In this quick document i am focusing a smaller piece of a bigger topic: How to troubleshoot intermittent issues in BI Platform where sharing some experiences from first steps of troubleshooting intermittently appearing issues on such BI platform 4.x where having more than one processing servers or nodes configured.

To isolate the report perform the following steps:

In Bi 4.x there are several Crystal Report servers available, separated by Crystal application type: Crystal Reports 20xx and Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Crystal Reports 2011/2013/2016

• CrystalReports20xxProcessingServer: this handles the requests (on-demand) for processing of reports that have been written in any version of Crystal Reports (not CR Enterprise)
• CrystalReports20xxReportApplicationServer: used for processing of the data for dynamic parameters in reports written in any version of Crystal. Also can be used through one of the SDK's for custom Crystal processing in other applications. (not CR Enterprise)
• CrystalReportsCacheServer: used for report page rendering and caching for all types of Crystal reports.

Crystal Repors for Enterprise

• CrystalReportsCacheServer: used for report page rendering and caching for all types of Crystal reports.
• CrystalReportsProcessingServer: Handles the on-demand processing of reports that have been written in Crystal for Enterprise only

To isolate the report, do the following steps:

1. Launch the CMC and go to Servers
2. Click Manage -> New -> Create Server Group
3. Type a name for the group as "Isolation Group"
4. Go to the Service Categories -> Crystal Reports Services
5. Select the following servers
   Crystal Reports 20xx
   Crystal Reports for Enterprise
   • CrystalReports20xxProcessingServer
   • CrystalReports20xxReportApplicationServer
   • CrystalReportsCacheServer
   • CrystalReportsProcessingServer
   • CrystalReportsCacheServer
     
     
     
     
6. Right click-> Select Add to Server Group and select "Isolation Group" and complete the workflow
7. In CMC go to Folders and locate and select the report file needs to be isolated in the environment
8. In Properties click Default Settings-> Viewing server group
   
   
   
   
9. In section Default servers to use for processing: select option Only use servers in the selected group and select "Isolation Group" from the list of groups
10. In section Default servers to use for caching: select option Only use servers in the selected group and select "Isolation Group" from the list of groups

NOTE: If the servers in the Server group are either not enabled or not running, the report will be not processed.

In this quick document i am focusing a smaller piece of a bigger topic: How to troubleshoot intermittent issues in BI Platform where sharing some experiences from first steps of troubleshooting intermittently appearing issues on such BI platform 4.x where having more than one processing servers or nodes configured.

To isolate the report perform the following steps:

1. Launch the CMC and go to Servers
2. Click Manage -> New -> Create Server Group
3. Type a name for the group as "Isolation Group"
4. Go to the Service Categories -> Dasboard Services
5. Select the the DashboardProcessingServer and DashboardCacheserver you would like to isolate
6. Right click-> Select Add to Server Group and select "Isolation Group" and complete the workflow
   
   
   
   
7. In CMC go to Folders and locate and select the report file needs to be isolated in the environment
8. In Properties click on Server Properties
   
   
   
   
9. In section Default server to use for Dashboard Data Processing select option Only use servers in the selected group and select "Isolation Group" from the list of group
10. In section Default server to use for Dashboard Data Caching select option Only use servers in the selected group and select "Isolation Group" from the list of group

NOTE: If the servers in the Server group are either not enabled or not running, the report will be not processed. You can also include more servers into the group such as Central Management Server into the "Isolation Group" if required.

Hi,

What is Lcm_cli.bat ?

It is Command line interface for running the  Promotion Management when you wanted to migrate the content more than 1000+ objects between SAP Business Intelligence BI 4.x environment.

When using GUI method i.e. Promotion Management it is not possible to promote/create a lcmbiar file with more than 1000+ objects.

Note : Promotion Management has 200+ objects limit in GUI Mode and its not a hard limit. Simple objects can be had in 1000's. It's not objects that are limitation - its the time the script takes to populate list and calculate dependencies. If it can be done in 20 minutes or less GUI can handle it, otherwise we run up against web session timeouts and ultimately it will give some error and i.e. we use LCM_CLI.bat tool as the alternate method

• The promotion management command line tool takes a properties file as a parameter. The properties file contains the required parameters to communicate the promotion management tool about the actions to perform, system(s) to connection to, connection methods, objects to promote, and so on.
• The file must be in the form of <File Name>.properties
• Please refer to the Administrators guide for a complete list of parameters to use with Lcm_cli.bat

Files Included :

1. 3 Job Properties Files for Users and User's Groups, Dependent Objects, Primary Objects (Job1_userandgroups.properties , Job2_dependencies.properties, Job3_primaryobjects.properties)

Pre-requisites:

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0\4.1 should be installed on the machine and promotion should be done between Same version or From Lower to Higher ( Example. Source (BI 4.0 SP9) to Destination (BI 4.1 SP6) etc.

Note : Use LCM of Higher Version only when promoting the objects from lower version to higher version.

• Ensure to Run the command prompt as “Run as Administrator”
• For Better Results ensure you make the changes for Resources using KBA - "1969259 - LCM CLI Master Note - How to promote thousands of objects across BI4 environments" For More queries and Sample queries.
• If you are using third party authentication then ensure you follow the above article and make the necessary changes.
  
• Changes need to be done in .properties files for Source and Destination.

Steps to Prepare the Files and Execute them:

• Download the 3 properties files from the link : [DOWNLOAD : LCM_CLI Properties File]
• Place these files on the server in any directory and ensure the path is small (Example : D:\content , C:\lcmpromote etc )

• Edit all the .properties files and make the changes according to your environment like : CMS Name , Password , Source and Destination etc.

• Open Command Prompt as Administrator and Navigate to the Location of lcm_cli.bat file.

• Execute the lcm_cli and give the properties files as the parameters. [ lcm_cli.bat -lcmproperty "<pathofpropertiesfile>" ]

• Do the same for all the properties files and ensure the jobs are completed successfully. These Job's will be visible in the CMC >> Promotion Management of the Server which is mentioned in "LCM_CMS" in properties file.

• Once the promotion is done you can verify the content and also if there would be any error you can navigate to Promotion Management and check the Jobs . Jobs Will be created like "Query_Administrator_Day_Date_Time".

Regards,

Mahak Rathore

Below is the Question & Answer from last week's ASUG BI Platform SIG webcast regarding migration/upgrade to BI4.2

Question                                                                                              Answer

Source: SAP

Best practices for migration was provided by SAP as shown above.

Join us this week for another BI4.2 ASUG webcast  - Improvements in Managing the BI Platform - register here

Related links:

Upgrade microsite: www.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com now SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions | The tools you need for high-performing implementations

BI Innovation Value Calculator: www.sap.com/BIcalculator

BI Upgrade Value Calculator : www.sap.com/BIupgradecalc

Web Intelligence calculation engine changes:  BI 4 How To: Identifying Necessary Changes for Web Intelligence Upgrade

BI Platform Features by version matrix:  BI Platform Feature by Version Matrix

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Making BOE SOAP WebServices work on JBoss application server requires a few steps.

Step 1:

Once BOE is installed, locate the "wdeploy\rsa_module" directory.

Copy all files from the following WDeploy RSA module directory:

Path : “<BOE_INSTALL_DIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\rsa_module”

(Below images are just a reference install on Windows.)

Step 2:

On installed JBoss application server,

Create a “com\rsa\main” directory under  this “modules” directory.

Path : “<JBOSS_INSTALL_DIR>\modules\"

Place all files copied in step#1 above.

Path: “<JBOSS_INSTALL_DIR>\modules\com\rsa\main”

Step 3:

Move the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file from:

Path:  “<JBOSS_INSTALL_DIR>\modules\com\rsa\main”

And place the file in the following dswsbobje source file directory:

Path: “<BOE_INSTALL_DIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\dswsbobje\WEB-INF”

Step 4:

Remove the listed RSA JAR files from the dswsbobje war:

1. certjFIPS.jar,

2. cryptojFIPS.jar

3. ssljFIPS.jar

Path: “<BOE_INSTALL_DIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\ dswsbobje \WEB-INF\lib”

Step 5:

Predeploy the modified dswsbobje web application using the Wdeploy tool.

Path: “<BOE_INSTALL_DIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy

Command:  “wdeploy jboss6 predeploy -DAPP= dswsbobje”

Step 6:

A dswsbobje.war file will be generated in following directory.

path: “<BOE_INSTALL_DIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy/workdir/jboss6/application”

Step 7:

Deploy on JBoss.

Place “dswsbobje.war” file copied in step#6 above.

Path:   “<JBOSS_INSTALL_DIR>\standalone\deployments”

Step 8:

Restart the JBoss application server.

Step 9:

Verify deployment

Check list of BOE services available:  http://<server>:<port>/dswsbobje/services

Note:

Follow the same steps for AdminTools application.

Provisioning a Amazon Web Services instance for SAP BusinessObject BI4.x

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS

You can provision an Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance by selecting a system meeting your sizing requirements as defined in an earlier steps. If you have not yet defined a sizing for your SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x deployment on AWS, please start reading the sizing guidelines available on : Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system for AWS Deployments

Prerequisites:

• An Amazon Web Services account
  Note: When you create an account, you are automatically signed up for all AWS services. However, you will only be charged for the services you use.
• Go through the SAP BusinessObjects What's New Collection to gain insight in what your best version is.
• Understanding the support of deploying an SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system on AWS as documented in http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1656250
• A sizing estimate as defined in Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system for AWS Deployments
  
• Recommended : Setup your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connector. The VPC is recommended by Amazon, setting up a VPC is described in the document from SAP HANA ONE (AWS VPC setup) however the steps are equal for any SAP deployment.

Provisioning an AWS Instance

1. Create your VPC (AWS VPC setup) or reuse one you already have in place
2. Ensure you selected the correct region to where you want to deploy your image
   
3. Within the homescreen of AWS, select EC2 for the creation of a new instance
   
   
4. Select "Launch Instance" to startup a new instance
   
5. Select the operating system of your choice which is supported by the SAP BusinessObjects BI version of your choice. To validate supported Operated Systems, please check the Product Availability Report via : https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/pam
   
   For the example, a Windows 2012 R2 Base system will be deployed
   
   
6. Select the required instance size. the instance size is key for running a well performing BI4.x deployment and is recommended to be memory optimized. For understanding the translation of Instance Types, please ensure you have executed a correct sizing and translation of ECU into SAPS as described in Sizing you SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 system for AWS Deployments
   
   For this example I'll deploy the BI4.x system against the memory optimized r3.2xlarge model.
7. Select "Next: Configure Instance Details" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") as we have a few more configurations to take care of during initialization
   
   Within the Configure Instance Details ensure you select the following items correclty
   - Network : Select the VPC as created for step 1
   - Subnet : if you have instances within AWS, ensure you select the same subnet if you want to connect into these AWS instances as well
   - Auto-Assign Public IP : Recommendation is to disable the auto-assign mode as it is recommended to work with a Elastic IP (default auto assigned IP's can changed after restarting your Instance).. We will later assign a Elastic IP to the system
   - Shutdown Behavior : Leave this to Stop, unless you want to have the instance terminated at shutdown (all data will be lost)
   - Optional : Enable Termination Protection
   - Optional : Enable Monitoring (note: additional costs are involved)
   - Optional : Enable EBS-optimized instance (note: additional costs are involved)
   - Optional : Select you instance to be Dedicated (note: additional costs are involved)
   - Optional : Enable the request for Spot Instances
   
   
   
   
8. Select "Next: Add Storage" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") as we have a few more configurations to take care of during initialization
   
   By default a new image is create with a 30Gb Disk. To ensure enough diskspace is available for the deployment of SAP BusinessObjects, we need to add additional capacity.
   
   In the example setup, we'll create / enhance the following disks:
   - Increase capacity in the default disk to 80Gb
   - Add new disk with a capacity of 128Gb (for installing SAP BusinessObjects and future updates)
   - Add new disk with a capacity of 64 Gb (for storing the Windows Page File)
   Note : adding disk capacity influences the costs of your AWS Instance
   
9. Select "Next: Tag Instance" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") as we have a few more configurations to take care of during initialization
   
   In this example setup, We'll not going to add Tags. for details on how to use tags, please read : Tagging Your Amazon EC2 Resources - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
   
10. Select "Next: Configure Security Group" as the next step (not "Review and Launch") to enter the final detail for your initial Instance Creation
    
    Security Groups will configure the firewall settings for your Instance. for details on Security Groups, please read : Amazon EC2 Security Groups for Linux Instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. To enable access into the BI Launchpad and Central Management Console of the BI Platform, we have to enable access to the port for the Web Application Server. For enabling communication by the BI Platform into other server hosted within AWS we potentially need to configure the ports for BIP communications.
    
    In this example setup, we create a new security group "BI42" and enable the port 8080 (as we will use the default Tomcat) as well as a port range (6400-6599) for future inter-AWS communication.
    
    Enabling port 8080 or 3389 (RDP) for "Anywhere" is not recommended, but for the sake of the example deployment currently used. Typically you want to have your organizations External or Internal IP ranges being enable for these ports, which can be set via "Custom IP"
    
    The BIP Port Range is being assigned to the IP Range as used by the VPC as being defined in step 1
    
    
11. We are now ready with the initial setup of the Instance and van hit the "Review and Launch" button. This will provide us the overview of settings applied during the previous steps. Review your settings and when OK, "Launch" your image to become created.
    
    
12. During the launch, you will be requested to select an existing key pair of create a new one. The Key Pair is required to connect into your system. for details around the AWS Key Pair, please read : Amazon EC2 Key Pairs - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
    
    In this example setup, we'll create a new Key Pair "BI42@AWS" and download the file to the local machine for later use.
    
    
    
13. After creating / reusing a Key Pair, You'll be able to launch you instance.
    You are informed about the Launch Status and by selecting View Instance, you will be directed to the EC2 Instances listing to validate the progress
    
14. Check if the instance is initializing
    
    
    
    
15. Once Initialized, a public IP has to be assigned to enable the remote access.
    As we selected not to assign a public IP, the instance cannot yet be reached from outside AWS.
    
    
    for deploying the instance against a Public IP and connecting with remote desktop (windows OS), please continue with step 3 in the process available via : Connecting to an AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x
    
    

Back to the Main Page for Deploying BI4.x against Amazon Web Services

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x is being certified and supported for deployments an Amazon Web Services (AWS), via this document we provide you with all the steps to deploy SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on a Amazon Web Services hosted system.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is currently available in various geographic locations:

• US
  • East (North Virginia)
  • West (Oregon)
  • West (N. California)
• EU
  • Ireland
  • Frankfurt - Germany)
• Asia Pacific
  • Singapore
  • Tokyo
  • Sydney
• South America
  • São Paulo

for the latest list of locations, please check Global Infrastructure

It is strongly recommended to select a AWS location nearby your (organizations) datacenter / datasource to reduce a potential performance impact due to network latency.

Before deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.4, please read the SAP Note around SAP Application on AWS: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1656099

		STEP 1: Sizing Sizing requirements Sizing for AWS Sizing Recourses
		STEP 2 : Provisioning Log into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account Select Instance Type Create EC2 Instance Launch and Configure Instance
		STEP 3 : Connect and Roll-Out Assign an Elastic IP Address Connect to Instance
		STEP 4: Deployment and configuration of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x Download SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Installer Run Installer Configure SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Connect SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Client Tools
		STEP 5: Connect to SAP HANA One (AWS) Create SAP HANA One Instance Create SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Connection to SAP HANA One (to be added)

Webinars covering all things important for BI projects. Register for upcoming sessions or watch recordings of past events.

Technical Webinar Series: SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x

Once again will we provide a series of free webinars that are focused on upgrading to the SAP BI Platform 4.1. This webinar series is a supplement to other information assets found on SCN.

Webinar title, date, registration and presenter information is given below - all webinars will start at 7am PDT, unless otherwise specified. Webinar dates and times may be subject to change.

• Registration links: will be enabled a few days before the scheduled webinar date.
• Recordings: will be posted no later than a week after the event.

If you 'follow' this page, you will receive notifications of any updates, including new webinar content, dates and registration links - also recordings of all completed webinars will be made available from this page. Stay Tuned !

Upcoming Webinars - Registrations		Date	Presenter
	SAP BI Platform Support Tool 2.0 - Improved administration and Supportability	Jan 19	TJ
	Data Federation Admin Tool – Tuning Execution of Multi-Source Universes	Feb 16	SP
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Recordings of Past Webinars		Date	Presenter
	Gain insight into your BI Platform with a new Auditing Universe and Reports (recording)	Dec 08	MS
	SAP Analytics - Integration of SAP BI Platform with SAP Design Studio (recording)	Nov 24	HJ
	What's new in SAP BI 4.2 (recording | pdf)	Oct 27	ME
	UNX Adoption - Planning & Execution (by APOS Systems) (recording | pdf)	Sep 29	FW,HJ
	Creating Relational Connections for SAP BI 4.1 for Reporting on SAP BW (recording)	Aug 04	JR
	User Authentication and Single Sign-On with BI 4.1 (recording)	Jul 21	GDL
	Sizing your BI Platform, using the SAP Sizing Tool (recording)	Jul 07	HJ
	What's new in BI 4.1 SP6 (recording | presentation)	Jun 23	ME
	Best Practices for WebI (recording)	Jun 23	JB
	A guided Tour: How to best make use of Online Resources (recording)	May 18	HB
	BI 4.1 Monitoring - (Recording)	Nov 13	TJ
	Troubleshooting - (Recording)	Nov 06	GS
	Promotion Management & Version Management - (Recording)	Oct 23	MS
	WebI Calculation Engine Changes - (Recording)	Oct 16	PG
	DeskI to WebI Conversion & Desktop Compatibility Pack - (Recording)	Oct 09	ME
	Upgrading from XI Release 2/3.1 to 4.1 and updating From BI 4.0 to 4.1 - (Recording)	Sep 25	ME
	User Authentication & Single Sign-On - (Recording)	Sep 11	TZ
	BusinessObjects BI Strategy & Roadmap - (Recording)	Sep 09	JL
	Installation & Patching - (Recording)	Sep 04	HJ
	Deployment Best Practices - (Recording)	Aug 29	HJ
	Sizing & Virtualization - (Recording)	Aug 14	CL
	Update Best Practices - (Recording)	Jul 30	SR
	Value Prop & Tools - (Recording)	Jul 17	HB

Objective: Create Tab Menu for reports instead of providing reports in Folders.

Introduction: BI Workspace is customizable interface which allow multiple documents like Dashboard, Webi reports and other documents together into a single viewand the same can be deliver to specific groups or users. We can make own Menu tabs for report and create multiple workspaces for specific group of users like sales users, management users etc as per business requirement.

Create BI Workspace:

Step 1: Login into BI launch pad with administrator rights, click on Application and then BI Workspace.

Step 2: Now add new tab and set the column and put the name as per requirement. (We can add multiple tab or sub tabs) 

Note: in this scenario, two tabs ‘Sales Reports’ and ‘Inventory Reports’ are added, In Sales Reports tab further two sub tabs are added as ‘BO Report-1’ and ‘BO Report-2’

Step 3: Now Navigate to public module in Module Library (Left side)

Step 4: Open the folder in which Dashboard and Webi reports are saved and then drag and drop on the workspace background.

Step 5: Save the BI Workspace in public folder.

Step 6: Change BI Launch pad preferences for specific users or group as per requirement.

Hope this Document helps to create Menu base tabs in SAP BI Launch pad. Suggestion and comments are welcome which help to improve this Documents.

Thanks,

Kashif Ali Khan

This API  will retrieve Metadata from a crystal report. The response will include following information:

• Database connection, tables, aliases, joins, fields used in the document and all its associated properties. It should list fields from CrossTabs as well (see Response format)
• Parameters of the report
• Formula fields of the report
• Parameter fields of the report
• Special fields of the report
• Filters and all expressions, calculations involved in the report
• It will contain similar information for sub reports as well

The URI is:  http://<baseURI>/infostore/<reportID>/rpt/structure
Make a GET request to retrieve the report summary information.
Request:
Method: GET
URI: http://<baseURI>/infostore/<reportID>/rpt/structure
Request header attributes: X-SAP-LogonToken
Request body: none

Note: Pre-Requisite for retrieving metadata is toLogon to RestService with below URL and set the header with X-SAP-LogonToken

http://BOEServerIP:6405/biprws/logon/long

Response:
The response contains report summary as shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns17:reportstructurexmlns:ns2="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/connection" xmlns:ns3="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/dbfield" xmlns:ns4="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/table" xmlns:ns5="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/datasource"xmlns:ns6="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/fieldlink" xmlns:ns7="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/join" xmlns:ns8="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/datasources" xmlns:ns9="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/usedfield" xmlns:ns10="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/parameter"xmlns:ns11="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/parametergroup" xmlns:ns12="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/parameters" xmlns:ns13="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/formula" xmlns:ns14="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/groupcondition"xmlns:ns15="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/summaryfield" xmlns:ns16="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/runningtotalfield" xmlns:ns17="http://www.sap.com/rws/cr/reportstructure">
<datasources>
<datasource>
<datasourcename>10.160.192.101 - Oracle12c_JDBC_Connection_5</datasourcename>
<connection>
<cuid>AUy28zmbGthPtalH6n3Gshg</cuid>
<kind>SQL</kind>
<networklayer>JDBC</networklayer>
<database>Oracle 12</database>
</connection>
<tables>
<table>
<name>CUSTOMER</name>
<tablekind>SQL_Table</tablekind>
<dbfields>
<dbfield>
<name>CUST_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>CUST_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.CUST_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>FIRST_NAME</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>FIRST_NAME</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.FIRST_NAME</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>LAST_NAME</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>LAST_NAME</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.LAST_NAME</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>AGE</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>AGE</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.AGE</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>PHONE_NUMBER</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>PHONE_NUMBER</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.PHONE_NUMBER</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>ADDRESS</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>ADDRESS</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.ADDRESS</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>CITY_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.CITY_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>SALES_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>SALES_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.SALES_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>SPONSOR_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>SPONSOR_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CUSTOMER.SPONSOR_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
</dbfields>
</table>
<table>
<name>CITY</name>
<tablekind>SQL_Table</tablekind>
<dbfields>
<dbfield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>CITY_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CITY.CITY_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>CITY</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>string</datatype>
<technicalname>CITY</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CITY.CITY</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
<dbfield>
<name>REGION_ID</name>
<kind>SQL_Field</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
<technicalname>REGION_ID</technicalname>
<qualifiedname>CITY.REGION_ID</qualifiedname>
</dbfield>
</dbfields>
</table>
</tables>
</datasource>
<joins>
<join>
<sourcetable>CUSTOMER</sourcetable>
<kind>FullOuter</kind>
<targettable>CITY</targettable>
<fieldlinks>
<fieldlink>
<fromfield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>DatabaseField</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
</fromfield>
<fieldlinkOperator>NotEqual</fieldlinkOperator>
<tofield>
<name>CITY_ID</name>
<kind>DatabaseField</kind>
<datatype>decimal</datatype>
</tofield>
</fieldlink>
</fieldlinks>
</join>
</joins>
</datasources>
<usedfields>
<usedfield fieldtype="DatabaseField" uniqueid="{CITY.CITY}" name="CITY"/>
<usedfield fieldtype="DatabaseField" uniqueid="{CUSTOMER.FIRST_NAME}" name="FIRST_NAME"/>
<usedfield fieldtype="DatabaseField" uniqueid="{CUSTOMER.LAST_NAME}" name="LAST_NAME"/>
</usedfields>
</ns17:reportstructure>

This page provides an overview of the available What's New Materials for the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x Suite

SAP Lumira

• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.16 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.17 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.18 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.19 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.19: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.20 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.20: What’s new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.21 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.21: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.22 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.22: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.23 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.23: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.25 (summary)
• SAP Lumira 1.25: What's new in SAP Lumira
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.27 (summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.28 (Summary)
• What's New in SAP Lumira 1.29 (Summary)

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L0

• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L1
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 What's New L2

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Slides

• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L1 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What's New L2 | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP3 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP4 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP05 What's New | SCN
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 SP06 What's New | SCN

Client Specific Content

• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP - Part 1
• BI4.1 What is New in BusinessObjects Analysis OLAP Part 2
• Web Intelligence 4.1, what's new?
• BI 4.1 Ramp-Up Knowledge Transfer Live Expert Session Schedule
• SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Explorer New Features - More Details
• What is new with SAP Integration BI4.1 and SAP ERP?
• What is new with SAP Integration BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW? Part 2
• What is New with SAP Integration with BusinessObjects BI4.1 and BW - Part 3
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 1, Developer Support ASUG Webcast
• What is new with Web Intelligence BI 4.1 – Part 2, Core Capabilities
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 3 - Data Source Enhancements
• What is New with Web Intelligence BI4.1 - Part 4 with Question & Answer

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 What's New Recorded Presentations

• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 (L1) video
• SAP BI4.1 SP4 & 5 technology update | myBrainshark
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP5 (1:40)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP4 (1:10)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP3 (1:37)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2 (3:02)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.1 (5:27)interactive / video

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Slides

Client Specific Content

• BI 4.0 New Features and Changes - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 What's New Recorded Presentations

• Concept - What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 - YouTube
• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3: Web Intelligence 4.0 FP3 - YouTube
• Concept: What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5: Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 - YouTube
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5 (2:04)interactive / video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 (4:20)interactive/ video
• What's new in Web Intelligence 4.0 (6:25)interactive /video

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

• SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6 What's New L0
• SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6 What's New L1
• SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6 What's New L2

SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

• What's New in SAP Crystal Solutions 2013

• Match specific parts of your dataset with precise locations around the world via a geographical database embedded in Web Intelligence.
• Via the graphic engine integrated into Web Intelligence, you can look for specific locations that you can link to the values of selected dimension objects
• Visualize your data on a map.

Hi,

What is Lcm_cli.bat ?

It is Command line interface for running the  Promotion Management when you wanted to migrate the content more than 1000+ objects between SAP Business Intelligence BI 4.x environment.

When using GUI method i.e. Promotion Management it is not possible to promote/create a lcmbiar file with more than 1000+ objects.

Note : Promotion Management has 200+ objects limit in GUI Mode and its not a hard limit. Simple objects can be had in 1000's. It's not objects that are limitation - its the time the script takes to populate list and calculate dependencies. If it can be done in 20 minutes or less GUI can handle it, otherwise we run up against web session timeouts and ultimately it will give some error and i.e. we use LCM_CLI.bat tool as the alternate method

• The promotion management command line tool takes a properties file as a parameter. The properties file contains the required parameters to communicate the promotion management tool about the actions to perform, system(s) to connection to, connection methods, objects to promote, and so on.
• The file must be in the form of <File Name>.properties
• Please refer to the Administrators guide for a complete list of parameters to use with Lcm_cli.bat

Files Included :

1. 3 Job Properties Files for Users and User's Groups, Dependent Objects, Primary Objects (Job1_userandgroups.properties , Job2_dependencies.properties, Job3_primaryobjects.properties)

Pre-requisites:

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0\4.1 should be installed on the machine and promotion should be done between Same version or From Lower to Higher ( Example. Source (BI 4.0 SP9) to Destination (BI 4.1 SP6) etc.

Note : Use LCM of Higher Version only when promoting the objects from lower version to higher version.

• Ensure to Run the command prompt as “Run as Administrator”
• For Better Results ensure you make the changes for Resources using KBA - "1969259 - LCM CLI Master Note - How to promote thousands of objects across BI4 environments" For More queries and Sample queries.
• If you are using third party authentication then ensure you follow the above article and make the necessary changes.
  
• Changes need to be done in .properties files for Source and Destination.

Steps to Prepare the Files and Execute them:

• Download the 3 properties files from the link : [DOWNLOAD : LCM_CLI Properties File]
• Place these files on the server in any directory and ensure the path is small (Example : D:\content , C:\lcmpromote etc )

• Edit all the .properties files and make the changes according to your environment like : CMS Name , Password , Source and Destination etc.

• Open Command Prompt as Administrator and Navigate to the Location of lcm_cli.bat file.

• Execute the lcm_cli and give the properties files as the parameters. [ lcm_cli.bat -lcmproperty "<pathofpropertiesfile>" ]

• Do the same for all the properties files and ensure the jobs are completed successfully. These Job's will be visible in the CMC >> Promotion Management of the Server which is mentioned in "LCM_CMS" in properties file.

• Once the promotion is done you can verify the content and also if there would be any error you can navigate to Promotion Management and check the Jobs . Jobs Will be created like "Query_Administrator_Day_Date_Time".

Regards,

Mahak Rathore

Connecting to an AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

This document is part of the series Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x on AWS

You can connect to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance by selecting a system meeting your sizing requirements as defined in an earlier steps. If you have not yet provisioned an AWS Instance for your SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x deployment , please start reading the provisioning guidelines available on : Provisioning a AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x

Prerequisites:

• An Amazon Web Services account
  Note: When you create an account, you are automatically signed up for all AWS services. However, you will only be charged for the services you use.
• Go through the SAP BusinessObjects What's New Collection to gain insight in what your best version is.
• Understanding the support of deploying an SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x system on AWS as documented in http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1656250
• An up and running AWS Instance meeting the requirements as described in Provisioning a AWS instance for SAP BusinessObjects BI4x
• The Instance ID as received in the previous step
  
• Recommended : Setup your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connector. The VPC is recommended by Amazon, setting up a VPC is described in the document from SAP HANA ONE (AWS VPC setup) however the steps are equal for any SAP deployment.

Assign Elastic IP:

1. Have your AWS Image up and running in your preferred region
2. Note the fact that no Public IP has been assigned in the sample setup. If you have a public IP assigned, please validate if this has been defined as a Elastic IP. In case you have no Elastic IP assigned, your Public IP may change after restarting your Image, driving potential issues while connecting into your SAP BusinessObjects environment. Additionally it is not recommended to have the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform (BIP) being deployed against a dynamic IP, as BIP has bindings with the IP.
   
   
3. To assign a static public IP, we have to create a Elastic IP.
   for information about the Elastic IP, please check : Elastic IP Addresses - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
   
   Creating an Elastic IP can be done via the menu bar on the left under -> Network & Security -> Elastic IPs
   
   
4. Navigate to "Elastic IPs" and select "Allocate New Address" to start the creation of an Elastic IP
   
   
5. You will get a confirmation IF you want to allocate a new IP. Select "Yes, Allocate" to generate a new Elastic IP
   Note: Creating Elastic IP's without using them will result in an additional charge
   
   
6. Your Elastic IP is generated and can be assigned to your Instance
   
   The IP created will be listed under your Elastic IP's
   
7. Now having the Elastic IP created, we can assign this to our Instance, enabling a fixed IP for usage outside AWS. To assign the IP to you Instance, select Action -> Associate Address
   
8. Select the Instance ID from your system and confirm via "Associate"
   
9. If we move back to the EC2 screens, we will see that the Elastic IP has been assigned to the Instance
   

Connecting to AWS Instance running Windows

Now that we have assigned a public IP to the AWS Instance, we can connect to the AWS instance using Microsoft Remote Desktop

1. Before connecting to the Windows Instance, we need to set an Administrator password to enable a logon. To decode the Administrators password from the key file generated during instance a few steps are required. If you have already set your Windows Password, please continue with step 5
   
   - Select the instance you want to retrieve the Windows Password
   - Navigate to Actions -> Get Windows Password
   
2. Choose the key pair file as stored while creating the instance
   
3. Once the Key Pair is loaded, the value will be visible, select "Decrypt Password" to get the Windows Password
4. The Windows Password is shown, note down to password or copy this for later use
   
5. Start your Remote Desktop via your preferred path :
   - Start -> Run -> mstcs.exe
   - Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Remote Desktop Connection
   - Start -> Run -> Remote Desktop
   
   Enter the IP Number as recorded for the Public IP of you Instance
   
6. On the Credentials Screen, enter you credentials to connect to the AWS Windows Instance. Please note to connect with .\Administrator to force the use of the local authentication model within the AWS Instance
   
7. Depending on your security settings, a security popup may appear
   
   Accept the warning (and if preferred select the tickbox "Don't ask me again for connections to this computer")
8. You can now work on your AWS Instance and start the installation of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x. Please continue with : Deployment and Configuration of BI4x on AWS
   
   

Connecting to AWS Instance running Linux

To be added

Back to the Main Page for Deploying BI4.x against Amazon Web Services

Below is the Question & Answer from last week's ASUG BI Platform SIG webcast regarding migration/upgrade to BI4.2

Question                                                                                              Answer

Source: SAP

Best practices for migration was provided by SAP as shown above.

Join us this week for another BI4.2 ASUG webcast  - Improvements in Managing the BI Platform - register here

Related links:

Upgrade microsite: www.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com now SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions | The tools you need for high-performing implementations

BI Innovation Value Calculator: www.sap.com/BIcalculator

BI Upgrade Value Calculator : www.sap.com/BIupgradecalc

Web Intelligence calculation engine changes:  BI 4 How To: Identifying Necessary Changes for Web Intelligence Upgrade

BI Platform Features by version matrix:  BI Platform Feature by Version Matrix

2016 ASUG Annual Conference: Call for Speakers ... | ASUG

NOTICE: All forward looking statements made by SAP are subject to change

Thanks to SAP's Maheshwar Singh, we had an active question and answer on yesterday's ASUG webcast

Question & Answer

Q: How often are the Developer teams using SAP Idea Place to look at Customer Requests and Votes..?

A: Maheshwar does that quite frequently

Q: Support for MS-OFFICE 2016 will be available soon..?

A: Evaluate that - PAM document will be updated when certified.

Q: Design Studio Audit data is not like the data captured for Webi and Crystal, will that be enhanced?

A: Yes, that is true, idea is to improve all auditing going forward including Design Studio

Q: Writing alerts using the expression language in CMC Monitoring is extremely cumbersome just to check if a system is online/offline ; and the interface is complex; any change this will be simplified?

A: Need to rethink; find it complex; rather do administrative type monitoring that easy to use - evaluating a proposal; perhaps include in the influence council

Q: Will Audit data be enhanced to capture meaningful data for duration_ms (to capture more of the components duration) and for Design Studio and other addins?

A: For Design Studio, yes begin capturing - next version of Analysis Office will be audited. Lumira, no, but next version of Lumira should support auditing.

Q: Will you be providing any standard content (universes, canned reports etc) for BusinessObjects auditing? Similar to BW Statistics

A:  See this: Unlock the Auditing database with a new Universe and Web Intelligence Documents for BI4.1

Q: Can you share a link where we can participate in influence council for this aspect? (admin cockpit, etc.)

A: CEI is now closed; please consider joining -  POST data or see https://influence.sap.com/BusinessObjectsBIPlatform2016

Q: We currently have BI41 with Design Studio 1.6, after the upgrade to BI4.2 do we need to reinstall DS1.6 for 4.2?

A: Looking at introducing new license key for 4.2 if you go with that route may need to reinstall otherwise no impact - depends on proposal

Q: Has a release date for 4.2 been announced yet?

A: Looking at tentative timeline of end of Q1 or early Q2 - need to meet KPI's for rampup

Q: Admin cockpit has longest running reports or jobs? If either...can you drill down to details to where it is taking the most time?

A: Not at this time. Trying to see if case log files - seeing if feasible.

Q: Is Administrators Cockpit configurable? - Where are RunTime stats coming from - auditdb ? cmsdb?

A: Not in 4.2; doing some ideation with customers to find out what would like to configuration

Q: Although the recycle bin is in the CMC does it catch documents that are deleted by Launchpad users?

A: Yes, any content that is part of the public folder is caught by recycle bin - plan to include recycle bin for launchpad users

Q: Will there be any enhancements for Design Studio on BI platform, especially in the area of bookmark administration & folders?

A: BI platform is choice for Design Studio going forward. Commentary in future coming. Bookmark admin - some discussions happening; not closed

Q: Will the new BI platform customer connection program influence BI4.3? Will there be a 4.3? https://influence.sap.com/BusinessObjectsBIPlatform2016

A: Good question - Customer Connection - not 4.3 really, could influence SP for 4.2. First SP's may include customer connect request or SP after. There will likely be a 4.3 but still don't have 4.2 out the door. Under discussion

Q: Does Lumira for BI platform work with BI4.2 or is it dependent on a certain platform?

A: The current version 1.29 w/ SP3 now supports BI 4.2

Q: When will all the "hidden" FLASH Browser Dependencies in CMC and Launchpad be REMOVED from those interfaces..?

A: 4.2 remove flash dependencies from Promotion Manager; now HTML5. Flash today continues to exist in CMC for monitoring. BI Workspace has 1 component for Flash. Crystal Reports has flash in the prompts page. Need to remove.

Related:

The SAP User Group in France shared this with ASUG yesterday:

A new focus topic (Customer Connection) BI Platform will begin the January 8.

https://influence.sap.com/BusinessObjectsBIPlatform2016