Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 General Release Notes

• 1.1 How to Use These Release Notes
• 1.2 Upgrading to This Release
• 1.3 Installing or Uninstalling Oracle BI in Silent Mode Under UNIX
  • 1.3.1 Creating a Response Text File
  • 1.3.2 Using the Response Text File
  • 1.3.3 Installing or Uninstalling Oracle BI Silently on More Than One Machine
  • 1.3.4 Installing or Uninstalling From a Target Computer
  • 1.3.5 Installing or Uninstalling From a Network-Accessible Computer
• 1.4 General Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.4.1 New Features in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.3
  • 1.4.2 New Features in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.3.1
  • 1.4.3 New Features in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.3.2
  • 1.4.4 New Features in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.3.3
  • 1.4.5 New Features in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.4
  • 1.4.6 New Features for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.4.1
  • 1.4.7 Certification Information
  • 1.4.8 Installation and Upgrade
    • 1.4.8.1 Warning Messages Appear Despite Successful Upgrade
    • 1.4.8.2 Essbase API Reference is Not Added to nqsconfig.ini During Upgrade
    • 1.4.8.3 Microsoft .NET Installation Dialog is Displayed
    • 1.4.8.4 Cosmetic Issues to Ignore During Installation
    • 1.4.8.5 Host Name Errors After Installation on UNIX Platforms
    • 1.4.8.6 Issue Starting Javahost Service on Solaris Platforms
    • 1.4.8.7 Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-In Deployed with all Custom Installations
    • 1.4.8.8 Oracle BI Presentation Services Does Not Start After Windows Installation
    • 1.4.8.9 Error Message About Service Not Starting After Rebooting After Windows Installation
    • 1.4.8.10 Issue Starting Oracle BI Scheduler After Installing paint Repository
    • 1.4.8.11 Oracle 11g Not in the Picker List for Scheduler Configuration DB Type
    • 1.4.8.12 Windows File Reg.exe Must Be Installed On Windows 2000 As A Prerequisite for Oracle BI Installation
    • 1.4.8.13 Install/Uninstall Log Is Encoded With ASCII
    • 1.4.8.14 OC4J Fails To Start After Upgrade From Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.2.1 to Version 10.1.3.3
    • 1.4.8.15 Installer Indicates A Successful Installation Though Installation Fails
    • 1.4.8.16 Installer Requires the OC4J Instance Be Named "Home" and Enabled - Advanced Option
    • 1.4.8.17 Oracle BI Folders Remain After Uninstall on Windows Server 2008
    • 1.4.8.18 Preload 64-Bit Stream Library for HP-UX IA64
    • 1.4.8.19 Japanese Fonts Do Not Display Correctly in Installer and Help Windows on SUSE Linux
    • 1.4.8.20 Asian Languages Do Not Display Correctly With Java 5.0
    • 1.4.8.21 Cannot Perform an Advanced Installation if SSO is Already Configured
    • 1.4.8.22 Automatic Restart of OC4J on Linux or Unix
  • 1.4.9 Browser Limitations
  • 1.4.10 Catalog Manager Enhancements
  • 1.4.11 Documentation Corrections
    • 1.4.11.1 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide
    • 1.4.11.2 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Upgrade Guide
    • 1.4.11.3 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Administration Guide
    • 1.4.11.4 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool Help
    • 1.4.11.5 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guide
    • 1.4.11.6 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers Help
    • 1.4.11.7 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler Guide
    • 1.4.11.8 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide
    • 1.4.11.9 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Administrator's and Developer's Guide
    • 1.4.11.10 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher User's Guide
    • 1.4.11.11 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Help
    • 1.4.11.12 Corrections for Oracle Business Intelligence Disconnected Administration Guide
  • 1.4.12 Authenticating an RSS Feed Using SSO
  • 1.4.13 New Privilege Further Secures XSS Vulnerability
  • 1.4.14 Cannot View PDF in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Over SSL
  • 1.4.15 SQLEXTENDEDFETCH with Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS)
  • 1.4.16 Issues with Discoverer Metadata Migration Utility
  • 1.4.17 Configuring Oracle BI EE Using an EAR File
  • 1.4.18 New Books for Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 10.1.3.4.1

2 Oracle BI EE Release Notes

• 2.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Server
  • 2.1.1 Drag and Drop for XMLA Data Sources
  • 2.1.2 Issues with Full Outer Join and WITH Clause on Oracle Database 10g
  • 2.1.3 Certain Combinations of Ago() Columns with Level-Based Measures Generate Oracle Database Errors
  • 2.1.4 Column Dropped When Using a Report as a Filter for Another Report
  • 2.1.5 INTERVAL Data Type is Imported as LONGVARBINARY
  • 2.1.6 Check Boxes in Consistency Check Window Do Not Reflect the Settings in the Options Tab
  • 2.1.7 Misleading Error Messages During Import
  • 2.1.8 Error Message About Oracle BI Server Not Running
  • 2.1.9 Misleading Error Message for Timed-Out SAP/BW Connection
  • 2.1.10 Potential Oracle BI Server Crash When Editing Repository in Online Mode
  • 2.1.11 TIMESTAMPDIFF Function Causes Incorrect Values for IBM DB2 on OS/390 and AS/400
  • 2.1.12 In HPUX Environment the Oracle BI Server Crashes (or Fails to Start) if ODBC Library Name For Netezza is Incorrect in odbc (odbc.ini) File
• 2.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services
  • 2.2.1 Advanced Search Fields Might Appear Missing in Catalog Manager
  • 2.2.2 Changing the Report Path for a Portlet Might Not Update the New Path Correctly
  • 2.2.3 Device Numbers for iBots Require Standard Strings
  • 2.2.4 Issue Opening Reports with Non-ASCII Names on Windows 2000 Machines
  • 2.2.5 Performance Issues with Multiple Portlets
  • 2.2.6 How to Deploy BI EE Portlets into Webcenter Suite
  • 2.2.7 Bookmark Link Error On Windows with FAT32
  • 2.2.8 Oracle Business Intelligence Catalog Manager Unable to Open Presentation Catalog in Online Mode on Arabic Windows OS
  • 2.2.9 Issue Handling Captions in Presentation Services
  • 2.2.10 Including BI Publisher Reports on a Dashboard
  • 2.2.11 Issue Registering Oracle BI EE on UNIX machines with EPM Workspace
  • 2.2.12 Unable to Navigate from BI Answers to Interactive Dashboards in EPM Workspace
• 2.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
  • 2.3.1 Refreshing Before Downloading in Compound Layout View
  • 2.3.2 Defining an Aggregation Rule for a Set Operation
  • 2.3.3 Error When Defining a Measure
  • 2.3.4 Issue Replacing Columns in Formula Editor
  • 2.3.5 Issue with Report-Based Total Option
  • 2.3.6 Session Times Out When Publishing Oracle BI Content to OracleAS Portal
  • 2.3.7 "Resource Not Found" Error Message When Publishing Oracle BI Publisher Content
  • 2.3.8 Chart Display Errors in MHTML
  • 2.3.9 Documentation Correction for Format Mask
  • 2.3.10 Enhancement to Display of Columns in Tables and Pivot Tables
  • 2.3.11 Support For Bidirectional Language Charts
  • 2.3.12 Layout When Request is Downloaded to PowerPoint is Left-to-Right When the Oracle BI Server Locale is Arabic
  • 2.3.13 Digit Glyph Displayed as Arabic Characters in PowerPoint When Oracle BI Server Locale is Arabic
  • 2.3.14 Users Must Log In to Oracle BI Publisher from Answers
  • 2.3.15 Error in Totals
• 2.4 Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards
  • 2.4.1 Portions of Dashboard Dialogs Obscured By Oracle BI Publisher Reports
  • 2.4.2 Failure To Print a Dashboard Page with a Header or Footer
  • 2.4.3 Internationalization Support Issues in Oracle Briefing Book Reader
  • 2.4.4 Join Catalog Group Link and Quit Link Display Erroneously in My Account Page
  • 2.4.5 Enhancements For Compressing Margins and Wrapping Column Text
• 2.5 Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
  • 2.5.1 iBot Headlines Cannot Contain Backslash Characters
  • 2.5.2 iBot Recipient Gets ODBC Error Message
  • 2.5.3 Issue When Setting Values for iBot Prompts
  • 2.5.4 Issue with Conditional iBots, Unions, and Filters
  • 2.5.5 Issue with Non-Personalized Chained iBots
• 2.6 Oracle Business Intelligence Disconnected Analytics
  • 2.6.1 Path Not Found Error Message on Mozilla Browser
  • 2.6.2 Incremental Preprocessed Synchronization Issues on Linux System
  • 2.6.3 Missing Languages In Oracle BI Disconnected Client
  • 2.6.4 Using Windows Authentication and Single Sign-On with Disconnected Analytics
• 2.7 Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler
  • 2.7.1 Setting Up the Java Scheduler Extensions In a Standalone Installation
  • 2.7.2 Setting Up the Java Scheduler Extensions In a Clustered Installation
• 2.8 Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool
  • 2.8.1 Specifying XML Data Sources
  • 2.8.2 New Connection Scripts Functionality In Connection Pool Object
  • 2.8.3 Unable to Import UTF-8 Table/Column Names Through OCI
  • 2.8.4 Inconsistent Essbase Query Results

3 Oracle BI Publisher Release Notes

• 3.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
  • 3.1.1 JDK 5.0 Bug Affects Oracle BI Publisher Performance
  • 3.1.2 Shuttle Icons Might Appear as Text Strings in HP-UX PA-RISC (32-Bit) Installation
  • 3.1.3 Scroll Bars Appear Clipped
  • 3.1.4 PDF Form Processor Lacks Support for Landscape Template for Repeatable Fields
  • 3.1.5 Flash Report PDF Output May Not Render With Adobe Reader 7.0.x
  • 3.1.6 PDF Encryption is Limited to RC4
  • 3.1.7 Alternate Table Rows Formatting Not Working in HTML, RTF, and Excel Outputs
  • 3.1.8 Date Formats May Display Incorrectly in Microsoft Excel Output
  • 3.1.9 Header and Footer Margin from Edge Not Preserved in RTF Output
  • 3.1.10 Rounding Issue When Adding Decimal Numbers
  • 3.1.11 CUPS Server Does Note Appear as a Delivery Destination in Clustered Environment
  • 3.1.12 Charts May Not Appear in Excel Output
  • 3.1.13 Concatenated Data Sources Do Not Load Properly to the Template Builder
  • 3.1.14 Template Builder Add-in for Microsoft Word Does Not Allow Insertion of a Repeating Group Around an Existing Chart
  • 3.1.15 Template Builder for Microsoft Word Add-in Help Includes Incorrect Description of Font Size Option
  • 3.1.16 Schedules Tab and Buttons Disabled Until the Oracle BI Scheduler is Properly Configured
  • 3.1.17 Scheduler Database Type May Reset to Different Version
  • 3.1.18 Images Do Not Generate Correctly Without X Server
  • 3.1.19 Reports with Multibyte Character File Names Do Not Download Properly
  • 3.1.20 Multibyte Character File Names Not Supported at Runtime
  • 3.1.21 Column-Level Time Zone Formatting in Oracle BI Answers Not Supported in Oracle BI Publisher
  • 3.1.22 Enabling SSL Is Recommended for Web Service Communication
  • 3.1.23 Using a SSL-Enabled Web Services as a Data Source
  • 3.1.24 When Using SSO, Updates to mod_osso.conf File Required for Communication Between Oracle BI Publisher and Client Components
  • 3.1.25 Oracle BI Publisher Web Client Might Enter Stale State
  • 3.1.26 When Working in Multiple Languages, Client OS Regional Settings Must Match the Target Language
  • 3.1.27 Proxy Configuration Might Be Required for Accessing Data Sources Over the Internet
  • 3.1.28 Internal Server Error 500 and 501 When Using Discoverer Worksheet as a Data Source
  • 3.1.29 Oracle BI Publisher Updates Not Documented in the Oracle Business Intelligence New Features Guide
  • 3.1.30 Oracle BI Publisher Report Editor Panel Fails to Display Correctly When Using Internet Explorer 6.0 in SSO-Enabled Environments
  • 3.1.31 The Oracle BI Publisher Analyzer for Excel Cannot Be Installed After the BI Office Add-in
  • 3.1.32 The Oracle BI Publisher Analyzer for Excel Fails to Install to Client from Sun Java System Web Server Deployments
  • 3.1.33 Issue With Multibyte Character User Names and LDAP Server
  • 3.1.34 Analyzer Templates with Multibyte Character Names Cause Error When Autorun in View Mode
  • 3.1.35 Template Builder Throws "Microsoft Visual Basic, Compile Error in Hidden Module Module-Starter" Error After Windows Security Update
  • 3.1.36 Admin Tab Might Not Display When Oracle BI Publisher is Integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite
  • 3.1.37 Fixes for Section 508 Accessibility Standards
  • 3.1.38 Extended ASCII Characters Are Not Correctly Created in XML Data
  • 3.1.39 Processing Indicator Not Displaying
  • 3.1.40 Function <?xdofx:chr(n)?> Fails
  • 3.1.41 Burst PDF Reports Fail to Print
  • 3.1.42 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 Not Supported with PDF Mapping
  • 3.1.43 Privileges Not Being Inherited Properly Throughout LDAP Group Hierarchy
  • 3.1.44 When the Guest Folder Name is Changed, Users Are Prompted to Login
  • 3.1.45 Report Editing Panel Fails to Display When SSO is Enabled with Internet Explorer 6.0
  • 3.1.46 Current_Server_URL Does Not Return a Value
  • 3.1.47 Presentation Catalog List Does Not Display in Oracle BI Publisher When OC4J is Started in Arabic Locale
  • 3.1.48 Reports Using Data Template Fail with Data not Defined
  • 3.1.49 The Oracle BI Publisher Query Builder "Check All" Feature Selects Only the First Twenty Columns
  • 3.1.50 Selecting "Default Data Source" When Creating an List of Values May Cause an Error
  • 3.1.51 Deleted User Folder Must Be Manually Deleted From the Repository
  • 3.1.52 Multibyte Characters Not Displayed Correctly in Report History for Discoverer-Based Reports
  • 3.1.53 Unable to Access PublicReportServices Web Service WSDL
  • 3.1.54 Changes to Oracle BI Publisher Web Services ScheduleRequest Complex Types
  • 3.1.55 Change to validateLogin Operation
  • 3.1.56 Changes to the ParamNameValue Complex Type
  • 3.1.57 500 Internal Server Error Appears After Choosing Link to Document Only
  • 3.1.58 Installer Creates Configuration Files Without Fully Qualified Host Names
  • 3.1.59 User Is Prompted to Log In When Following the Dashboard Link in Oracle BI Publisher
  • 3.1.60 Reports Named With Multibyte Characters May Cause Error When Downloading to Excel Analyzer
  • 3.1.61 Support for New Output Types
  • 3.1.62 Document Cache Feature Added
  • 3.1.63 Business Intelligence Server Security in Business Intelligence Publisher Expects Administrator Password in RPD
  • 3.1.64 Integration with Smart Space, Fusion Edition (11.1.1) Requires Update to JVM Parameter
  • 3.1.65 MHTML Output Format Not Supported on Mac OS X Client
  • 3.1.66 "Croatian" is not Properly Translated in the Locale Selection List
  • 3.1.67 Parameter Values for Bursting to a Printer Incorrectly Documented
  • 3.1.68 Error When Navigating to BI Publisher from BI Enterprise Edition Menu in Fusion Intelligence
  • 3.1.69 Correct Syntax for Division Function
  • 3.1.70 Procedure for Scheduling a Report Incorrectly States the "Run Monthly" Option Supports Multiple Days of the Month
  • 3.1.71 Date and Time Formatting for Certain Locales May Differ Between BI Publisher and Oracle RDBMS
  • 3.1.72 Validation of Data Type Added for Parameters Defined in the Data Template
  • 3.1.73 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Not a Choice in the Add Data Source Page
  • 3.1.74 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Not a Choice in the Scheduler Configuration Page
  • 3.1.75 Netezza 4.5 Not a Choice in the Add Data Source Page
  • 3.1.76 File Required for BI Publisher Single Sign-On Configuration Not Installed
  • 3.1.77 For BI Publisher Integration with Oracle BI Server Security, the Sample Connection String for an SSL-Enabled Oracle BI Server Instance Is Incorrect
  • 3.1.78 Trusted User Name Created in Discoverer for BI Publisher Integration Must Contain Only ASCII Characters
  • 3.1.79 BI Publisher References Discoverer Worksheets by Name
  • 3.1.80 BI Publisher Report Parameters Support Text Box or List of Values
  • 3.1.81 Superuser Privileges Are Limited to Functions on Admin Page
  • 3.1.82 End on Even or End on Odd Page Feature Only Supported for PDF Output
  • 3.1.83 Analyzer for Excel Cannot Process Very Large Data Files in Native Mode

4 Oracle BI Office Release Notes

• 4.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Add-in for Microsoft Office
  • 4.1.1 Office Client Unable to Start if OC4J Started With Proxy Parameters
  • 4.1.2 Issue Logging into BI Office with NTLM Enabled in an SSO Environment
  • 4.1.3 The Oracle BI Option Disappears From the Excel Menu
  • 4.1.4 Changing a Region to a Range In MS Excel
  • 4.1.5 Cancel Option Does Not Work With Test Connection
  • 4.1.6 Empty Chart Inserted When No Data Returned
  • 4.1.7 Using the Customize Option to Remove the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Toolbar
  • 4.1.8 New Connections Not Saved When Editing Concurrently in Excel and PowerPoint
  • 4.1.9 Changing Pivot View Layout in Oracle BI Answers Might Require Refresh of Catalog and Reinsertion of View to Excel
  • 4.1.10 Dimension Level Numeric Data Treated as Measures
  • 4.1.11 Data Using Non-Default Aggregation Incorrect in Excel
  • 4.1.12 Refresh After Clicking Secure Oracle BI Data Will Change Page Filter Value
  • 4.1.13 Presentation Catalog Collapses Folder List Under Full Screen Mode in Excel
  • 4.1.14 Flash ActiveX Control Required For Inserting Images As Flash in PowerPoint
  • 4.1.15 Installing Oracle BI Add-In on Vista
  • 4.1.16 Using Oracle BI Publisher Analyzer for Excel if BI Office is Also Installed
  • 4.1.17 Inappropriate Error Message When Accessing an Unsupported Report
  • 4.1.18 Limitation on the Number of Rows in MS Excel 2007
  • 4.1.19 Lack of Privileges Causes Inappropriate Error Message When Accessing a Folder
  • 4.1.20 Chart Inserted in MS PowerPoint 2003 Cannot be Refreshed in MS PowerPoint 2007
  • 4.1.21 Oracle BI Add-in for MS Office Does Not Fully Support Localization
  • 4.1.22 Chart Insertion Does Not Work If C:\Temp Folder Is Not Write-Enabled
  • 4.1.23 Installation Fails If Windows Script 5.6 Is Not Installed On The Client Machine
  • 4.1.24 .Net 2.0 Framework No Longer Ships With BI Office Add-In
  • 4.1.25 Users Can Insert Tables in PowerPoint Larger Than 15x25 Rows/Columns
  • 4.1.26 Text Orientation Does Not Change in Right-to-Left Languages
  • 4.1.27 Date and Number Values Incorrectly Display When Using Oracle Business Intelligence Add-in for Microsoft Office in Languages that Have a Right-to-Left Orientation
  • 4.1.28 Dialog Box Text Appears Incorrectly for Right-to-Left Languages
  • 4.1.29 Presentation Catalog List Is Not Displayed When Oracle BI Server Locale is Arabic
  • 4.1.30 Line-Bar Chart is Inserted Incorrectly
  • 4.1.31 Untranslated Pages, Screens, and Menus for Oracle Business Intelligence Add-in for Microsoft Office
  • 4.1.32 Security String is Incorrect in Excel Sheets
  • 4.1.33 Pasted Static Text View Can Appear With View Name "HTML View"
  • 4.1.34 Corrections for BI Office Add-in Help
  • 4.1.35 JVM Configuration Changes to Support Smartspace Cause BI Office to Fail