Comments on: Discoverer 11g Now Available for Download

By: Mark Rittman

Mark Rittman — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:13:55 +0000

Hi Manohar

Check out “data templates” in the BI Publisher documentation.

regards, Mark

By: Manohar

Manohar — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:18:49 +0000

Hi Mark,

Can you please help on this issue.

I have invoice report in BI publisher i am using 3 different queries to populate the values on the report. I need to link these three queries. I have taken a single parameter and passing same parameter to all queries. This is working fine for single invoice. Now I need to print Multiple Invoices at a time.
Can you please tell me how can i link the 3 queries in Data model.

Thanks in Advance
Manohar

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:33:51 +0000

Hi Mark

I am looking at the differences between BI Discoverer and OBIEE – I understand OBIEE is much better to connect different data sources, however I also have read it is possible to do a similar thing with generic connectivity for discoverer?

What are the major differences between the two?

By: Mark Rittman

Mark Rittman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:25:12 +0000

Hi Ramana,

I’ve no idea, I’m afraid, we rarely use Discoverer now and certainly haven’t worked with any production 11g installations, most people we work with have migrated to OBIEE. Best place to check would be My Oracle Support, or raise an SR to get a definitive answer from Oracle.

regards, Mark

By: Mark Rittman

Mark Rittman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:24:10 +0000

Hi Veronique,

There’s no requirement for you to go to Discoverer 11g before migrating to OBIEE. The OBIEE RPD migration wizard works with both 10g and 11g End-User Layers, and whilst I don’t know full details of the Workbook Migration Wizard that is due out later in 2010, I don’t think it’ll require an upgrade to Discoverer 11g (an upgrade that is still pretty rare at the moment).

regards

Mark

By: Ramana

Ramana — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:02:33 +0000

Hi Mark,
Is Discoverer 10.1.2.54.25 CP6 supported /certified with IE 8. Our EBS is on 11.5.10.2 and we plan to use IE 8 on all the client machines. Will there be any issues for our discoverer users where Discoverer 10.1.2.54.25 is integrated with the EBS?

I could not find the certification matrix for Discoverer in the new metalink site and also there are 2 metalink notes which have conflicting info. One says only 11g disco is certified for IE 8 (note id: 843865.1)where as the other metalink note says we can use 10.1.2.54.25 with IE 8 provided discoverer patch 5673463 is applied over 10.1.2.54.25.

Could you please advise?

Thanks,
Ramana

By: Veronique

Veronique — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:50:07 +0000

If we plan to migrate to OBIEE, do you think it’s a good move to migrate to Disco 11g before? Will the migration to OBIEE will be easily? (we are now using Disco 10.1.2.55.26)

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:23:14 +0000

Mark,

I was finally able to install disco 11g on Linux. I am also able to reach the Connect page where you enter your connection info. But at this stage, it give me a the cannot resolve tns error. On the server I have verified that the tnsnames.ora exists and I can do a tnsping .

I am at a complete loss as to where Discoverer 11.x is looking as far as the connection string is concerned. Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Manish

By: Iain Sear

Iain Sear — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:18:49 +0000

Even if it were exactly the same the most important aspect of there being a discoverer 11g is that it is now on the new Oracle lifetime support policy. i.e. we know we will have a supported product for many years to come, so no panic any more to migrate to a new reporting tool. Especially if you dont want/need a datawarehouse approach like OBIEE with all the complexity, cost.

By: Asif

Asif — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:04:02 +0000

Manih,

Check Metalink Note 858748.1 for you query.

Regards,

Asif