Originally published by TriCore: May 17, 2017
Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer is a tool for ad hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and web publishing for the Oracle database environment.
Introduction
This two-part blog series covers the steps required to install or upgrade Discoverer within an existing E-Business Suite (EBS) R12 instance. Part 1 discussed the installation of the software required for the Discoverer 11.1.1.7 upgrade. This blog, Part 2, covers the details of integration and the Discoverer
End User Layers (EUL) upgrade.
Integration with Discoverer 11g
This section describes how to integrate e-Business Suite R12 with Discoverer 11g
by using the database connector (dbc) file, which uses a .dbc extension, and
the tnsnames.ora
configuration.
On your Discoverer node, include the tnsnames entry to connect to your EBS R12
database in file $ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/tnsnames.ora
.
Use the same entry that exists in the tnsnames.ora
file on your Oracle
E-Business Suite Release 12 application tier server node. The database name must
match the TWO_TASK entry in the dbc file.
Upgrade or create Discoverer EUL
If you already have an existing Discoverer EUL, you might need to upgrade to upgrade. The upgrade steps depend on your Discoverer version. See the following sections for details.
Existing EUL and Discoverer 10.1.2
If you have an existing Discoverer EUL and it is from Discoverer 10.1.2, you are not required to upgrade. Discoverer Version 11.1.1 uses the same EUL version as Discoverer 10.1.2. The dbc file is not transferred during the upgrade. After the upgrade, you must copy the dbc file manually.
Existing EUL and version older than Discoverer 10.1.2
If you have an existing Discoverer EUL and its version predates Discoverer 10.1.2, upgrade it to Discoverer 11g by using the following commands on the standalone application server where Oracle Fusion Middleware Discoverer 11g is installed:
$ source $ORACLE_INSTANCE/Discoverer/Discoverer_<ias-instance>/util/discenv.sh
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/eulapi -CONNECT <EUL User>/<Password>@<db> -AUTO_UPGRADE
Create new EUL for Discoverer 11.1.1
If you don’t have an existing EUL, you must create one for the new Discoverer 11.1.1. Fresh installations of the E-Business Suite R12 Vision database do contain a preinstalled Discoverer EUL, but other versions do not come with the EUL.
Run the following command to create an EUL:
% sqlplus /NOLOG
SQL> connect sys/<sys_password> as sysdba
SQL> create tablespace DISCOVERER datafile \
'[DB_ORACLE_HOME]/dbf/discoverer01.dbf' size 200M reuse \
extent management local uniform size 128K;
SQL> /
Statement Processed
To create the Discoverer EUL before running command line scripts, you must run the following command to source the environment script:
$ source $ORACLE_INSTANCE/Discoverer/Discoverer_<ias-instance>/util/discenv.sh
Configure platform-specific environment settings
If you are using Discoverer on 64-bit platforms (such as Oracle Solaris on SPARC®
64 bit, HP-UX® PA-RISC 64 bit, HP-UX Itanium 64 bit, IBM® AIX 64 bit,
Linux x86-64), find the line in $ORACLE_INSTANCE/Discoverer/Discoverer_<ias-instance>/util/discenv.sh
that defines variable LIB_PATH
and set it by using the following code:
LIB_PATH=$OH/discoverer/lib:$OH/lib:/usr/lib:$OH/lib32
If you are using Discoverer on 64-bit platform Linux x86-64, find the line that
defines variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
and comment it out as shown in the following
code:
#export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/eulapi \
-CREATE_EUL \
-APPS_MODE \
-CONNECT system/<password>@<db> \
-USER <EUL_User_Prefix>_US \
-PASSWORD <password> \
-DEFAULT_TABLESPACE <default tablespace> \
-TEMPORARY_TABLESPACE <temp tablespace> \
-EUL_LANGUAGE US \
-APPS_GRANT_DETAILS <FNDNAM>/<FNDNAM password>
Apply patch containing adupdeul.sh and adrfseul.sh
Apply one of the following patches by using the adpatch
option:
- For version 12.1, use Patch 9394002
- For version 12.0, use Patch 9384228
Set applications profile options for Discoverer by using autoconfig
To set the applications profile options for Discoverer, update the variable
s_disco_url
in CONTEXT_FILE
and run autoconfig
.
Set applications profile options in Oracle EBS
To set the applications profile options in EBS, navigate to the Profile > System form.
Query the Discoverer profile options looking for the following items:
- Inter-Cartridge eXchange(ICX): Discoverer Launcher - The URL that points to the Discoverer Plus servlet.
- ICX: Discoverer Viewer Launcher - The URL that points to the Discoverer Viewer servlet.
- ICX: Discoverer use Viewer - Specify whether the Discoverer Viewer should be launched instead of Discoverer Plus (default).
- ICX: Discoverer Default EUL schema prefix - The EUL prefix in
combination with the Language code make up the EUL owner at runtime. For
example, EUL owner
EUL_US
has the EUL prefixEUL
. - ICX: Discoverer EUL language override - Because the EUL content is currently available in US English only, it is possible to override the user’s general language preference for the Discoverer EUL using this profile option. The specified EUL language is used regardless of the individual user’s language preferences.
- ICX: Discoverer Release - This profile can be used to optionally pass additional URL parameters to Discoverer.
- Discoverer DBC filename override - This profile can be used to specify the DBC Filename that Discoverer should use to connect to the E-Business Suite database.
The following image shows these settings:

Run the “Generate Business Views by Application” concurrent program
To regenerate your business views, run the Generate Business Views by Application
concurrent program, as indicated in the following steps:
- Log on to Oracle E-Business Suite as
SYSADMIN
. - Choose the Business Views Setup responsibility.
- Navigate to Reports > Run > Pick Single Request > “Generate ALL Business Views”.
If you don’t have “Business Views Setup” responsibility assigned to the SYSADMIN
user, do the following:
- Log on to Oracle E-Business Suite as
SYSADMIN
. - Choose the System Administrator responsibility.
- Navigate to Security > User > Define and add responsibility
Business Views Setup to user
SYSADMIN
.
Recompile APPS objects
Recompile all objects in the APPS schema by using adadmin
.
Check the Business Intelligence system views
Ensure that the Business Intelligence system views exist and that they are valid by issuing the following command in SQL*Plus:
% sqlplus apps/<password>@<db>
SQL> select object_name from user_objects
where object_type = 'VIEW' and
status = 'INVALID' and
( object_name like '%FV_%' or object_name like '%FG_%' or
object_name like '%BV_%' or object_name like '%BG_%' )and
object_name in (select sobj_ext_table from eul_us.eul5_objs);
Grant EUL administration privileges
Grant EUL administrative privileges by running the following command:
sh eulapi > -CONNECT EUL_US/EUL_US@SID > -GRANT_PRIVILEGE > -USER SYSADMIN > -PRIVILEGE administration > -PRIVILEGE all_admin_privs > -LOG admin_priv.log
-connect <**********>
-grant_privilege
-user SYSADMIN
-privilege administration
-privilege all_admin_privs
-log <logfilename>
Provide security access
Ensure that user SYSADMIN
has full security access to all business areas by
running the following command:
sh $ORACLE_HOME/bin/eulapi > -CONNECT EUL_US/***@sid > -GRANT_PRIVILEGE > -USER SYSADMIN > -BUSINESS_AREA_ADMIN_ACCESS % > -WILDCARD > -LOG full_sec_acc.log
-connect <**********>
-grant_privilege
-user SYSADMIN
-business_area_admin_access %
-wildcard
-log <logfilename>
Import EBS Discoverer content
Access the $AU_TOP/discover
directory on your EBR R12 instance from the
Discoverer 11g BI instance. This directory was copied to the Discoverer server.
Start the import process of the Discoverer loader files (.eex files) by using the following command:
sh adupdeul.sh connect=sysadmin/sysadmin@SID resp="System Administrator"
gwyuid=APPLSYSPUB/*** fndnam=APPS secgroup="Standard" topdir=<loc>
language=US eulprefix=EUL iashome=loc eultype=OLTP mode=complete logfile=<logfilename>
Review the import log file and ignore the warnings during the import as described in DOC ID - 1074326.1.
Refresh the Discoverer 11.1.1 EUL
Refresh the Discoverer EUL by running the following command:
sh adrfseul.sh connect=sysadmin/*******@SID resp="System Administrator" gwyuid=APPLSYSPUB/*** fndnam=APPS secgroup="Standard" eulschema=EUL_US eulpassword=***** twotask=sid iashome=<loc> logfile=<logfilename>
Conclusion
This blog showed you how to configure or upgrade Discoverer to 11.1.1.7 on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, which supports Discoverer versions 11.1.1.6.0 and 11.1.1.7.0.
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