Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.6.1 –Patch 13742915 Released

Release Note for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.6.1 –Patch 13742915

This patch is highly recommended for all the customers who are using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.6.0. This patch is primarily intended to improve quality as it includes some high priority bugs.

Please see the Fixed Bugs list for the detail.

Note :- Customers who are currently using a version earlier than Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.6.0 should not apply this patch.

Important Information for Customers using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Suite version 11.1.1.6.0 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition customers currently running version 11.1.1.6.0 may encounter patch conflicts if this patch is applied.

A patch conflict occurs when two or more patches have some files in common but contain independent fixes, resulting in a roll back of previously applied fixes. It is very important that customers currently running version 11.1.1.6.0 pay attention to any notifications regarding conflicting patches presented by Opatch during application of this patch, as these patches will be rolled back if patch application continues.  Any patch rolled back due to the application of this PSU must be re-built for this patch before you can reinstall that fix. Open a service request with Oracle Support to request a merged patch if required.

Bugs Fixed in This Patch

13567594:SDE_FUSION_NATURALACCOUNTDIMENSION MAPPING FAILS IN RUP2 ETL

13355378:PROGRESS BAR HANGS FOR THE 'ADMINTOOL/COMMAND' UTILITY (PATCH COMMAND)

13360114:RPDPATCH DECISION FILE NEEDS TO FLAG DELETES THAT CONFLICT

13596792:PATCHRPD UNABLE TO HANDLE DELETED COMPLEX JOIN

13583718:SERVER CRASH DURING INTERNAL FULL OUTER STITCH JOIN ON COLUMNS WITH NUMERIC TYPE

13583449:SETTING WINDOW SIZE AND START RECORD RESULTS IN NO RECORDS (EXISTING PRODUCT)

13578840:FUSIONBI BI SERVER INITBLOCKS WITH UNIONS DONT BYPASS DIRECT DB ACCESS

13560202:EXTRACTPROJECT.EXE CRASHES DURING THE PATCHING PROCESS

13393226:INDEXCOL NOT TAKING MINUS CALCULATION (WORKS IN 10G BUT NOT IN 11G)

13568567:PROJECT EXTRACT FAILS TO EXTRACT CERTAIN PROJECTS DURING PATCHING

13596457:PATCHRPD IS NOT CORRECTLY UPDATING PROJECTS WHEN SUBSET PATCHING IS BEING USED

13581658:BIAPPS RUP2 FORCE WEBCAT UPGRADE

13628171:CONSISTENCY CHECK DOESN'T FIX MISSING LTS FOLDERS

13526632:DTE ESSBASE CANNOT CONNECT TO BI

13636501:MATS TESTWEBCATALOG DUMMYCATALOG.DIF

13568305:OBJECT PROPERTY DIALOG AND UDML CODE SHOW DIFFERENT NAMES IN COMPARE

13383217:QDR ISCUSTOMGROUPUNIQUEID DOES UNNECESSARY STRING CONCATENATION

13582384:RUP2 HCM CREDENTIALACCESSPERMISSION IN BI STARTUP LOGS AFTER PATCHING

13640792:CONSISTENCY CHECK DOESN'T FIX UNKNOWN LOGICAL COLUMN TYPE

13640427:RUP2-AIX BI CONVERSION FROM XML TO RPD FAILS WITH PASSWORDS DIFFERENT

13625435:RUP2-ST-CDRM FORMMATING AND ACTION LINK ISSUE AFTER PS5 UPGRADE

13458667:hidden option not available for date columns in table layout

13477267:pm rename view not working in current build.

13401386:auto preview are not prevented except pivot view

13586650:qa psbh1  crash display selection steps view exception condition dble col qdr

13616593:auto preview are not prevented for graph

13517767:positional calc can cause xmlwriter empty document error

13564003:SAVING AN IBOT(AGENT) GIVES ORACLE BI SCHEDULER ERROR [NQSERROR 76016]

13110980:THE SECTION PROPERTIES OF PIVOT TABLE IS NOT EFFECTIVE OR NOT CORRECT

13563800:INCLUCDE SELECTED MEMBER NOT WORKING FOR LEAVES OF IN VALUE HIERARCHY

13592629:CANNOT RECREATE THE SAME CURRENT RPD FROM BISERVERXMLEXEC.EXE

13634568:WIN64  WEBCAT APPLY PATCH FAILED  CATMAN INVALID CHARACTERS IN PATH

13502703:ATTR SELECTIONS ON HIERARCHY COLS SHOULD ALLOW PROMPTING ON COMPARE COL.

13553428:DELIVER TO CORP OID LDAP USERS FAILED WITH IMPERSONATOR DOES'NT EXIST

13627864:BACKPORT OF BUG 13597266 TO 11.1.1.6.1

13566162:otbi cascading b/w two prompt sets is not happening in ps5rc2(11.1.1.6.0)

13626098:RUP2-ST-CDRM  DRILL DOWN REPORT NOT RETURNING OUTPUT

13692889:RPD VALIDATION SCRIPT NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED INTO THE ORACLE HOME

13573564:audit  wrong subject area when webcat is large

13375536:audit  catman report not displaying columns

13573558:audit  case sensitive check against rpd

13578848:audit  unable to report on sql in non-analysis

13642995:BISERVERXMLEXEC CRASHES WHILE REGENERATING PS1 RPD

13561559:RUP2-ST2-CDRM  SECTION FORMATTING IS SKIPPED WHEN APPLY PROMPT OR CLICK REFRESH

13574731:QM CRMQA_RRF - DASHBOARD CONTENT

12978196:column selector does not pass values from summary report to detailed report

13680310:ERROR DISPLAYING VIEW WITH NESTED AND SAVED CALC ITEMS

13707164:npe in catalogtaghandler.removejunkfromxml

13332593:PATCHING FAILED WITH ERROR DURING THE XML EXECUTION

13623096:AFTER APPLYING PATCH:13428026, THE SEGMENTATION FAULT IS HAPPENED

13403816:after applied mlr 13110245 still having the hierarchical prompt issue

13535937:NEGATIVE VALUE IN CACHE MANAGER

13710970:BISERVERXMLEXEC CRASHES DUE TO BROKEN NQSTRING'S C_STR() METHOD

12992697:PAGE BREAK WITH COLUMN BREAK DOES NOT WORK WHEN USE PRINTABLE HTML

13249783:AFTER APPLY PATCH 129725592 OBIEE 11G THROWS BAD XML INSTANCE

13098323:AN ARITHMETIC OPERATION IS BEING CARRIED OUT ON A NON-NUMERIC TYPE

13043745:PIVOT TABLES LAYOUT COLLAPSES WHEN HIDDEN ROW AND TOTALS BEFORE IS USED

13719583:38028 CONSISTENCY CHECK ERROR SHOULD BE MADE WARNING

13350175:ADDING FILTER TO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF A HIERARCHY GETS IGNORED IN MDX

13083074:PROMPTS CREATING UNSPECIFIED ERROR WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE CONSTRAINED CRITERIA

13546009:SELECT PIVOT TABLE IN VIEW SELECTOR CAUSES COLUMN TO BE EXCLUDED WHEN DRILLING

13733427:ADD AND UPDATE VERSION STRING TO DIFF FILE

13071711:CIRCULAR JOIN ERROR WHEN RUNNING ANALYSIS USING UPGRADED REPOSITORY

13649502:rup2-st1cdrm  drill down report not returning output - staying busy

13522060:RPD SESSION VARIABLE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE DYNAMIC SCHEMA NAMES FOR OLAP

13626491:REPORTS ARE FAILING AFTER APPLYING PATCH13470147 WARNINGS IN CONSISTENCY CHECK

10647655:COLUMN DATA FORMAT IS IGNORED ON WRITEBACK

13724814:ADD ABILITY TO RETRIEVE QUERY METADATA ON ISSUE RAW SQL SCREEN

13405110:opening report crashes bi presentation services

13393602:rsum not calculating correctly when there are excluded columns

13567100:case when used in measure in pivot is not working as in 10g

12612904:total picks value in first row and gives not a number when averaging null

13647309:obiee grand total functionality incorrect and inconsistent with olap cubes

13400140:multi-step promt missing the dashboard prompt which limit values by is set

13523548:error out when using multiple double columns in saved filters

13444157:error when use is in top operator in filter with presentation variable

13533404:SECTIONS HEADERS ARE CAUSING DASHBOARD SPACING ISSUES

13501903:PATCH FOR BUG 11837656 DOES NOT FIX THE ISSUE WITH DOUBLE QUOTES

13724995:CONSISTENCY CHECK CRASHES ON PS1 RPD

13418590:export to excel still not working properly after patch 12394949 (linux 64)

13682411:CALC ITEM NOT DISPLAYED IN A PIVOT TABLE AFTER PATCH 13544352

13562847:PG/PROMPTS DROPDOWN LISTS ONLY GROUP MEMBERS AFTER PICK GRP FROM DROPDOWN

13739082:ASSERTION ERROR IF VALUE HIER WITH CALC ITEM MOVE TO PAGE/PROMPTS EDGE

12981896:mapviewer hover tooltips show wrong values

Patch Installation for server

1. Stop all BI Services, including BI Server, BI Administration Tool, BI Javahost, BI Scheduler

2. Backup ORACLE_HOME\bifoundation\server

3. Backup ORACLE_INSTANCE\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\repository

4. Apply patch using Opatch

5. Start all BI Services