I was able to figure out to do command line on Windows for UMT tool. I took the SAP unix command line document, and the 3.1 command line I found on BOB and combine them to make this work.

• Download and install JVM 64bit. UMT libraries call 64bit JVM during command line.
• Once installed JVM 64bit, go to JVM panel, and add the new 64bit installation under the “User” and “System” tab.
• Go to environment variables and add the mappings to the java64 bit folder under “path”. Right click on computer, properties, advancesettings, environment variables, scroll down to path and add the folder path.
  • You can restart your server after this step, but I didn’t have to.

Create a .bat file. Also unlike 3.1, these files are a lot, so I set my backup days down to two weeks.

rem****by default it does a complete backup*******

@echo off

SET BOPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\java\apps\upgradeManagementTool

SET BACKUPPATH=C:\UMTCommnadline

SET ENVNAME=yourservername

SET BACKUPDAYS=14

SET MAINDRIVE=C:

SET SECBACK=E:

@echo on

cd %SECBACK%\automatebiar

%SECBACK%

rem ***********this line cleans up the .biar files that are over the stipulated “backupdays” you set above****************

Forfiles /P "%SECBACK%\automatebiar" /S /M *.* /D -%BACKUPDAYS% /C "cmd /c del /q @path"

rem ****time to back up now******

%MAINDRIVE%

cd %BOPATH%\jars

java -jar upgrademanagementtool.jar -mode "livetobiar" -source "yourservername:6400" -sourceusername "Administrator" -sourcepassword "password" -destination -biarfile "E:\folder\biarfilename.biar" -configparam:Base_URL "http://yourservername:8080/dswsbobje" -logfile
"E:\automatebiar\UMT Logfile\umt.csv"

Hi, We have installed a fresh copy of BO XI 4.1 sp7 and are trying the Report Conversion Tool.

There is an AUDIT table called OBG_G_MIGRATION which is as I understand is created when you initially run a conversion.

We are getting the following error in the log file when running a conversion.

ERROR: RSS file does not exist :

C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\dataAccess\connectionServer\\oledb\extensions\migration\sqlsrv2008.rss

However when we look at our folder structure we see

F:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\dataAccess\connectionServer\oledb\extensions\legacy\sqlsrv.rss

So the drives are different; there is a "\\" in the log file path; under the extensions folder we have legacy while the log says migration; and the name of the rss file is different.

What would be the suggestion to get around this?

Current Environment: BO XI 3.1 SP 5

Server Operating System: Windows 2003

We have a lot of publications in our environment. When we try to move a Publication from our Favorite Folder to Public Folder it Fails.

We end up recreating the Publication for it to work. Publications with Dynamic Recipients and Personalization seems to have issues.

Can you please let me know if there is way we can Move Publication from one folder to another without it failing?

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Thanks,
ASHOK

Hi everyone,

Per this picture, BI Platform 4.2 seems to be released to the customer.

But from the download area in SAP Support website, I don't see the BI Platform 4.2 from the list.

What is about your SAP account? Can you see the BI Platform 4.2 for download?

Thanks,

Awora

We have several development servers with Crystal Server 2013 installed. We have the same reports published on each. On all servers but one things are working fine.

One of the servers is not giving the parameter names when the report is ran. When programmatically trying to invoke a report we can not get the parameters, and if we simply use the Central Management Console to view the report, we get a dialog like this:

I've checked that all services are running, and they seem to be fine. Does anyone know what I need to do to get the parameter names to come back?

Thanks!

Hello ,

We have migrated WEBI reports from 3.1 to 4.1 sp06. We are facing these below ISsues

1) For some of the reports , we get #multivalue Issue . The same report works fine in 3.1 .

2) Reports with many data providers and with huge data , we noticed that report loading very slow in 4.1 when compared with 3.1. The same reports loads in seconds in 3.1 and in 4.1 it is taling 3-4 mins just to show the data.

Anyone facing the same Issue ?

I also editted "Formula_migration_rules.xml" which is in C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP  BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\config and made all properties false even it didn't help us much.

Regards,

S

Hi All

I am having difficulty in finding any information on the support of BW 7.5 on SAP HANA with SAP BI 4.1 or 4.2

All the PAMs only go upto BW 7.4 as a supported stack with BI 4.1 and BI 4.2

There are a number of slides floating around which insinuate that BI 4.2 is compatible, but there is no official support statement.

Please can anyone help or point me in the right direction to understand if this stack of BI 4.1 and BW 7.5 on SAP HANA is supported ?

Thanks

Will

Hi,

We are just testing the new DS BIP Addon Service Pack. We have upgraded the two servers involved in our deployment (Web Tier and Processing Tier) from 1.6 to 1.6 SP1. Installation goes fine without issues (logs files does not show anything strange). Both servers were restarted after upgrade. All BO services are started and enabled.

We have also upgraded the client with latest 1.6 SP1 Patch 1 release.

To test the upgrade we have opened some DS simple app (no data only plain text on it) in local mode (using DS client) and BIP mode (BI Launchpad)

In local mode they run fine.

But in BIP apps are loaded forever.......

This scenario is already described on previous threads (see TN 2193939 and related thread http://scn.sap.com/thread/3768193)

As mentioned on these references we have re-recreated the APS server that included the Analysis Application Service but error persists. Check ok APS logs and tomcat logs does not provide any clue.

Error appears on IE and Chrome Windows.

Our last chance is to repair the installation, but I don't expect any change as installation logs are clean as mentioned.

Any idea? Someone has already updated BIP Addon from 1.6 to 1.6 SP1 with success?

Note: When servers were on previous release (1.6) DS apps might be opened succesfully on both modes (Local and BIP)

Thx

Hi All,

During upgrade to BI 4.1 SP6,we noticed 2 issues with default installation(Out of BOX features)

1.Applet initialization error---When we try to create a webi report via Launchpad

2. Illegal access to the viewer,please use a valid url.---when we try to view a report via launchpad or CMC.

Environment

==========

BI 4.1 SP6

Win 2008 R2

Custom parameter and issue with reports

==============================

HI All,

We  have implemented Custom parameter under Universe connection in BO 3.1 SP5  and reports works fine and same universe and reports migrated to BI4.1 Sp6.

ConnectInit=SET QUERY_BAND='APPL=myapp; USER=@variable('BOUSER'); RptName=@variable('DOCNAME'); UnivName=@variable('UNVNAME'); . FOR TRANSACTION;

In BI 4.1 webi reports throws error that "Bad Connect String Format:USER" while refreshing report.

Any suggestions

Regards

Reddy

Hello everyone,

I've installed a BI 4.1 SP06 in a Linux server (red hat), the client wants to configurer a LDAP authentication. however at the moment i try to set up the LDAP configuration, I just don't have the option in the "authentication" section. in the image attached, you wil see...

I'm using a temporaire license..

thanks in advancE...

Our business intended to upgrade from BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 to SAP Crystal Server 2013. We bought the 2013 product several months ago, but had not installed it yet, as we were also upgrading our physical Server machines to 2008, and moving from Sybase DB to MS SQL server DB. Once we had that done, we attempted the upgrade, but found that we first had to be at BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1. We managed to find and download an executable of 3.1 and installed it on another server. We were then faced with the task of moving and upgrading the Repository from 3.0 to 3.1. We had no clear cut instructions on how to do this. In the end we made a BIAR file of 3.0, and used the Import Wizard of 3.1 to move the repository. This has resulted in problems and errors when trying to run the Crystal Reports over the Web. Some of them run, some don't. I should point out here that we have been using/developing Crystal Reports since version 7 when Seagate owned it. We're not sure it the reports that don't run have old ODBC connection info left imbedded in them from the Sybase days?

Question:

1. Is this the SAP recommended procedure on upgrading the Repository, or are their more preferred methods like Publishing, CCM database copy function, etc...?

2. Does the Repository Diagnostic Tool (reposcan) fix issues like the ones stated above?

Any other insight, experiences, or information would greatly be appreciated related to these matters,

Thanks,

Hi all,

I have a time formatdate(object name; hh mm as) and I will like to add 5hrs to this time.

Does anyone have the syntax for this.

Thanks

PC

HI All, my company has started encounting this issue for all users that use Crystal Reports 2008.

Unable to logon to InfoView. Please contact your system administrator for assistance. Please close your brower before continuing.

This happens after the user enters in there logon credentials which are gathered from AD.

This issue has came up before for the company and the resolution would be to restart the Central Configuration Manager services, on the server hosting Crystal Reports Server 2008.

The services are Apache Tomcat 5.5.20 Ver: 2.0.1.0 and Server Intelligence Agent Ver: 2.0.1.0

I have done this and it has not helped fix the issue. Could someone please provide me assistance?

Thank you

Hi experts,

We have BO 4.1 SP7 and are trying to schedule a crystal reports for enterprise to an sftp server and got the following error message:

connection error. [] [CrystalEnterprise.SFTP]

if we try to use sftp on command line on the same host, it's working great!

SFTP config on BO:

Anyone an idea?

Kind Regards,

Michael

Hi All,

Has anyone have encountered  an issue  in BI Launchpad and CMC that after  loging into the system. the screen are blank  and it doesnt work. below is the screenshot of the error:

Hello Experts,

We are implementing the OLAP connection with SSO Authentication for Business Objects with BW back end. We had the certificates exchanged between BW and BOBJ. The Key store file is generated and uploaded(SAP Authentication). I have created a connection with SSO as authentication. Now, I have a test user with Enterprise and SAP authentication in BOBJ. The test user is having full rights and full access to roles in BW. When I try to login to business objects and create a new report with this OLAP connection with test user. It is throwing an error.

1) We have the APS with Token service in it.

2) User from BW has full access to roles and BOBJ enterprise account with Admin group.

3) Cetificated exchange between BW-BOBJ is done(We tried it 3 times)

I tried to search all the SAP notes and couldn't find the answer.

Really appreciate your valuable suggestions here or Am I missing anything here.

Thanks

Venkat

Hi Experts,

     I have an issue with the report throwing WIH 444444 error. I checked the SAP Notes and there are bunch of issues and resolution related to this error. But not of them responded my issue. There were some patch related fixes but based on that I have higher SP and Patch than those mentioned there.  I have the Summary Report that has the open doc functionality and drill function in it. We have the User Prompt input for Start date and End Date to select for the report. The user can go to the detail report using open doc that takes them to another window and can drill down and drill up within Summary report with the hierarchy from State-Region-Unit.

     The user spend their time for analysis in the detail report in next window.After sometime they go back to the Summary report window, tried to click the User Prompt input in the report to change the Date parameter, the WIH 444444 Error popped up. The report didnt even show the Timeout message. The Strange thing is its not preventing or stopping anything from working like clicking in for the Detail report. The detail report in the next page opens fine. So it means the report hasn't timed out yet.  But when you click User Prompt Input button on left, it throws that error.

      We have SAP 4.1 SP 5 Patch 6 client installed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Chandan

When installing a new install of BO Edge 4.1 SP6, the install does not create an SIA. We have done the following:

1. Used a relatively complex Administrator/Cluster Password (Password123! as an example)

2. Disable the firewall

3. Update the VMWare tools

4. Disabled IPV6

5. Disabled antivirus

We have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing happens. The CMS DB tables are created in the DB which I assume means this isn't a DB user issue.

Any input would be very much appreciated!

Environment

Windows Server 2012

CMS DB= Oracle 11g hosted on a seperate Oracle Linux Server (can be connect via SQL Plus, no problems)

Errors in Install Log

13:09:30.587      Condition:

13:09:30.587           File: [INSTALLDIR]SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\/WEB-INF/config/default/CmcApp.properties

13:09:30.587     ReplaceWord: [MasterCmsName]:[MasterCmsPort]

13:09:30.587 P-Resolver: No declarations found for property: MasterCmsName

13:09:30.649 Error: *** FIXME: Falling back to resolve at product scope, as: platform.services.smartservers.sia.props-4.0-core$MasterCmsName

13:09:30.649 P-Resolver: No declarations found for property: MasterCmsPort

13:09:30.649 Error: *** FIXME: Falling back to resolve at product scope, as: platform.services.smartservers.sia.props-4.0-core$MasterCmsPort

13:09:30.649     SearchWord: %CMS_NAME_AND_PORT%

13:09:30.649     SensitiveData:

13:09:30.649   Action properties:

13:09:30.805 P-Resolver: No declarations found for property: MasterCmsName

13:09:30.805 Error: Couldn't resolve property: MasterCmsName from scope platform.client.java.app.infoview.webpath_bundles-4.0-core-nu,14.1.6.1702

13:09:30.805 Error: *** HACK: Falling back to resolve at product level, as: platform.services.smartservers.sia.props-4.0-core$MasterCmsName

13:31:45.621 2016/03/03, 01:31:45: RunRedistProgram: return value 2

13:31:45.621 2016/03/03, 01:31:45: CMS is up, but cannot log on to CMS. Trying again...

13:31:45.621 2016/03/03, 01:31:45: ... waited for 1140 seconds ...

13:32:19.469 *#*_*FWM 20030|Could not reach CMS 'AITSRV0084:6400'. Specify the correct host and port and check for network issues. (FWM 20030)|Could not reach CMS 'AITSRV0084:6400'. Specify the correct host and port and check for network issues. (FWM 20030)*_*#*

13:33:24.350 RunCommand: WOW64 redirection is enabled

13:33:24.350 RunCommand: UseShellExecute:    false

13:33:28.195 Could not reach CMS 'AITSRV0084:6400'. Specify the correct host and port and check for network issues. (FWM 20030)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.ensureServiceStub(LogonService.java:688)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.doUserLogon(LogonService.java:828)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.doUserLogon(LogonService.java:805)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.userLogon(LogonService.java:210)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.SecurityMgr.userLogon(SecurityMgr.java:166)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon_aroundBody0(SessionMgr.java:454)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon_aroundBody1$advice(SessionMgr.java:512)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon(SessionMgr.java:1)

    at com.sap.businessobjects.platform.search.ForceCRReInstall.ForceCRReInstall.main(ForceCRReInstall.java:26)

13:45:01.545 RunCommand: Get noWaiting: 0

13:45:01.545 RunCommand: WOW64 redirection is enabled

13:45:01.545 RunCommand: UseShellExecute:    false

13:45:05.373 Kunde inte nå CMS 'AITSRV0084:6400'. Ange korrekt värd och port och kontrollera om det finns några nätverksproblem. (FWM 20030)

Could not reach CMS 'AITSRV0084:6400'. Specify the correct host and port and check for network issues. (FWM 20030)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.ensureServiceStub(LogonService.java:688)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.doUserLogon(LogonService.java:828)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.doUserLogon(LogonService.java:805)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.userLogon(LogonService.java:210)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.SecurityMgr.userLogon(SecurityMgr.java:166)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon_aroundBody0(SessionMgr.java:454)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon_aroundBody1$advice(SessionMgr.java:512)

    at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon(Sess

13:45:05.373 ionMgr.java:1)

    at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.utility.XSDUtility.initializeSDK(XSDUtility.java:544)

    at com.businessobjects.sdk.biar.utility.XSDUtility.main(XSDUtility.java:979)

Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKException$OCAFramework: Servern AITSRV0084:6400 hittades inte eller också kan servern vara avstängd (FWM 01003)

cause:com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.OCAFrameworkException$NotFoundInDirectory: Servern AITSRV0084:6400 hittades inte eller också kan servern vara avstängd (FWM 01003)

cause:java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to setup Windows AD SSO for BusinessObjects 4.1 SP7, followed Josh's blog which helped me all along. I'm stuck at the keytab file creation (step 11 in that blog). The SSO works fine, its just that the service account's password is currently hard coded in Tomcat Configuration -> Java -> Java Options. Obviously, when the keytab is created, I'll remove that hard coded value from Java options and a create a pointer to the keytab in the global.properties file.

Env details:

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• BO 4.1 SP7
• Service account properties include 'Password never expires' and, Delegation rules as 'Trust this user for delegation to any service (Kerberos only)'
• Service account is in Local Admins groups on BO server.
• Service account has the rights 'Act a part of operating system', 'Logon as a batch job', and 'Logon as a service.'
• Tomcat & SIA running under Service account

Snapshot of Josh's ktpass command results:

My ktpass command results:

C:\>ktpass -out serviceaccount.keytab -princ serviceaccount@DOMAINNAME -pass <Password> -kvno 255 -ptype KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL -crypto RC4-HMAC-NT

NOTE: creating a keytab but not mapping principal to any user.

For the account to work within a Windows domain, the

principal must be mapped to an account, either at the

domain level (with /mapuser) or locally (using ksetup)

If you intend to map serviceaccount@DOMAINNAME to an account through other m

eans

or don't need to map the user, this message can safely be ignored.

WARNING: pType and account type do not match. This might cause problems.

Key created.

Output keytab to serviceaccount.keytab:

Keytab version: 0x502

keysize 63serviceaccount@DOMAINNAME ptype 1 (KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL) vno 255 etype 0x17 (RC4-HMAC) keylength 16 (0x51170bf7e07e9d02bcbff669f9725f6e)

** 0x1   Failed to create file!

Failed to write keytab file mbdbouat.keytab.

Good news: I see the Key created line in my results.

Bad news (& the difference): I see keysize 63 when compared to Josh's keysize 59. Is that an issue? Or I'm looking at the wrong place?

And obviously, the last 2 lines in my result where it says, Failed to create file and the next line (in red)

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Mahboob Mohammed