This document lists new features, system requirements, known issues, and fixed issues for Noetix Generator 3.5 for Oracle Business Intelligence.

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1 Release Notes Noetix Generator 3.5 for Oracle Business Intelligence This document lists new features, system requirements, known issues, and fixed issues for Noetix Generator 3.5 for Oracle Business Intelligence. Contents: What s New?...1 System Requirements...2 Patches...2 Known Issues Specific To The 3.5 Release...3 Other Known Issues...6 Fixed Issues WHAT S NEW? This release includes the following new capabilities: Support for Incremental Regeneration Noetix Generator now allows administrators to incrementally regenerate NoetixViews and Noetix Analytics into Oracle BI. Administrators can now select just the NoetixViews or Noetix Analytics subject areas they wish to regenerate in Noetix Generator. The generator will regenerate the selected content and skip the rest. Use of the incremental regeneration feature can greatly reduce the time it takes to regenerate Noetix content into Oracle Business Intelligence. Support for NoetixViews 6.2 Noetix Generator now supports generating NoetixViews 6.2 content into Oracle Business Intelligence. Support for time dimensions and chronological keys in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g For Noetix Analytics, Noetix Generator automatically flags logical dimension hierarchies based on the date dimension as time dimensions. It also defines a chronological key for the hierarchy, enabling report authors to use the advanced relative date functions available in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. Noetix Generator also supports customization of the generated date dimensions, allowing administrators to finetune the generated date dimension hierarchies to fit business requirements. Provide metadata validation functionality for NoetixViews Noetix generator now extends metadata validation capability to NoetixViews. A new Validate Metadata option exists on the Execution Plan tab of the generator. Selecting this box will cause the generator to run a series of tests to trap metadata errors before they can corrupt generated repositories.

2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS In order to successfully use Noetix Generator for Oracle Business Intelligence, the administrator computer that it will be installed on must meet the hardware and software requirements listed below. Hardware Minimum Recommended Processors Single processor Single processor or better Free Disk Space 1 4 GB 4 8 GB RAM (Oracle BI 10g) RAM (Oracle BI 11g) 2 GB 2 4 GB 4 GB on client, 6 GB on server 4 8 GB on client, 8+ GB on server Software Operating System Microsoft Technology Oracle Connectivity Oracle Business Intelligence 10g Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Noetix Content Required Software Components 32-bit versions of: Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 2003 Microsoft Windows 2008, including 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit versions of: Microsoft Windows 2003 Microsoft Windows 2008, including 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0, available from 32-bit Oracle Client 9.2 or later, including SQL*Plus. The version installed must be compatible with the Oracle database in which the NOETIX_SYS schema is defined Oracle BI or administration tools. The version installed must be compatible with the Oracle BI server. Oracle BI , , or administration tools and The Oracle WebLogic scripting tool (WLST). The versions installed must be compatible with the Oracle BI server, and additional.jar files and CLASSPATH settings may be required for WLST. Prior to running Noetix software against a new Oracle BI 11g installation, you should confirm that you are able to take the Oracle sample.rpd repositories on and off line with no errors, and that you are able to create and run reports against these samples. NoetixViews must be generated, including the AnswerBuilder stage (stage 5), or Noetix Analytics must be implemented, with the Active Metadata Repository (AMDR) populated. For Noetix Analytics 5.1.1, additional hook scripts must be in place before the generator is run, as documented in the Generation Prerequisites section of the Administrator Guide. These hook scripts are not required for Noetix Analytics 5.2 and should be manually removed after upgrading to that version. PATCHES Patches to Noetix software are periodically released for the resolution of bugs. Each patch will include a readme file that will contain instructions for application of the patch, among other details. Contact Noetix Technical Support to obtain the latest patches for Noetix Generator for Oracle Business Intelligence.

3 KNOWN ISSUES SPECIFIC TO THE 3.5 RELEASE For the latest information on known issues for this release, please refer to the Noetix online knowledge base. Noetix Generator may complete with one warning without highlighting the warning message Noetix Generator produces a warning when an incremental regeneration is performed and there are no changes required to the physical layer of the Oracle BI repository. In this scenario, a No physical layer objects to regenerate message will be logged without including a WARNING prefix, making it difficult for administrators to quickly find the warning referenced in the generation summary message. This cosmetic error will be fixed in a future release of Noetix Generator. For now, the message referenced above can be considered a benign warning if it is encountered. [30453] ORA Connection not open error on 64 bit installations with older Oracle clients Certain older Oracle clients do not work properly with executables installed in folders with parentheses in their paths, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\. If you encounter the ORA error either re-install the generator in a different location or use a newer Oracle client such as [29580] Incorrectly defined primary key metadata can cause consistency check errors in the Oracle BI repository Error number may be returned for NoetixViews for Services and NoetixViews for Oracle Supply Chain content during a consistency check of a generated Oracle BI repository. This behavior is caused by incorrectly defined primary key metadata in the NoetixViews Metadata Repository. This problem will be resolved in a future release of NoetixViews. To work around the problem now, add the following SQL statements to the hk_popgvw.sql hook script file: update n_gen_view_columns set primary_key_flag = 'N' where (view_name, column_name) in ( select 'CSDG0_Service_Requests', 'Z$CSG0_Customers' from dual union select 'CSIG0_Instances', 'Z$INVG0_Items' from dual ); commit; [30247] nqudmlgen.exe may fail to parse an existing repository during a regeneration due to Windows settings Regeneration of an existing Oracle BI repository may fail with the error below, followed by blank lines during the parse of the repository: [Noetix.OBIEEGenerator.GeneratorTask] Generation failed System.ApplicationException: nqudmlgen failed with error: This behavior is caused by Microsoft Windows security settings hindering Oracle s nqudmlgen.exe utility from creating temporary files. To resolve this issue, launch Noetix Generator as an administrator. [30419]

4 Joins defined in metadata with different data types will cause consistency check errors An error similar to: [38078] Complex join "[Noetix-Views] Complex Join - GMSG0_Projects to HRG0_Lov_Employees" : A comparison is being carried out between non-compatible types. may be returned during a global consistency check if joins between views are defined incorrectly in the Noetix Metadata Repository. This issue will be resolved in a future release of NoetixViews. To work around the issue now, include the following in the hk_popgvw.sql generator hook &GEN_API_DIR/hk_popgvw update n_gen_view_columns set data_type = 'VARCHAR2',generator_data_type = 'VARCHAR2' where view_name = 'GMSG0_Projects' and column_name = 'Project_Manager_Number'; [29440] Checking-in and saving changes to an online Oracle BI repository may take a long time for larger repositories Oracle BI s check-in and save routines may perform poorly for larger Oracle BI repositories. This problem can appear with Noetix-generated repositories due to the depth and breadth of out-of-the-box content provided by Noetix. [28254] A View Display Error may be returned when executing certain Noetix-generated report and dashboard templates in Oracle BI An Exceeded configured maximum number of allowed output prompts, sections, rows, or columns error may be returned when executing certain report and dashboard templates created by Noetix Generator. This problem is usually caused by the number of rows to display being larger than what Oracle BI is configured to allow. This problem can be worked around by modifying the <MaxVisibleRows> setting for report tables and pivot tables within the Oracle BI configuration. This problem is external to Noetix. Contact Oracle Support for more information on this issue. [30282] Consistency check warnings may be returned on Oracle BI repositories Consistency check warnings similar to: The physical column '"[Noetix-TEST] prod.seattle".."noetix_sys"."bomg0_bills"."basis"' has property Length set to zero. may be returned when performing a global consistency check on Noetix-generated repositories for Oracle BI Columns that are deprecated in newer versions of NoetixViews have a data type length set to zero. Previous versions of Oracle BI accepted columns with a data type length of zero, but v now produces a warning. This problem is external to Noetix Generator, but can be worked around by implementing one of the following: 1. Modify existing reports that use the deprecated columns to use different columns and then suppress the deprecated columns in NoetixViews. 2. Use a generator hook script to modify the data type length for deprecated columns to have a length greater than zero. Contact Noetix Support for help writing this hook script. [29948]

5 An access denied for user to path error may be returned when generating NoetixAnswers if the administrator does not have sufficient permission An error message similar to: System.ApplicationException: Could not generate answer "What has been paid in finance charges in a given period for an invoice? (APG0_Interest_Invoices)" ---> System.ServiceModel.FaultException: access denied for user to path /shared/noetix-test when generating NoetixAnswers into the Oracle BI web catalog. This problem occurs because the Oracle BI user specified in Noetix Generator does not have sufficient permission to create objects in the Oracle BI web catalog. To resolve this issue, regenerate NoetixAnswers using an Oracle BI user with permission to read, write and delete objects in the Oracle BI web catalog. [27494]

6 OTHER KNOWN ISSUES Noetix Analytics generator hookscripts should be removed when upgrading to Noetix Analytics 5.2 The generator hook scripts b24729.sql, b26028.sql, b26109.sql, and b24197.sql were all required for use with Noetix Analytics installations that included FSG or Multiple Global Currency for Financials. These scripts will have no effect against Noetix Analytics 5.2 and should be cleaned up as follows: 1. Delete these scripts from the [Generator Install Folder]\Scripts folder. 2. @b24197) to these scripts from your hk_popgvw.sql and hk_popgpres.sql hook script files in the [Generator Install Folder]\Scripts folder. These steps are independent of the Noetix Generator version, and dependent only on the Noetix Analytics version. Regardless of Noetix Generator version, the scripts should be kept in place until Noetix Analytics has been upgraded. [27847] Noetix Generator doesn't support additional root nodes in Business Manager A Noetix Analytics customer may attempt to use Business Manager to create a new sibling root node next to the Noetix Analytics root node. This violates assumptions in the SQL API used by the Noetix Generator, and will cause a generation error. [27900] Data source names must be globally unique within Noetix Analytics A Noetix Analytics customer may attempt to use Metadata Manager to create two data sources with the same name but in separate parent schemas. This is not currently supported by the Noetix Generator, and will cause a generation error. [27902] End users must have applicable roles in order to utilize views whose joins span roles Certain Z$ joins between Noetix views span multiple NoetixViews roles. This allows report authors with greater flexibility in creating reports and dashboards, but requires the report author and end users of the report to be members of all applicable NoetixViews roles in order to access the related views. [20014] Report and dashboard prompts may perform poorly against NoetixViews when the Limited Values option is selected Oracle Business Intelligence provides report authors with a Limited Values option when defining a report prompt. This option takes all report filters and previously selected prompts into account when constructing a list of values to display to the user. For example, a City prompt would be filtered to include only the appropriate cities if a value was specified for a State prompt that preceded it. Noetix Generator defines additional logical table sources and dimension levels to redirect Oracle BI to a better performing list of values (LOV) view when a prompt is loaded. This design does not work, however, when Limited Values is selected in the prompt s definition because these LOV views only include the column in question. When Oracle BI includes filters and prompts that reference other columns, the BI server is forced to use the primary logical table source that references the transaction view to fulfill the request. Noetix recommends utilizing the All Values option instead. This will ensure that Oracle BI utilizes the LOV view instead of the transaction view when building a list of values for a prompt. [25272]

7 Generation of NoetixAnswers will fail if the Remove underscores from generated presentation column names option is changed between repository and answer generations The Remove underscores from generated presentation column names option in Noetix Generator should not be modified between repository and answer generations. Doing so will result in an error during the generation of NoetixAnswers because Noetix Generator will attempt to create report and dashboard specifications with incorrect presentation column references. Ensure that this option is kept consistent between repository and answer generations. [27550] The wlstcmdlocation setting may need to be updated for certain Oracle BI 11g installations Noetix Generator ships with a default value of #wlstmwhome#\wlserver\common\bin\wlst.cmd for the wlstcmdlocation setting. This value inherits the value of the wlstmwhome setting and references the location of the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) wlst.cmd file. Certain Oracle BI 11g installations may have a different path to this file (for example: #wlstmwhome#\wlserver_10.3\common\bin\wlst.cmd ), which requires the value of this setting to be updated before performing a generation. [27435] Benign but unexpected application roles may be generated into Oracle WebLogic Certain roles in NoetixViews Global Extension, such as INVG0_INVENTORY, appear in multiple subject areas. The current release of Noetix Generator creates extra application roles in Oracle WebLogic for each instance of these duplicated roles if only a subset of the total possible instances were selected for generation. The extra application role instances are benign and can be ignored. This problem will be fixed in a future release. [26443] Noetix Generator utilizes view-level list of values references over answer-level references NoetixViews has the ability to associate a list of values (LOV) view with a column at both the view and answer levels. It is possible for an LOV to be defined at both levels. In some cases, the answer-level LOV differs from the one defined at the view level. Noetix Generator will use the view-level LOV definition if an inconsistency is found between it and the answer-level LOV definition. [23699] Populate Indexes and Constraints must be executed in Noetix Analytics Metadata Manager prior to launching an Analytics generation Noetix Generator requires index and constraint metadata to be populated and up-to-date in order to generate Noetix Analytics content properly. This metadata can become out of sync with the data marts and Operational Data Store after customizations are made. Populate Indexes and Constraints should be executed in Noetix Analytics Metadata Manager prior to every Noetix Analytics generation to ensure that Noetix Generator creates valid content. [26409] Generator hookscripts that ship with Noetix Analytics 5.1 and must be utilized for all Analytics generations For Noetix Analytics 5.1 and 5.1.1, the generator hookscripts that ship with Noetix Analytics in the Integration folder need to be executed during the generation process. Instructions on doing this can be found in the readme.txt file released with the hookscripts. These hookscripts should be removed upon upgrading to Noetix Analytics 5.2. [26153] Noetix Generator does not support SQL Server-based data marts and Operational Data Stores Noetix Generator for Oracle BI does not support generating Noetix Analytics content for environments that use Microsoft SQL Server for the data marts or Operational Data Store databases. [26145]

8 Connection pool connection scripts must be formatted differently for Oracle BI 11g A bug introduced in Oracle BI 11g requires connection script PL/SQL blocks on a connection pool to be formatted differently than in Oracle BI 10g. This affects row-level security configurations for Global views. The BEGIN and END keywords must now be in upper case and PL/SQL blocks must be formatted onto one line with no line breaks. Oracle has acknowledged this as a defect in Oracle BI 11g and may fix it in a future release. [26002] Noetix Generator should be closed and restarted after changing the value of ORACLE_INSTANCE For Oracle BI 11g, the ORACLE_INSTANCE environment variable must be set to the appropriate path on the computer where Noetix Generator is installed. If Noetix Generator was installed on an Oracle BI 11g server, ORACLE_INSTANCE should be set to [Oracle BI Install Directory]\instances\instance1, if the default options were selected during the installation of Oracle BI. If Noetix Generator was installed on an Oracle BI 11g administration computer, ORACLE_INSTANCE should be set to [OBI Admin Tool Install Dir]\oraclebi\orainst\bifoundation. Noetix Generator must be closed and restarted after modifying the value of the ORACLE_INSTANCE variable. [26089] Key flexfield structure-specific presentation tables are not available when key flexfield columns are embedded in transaction views Noetix Generator currently does not create presentation tables for key flexfield views if the NoetixViews configuration option to embed the associated key flexfield segment columns in the transaction views is enabled. This problem blocks report authors from creating reports that provide users with the ability to drill into more detail based on the key flexfield structure. This problem can be resolved by obtaining a generator patch. Contact Noetix Technical Support to obtain the patch. [24033] Oracle BI s nqudmlexec.exe utility may fail on 64-bit editions of Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Oracle BI s nqudmlexec.exe utility may fail to import larger UDML files when installed on 64-bit editions of Windows 2008 and Windows 7. This will cause Noetix Generator to fail during the Generate Repository step, since it utilizes nqudmlexec.exe to import UDML files into an Oracle BI repository. This problem can be worked around by breaking up the generation into multiple smaller generations using different top level names. Contact Oracle Support regarding this issue with the nqudmlexec.exe utility. [23973] A benign warning message may be issued when generating NoetixAnswers for NoetixViews 6.0 Global Extension A warning message similar to: Subject Area "[Noetix-Global] NoetixViews for Oracle Projects" not found in repository -- skipping Answer(s). may be returned when generating certain global roles. This occurs when a global role exists in more than one global subject area. For example, INVG0_INVENTORY exists in both the NoetixViews for Oracle Discrete Manufacturing and NoetixViews for Oracle Supply Chain. These warnings are benign and can be ignored. [24051]

9 Incorrect Microsoft ODBC for Oracle driver on 64-bit operating systems causes generator to fail Noetix Generator may return one of the following errors during the use of the generator: Noetix Analytics: Failed to get lookup data. Please edit the entries and try again. Oracle client and networking components were not found. These components are supplied by Oracle Corporation and are part of the Oracle Version or later client software installation. Provider is unable to function until these components are installed. NoetixViews: Failed to validate NoetixViews source. Please edit the entries and try again. Failed to connect to the metadata source! This problem is due to an invalid configuration of the Microsoft ODBC for Oracle driver. The following articles from Microsoft and Oracle explain this problem in more detail and outline how to resolve it (the Oracle articles require an Oracle Support account to access): [24021] Report templates with long names may return an error when viewed Many Noetix answers have long, descriptive names describing the business question that is answered by the report template. During the generation process, Oracle Business Intelligence stores the definition of these answers on the host operating system s file system. As a result, report template names are subject to the file name and path limitations of the host operating system. Some report templates with long names created by Noetix Generator will return an Invalid path() error when viewed for the first time. Oracle MetaLink has confirmed this to be a problem in Oracle Business Intelligence and has opened enhancement request to resolve the issue. To work around the issue: Click on the report in Oracle BI Answers a second time. This problem appears to only affect the first execution of a report. Write a generator hook script to shorten report template names by abbreviating long words. Contact Noetix for assistance in writing the hook script if you are unsure of how to do so. [21852] Some Noetix answers may return a syntax error when viewed Certain Noetix answers may return a syntax error (nqserror: 26012) when viewed. The SQL issued, which will be part of the error message, will typically reference the string --Select actual values--". This problem occurs because the global prompt that uses that string as its default value has a numeric data type, which clashes with the string-based default value. This problem will be addressed in a future release of Noetix Generator. To work around the problem, remove the default value and select or enter a valid numeric value then click Go on the dashboard again. The dashboard template should work as expected. [22016]

10 Dashboard index pages may return an error unless they are first viewed by an administrator End users may receive the following error when viewing dashboard templates: Assertion failure: proot at line 107 of./project/webxml/xmldocument.cpp Error Details Error Codes: OQ78YWIW This problem is a known issue in Oracle Business Intelligence. This problem can be worked around by logging into Presentation Services as a user with administrative privileges and then viewing the overview pages for each generated dashboard template. It is not necessary to view each individual Noetix answerbased dashboard page. End users will be able to use the dashboard templates without error after they are viewed by an administrative user. Contact Oracle for a permanent solution to this problem. [22062] Report templates that would return a large data set may fail with error Report and dashboard templates that typically return a large amount of data in a pivot table view in Oracle BI Answers and Oracle BI Dashboards may fail with a QBVC92JY error. This problem occurs because settings in Oracle BI keep it from processing and displaying large data sets. This behavior can be mitigated by modifying the <CubeMaxPopulatedCells> and <CubeMaxRecords> settings in the instanceconfig.xml file that is part of Oracle BI. Refer to Oracle Metalink document for more information regarding this problem and its resolution. [21785] Unresolved column warnings may be returned during the generation of certain answers Some Noetix answers reference A$ columns in the underlying Noetix views. A$ columns are omitted from the presentation layer of the repository, which causes the generator to return a warning during the generation of NoetixAnswers when it encounters an answer that references an A$ column. In most cases, a hook script can be written to solve this problem, if desired. Contact Noetix for information on writing this hook script. [21939] Administrators must manually delete problematic report templates Noetix Generator has a Save invalid answers to Presentation Services for diagnostic purposes option that can be used to diagnose problems with specific report and dashboard templates. When this option is enabled, Noetix Generator will save problematic answers to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. Subsequent regenerations of NoetixAnswers will not remove these report and dashboard templates once the option is disabled. They must currently be manually removed from the Presentation Catalog using Oracle BI s Manage Catalog screen. Problematic report templates will produce a warning in the generation log. That log can be used to determine which report and dashboard templates must be manually deleted. [21944] Deselecting a NoetixViews role will not remove associated answers during NoetixAnswers regeneration Deselecting a NoetixViews role then performing a regeneration of the Oracle BI repository will remove the objects associated with the role from the repository. The same is not true for regeneration of NoetixAnswers; report and dashboard templates associated with deselected roles will not be removed automatically. Report and dashboard templates must be manually removed using Oracle BI s Manage Catalog screen. In some cases it may be easier to delete the entire Top Level Name folder from the Presentation Catalog and then perform another generation of NoetixAnswers. [22002]

11 The Oracle BI Presentation Service may stop unexpectedly after viewing a detail table in a dashboard template The Oracle BI Presentation Service may stop unexpectedly after an end user attempts to view a large pivot table view. This is a known issue in Oracle Business Intelligence and has been logged as bug by Oracle Support. Oracle has released a patch for Oracle Business Intelligence to correct this problem. Contact Oracle Support to obtain the patch. [21958] Large generated repositories may not be usable by Oracle BI It is possible to generate an Oracle BI repository that is 400 MB or larger. Repositories larger than 400 MB may not be usable by Oracle BI. When configured to use a large repository, the Oracle BI Server service will fail to start and will report an error in the Event Log. This behavior is a known problem with Oracle BI. If encountered, Noetix recommends eliminating objects from the repository to decrease its size or scaling a large NoetixViews installation into multiple smaller Oracle BI repositories. See the Troubleshooting section of the Administrator Guide for more information about how to solve this problem. Implementing NoetixViews 6.0 Global Extension instead of NoetixViews Standard or Cross Operations will also resolve this problem, since Global Extension creates a single set of views and applies row-level security to them instead of creating multiple instances of each view in order to support row-level security. [19590] Generation may fail with an out-of-memory error when many roles are selected It is possible for the generator to run out of memory while attempting to generate a large number of NoetixViews roles into a repository. When this happens, one of the following errors will be written to the generation log: Cannot handle Out of memory condition: the nquire Heap layer was not initialized properly with an allocation failure handler Generation error Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. The first error is caused by a limitation in Oracle BI s nqudmlexec.exe utility and the second error is caused by a limitation in the generator itself. If either of these errors is encountered, the number of objects generated should be limited as described in the Large generated repositories may not be usable by Oracle BI known issue. These problems can also be solved by performing multiple generations with subsets of NoetixViews content and different top level names. Performing multiple generations will reduce the amount of metadata that must be processed at one time and will also reduce the size of the Universal Data Markup Language (UDML) files that nqudmlexec.exe must work with. While these problems can still occur, they are less likely to happen because Noetix Generator now breaks the UDML it generates into a larger number of smaller files, which require less memory to import. See the release note for issue in the Fixed Issues section of this document for more details. [19790] Columns with a data type of LONG throw an error in Oracle BI Answers Reports that include a column from a presentation table that has a LONG data type in Oracle cannot be used in Oracle BI Answers. The following error will be returned: [nqserror: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nqserror: 17001] Oracle Error code: 997, message: ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype at OCI call OCIStmtExecute. This is a known issue in Oracle Business Intelligence. Contact Oracle for information on how to resolve this problem. [19997]

12 Administrator user names that contain double quotes cannot be used when generating into an existing repository A generation will fail with errors if a repository administrator s user name that contains double quotes is specified in the Repository Credentials section of the Target Parameters tab of the Noetix Generator tool. To work around this problem, specify an administrative account that does not have double quotes in the user name. [20950]

13 FIXED ISSUES The following issues have been fixed in Noetix Generator 3.5 for Oracle Business Intelligence: Multi-column list of value sources cause query time errors Certain columns with list of value mappings based on multi-column physical table sources could cause [nqserror: 14063] query time errors when used in prompts. This issue affected the functionality of the key flex field (KFF) views, and has been fixed in this release. [25603] Validate Metadata capability now extends to NoetixViews sources This release of Noetix Generator now extends metadata validation capability to NoetixViews. A new Validate Metadata option exists on the Execution Plan tab of the generator. Selecting this box will cause the generator to run a series of tests to trap metadata errors before they can corrupt generated repositories. [29404] Noetix Generator now supports incremental regeneration This release of Noetix Generator now allows administrators to incrementally regenerate NoetixViews and Noetix Analytics into Oracle BI. Administrators can now select just the NoetixViews or Noetix Analytics subject areas they wish to regenerate in Noetix Generator. The generator will regenerate the selected content and skip the rest. Use of the incremental regeneration feature can greatly reduce the time it takes to regenerate Noetix content into Oracle Business Intelligence. [20956] Noetix Generator now flags date dimensions as time dimensions in Oracle BI 11g For Noetix Analytics content in Oracle BI 11g, Noetix Generator automatically flags logical dimension hierarchies based on the date dimension as time dimensions. This unlocks some advanced analysis capability in Oracle BI, adding value for report authors. [22570] Noetix Generator no longer incorrectly includes list of value views in transactional view queries Previous versions of Noetix Generator caused list of value (LOV) views to be incorrectly included in queries issued by Oracle BI against transactional Noetix views. This release resolves this issue while still correctly directing the SELECT DISTINCT queries used for populating prompts to the appropriate LOV views. [29672] Noetix Generator now sets a chronological key in generated date dimensions for Oracle BI 11g This release defines a chronological key for each date dimension hierarchy, enabling report authors to use the advanced relative date functions available in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. Noetix Generator also supports customization of the generated date dimensions, allowing administrators to fine-tune the generated date dimension hierarchies to fit business requirements. Contact Noetix Support for help writing generator hook scripts to set chronological keys at additional levels in date hierarchies. [29970] Noetix Analytics metadata validation tests no longer fail with ORA errors Previous releases of Noetix Generator may incorrectly report metadata validation errors with an ORA error when Noetix Generator is used against older versions of Noetix Analytics. This problem was caused by validation tests that queried Noetix Analytics 5.2-specific columns that are not available in earlier versions of Noetix Analytics. This version of Noetix Generator resolves this issue. [30134]

14 Oracle E-Business Suite inventory organizations with periods (.) in their names now appear correctly in the Choose Roles dialog Previous release of Noetix Generator would omit NoetixViews Standard roles for inventory organizations with periods (.) in their names. This would keep Noetix Generator from generating views related to these organizations into Oracle BI. This problem has been fixed in this release of Noetix Generator. [25224] Noetix Analytics field descriptions and source documentation now show up properly in Oracle BI Field descriptions and source documentation would not show up properly as hover-over text in Oracle BI when previous versions of Noetix Generator were used to create the Oracle BI repository. This problem has been resolved in this release. Regenerating Noetix Analytics content into Oracle BI will cause field description information to show up properly as presentation column descriptions. [28113] Noetix Generator no longer returns validation errors when generating just the UDML files against Oracle BI Previous releases of Noetix Generator would return validation errors when the Generate UDML Files step was selected in Noetix Generator without also selecting the Generate Repository step. This problem has been resolved and Noetix Generator now supports generating UDML files without also creating an Oracle BI repository. [29211] Noetix-generated report templates that are sourced from multiple views now work correctly Previous releases of Noetix Generator would not include the appropriate JOIN ASSIST column in the definition for multi-view report templates. This may cause additional views to be included in the resulting queries sent to Oracle, providing unexpected results. This problem has been resolved in this release. [23898] NoetixAnswers generations no longer fail with an invalid account type 3 error With previous releases of Noetix Generator, the Generate NoetixAnswers step would fail when setting security on generated report templates in certain Oracle BI 11g environments. The generations would fail with errors similar to: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Invalid account type 3 received. Could be either 0 for user, 1 for group or 2 for approles. This error would appear if an externally authenticated Oracle BI user was specified in Noetix Generator. The generator would attempt to set this user as the owner of each report template, which would fail. This version of Noetix Generator now sets the owner to be the BI Administrator role, eliminating the error. [29765] Oracle passwords are no longer visible in Windows Task Manager when Noetix Generator calls Oracle SQL*Plus Previous releases of Noetix Generator would call Oracle SQL*Plus to populate the generator metadata layer in a way that would expose Oracle passwords within the local Windows Task Manager. This release resolves that problem and passwords are no longer visible in Task Manager. [28050]

15 Noetix Generator no longer returns an error if the TNS name is specified in a different case than used in the original repository generation Previous releases of Noetix Generator would return an error similar to: System.ApplicationException: Connection pool [XXX] appears to be a new connection pool name. The name of an existing connection pool cannot be changed. when regenerating an existing Oracle BI repository if the TNS name specified in Noetix Generator was specified in a different case than what was specified originally. Noetix Generator now does a caseinsensitive comparison of TNS names in order to ensure that the connection pool s properties weren t changed as part of the regeneration. [28563] Certain metadata validation tests for Noetix Analytics are executed prior to populating the generator metadata layer to eliminate unnecessary processing Previous releases of Noetix Generator would always populate the generator metadata layer by running the generator s PL/SQL scripts before validating Noetix Analytics metadata. This process could take a significant amount of time. This release of Noetix Generator now runs certain metadata validation tests directly against the Noetix Analytics Active Metadata Repository (AMDR) prior to populating the generator metadata layer. This new functionality allows administrators to find metadata problems sooner and also traps metadata errors that would cause the generator PL/SQL scripts to fail. [29454] Noetix Analytics separator columns no longer appear in the wrong place in the Oracle BI repository presentation layer Noetix Analytics separator columns, such as Metrics and Attributes, could occasionally appear in incorrect locations within a presentation table in the Oracle BI repository. This release resolves this problem. Regenerating the Noetix Analytics content in the Oracle BI repository will resolve the issue. [30206] The Remove underscores from generated presentation column names option is no longer available for Noetix Analytics sources Previous releases of Noetix Generator included a remove underscores from generated presentation column names option that was unnecessary for Noetix Analytics. The Business Manager metadata used to populate the presentation layer already eliminates underscores in field names. The unnecessary option has been removed in this release of Noetix Generator. [26417] The Presentation Services Security Options settings no longer appear in Noetix Generator for Noetix Analytics sources Previous releases would show a Presentation Services Security Options section on the Target Parameters tab in Noetix Generator when Noetix Analytics was selected as the metadata source. These settings were never used, since NoetixAnswers report templates are not available for Noetix Analytics. This section no longer appears on the Target Parameters tab for Noetix Analytics sources in this release. [29122] Certain date dimension columns are no longer missing from Noetix-generated business models within the Oracle BI repository Certain Noetix Analytics date dimension columns, such as CALENDAR_QUARTER, were incorrectly excluded from the generated business models in Oracle BI. This release resolves this issue. Missing date dimension columns are now included in the appropriate logical tables. In addition, date hierarchies are also generated that use these columns. [29464] July 20, 2012 Copyright 2012 Noetix Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Noetix, NoetixViews, and the Noetix logo are registered trademarks of Noetix Corporation. Other Noetix marks are trademarks of Noetix Corporation. All other company and product names mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.