Dear SAP BI community,

We have upgraded from 4.0 SP11 to 4.1 SP06.

We have also upgraded BIP and Design studio client.

Tomcat 6 has been upgraded to Tomcat7 during the upgrade.

Our objective is to use universe on BI platform.

We can successfully execute a BI dashboard locally and get data from the universe Data source.

When executing the design studio dashboard on BI platform. Opendocument is executing on a new IE window.

Then, opendocument gives same error:

HTTP Status 500 - javax.servlet.UnavailableException: BundleContext is no longer valid type Status report message javax.servlet.UnavailableException: BundleContext is no longer valid description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request. Apache Tomcat/7.0.55

I have used wdeploy to undeployall then have deployall again without success.

We receive the following error message in Tomcat trace log file Tracelog_8000_

getChildObject() - Invocation problem calling getStatus on com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.infostore.internal.SchedulingInfo java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.DynamicCaller.getChildObject(DynamicCaller.java:380) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.getChildObject(Generator.java:2059) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generateSimpleTag(Generator.java:1344) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generateTag(Generator.java:1325) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generateContainerTag(Generator.java:1683) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generateTag(Generator.java:1320) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generateInfo(Generator.java:1298) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generate(Generator.java:200) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Generator.generate(Generator.java:140) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.XMLGenerator.generateXML(XMLGenerator.java:210) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.XMLExporter.export(XMLExporter.java:142) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Exporter.exportAll(Exporter.java:214) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.Exporter.addObjects(Exporter.java:82) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.BiarEngine.exportToXML(BiarEngine.java:195) at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.internal.BiarEngine.exportToXML(BiarEngine.java:144) at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.biplatform.util.PagingHelper.convertIOToXML(PagingHelper.java:194) at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.biplatform.util.PagingHelper.generateResponse(PagingHelper.java:164) at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.biplatform.util.PagingHelper.fetchPage(PagingHelper.java:123) at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.biplatform.BIPCatalogMethodHelper.get(BIPCatalogMethodHelper.java:95) at com.businessobjects.dsws.biplatform.BIPlatformSkeleton.Get(BIPlatformSkeleton.java:949) at com.businessobjects.dsws.biplatform.BIPlatformMessageReceiverInOut.invokeBusinessLogic(BIPlatformMessageReceiverInOut.java:620) at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.java:40) at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractMessageReceiver.receive(AbstractMessageReceiver.java:114) at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:181) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPTransportUtils.processHTTPPostRequest(HTTPTransportUtils.java:172) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:146) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:646) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.common.http.GenerateSessionIDFilter.doFilter(GenerateSessionIDFilter.java:33) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at com.businessobjects.sdk.actionfilter.WorkflowFilter.doFilter(WorkflowFilter.java:45) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at com.businessobjects.dsws.wsc.common.axis.FlashFilter.doFilter(FlashFilter.java:45) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116) at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.JvmRouteBinderValve.invoke(JvmRouteBinderValve.java:218) at org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.ReplicationValve.invoke(ReplicationValve.java:333) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1070) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:763) Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKException$PropertyNotFound: The property with ID SI_SCHEDULE_STATUS does not exist in the object (FWM 02021) at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.infostore.internal.SchedulingInfo.getStatus(SchedulingInfo.java:1138) ... 59 more

Any idea ?

Hi,

I am on BOE 4.1.

I would like to list all reports with name using olap connections.

I've tried with this:

SELECT * FROM CI_APPOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND = ‘your connection Name’

I'm getting 0 records.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Zaki

We've been having some memory issues related to the Webi Processing Server.  I want to try and adjust some parameters - but I want to check that my assumptions are correct. We notice that the WIReportService.exe (we have 2 on the server) memory usage seems to steadily rise throughout the day after a restart of the service. After a restart of the service the Private bytes/Working bytes is in the 100-200 meg range.  These numbers of course grow when a Webi report is run and drop down when the report finishes.  But later in the day when there is no activity - the Private bytes/Working bytes can be much higher - maybe 700 meg. When we try to run one of our more memory intensive reports later in the day - it may fail with an "out of memory" message. However restarting the service and then running the report immediately it is successful.  Seems like the reason is more memory has been freed up. Is this behavior normal? We are considering forcing the restart of the Webi servers maybe twice a day to "free things up".  Also reconsidering our Webi Servers current values for Maximum Documents Before Recycling:  80 Timeout Before Recycling: 1200 By lowering the values for these parameters would result in the more frequent recycling of the Webi Servers. Any suggestions? Thank you BOXI 3.1 R6.2 BO Server: Windows Server 2008 R2

I am planning to deploy SP6 on our systems this weekend.

has anyone already applied it ?

Please let me know if you have identified any key issues.

Based on our sandbox system testing,  update is smooth . Only issue we had was that tomcat did not start  after update due to max and initial heap

size difference. After fixing,it worked fine.

Thanks!

We have requirement to create Delegated Administrator who can manage only User and User Groups from CMC.(This group can only see only Users and User Groups tab in CMC):

Delegated Administrator Activities like Creating New Users,Groups,adding Users to User Groups etc

I have followed below steps

1.I have restricted CMC tabs access in Application tab by selecting Restricted rule in  CMC Tab Access Configuration.

2.Then created new group called Delegated Administrator Group and then added User to this group

3.Given View access  to Delegated Administrator Group in top level Security for All Groups

   Then Selected Delegated Administrator Group and then granted Access Explicitly to User and Usergroup in CMC Tab Access Configuration.

4. After Logged into CMC with the user account created in the above, I can see only Users and User Groups.This is working as expected.

    But I could not able to created new user or User Groups.

Please let me know if any one come across the Scenario.

Thanks,

Kumar

Hi,

We are trying to use an AD account to manage the promotion of items between the environments. We have checked that users works fine when using an Enterprise Authentication method to log in but when using the AD account promotion jobs fails as described on the following KBA

1385980 - Logging into LCM using Windows AD authentication throws an error: Commit Status=Commit attempted and failed, Promotion Status=Failure: Logon failure to Destination CMS:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1385980

But after applying steps described on it problem persists. I have also even removed the Entreprise alias considering the other relevant KBA

2106924 - Promotion Management throws HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.NullPointerException:getInfoObjectByCUID when using a seperate account name and alias to authenticate

with no success.

I suspect that may be am I not applying properly the recommendations of KBA 1385980

This how my APS-LCM command line parameters box looks like (changes in bold)

-server -Dcom.sap.vm.tag=BIENT1.APS_LCM -Djava.awt.headless=true "-Dbobj.enterprise.home=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/" "-Dbobj.javaserver.home=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/pjs/container/" "-Dboe.common.dir=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/lib/" "-Dboe.external.dir=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/lib//external" "-Dboe.bundles.dir=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/lib//bundles" "-Djava.io.tmpdir=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/pjs/container/temp" "-Dbusinessobjects.logs.home=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/logging/" "-XtraceFile=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/logging/aps_BIENT1.APS_LCM_jvm.log" "-XX:GCHistoryFilename=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/logging/aps_BIENT1.APS_LCM_gc.prf" "-Xloggc:D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/logging/aps_BIENT1.APS_LCM_gc.log" -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:LogGcMaxFileCount=3 -XX:LogGcMaxFileSize=5m "-XX:ErrorFile=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/logging/aps_BIENT1.APS_LCM_dump_@PID.log" -Xms3g -Xmx3g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError "-XX:HeapDumpPath=D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/logging/" -XX:+ExitVMOnOutOfMemoryError -Xrs -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=false -jar "D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/pjs/container/bin/boeserver.jar" -workdir "D:/BO/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/java/pjs/container/work" -javaArgs Djava.security.auth.login.config=C:/Windows/bsclogin.conf,Djava.security.krb5.conf=C:/Windows/krb5.ini

(I have previously copied both files -bsclogin.cong, krb5.ini- into server path.

I am doing something wrong?

Environment info:

SAP BI 4.1 SP4 Patch1

Windows 2012

2 tiers (Application/Web)

Thanks

Alfons

Hi Expert ,

I’m working with BOXI3.1. I want to use Single Sign On with trusted authentication in Health Exchange portal. We only want to bypass the login page to implement SSO using TIM/TAM based Web Seal junction (deployed on Websphere Application Server). The user logs into a HE Portal application and then access the BO URL from there. This request for BO, passes through this web seal junction before reaching the BO server.

The user used in the sap portal is also defined and active in sap BO.

In order to activate SSO in BO, I have configured trusted authentication in BO. Please find the setup below:

1) Log on to the Central Management Console with administrative rights.

2) Go to the Authentication management area of the CMC.

3) Double Click on the Enterprise link.

4) Scroll down until you see Trusted Authentication.

5) Click Trusted Authentication is enabled.

6) Enter a string in the Shared Secret field.

7) Click Update.

8) Create a file called TrustedPrincipal.conf in C:\Business Objects 3.1\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86 (replace this location with your BO install location)

9) Enter the following in this file
SharedSecret=<string entered in shared secret filed in CMC- Enterprise authentication> ,i.e SharedSecret=1234 where 1234 is the string entered in CMC

10) Created the Global.properties file in the location ‘D:\Tomcat7\webapps\Infoviewapp\WEB-INF\global.properties’
sso.enabled=true
trusted.auth.shared.secret=
trusted.auth.user.param=
trusted.auth.user.retrieval=WEB_SESSION

11) Modifying Infoview Web.xml for trusted authentication

Open the web.xml in D:\Tomcat7\webapps\InfoViewApp\WEB-INF

Find this string in the file:
<param-name>cms.default</param-name>
· Enter the CMS name and port number in the cms.default <param-value> field. Use the format
servername:portnumber

· Find this string in the file:
<param-name>sso.enabled</param-name>
· Change the <param-value> for sso.enabled from false to true.
<param-value>true</param-value>

· Find this string in the file:
<param-name>siteminder.enabled</param-name>
· Change the <param-value> for siteminder.enabled from true to false.
<param-value>false</param-value>

· Find this string in the file:
<param-name>trusted.auth.user.retrieval</param-name>
· Specify the <param-value> as follows,
<param-value>WEB_SESSION</param-value>

· Find this string in the file:

<param-name>trusted.auth.user.param</param-name>

· Specify the <param-value> as follows,

<param-value>user</param-value>

· Save and close the file

· Find this string in the file:

<param-name>trusted.auth.shared.secret</param-name>

· Specify the <param-value> as follows,

<param-value>secret</param-value>

· Save and close the file

12) Modified Server.xml for trusted authentication
Open the server.xml in D:\Tomcat7\conf\ and added the following script

<!-- SRP-SSO WebSeal Integration configuration -starts -->

<Valve className="com.ibm.tivoli.integration.am.catalina.valves.AMTomcatValve"
debugTrace="true" userHeader="iv-user"
groupsHeader="iv-groups" addRoles="Everyone"
ivServerName="default-webseald-CAMDV1LWSL01.caxix.acs-inc.com"/>

<!-- SRP-SSO WebSeal Integration configuration -Ends -->

13) we added a custom JSP file in the Tomcat root folder where the infoview login page located. The custom JSP is just to bypass the login page. Please find the code below

<%

//URL for redirection to InfoView Portal

//String strInfoViewURL = "../Infoview/PlatformServices/service/app/logon.object";

String strInfoViewURL="/listing/main.do";

//URL for redirection to Custom BOE Portal

String strCustomPortalURL = "/listing/main.do";

String userName = request.getHeader("iv-user");

String sharedSecret = "passw0rd";

request.getSession().setAttribute("user", userName) ;

request.getSession().setAttribute("secret", sharedSecret) ;

RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(strInfoViewURL);

dispatcher.forward(request, response);

%>

14) Restart Tomcat

Now when we tried accessing the BO link from HE portal, we are receiving the following error:

• Logon denied: Your session is not valid or has expired.

Please find the attachment for the  Error Screen shot

Please also let me know if you need any other information or files

Thank you,
Tarun

Hi All,

Does any one know if its possible to send a web intell document to an SFTP host (i know its possible via FTP) using BO XI 3.1 SP3. I've read about some workarounds for XI R2 but was wondering is it actually possible to schedule to an SFTP destination through the CMC?

Any help much appreciated.

Regards

Marc

Hi,

I am using WEBI 4.1 SP5 and BW 7.3. I have two BEx queries on two Infoset..  'Query 1' has 'Request' related data while 'Query 2' has 'Material' related data. I have merge the two queries on 'Request #' and other common dimension. I have created a new variable for Material base on 'Query 2' as detail object. I have added the variable to 'Query 1' result set, but I am not getting the Material data for a given Request # which I see it in Query 2 output.

Has anyone experience similar issue with Merge feature? Is this feature only supported with queries base on Universe?

Thanks in advance for your help.

BI Developer.

Today I was facing an issue with alert message mechanism.The problem is that we had set alert message mechanism for a particular process chain ie if it fails or successful alert messages will be send to all recipients added in it. But today when a particular dtp in that PC got failed and alerting was not done but when it got completed succesful alert message  gets triggered. Why is it so?

Can anybody advise why error alerting doesn't worked?

regards,

mithun

Hello together,

we have configured the WACS SSL and and we started using HTTPS WACS to login BO client tool.

HTTPS WACS works perfect while login to Live office, Analysis for Excel, Crystal Report for Enterprise, but while in Design studio web service URL is not working and it throws error - "Could not initiate SSL connection. Check the Web Service URL"

(see the attached error message)

we checked this thread but doesn't helps http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-61763

BO platform: BO4.1 SP5 PATCH 3

Design Studio Add-on : DS 1.4 SP01 and DS 1.5 SP01

any support for this issue???

Regards,

Ganesh

Hi Dear Experts,

One report in PRD system is corrupted, we getting error "The document cannot be retrieved from the File Repository Server WIS 30951".

I looked at the report properties from CMC to identify path, and then go to FRS(BI) server, but report file(and some folders from full path) is missing in FRS directory.

I delete this report from PRD CMC, and then via Promotion management transport same report from DEV repository(in dev it works fine). Transport is successful, but in Prod I'm getting the same error WIS 30951.

I also check path of new transported report, but now all folders from path are available, but ".wid" file is missing.

What can I do?

Thanks....

SAP BI 4.0 sp4 p5 (win)

Hello everybody

Can anyone help me with this issue:

We have a job in SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Versión 6.0.0.0 and it's execution is scheduled daily at 8:00 a.m. It's required that this job be invoked and run automatically from SAP BusinessObjects when the user updates a report. Is that possible? Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?

Regards,

Mery Godoy

Login is extremely slow for LDAP users for SSO. When user tried using BI launchpad it's working fine taking only 5-6 seconds to login. But when user use opendocument to open report using SSO it took around 50-55 seconds. 

This behaviour is only for some bunch of users it's working fine for other user id like my id.

Below is my finding from Fiddler.

for response it took 50 seconds.

Request Count:   1

Bytes Sent: 641       (headers:641; body:0)

Bytes Received: 2,880 (headers:244; body:2,636)

ACTUAL PERFORMANCE

--------------

ClientConnected: 15:25:04.380

ClientBeginRequest:  15:30:00.520

GotRequestHeaders:   15:30:00.520

ClientDoneRequest:   15:30:00.520

Determine Gateway:   0ms

DNS Lookup: 0ms

TCP/IP Connect:      0ms

HTTPS Handshake:     0ms

ServerConnected: 15:30:00.313

FiddlerBeginRequest: 15:30:00.521

ServerGotRequest: 15:30:00.521

ServerBeginResponse: 15:30:50.438

GotResponseHeaders:  15:30:50.439

ServerDoneResponse:  15:30:50.439

ClientBeginResponse: 15:30:50.439

ClientDoneResponse:  15:30:50.439

We have created analysis reports using SAP Business Objects Design Studio with customised embedded images. These images are stored in a different folder in
CMC, but we don't want users to have access to this folder. The folder structure currently looks like the attached file. The issue is that if I don't grant view objects access to the folder called Standard Images and CSS, the users get a 'Error while generating web' form message when executing any of the reports. I have tried to move the folder from the top level folder but as they still have view access to the folder they still see it. I have also tried to create a new top level folder, assign this folder as a subfolder and then denied View access to the top level folder but it still causes an issue. Granting view access to the top level folder and no access to the sub objects within the folder also doesn't work and vice versa

Is there any way to hide this folder from users and them still be able to run the reports?

Hi All,

   Please provide the Document / Notes information on  'How to Integrate SAP Liquidity Risk Management (LRM) to Business Objects ?'

Detail Description:

I comes to know that, we can connect SAP LRM with Business Object tool. I wanted to develop some dashboard on top of LRM by using Business Object. Please help me on this.

Regards

Chandrashekhar

Hello,

we are re-using our SAP BW authorizations roles for folder authorizations in SAP BO.

Therefore we import roles from SAP BW source system and add these roles to different BO-Groups. Folder authorizations are maintained for these BO Groups.

Import of roles works - but all imported roles / Groups start with a prefix "<SYS-ID>~<CLNT>@"

So if we promote groups/authorizations to qa and prod system we have to add BW roles in each system.

E.g.

     DEV-System:

          DEV~001@BW_ROLE --> added to BO Group "BW"

     Promotion to QA-System:

          BO Group contains Role DEV~001@BW_ROLE and QA~002@BW_ROLE has to be added.

How to avoid this?

There is a similar issue with user which has been resolved by maintaing registry setting.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\Enterprise\Auth Plugins\secSAPR3\SimpleUsernameFormat

Thanks and best regards,

Christian

P.S. we are using BI 4.1

Hi,

We have recently deployed sample universe to our environment and its started working fine. Earlier we had very limited options to track in audit DB,but now we have enabled some more additional features which is related access level modification, rights modification and user group etc. When we are refreshing audit report, we noticed that the new feature is not yet updated in Audit DB. Once enabled the changes i have saved those changes in CMC, eventhough those entries are not at all capturing in Audit DB. can you please let me know do we need any server restart or any changes required to update additional features in audit DB?

Env: BI4 SP2 Patch14

DB: Oracle 11g

Thanks

Hi Community members,

i have little problem with promotion management, I've already sent incident to SAP, but also i have a little querstion related, but not beeing part of my problem. What rights user has to be granted to see successfull/failed promotion jobs from promotion manager. User that has full controll on promotion management application and also on the content being promoted can't see status of promotion in instance manager.

Is there any detailed documentation about rights management? Most of things i have to do by testing the rights given, and like in this case I'm not sure which rights are resposinsible for the instance manager, because i can't find it in cmc->applications.

Hi Everyone,

It is considered to be so slow and left for 15 minutes, and in that
there is a setting of 15 minutes somewhere.

* Environment *
・BI4.0 SP05 Patch6
・Java application server on Windows
・Windows AD authentication (Kerberos)

I found, "GraphTimeOut" After investigation the key words "15 minutes".
So, I tried to set "0" to "GraphTimeOut", but there was no effect.

Steps are as follows:
1. Run the registry editor.
2. Browse to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Wow6432Node
   /SAP Business Objects/Suite XI 4.0/Enterprise/Auth Plugin/secWinAD.
3. Create a string value called "GraphTimeOut".
4. set "0" to "GraphTimeOut".

Do anyone have a good idea?

Regards,
Mayumi