Comments on: OWB11gR2 on Windows?

By: Danilo

Danilo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:19:28 +0000

Nice article congratulations.

I’ve followed your instructions and I already have a repository in a 11gR2 DB outside the VM. When I start the OWB Design Center under Windows, it doesn’t prompt the connection dialog, so I can’t get access to my repository. How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Danilo

By: Mark M

Mark M — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:44:14 +0000

Great find. Actually easier than waiting for the entire install.

Rgds/Mark M.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:19:37 +0000

Any suggestions on how to make this work on Windows 7?

By: Borkur Steingrimsson

Borkur Steingrimsson — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:05:44 +0000

Thanks for your feedback, Andy.

Like you said, there doesn’t have to be an upgrade of an existing repository involved. At the time of my write-up I had an 11gR1 repo already on the same machine so I took that route. You could also be using an existing repo that matches your version or go for a clean new one. Both seem to work just fine.

cheers
Borkur

By: Andy Pearce

Andy Pearce — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:20:51 +0000

Borkur – inspired idea!

I managed to get round the JAVA_HOME hard coding issue by simply copying the directory structure of my jdk installation under the OWB Home, seems to work fine.

Also, rather than upgrading an existing 11GR1 repository (I only had 10gR2 database available outside the VM), you can run the reposinst.bat script directly – once I created a blank rtrepos.properties file it ran through without error…

By: Borkur Steingrimsson

Borkur Steingrimsson — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:11:19 +0000

@Antonio The real reason for me trying this was to get one VM with OWB11gR2 and OBIEE to run demos. This runs smoothly and doesn’t seem to have any problems at all. I promise I won’t call Support for help on this ‘hack’ ;)

@Mark The Control Center Service runs fine as well, but since I am not using the JDK that should come with the OWB install I had to hard-code the %JAVAHOME% in the run_service_local.bat file to point to my own JAVAHOME. After that I ran local_service_login.bat -startup e:\oracle\product\owb to start the service. This gives you a chance to start both the CCA and the CCS

By: antonio romero

antonio romero — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:20:40 +0000

Borkur,

You’re a very brave man.

I wouldn’t recommend calling Support with any issues but I suppose people are welcome to try stuff… :)

-Antonio

By: Borkur Steingrimsson

Borkur Steingrimsson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:42:39 +0000

@Rich Go for it ;)

@Mark To start the CCA you need to fix one file, E:\oracle\product\owb\owb\jrt\config\secure-web-site.xml . The path to the ssl-config keystore is hard-coded to the original Linux OWB_HOME. Change it to fit where you copied OWB and it should start up w.o. any problems. I haven’t deployed anything to it yet, but I’ll report back here if I have any issues.

@Venkat I guess I have my Friday evening plans set for me then!

By: uli bethke

uli bethke — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:27:43 +0000

Nice one. Good thinking.

By: Venkatakrishnan J

Venkatakrishnan J — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:26:48 +0000

Nice one Borkur. I doubt whether Wine will get BI Admin to run on Linux as i did go down that route once but had stopped midway since BI Admin is not a self contained exe. It has quite a good number of dependencies on other files. But let us know how it goes, as always, in the blog :-)