFunc); /* user-defined kill-own-request signal initialization callback function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PCATCH_TERM_FUNC_T, CatchTermFunc); /* user-defined kill-own-request signal termination callback function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PCOOKIE_CREATE_FUNC_T, CookieCreateFunc); /* user-defined cookie creation function */
ESS_TSA_ELEMENT(ESS_PCOOKIE_DELETE_FUNC_T, CookieDeleteFunc); /* user-defined cookie creation function */
} ESS_TSA_END(ESS_INIT_T);
I could not find any document to introduce the API (11.1.1. And what does the error “Unable to get UTF-8 locale” mean? How can work around it. Any environment parameters or paths need to be set?
Please advise.

Hi,
The API documentation for V11 is available from :- http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/esb_apiref/frameset.htm?launch.htm
Hopefully it might point you in the right direction.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Bursting using a Concatenated Data Source

Greetings,
I am trying to burst a report using a concatenated data source. I have a bursting SQL query set up that works fine, but I am unsure how to handle the "Split By" option. I have a data model that pulls data from multiple queries, like this:
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I am using BI Publisher version 10.1.3.4
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http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2009/06/data_template_progression.html
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Followed the below steps_________________________
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Using table comparison can we use multiple tables as source?
Thank you very much for the helpful info.

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