BI Publisher 11G Upgrade Part 2 ! – Things to Know

I just talked about the 11G Upgrade the other day, but looks there are some confusions around this topic, so here I am, trying to clear them up today.

Data Set with No Columns!

When your report’s data model is using SQL Query or BI Answers as the data source type then after the upgrade you would notice that your data sets don’t have any column in the Data Model Editor. So it would like this.

This is because such data sets in 10G don’t capture necessary information to populate such columns for the new 11G Data Model. For example, SQL Query data sets don’t have any data type information for each column nor any grouping or hierarchy information. We wanted to make the upgrade process as easy and quick as possible so when you do the upgrade with the Upgrade Assistant utility BI Publisher doesn’t require any database connection. That means, you can perform the upgrade at anywhere without requiring any database connection. However, the Upgrade Assistant has no idea about each column or element data.

However, if you uses Data Template with SQL Queries in 10G then after the upgrade your 11G data model will have all the columns and associated information. This is because, as you imagine, all the necessary information is already provided in the Data Template.

 

So you can keep running the reports using the data model without any modification after the upgrade. However, this type of data model is not really expandable. For example, you can’t add a calculated column from the UI and you can’t create a link with other data sets. Having said that, I would recommend that you take a look at such Data Models and decide if you want to keep them as they are. If you like to have those columns populated then simply, you can create a new data set copying the same SQL query from the original data set, then you can delete the old data set. One thing to note though, when you do create a new data set then make sure the generated XML structure and the element names match to the RTF Template using the data model. Instead of updating the RTF templates, which can be cumbersome, you can use the Structure Pane to update the XML element name.

 

 

11G Data Model is More Restrictive

Since we’ve moved completely to a Web UI based Data Model Editor instead of the creating/updating the Data Template with Text editors model, now there are some restrictions for the Data Model. Therefore, you might get a warning message when you try to save the data model with invalid configuration. There are two things you want to be aware for this validation thing. 

1. Case Sensitive

Let’s take a look at the following example, you see there is a aggregated element ‘DEPTSAL’, which is referencing ‘G_EMP.SALARY’ with ‘SUM()’ function.

 

With 10G Data Template you can reference to other elements without caring much about whether the letters are upper cases or lower cases. So if you write ‘G_EMP.salary’ it would still work with 10G. But not with 11G. That means it has to be ‘G_EMP.SALARY’.

2. Orphan Elements

Now let’s take a look at another example below.

As you see, the ‘FAVORITE_MOVIE’ element is referencing to ‘FAVORITE_MOVIE’ column but it doesn’t exist in the SQL query. With 10G, BIP just returned a null value for this. But not with 11G. This would give you an invalid warning unless you delete this column from the Data Model editor UI.

Therefore, it’s important to review the original data templates and correct them before the upgrade. If you didn’t correct them or didn’t catch them then you can open such data models with the Data Model Editor and remove such columns or recreate a new data set within the same data model.

Upgrade or Upload ?

I’ve got this question of ‘Can I upload the upgraded reports to 11G from the UI ?’, and the short answer is ‘No’. The Upgrade Assistant utility is meant to upgrade your 10G catalog to 11G converting each report to an appropriate format for 11G. So Yes, it does migrate the 10G reports to 11G, however, it is not a migration tool that you want to use to migrate one report after another in order to upload them later.

But there might be some circumstances where you want to upgrade only a set of the reports instead of all of them. If that’s the case, I would suggest you do the upgrade first with the Upgrade Assistant utility by pointing your 10G catalog as the source then pointing to an empty folder as a target, which will create a new 11G catalog with your upgraded reports. Then you can manually move a selected set of the reports by copying them over to another 11G catalog on the file system where the catalog is located. But not from UI.

 

How They Look Like in Catalog ?

I thought it would be helpful to show you how the reports look like in the Catalog for both 10G and 11G. The main thing is, as I talked in the previous post ‘10G Users! Let’s Upgrade to 11G!’, a single report in 10G will be split to two reporting objects in 11G. One is a Report (.xdo) and another is a Data Model (xdm). And here’s how they look like.

Report in 10G Catalog

 

Report in 11G Catalog

This is the sample report upgraded to 11G. Now there are two report objects, one is ‘Employee Salary Report.xdo’, which contains report definition, layout templates, etc, and another is ‘Employee Salary Report.xdm’, which contains only the data model (such as SQL query) information.

Report - XDO

Data Model - XDM

 

Hope this post have clarified some of the uncertainty around the upgrade, and your upgrade process will be as smooth as possible. But if you have hit any issue or question or anything, please feel free to contact me at Kanichiro.Nishida@oracle.com. Happy Upgrade!

10G Users! Let’s Upgrade to BI Publisher 11G!

10G users! Have you had a chance to try out 11G yet ? Are you planning to upgrade to 11G soon ?

BI Publisher 11G release is a huge milestone for us. We have changed the way the traditional reports development have been with this release completely. With 11G, you can start developing your reports quickly and easily with the new web UI tools such as Data Model Editor and Layout Editor, and view the reports interactively with the new Interactive View format option, to gain more insights about your data. You can do all of that within your browser without installing any desktop application or any plug-ins.

On top of that, if you prefer the RTF template (MS-Word) as your report design option you can continue to do so with the BI Publisher Template Builder (MS-Word plug-in) 11G, and enjoy its super flexible reports development capability with its enhanced functionality. Also, we made the Sub-template and Style template much easier to link to the main templates from the web UI. Oh, and if you like to use other template types such as PDF, Excel, XSL, Flash, of course! you can continue to do so as well. So 11G is like BI Publisher on steroid if you’re coming from 10G !

Now, let’s take a look at how to upgrade the BI Publisher 10G to 11G.

Things to Know Before the Upgrade

With 11G, now the data model is completely a separate object. You can create multiple reports all pointing to a single shared data model. So after the upgrade, your single report on the 10G will be split into two Reporting Objects, one is a Report (.xdo) that contains the layouts and another is a Data Model (.xdm) that contains the data model information.

Another thing to be aware is, BI Publisher 11G shares the catalog, where all the reports are stored, with BI Presentation Server. That means, when you install BI Publisher 11G as part of the BIEE suite then there will be only one catalog, which is called BI EE catalog (or, BI Presentation catalog), and that’s where all the BI contents will be stored including BI Publisher reports, BI Answers requests, Dashboards, etc. If you installed only BI Publisher standalone then you will have a BI Publisher catalog, it’s the same way as the 10G.

Overall Process

There are three main steps to upgrade your BI Publisher 10G to 11G.

• Install BI Publisher 11G
• Upgrade BI Publisher 10G catalog to 11G
• Migrate BI Publisher 11G catalog to BI Presentation catalog (Only for BIEE integrated environments)
• Upgrade BI Publisher 10G Scheduler Schema to 11G

There are two things you need to upgrade, one is the BI Publisher catalog and another is the BI Publisher Scheduler schema. After upgrading the catalog you’ll have a BI Publisher 11g catalog with your contents. And if your BI Publisher is integrated with BIEE then you need to migrate (or upload) the catalog to the BIEE catalog. And of course, if your BI Publisher is running on a standalone mode then this step is not necessary.

Install BI Publisher 11G

There is an installation guide that takes you through the steps with detail information. Or, there are many blog posts already written about the installation including mine, ‘Oracle BI Publisher 11G Installation’.  So I’m not going to repeat the installation steps here, sorry! (If you have any question around the installation please feel free to contact me at kanichiro.nishida@oracle.com or tweet us @bipublisher!)

Upgrade BI Publisher 10G Catalog to 11G

Backup!

Before you start the upgrade, as always, I’d highly recommend that you make a backup for both the 10G and 11G catalogs. I know it’s a normal practice so nothing special here, but just to make sure…

Source Catalog and Target Catalog

One thing you want to decide before you start the upgrade is the locations for the original 10G catalog and for the target catalog which will be generated by the Upgrade Assistant utility.

You can find the 10G BI Publisher catalog location by logging into BI Publisher 10G and go to Admin –> Report Repository page.

Start Upgrade!

You can use the Upgrade Assistant utility to upgrade the BI Publisher 10G catalog. The utility is an UI based application It is located under %Oracle_Home%/Oracle_BI1/bin folder (or directly) and you can simply double click on ‘ua.bat’ for Windows or run ‘ua’ for Linux/Unix to start.

 

Once you launch the utility you will see the following UI.

 

First, select ‘Upgrade Oracle BI Publisher Repository’

 

Select ‘Upgrade 10g BI Publisher Repository Directory’ and specify your 10G catalog location.

 

And now you specify a target location for the upgraded catalog. (e.g. C:\BIP\11G\repository)

 

Now you can enter WebLogic Admin Server connection information. Let’s say, if you can access to the WebLogic Console with ‘http://bipublisher.us.oracle.com:7001/console’ then the Host is ‘bipublisher.us.oracle.com’ and the Port is ‘7001’. The username and passwords are the same ones to login to the Console.

 

When you click ‘Next’ button you will see an Examination window which checks the server connectivity. If’ the status shows ‘succeeded’ then Click ‘Next’.

 

You’ll get a Review window. If the source and target catalog locations look ok then click ‘Upgrade’ button.

 

Once the upgrade is done, you will see the Status showing ‘succeeded’. Click ‘Next’ button.

 

Here, you can find a log file location. (e.g. C:\biee11\Oracle_BI1\upgrade\logs\postupgrade.txt) You might want to review the file to ensure that there is no error during the upgrade process. Well, if you see the ‘succeeded’ in the previous step there shouldn’t be any error message though.

 

Now you should be able to find a newly generated catalog at the specified location !

 

If your BI Publisher is integrated with BIEE then you need to migrate (or upload) the catalog to the BIEE catalog following the steps at the next section. But if your BI Publisher is running on a standalone mode then you can skip the next step and jump to ‘Upgrade BI Publisher 10G Scheduler Schema’ section. .

 

Upload to BIEE (BI Presentation) Catalog

From 11G, the integrated of BIEE and BI Publisher is very tight. BI Publisher shares the BIEE catalog so that the users can access to all the BI contents including BI Publisher reports, BI Answers requests, BI Dashborad, etc, in a single catalog and from a same UI. Now you have an upgraded BI Publisher catalog, which was generated at the previous step, so you need to upload that to the BIEE catalog. 

1. Login to BI Publisher 11G as an user with BI_Admin application role or ‘weblogic’ user.

2. Go to Administration UI and click ‘Server Configuration’ link, you should see the following page.

 

3. Now the Catalog Type should be set to ‘Oracle BI EE Catalog’. Click ‘Test Connection’ to ensure BI Publisher can connect to Oracle BI Presentation Services

4. Enter the path of the upgraded BI Publisher catalog location

5. Click ‘Upload to BI Presentation Catalog’ button. This will upload the contents of your BI Publisher catalog to the BI Presentation catalog.

 

Now when you go to the Catalog UI by clicking the ‘Catalog’ menu, then you should see all the folders and reports from the 10G catalog along with other 11G contents !

 

Upgrade BI Publisher 10G Scheduler Schema to 11G

After finishing the catalog upgrade, there is one more thing. You need to upgrade the BI Publisher Scheduler schema. You can do so by using the same Upgrade Assistant utility.

Start Upgrade Assistant Utility and select ‘Upgrade Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Schema’ and click ‘Next’.

 

Type an information about the database where the BI Publisher 10G Scheduler schema is installed, and click ‘Next’.

 

Now, type an information about the target database where the BI Publisher 11G scheduler schema is installed. This is the same database that you run the RCU against before the 11G installation.

 

Select a Schema Name that you installed the RCU, and click ‘Next’

 

Once the ‘Examination’ process is done and the Status is showing ‘succeeded’ then click ‘Upgrade’.

 

After the upgrade process is done you should see the Status is showing ‘succeeded’, and click ‘Next’.

 

In the last page, you can find a location where you can find a log file for the upgrade. You might want to review the log file even if the Status in the previous is showing ‘succeeded’ to ensure there is no error or warning.

 

Explore 11G!

And that’s it ! Now you have all your 10G BI Publisher reports migrated to 11G. You’re ready to start taking advantage of BI Publisher 11G new features to create, update, schedule, and share your reports. I have written a post about the 11G new features here before if you haven’t checked yet. Also, we have a series of BI Publisher 11G introduction videos at our BI Publisher Youtube channel. There is also a tutorial specific to 11G as well at OTN. Enjoy 11G!

p.s. If you have experienced any issue with the upgrade process please feel free to contact me at ‘kanichiro.nishida@oracle.com’ or tweet to @bipublisher with #bipupgrade.

Start BI Publisher Enterprise Server for your E-Business Suite Data!

 

BI Publisher has always supported the EBS (Oracle E-Business Suite) security as one of the security model options. However, when it comes to the EBS data level security there was no straight forward way to support it before. And this has prevented many folks from moving to BI Publisher Enterprise Server for the EBS reporting even when we know that BI Publisher Enterprise Server would provide a great deal of benefits that come with it such as Data Model Editor, Layout Editor, Interactive View, just to name a few.

So, we added the EBS data level security support with the latest release of 11.1.1.5 to help our EBS customers to move to BI Publisher Enterprise Server and take advantage of such benefits.

I created a quick video demo for this new feature, if you are interested check the following video.

 

If you prefer reading or like to know more detail please continue.

What is the EBS Role Based Data Security?

If you are familiar with EBS you probably know the data level security comes with the responsibility and org_id combination. Each responsibility is associated with an org_id and the user selects a responsibility before running a report. And many of the EBS database views, which typically many of the EBS reports query against, use the org_id to filter the data. Therefore, based on your selection of the responsibility you will get a different set of the data for a single report. And of course this means that another user with a different responsibility would see a different set of the data from the one you would see.

 

 

And that’s exactly what we did with BI Publisher Enterprise Server with the release of 11.1.1.5. Now the user can select one of the responsibilities that are assigned to the user at the login time or from the My Account profile setting. Once the user select it BI Publisher automatically takes care of that by setting an application context passing the org_id when it opens a EBS database connection for the user.

How to Configure?

There is no extra configuration to enable the Role Based Data Security at all. Once you have integrated your BI Publisher Enterprise Server with your EBS by selecting ‘Oracle E-Business Suite’ as the security model and upload the EBS application dbc file, then BI Publisher will take care of all the security related stuff from there based on the user’s selection of the responsibility!

How It Works?

Right after you login to BI Publisher Enterprise Server with your EBS user id and password, you will be asked to select one of the responsibilities assigned to you. Once you select one then it’s all set. Any following database query will have the application context with the org_id that is associated with your responsibility.

1. Login to BI Publisher Enterprise Server with EBS user id and password.

2. When you login you’ll be asked to select one of the responsibilities you have. And BI Publisher will use this information to support the EBS role based security.

 

If you want to change the responsibility after you have logged in then you can go to ‘My Account’ dialog by clicking your username at the right hand side top and select one of the responsibilities listed under ‘Group’ tab.

Here is a sample report ‘Customer Open Balance Report’, which I have migrated from the EBS instance by using the BI Upgrade Assistant Utility and added some report layouts. The following screenshot shows when I select a responsibility ‘Receivables Vision Germany’.

When I change the responsibility to ‘Receivables Vision France’ in the My Account dialog box, now I get a different set of the data.

The above example is based on the RTF template that I have downloaded from the EBS instance, which is one of the out-of-box report layout templates that come with EBS R12, and uploaded to this report. Now, because I’m in BI Publisher Enterprise Server I can use the Layout Editor, which is the pure web browser based report design tool, so I created a similar layout with the Layout Editor. Here is the one.

And, one step further, since I can now use the Interactive capability of BI Publisher Enterprise Server why not create another layout that takes full advantage of that ! And here is the one.

This sample layout actually shows the Role Based Data Security much more obvious. The above example is when I select ‘Receivables Vision Germany’ where you can see the Country list shows ‘DE’ and ‘US’. The below example is when I select ‘Receivables Vision France where you can see the Country list is showing ‘FR’ and other components in the report showing a different set of data compares to the above. 

 

Start BI Publisher Enterprise Server for your EBS data!

With the new EBS Role Based Data Security support this is the best time to start moving your Oracle E-Business Suite reporting to BI Publisher Enterprise Server to take advantage of all the great features that come with the Bi Publisher Enterprise Server. It’s not just that it offers better usability and rich functionality over the embedded version inside the EBS and it allows you to extract data from many other different data sources and combine and aggregate, but also it enables you to deliver the next generation operational reporting that satisfies both pixel perfect customer facing requirements and interactive analytical reporting requirements to gain much greater insights from your operational/transactional data.

Happy Operational Reporting 2.0!

If you have any feedback to share please contact me directly at ‘kanichiro.nishida@oracle.com’. 

Chart with BI Publisher 11g Layout Editor

Chart is one of the best and most effective ways to provide your audience a great insight about the data. Creating charts with BI Publisher 11g Layout Editor has made the chart creation so much easy and simple. Just for that reason, I personally use BI Publisher Layout Editor to visualize my data in spreadsheets. All I need is a standard web browser and a mouse (or touch pad with my macbook pro), after a few drags & drops I have beautiful charts that are automatically linked together and I can start interacting with the charts to gain more insights from the data.

There are many common menus available in the Layout Editor’s ribbon tool bar and much more options available under Property section at the left hand side. Here is a quick video that I put together to show you how to create charts quickly and make them valuable. It covers the following items.

• Bar/Pie Charts
• Multiple Measures/Series
• Legend Position, Legend Label Text and Formatting
• Chart Title

Please let me know if you have any question or something that you want us to cover on the video or blog. Also, please share what are the most common property options that you use for the chart. We’re currently evaluating what property options to move to the ribbon bar to make your chart design even more simple for the next release.

Upgrade Existing BI Publisher 11g to 11.1.1.5

It’s already more than a month now since BI Publisher 11.1.1.5 was released at beginning of May. Have you already tried out many of the great new features? If you are already running on the first version of BI Publisher 11g (11.1.1.3) you might wonder how to upgrade the existing BI Publisher to the 11.1.1.5 version.

There are two ways to do this, one is ‘Out-Place’ and another is ‘In-Place’. The ‘Out-Place’ would be quite simple. Basically you will need to install the whole BI or just BI Publisher standalone R11.1.1.5 at a different location then you can switch the catalog to the existing one so that all the reports will be there in the new 11.1.1.5 environment.

But sometimes things are not that simple, you might have some custom applications or configuration on the original environment and you want to keep all of them with the upgraded environment. For such scenarios, there is the ‘In-Place’ upgrade, which overrides on top of the original environment only the parts relevant for BI and BI Publisher, and that’s what I’m going to talk about today.

Here is the basic steps of the ‘In-Place’ upgrade.

1. Upgrade WebLogic Server to 10.3.5
2. Upgrade BI System to 11.1.1.5
3. Upgrade Database Schema
4. Re-register BI Components
5. Upgrade FMW (Fusion Middleware) Configuration
6. Upgrade BI Catalog

There is a section that talks about this upgrade from 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5 as part of the overall upgrade document. But I hope my blog post summarized it and made it simple for you to cover only what’s necessary.

Upgrade Document: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e16452/bi_plan.htm#BABECJJH

Before You Start

Stop BI System and Backup

I can’t emphasize enough, but before you start PLEASE make sure you take a backup of the existing environments first. You want to stop all WebLogic Servers, Node Manager, OPMN, and OPMN-managed system components that are part of your Oracle BI domains. If you’re on Windows you can do this by simply selecting ‘Stop BI Services’ menu. Then backup the whole system.

Upgrade WebLogic Server to 10.3.5

Download WebLogic Server 10.3.5 Upgrade Installer

With BI 11.1.1.3 installation your WebLogic Server (WLS) is 10.3.3 and you need to upgrade this to 10.3.5 before upgrading the BI part. In order to upgrade you will need this 10.3.5 upgrade version of WLS, which you can download from our support web site (https://support.oracle.com)

You can find the detail information about the installation and the patch numbers for the WLS upgrade installer on this document.

Just for your short cut, if you are running on Windows or Linux (x86) here is the patch number for your platform.

• Windows 32 bit: 12395517:
• Linux: 12395517
  

Upgrade WebLogic Server

1. After unzip the downloaded file, launch wls1035_upgrade_win32.exe if you’re on Windows.

2. Accept all the default values and keep ‘Next’ till end, and start the upgrade.

Once the upgrade process completes you’ll see the following window.

Now let’s move to the BI upgrade.

Upgrade BI Platform to 11.1.1.5 with Software Only Install

Download BI 11.1.1.5

You can download the 11.1.1.5 version from our OTN page for your evaluation or development. For the production use it’s recommended to download from eDelivery.

1. Launch the installer by double click ‘setup.exe’ (for Windows)

2. Select ‘Software Only Install’ option

3. Select your original Oracle Home where you installed BI 11.1.1.3.

4. Click ‘Install’ button to start the installation.

And now the software part of the BI has been upgraded to 11.1.1.5. Now let’s move to the database schema upgrade.

 

Upgrade Database Schema with Patch Assistant

You need to upgrade the BIPLATFORM and MDS Schemas. You can use the Patch Assistant utility to do this, and here is an example assuming you’ve created the schema with ‘DEV’ prefix, otherwise change it with yours accordingly.

Upgrade BIPLATFORM schema (if you created this schema with DEV_ prev) psa.bat -dbConnectString localhost:1521:orcl -dbaUserName sys -schemaUserName DEV_BIPLATFORM Upgrade MDS schema (if you created this schema with DEV_ prev) psa.bat -dbConnectString localhost:1521:orcl -dbaUserName sys -schemaUserName DEV_MDS

 

Re-register BI System components

Now you need to re-register your BI system components such as BI Server, BI Presentation Server, etc to the Fusion Middleware system. You can do this by running ‘upgradenonj2eeapp.bat (or .sh)’ command, which can be found at %ORACLE_HOME%/opmn/bin.

Before you run, you need to start the WLS Server and make sure your WLS environment is not locked. If it’s locked then you need to release the system from the Fusion Middleware console before you run the following command.

 

Here is the syntax for the ‘upgradenonj2eeapp.bat (or .sh) command. 

upgradenonj2eeapp.bat    -oracleInstance Instance_Home_Location    -adminHost WebLogic_Server_Host_Name    -adminPort administration_server_port_number    -adminUsername administration_server_user

And here is an example:

cd %BI_HOME%\opmn\bin upgradenonj2eeapp.bat -oracleInstance C:\biee11\instances\instance1 -adminHost localhost -adminPort 7001 -adminUsername weblogic

 

Upgrade Fusion Middleware Configuration

There are a couple things on the Fusion Middleware need to be upgraded for the BI system to work. Here is a list of the components to upgrade.

• Upgrade Shared Library (JRF)
• Upgrade Fusion Middleware Security (OPSS)
• Upgrade Code Grants
• Upgrade OWSM Policy Repository

Before moving forward, you need to stop the WebLogic Server. Here is an example.

cd %MW_HOME%user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\bin stopWebLogic.cmd

And, let’s start with ‘Upgrade Shared Library (JRF)’.

Upgrade Shared Library (JRF)

You can use updateJRF() WLST command to upgrade the shared libraries in your domain. Before you do this, you need to stop all running instances, Managed Servers, Administration Server, and Node Manager in the domain.

Here is an example of the ‘upgradeJRF()’ command:

cd %MW_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin wlst.cmd upgradeJRF('C:/biee11/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain')

 

Upgrade Fusion Middleware Security (OPSS)

This step is to upgrade the Fusion Middleware security piece. You can use ‘upgradeOpss()’ WLST command. Here is a syntax for the command.

upgradeOpss(jpsConfig="existing_jps_config_file", jaznData="system_jazn_data_file")

The ‘existing jps-config.xml file can be found under %DOMAIN_HOME%/config/fmwconfig/jps-config.xml and the ‘system_jazn_data_file’ can be found under %MW_HOME%/oracle_common/modules/oracle.jps_11.1.1/domain_config/system-jazn-data.xml.

And here is an example:

cd %MW_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin wlst.cmd upgradeOpss(jpsConfig="c:/biee11/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/config/fmwconfig/jps-config.xml", jaznData="c:/biee11/oracle_common/modules/oracle.jps_11.1.1/domain_config/system-jazn-data.xml") exit()

Upgrade Code Grants for Oracle BI Domain

And this is the last step for the Fusion Middleware platform upgrade task. You need to run this python script ‘bi-upgrade.py‘ script to configure the code grants necessary to ensure that SSL works correctly for Oracle BI. However, even if you don’t use SSL, you still need to run this script. And if you have multiple BI domains (Enterprise deployment) then you need to run this on each domain.

Here is an example:

cd %MW_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin wlst c:\biee11\Oracle_BI1\bin\bi-upgrade.py --bioraclehome c:\biee11\Oracle_BI1 --domainhome c:\biee11\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain

 

Upgrade OWSM Policy Repository

This is to upgrade OWSM (Oracle Web Service Manager) policy repository, you can use WLST command ‘upgradeWSMPolicyRepository()’. In order to run this command you need to have your WebLogic Server up-and-running. Here is an example.

cd %MW_HOME%user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\bin stopWebLogic.cmd cd %MW_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin wlst.cmd connect ('weblogic','welcome1','t3://localhost:7001') upgradeWSMPolicyRepository() exit()

Upgrade BI Catalogs

This step is required only when you have your BI Publisher integrated with BIEE. If your BI Publisher is deployed as a standalone then you don’t need to follow this step.

Now finally, you can upgrade the BI catalog. This won’t upgrade your BI Publisher reports themselves, but it just upgrades some attributes information inside the catalog. Before you do this upgrade, make sure the BI system components are not running. You can check the status by the command below.

opmnctl status

You can do the upgrade by updating a configuration file ‘instanceconfig.xml’, which can be found at %BI_HOME%\instances\instance1\config\coreapplication_obips1, and change the value of ‘UpgradeAndExit’ to be ‘true’. Here is an example:

<ps:Catalog xmlns:ps="oracle.bi.presentation.services/config/v1.1"> <ps:UpgradeAndExit>true</ps:UpgradeAndExit> </ps:Catalog>

After you made the change and save the file, you need to start the BI Presentation Server. This time you want to start only the BI Presentation Server instead of starting all the servers. You can use ‘opmnctl’ to do so, and here is an example.

cd %ORACLE_INSTANCE%\bin opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obips1

This would upgrade your BI Catalog to be 11.1.1.5.

After the catalog is updated, you can stop the BI Presentation Server so that you can modify the instanceconfig.xml file again to revert the upgradeAndExit value back to ‘false’.

Start Explore BI Publisher 11.1.1.5

After all the above steps, you can start all the BI Services, access to the same URL, now you have your BI Publisher and/or BI 11.1.1.5 in your hands. Have fun exploring all the new features of R11.1.1.5!