What's New in This Release

What's New in Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guide, Version 10.1.3.2

Table 1 lists changes described in this version of the documentation to support Release 10

Table 1. Changed Features and Information in Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guid
Topic
Menus in the Administration Tool
Keyboard Shortcuts in the Administration Tool
Icons and Symbols in the Administration Tool
Features and Options for Oracle's Siebel Marketing Application
Checking the Consistency of a Repository or a Business Model
Using the Options Dialog Box—General Tab

Using the Options Dialog Box—Multiuser Tab

Populating Logical Level Counts Automatically
Process of Creating the Physical Layer from Multidimensional Data Sources
Importing a Physical Schema from Multidimensional Data Sources
Creating a Database Object Manually in the Physical Layer
Creating or Changing Connection Pools
Setting Up Connection Pool Properties for Multidimensional Data Sources
About Physical Tables
About Physical Alias Tables
Creating and Administering General Properties for Physical Tables

About Measures in a Multidimensional Data Source

Creating and Administering Columns and Keys in a Physical Table
Setting Up Hierarchies in the Physical Layer for a Multidimensional Data Source
Updating Member Counts and Viewing Members in
Physical Cube Tables
Deploying Opaque Views
Creating Dimensions
Creating Dimension Levels and Keys
Selecting and Sorting Chronological Keys in a Time Dimension
Importing From Another Repository
Querying and Managing Repository Metadata

About Extracting Metadata Subsets Into Projects

Setting Up the SA System Subject Area
Extracting Analytics Metadata Using Dependency
Tracking
Time Series Wizard
Synchronize Aliases
Generating and Deploying a Metadata Dictionary
Aggregate Persistence Wizard
Calculation Wizard
About Time Series Conversion Functions
About the IndexCol Conversion Function
Administering Usage Tracking
Purging and Maintaining Cache Using ODBC Procedures
Storing and Purging Cache for SAP/BW Data Sources
Creating Aggregates for Oracle BI Server Queries
Understanding and Creating Session Variables
Creating Repository Variables and Creating Session
Variables
About Using Initialization Blocks With Variables and
Process of Creating Initialization Blocks
About Authenticating Users Using Initialization Blocks
Clustering Oracle BI Servers
Setting Parameters in the NQSConfig.INI File and Setting
Parameters in the NQClusterConfig.INI File
Setting Up LDAP Authentication and Maintaining Oracle
BI Server User Authentication
Maintaining Oracle BI Server User Authentication
Using FILTER to Compute a Conditional Aggregate
Aggregate Functions
IndexCol
Description of the Usage Tracking Data
Oracle BI Server Authentication APIs

Oracle Business Intelligence 10.1.3.4.0 will be installed in the following location:

C:\OracleBI

with the following features:

Oracle Business Intelligence ODBC Driver

Oracle Business Intelligence JDBC Driver
Oracle Business Intelligence Systems Management
Oracle Business Intelligence Server
Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool
Oracle Business Intelligence Cluster Controller
Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler
Oracle Business Intelligence Client
Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services
Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Plug-in and BI Office
Oracle Business Intelligence Catalog Manager
Oracle Business Intelligence Job Manager
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
Server Administration Guide, Version 10.1.3.2

ion of the documentation to support Release 10.1.3.2 of the software. These changes include the n

racle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guide, Version 10.1.3.2

Description
Updated menu items to reflect changes to product names and changed functionality.
Added new shortcuts.
Added new icons for physical cube hierarchy types, opaque views, and aggregate objects.
Added topic.
Rewrote topic to describe the new Consistency Check Manager.
Updated Calculation Wizard information, added import repository option, and removed options
for Time Series Wizard and Merge repository mismatch warning.
Added information about new tab.
Added topic.
Updated section to include support for SAP/BW and new versions of Microsoft Analysis
Services.
Updated the steps to import objects to include support for SAP/BW.
Added field needed to create a database using a virtual private database as a source.
Updated general properties for setting up connection pools for all data sources.
Updated general properties for setting up connection pools.
Updated topic.
Added topic.
Updated this topic to include changes for multidimensional data sources and added new
properties for alias tables.
Added topic.
Updated topic and procedure to include instructions for alias tables.
Updated topic to reflect new properties.
Added topics about updating member counts and viewing member data.

Added topics that explain how to deploy, undeploy, and remove opaque views.
Updated topic.
Updated topic and added topics about working with time dimensions and chronological keys.
Added topic.
Added information about changes to the import from repository process.
Added procedures for saving queries and deleting saved queries. Updated procedures for
running queries and saving query results to an external file.
Added an explanation about how project extract work.
Revised topic and added caution note about authorization and authentication configuration
option.
 This topic replaced by Generating and Deploying a Metadata Dictionary
Removed topic from Oracle BI Administration Tool Utilities and Expression Builder.
Removed topic from Oracle BI Administration Tool Utilities and Expression Builder. Synchronization is
Added topic.
Added topic.
Added topic.
Added topic to update Expression Builder.
Added topic to update Expression Builder.
Added information about how usage tracking works.
Added information about the SAGetSharedRequestKey ODBC procedure.
Added topic.
Added topics.
Added description of Oracle Business Intelligence Disconnected Analytics variables.
Reorganized and updated these topics to reflect the changes in user interface design. Also
added information about virtual private database parameters.
Revised all topics to conform to new user interface.

Retitled and revised topics.

Added information about Oracle BI Scheduler to this chapter.
Removed parameters from these topics. Parameters are described in the Oracle Business
Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide.
Expanded and reorganized topics about LDAP authentication.

Added cross-reference to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide .

Added topic.
Added and updated several topics about time series functions.
Added conversion function.
Added data columns.
Added appendix.

stalled in the following location:

ices Plug-in and BI Office