Changes Related to Environment Variables

Planning to Upgrade from Oracle BI 10g to BI 11g 1-19 This is very useful for development-to-production scenarios, and can also be used for Oracle BI Applications customers to upgrade their repository. You can also use the Oracle BI Server XML utilities to create a generic, XML-based representation of the Oracle BI repository metadata, on any supported Oracle BI Server operating system. ■ Multicurrency support — You can configure logical columns so that Oracle BI EE users can select the currency in which they prefer to view currency columns in analyses and dashboards. ■ Access to Essbase data sources — Oracle BI EE now supports Essbase as a data source. ■ Access to Hyperion Financial Management data sources — Oracle BI EE now supports Hyperion Financial Management as a data source. ■ Access to ADF Business Component data sources — Oracle BI EE now supports using ADF Business Components as data sources. With this feature, users can integrate operational reporting with any application that is built on top of the ADF Framework. For more information about other new features available with the 11g repository metadata, refer to New Features in Oracle Fusion Middleware Metadata Repository Builders Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.3 Understanding Oracle BI Presentation Catalog Upgrade

You must upgrade files from a 10g Oracle BI Presentation Catalog before they will work in 11g. You use Upgrade Assistant to upgrade the catalog files during the upgrade process. However, before you run Upgrade Assistant, there are a number of areas in particular to be aware of. For more information see Section 1.3.1, Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: Major Upgrade Considerations. In addition to the considerations in Section 1.3.1 , there are a number of other factors to consider when planning to upgrade a BI Presentation Catalog. For more information, see Section 1.3.2, Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: Other Upgrade Considerations. In addition to differences in appearance and behavior between the original 10g system and the upgraded 11g system, there are also a number of new features introduced in Oracle BI 11g that you might probably want to consider implementing in the upgraded system. For more information, see Section 1.3.3, Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: Highlighted New 11g Functionality to Leverage.

1.3.1 Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: Major Upgrade Considerations

Oracle BI EE 11g introduces many enhancements to existing features. In some cases, these improvements render previous functionality obsolete. During upgrade, reports and dashboards that contain obsolete functionality are intentionally upgraded and improved to take advantage of the new features. Instead of trying to perfectly replicate the appearance and behavior of 10g reports and dashboards in 11g which is likely not desirable, and might not even be possible, you should consider how best to take advantage of the new functionality. In addition, keep the following considerations in mind: ■ Many configuration settings that affect the catalog in a clustered environment have changed. For example, the previous CatalogCacheTimeoutSecs element is the