Friday, June 28, 2013

OBIEE 11.1.1.6.11 is available for OBIEE and Exalytics + bug fixed

The patch 11.1.1.6.11 is available from Oracle support site (support.oracle.com). The first part of the patch is Patch 16747681

It's the most updated / latest version (actually patch bundle) of OBIEE, installed on top of the basic 11.1.1.6.0 version.

It can be installed on OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0, 11.1.1.6.1, 11.1.1.6.2, 11.1.1.6.2 BP1, 11.1.1.6.4,11.1.1.6.5, 11.1.1.6.6, 11.1.1.6.7, 11.1.1.6.8, 11.1.1.6.9 and  11.1.1.6.10.

As usual, the real patch has 7+1 parts. The installation steps for the first 7 are similar. I recommend reading the first readme – patch 16747681 readme file. 

Since 11.1.1.7 is available, I suspect we will not see many more 11.1.1.6.X patches.

The Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6.11 patchset comprises a number of patches:
Patch Abstract
16747681 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (1 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Installer
16747684 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (2 of 7) Oracle Real Time Decisions
16747692 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (3 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
16747699 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (4 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence ADF Components
16747703 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (5 of 7) Enterprise Performance Management Components Installed from BI Installer 11.1.1.6.x
PLEASE note, this is platform specific patch (Windows 32, 64, Linux X86, X86-64, IBM AIX Power 64, Solaris SPARC 64, Solaris X86-64, HP-UX Itanium)
16717325 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (6 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence
PLEASE note, this is platform specific patch (Windows32,  64, Linux X86-64, IBM AIX Power 64, Solaris SPARC 64, Solaris X86-64, HP-UX Itanium) 
16747708 Patch 11.1.1.6.11 (7 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Platform Client Installers and MapViewer

Additionally there is the patch number 8, it is named JDeveloper Patch, but it is for OBIEE as well. It's the same patch you used if you installed 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 or later. So if you already installed it, I see no reason to do it again.
Patch 13952743JDeveloper patch -   - RUP3 MLR4.3  CUMULATIVE: BASED ON JDEVADF_11.1.1.6.2_GENERIC_120329.1447.6268.1 (last release 11.1.1.6.2)
The installation steps are same as 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 as we described here.
Please note, that readme tell you to do the following backups:
  • The ORACLE_HOME\bifoundation\server directory
  • The ORACLE_INSTANCE\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\repository
  • The ORACLE_BI_HOME\bifoundation\jee\mapviewer.ear\web.war\WEB_INF\conf\mapViewerConfig.xml, if you have modified it. This last bullet is relevant to those who configured the OBIEE Maps (described, in Hebrew here).
HP Itanium users, please note: HP Itanium platform must first download and apply patch 14016752 from My Oracle Support.

 I'm not aware of any new features in 11.1.1.6.11.

Bugs Fixed By This Patch

Publisher

13496612: EXPORT TRELLIS TO EXCEL 2007 DOES NOT RENDERED THE IMAGE IN THE CORRECT PLACE
14733191: DATA FIELDS THAT CONTAIN A BACKSLASH '\' IN A PARAMETER CAUSE DATA MODEL TO FAIL
15886427: SCHEDULED JOBS NOT RUNNING AS SCHEDULED IN 11.1.1.6.5
15986061: SECTION 508 MENU SELECTION NOT WORKING IN IE8
16310873: CELL PADDING CALCULATIONS FOR PDF, RTF AND HTML OUTPUTS ARE NOT THE SAME
16384964: CONDITIONAL FORMATS ARE NOT DEEPLY COPIED FOR EACH SHEET IN EXCEL TEMPLATE
16440558: JVM OUT OF MEMORY WHILE ADDING IMAGE TO BIP REPORT
16453917: INCONSISTENT ALIGNMENT IN INTERACTIVE REPORTS WITH PIVOT TABLES USING IE9.0
16478234: KEEP-WITH-NEXT.WITHIN-PAGE-ATTRIBUTE SET TO "ALWAYS"UNWANTED PAGE BREAK IN PDF
16478894: LOCAL SUPER USER LOGIN FAILS
16532915: REQUIRE CONFIGURATION OPTION TO CREATE PDF FILES WITH OR WITHOUT EXTGSTATE
16724466: BIPUBLISHER REPORTS "PROCESSING CLOCK","CANCEL BUTTON" AND "NO DATA FOUND" MSG


EPM

13974353: CONNECTION STRING USED TO ACCESS LEASING TABLE IS INCORRECT


OBIEE

13860440: REPORT SHOWS AN ERROR WHEN A FILTER CONTAINS [ ] AGAINST ESSBASE
14080494: DELIVERS NOT ABLE TO SEND CONTENT USING DX-MAIL AS SMTP SERVER
14246348: SORTING NOT WORKING ON MEASURE COL WITH A COLUMN IN THE PIVOT TABLE PROMPTS
14301662: EXPORTED EXCEL LINES ARE MISSING
14406555: ACTION LINK INTERACTION FAILS WITH GETLEVELINFO ERROR
14482447: DRILL DOWN IS NOT CORRECT INTO BUBBLE GRAPH WHEN DIMENSION USED FOR VARY COLOR
14527683: BUBBLE CHART WITH CONDITIONAL FORMATTING ON CASE STATEMENTS SHOWS ONLY ONE COLOR
14571347: THE MASTER DETAIL ACTIVITY IS NOT PERFORMING CORRECTLY ON PARETO GRAPH
14641758: 10G TO 11G UPGRADE: PARSER LOGIC DOES NOT ACCEPT NEGATIVE NUMBERS IN MEMBER NAME
14771782: IBOTS CALLING JAVA PROGRAM IN CLUSTER STICK AT STATUS 'RUNNING'
14832580: SEGMENT TREE PERFORMANCE WHEN SAMPLING REMAINDER BRANCH
14839368: RESTORE SUPPORT FOR VALUE SUPPRESSION IN DOWNLOADS TO EXCEL 2003
15863409: PROMPTS FROM CONDITIONAL SECTION DO NOT APPEAR IN PROMPT BAR.
15867064: SELECTION RULES: SUBJECT AREAS NOT SHOWN FOR ONE TARGET LEVEL
16081724: SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE COLOR OF GRIDLINES ARE NOT APPLIED CORRECTLY
16088305: COLUMN DATA MISSING WHEN VIEW IN BI OFFICE USING EXCEL
16222516: COMPILATION TIME FOR A SPECIFIC REPORT TAKES TOO LONG
16270623 ASSERTION ERROR IN FILE PREKNOWNMETADATA WHEN ADVANCED SQL SETTING EXISTS
16281981: BI SERVER CRASH
16285224: SAVED CUSTOMIZATIONS ARE IGNORED, NOT APPLIED, WHEN VIA IBOT / AGENT
16321247: INVALID SCHEMA VALIDATION FOR CALCULATED ITEM WITH CONCAT FUNCTION
16323282: SAWSERVER GENERATING CORE DUMP SAW::CONDITIONALREQUESTEVALUATOR
16326283: DYNAMIC REPOSITORY VARIABLES NOT BEING READ FROM CSV FILE UPGRADE FROM 10G
16342203: ACTION LINK TO DASHBOARD PAGE SECTION THE CONDITIONS EVALUATE WRONG
16353193: OBIEE EDIT FILTER DOES NOT SHOW DROP DOWN ON EDIT SEGMENT
16365896: ODBC ERROR IN CONDITIONAL FORMATTED REPORT AFTER UPGRADE FROM 10G.
16423872: AFTER APPLY 11.1.1.6.6G JAVAHOST STARTS CRASHING.
16447124: RAGGED HIERARCHY IN ORACLE OLAP DOES NOT WORK IN ANSWERS ANALYSIS
16480156: HIERARCHY WITH SELCTION STEPS AND WITH OVERRIDE PROMPTS CAUSES LOGOUT
16498595: INCORRECT RESULTS DURING THE NAVIGATION AFTER SELECTING A PIVOT TABLE PROMPT
16516420: SAWSERVER CRASH AFTER MERGE PATCH 16300022 WAS APPLIED
16558154: OBIEE 6.9: GRAPHING ENGINE NOT RESPONDING FOR FEW REPORTS AFTER UPGRADE
16563394: ORDER BY ITEMS MUST APPEAR IN THE SELECT LIST IF SELECT DISTINCT IS SPECIFIED
16606433: INVALID COLUMN IN SELECT LIST NOT CONTAINED IN EITHER AGGREGATE FN OR GRP BY
16624321: INFINITE LOOP IN PS WHEN IBOT DELIVERED CONTENT CONTAINS ILLFORMED LINE ENDINGS
16680403: KEEP ONLY RELATED FEATURE WITH REPORT BASED ON HIERARCHY COLUMNS CRASHES BIPS
16694816: PRESENTATION SERVER CRASH DURING QUERYCACHE CLEANUP OF OLD WAITING CURSORS
16779536: LABELS ARE MISSING ON SOME DASHBOARD PROMPT COLUMNS AFTER APPLYING 6.10


Known Bugs With This Patch

14228519: ADMINTOOL CLIENT MISSING ALL FILES UNDER EXTENDER DIRECTORY IN CLIENT INSTALLER
14244844: NAVIGATE TO URL ACTIONS BASED ON ENCODED URLS MAY RESULT IN DOUBLE ENCODING
14743304: FIX FOR BUG 14170374 REQUIRES ADDITIONAL CHANGE TO OPMN.XML
15854192: ERROR MESSAGE RETRIEVED WHEN TRYING TO CREATE AGENT WITH EMAILS AS RECIPIENTS
16531368: DOCUMENT THE ROW SPANNING ISSUE IN RELEASE 11.1.1.6.10
16687063: FIX FOR BUG 15911537 REQUIRES ADDITIONAL SETTING TO THE INSTANCECONFIG.XML FILE
 

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