1. Windows XP (professional or Home) Service Pack 2 / Windows 2003 Server with 2 GB RAM and make sure you have NTFS file system.

2. Hard Disk 250 GB where 233 GB space is required for vision installation (excluding media pack; which needs around 37 GB space). You can use external hard drive too. Don’t listen to those who advise you to install EBS R12 without vision database. I know you are installing all this for learning etc.

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Very Important Note:

1. Make sure there is no oracle product installed on your system. No entry of oracle should be in windows registry except system default by windows itself. So it is recommended to use fresh system for this purpose. If you tried a failed installation before on your PC then reinstall the Operating System again otherwise you will waste your time.

2. There should be !!!!NO!!! JDK installed on your machine. EBS will install JDK version on your machine otherwise you will get errors I don’t want to discuss all this here. Just NO JDK on your machine.

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Pre-requisites; Utilities:

1. Microsoft VC++
• Make sure that it must be VC 8 or above because VC 6 was valid up to 11i. If you do it with VC 6 then utilities check will not give error but you will stuck at 13% or 66% installation.
• While installing VC++ make sure it is done in C:\MSVS\VC. No spaces in any directory structure of any software you install as pre-requisite for Oracle Apps.
• Copy cl.exe from C:\MSVS\VC\bin to C:\WINDOWS\System32

2. Perl – http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
• Version 5.8 or more and use MSI package type.
• Perl is only needed if you are using Oracle Media Pack. If you are downloading from oracle site then you can skip this installation.

3. CYGWIN – http://cygwin.com/
• Download setup.exe to your machine.
• Run setup.exe and click Next, which will bring up the Choose Installation Type screen.
• Select ; Install from Internet and Click Next
• Select ; Root Directory C:\cygwin and select radio button
• Install for ; All Users and Default Text File Type ; DOS / text ; Next Local Package Directory can be any but C:\cygwin is recommended. ; Next Direct Connection.
• Click on Next again to get to the Select Packages screen, and select the following packages (click on to toggle):
a. All Default
b. Archive Default, plus manually select the zip package
c. Base Default, plus manually select the following extra packages: ash, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep, sed, tar and which
d. Devel Default, plus manually select binutils, gcc, gcc-core, gcc-g++, make and mktemp
e. Doc Default, plus manually select cygwin-doc and man
f. Editors Default, plus manually select vim
g. Interpreters Default, plus manually select gawk
h. Shells Default, plus manually select ash and tcsh
i. Utils Default, plus manually select cygutils and file
• Click on Next again to download the selected files. It will take some time depending upon mirror site you selected and after download cygwin setup will be automatically starts.
• After installation completed, Open folder C:\cygwin\bin and rename followings:
• gawk.exe to awk.exe
• grep.exe to egrep.exe
• make.exe to gnumake.exe
• gcc.exe to cc.exe
• You can override the name if system says that awk or egrep or cc already exits just remove or move to some other place.

4. Set the Path to include the C:\cygwin\bin
• C:\> set PATH = %PATH%;c:\cygwin\bin
• And then check your PATH to see that it include C:\cygwin\bin
• C:\> echo %PATH%

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Oracle Media:

You should be having Lasted available Oracle media pack (recommended) or Software download from oracle site and follow the unzipping instruction as per oracle documentation. I have downloaded it from: https://edelivery.oracle.com/

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Domain Name Configuration:

1. Open file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Enter a domain next to localhost entry you will be using this domain while installing Oracle Applications. I used mydomain so you can replace what ever you want. 198.168.10.102 is IP Address of my PC you should enter your machine’s IP. If you don’t know it you can find it.

C:\>ipconfig

Example

127.0.0.1 localhost
198.168.10.102 SystemName.mydomain.com

2. Go to Control Panel > Systems > Computer Name Tab > Click on Change > Click on More > Enter Primary DNS Suffix as ‘mydomain’.

3. Open Network connections, Select your Connection on which your machine is connected (You will find Wireless or LAN) and right click and select properties. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click on to properties. Click on Advanced button and go to DNS tab. Enter DNS suffix for this connection as ‘mydomain’.

4. Restart the PC.

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Staging the Oracle:

If you have Oracle Media Pack then:
Insert the Start Here DVD in DVD Rom and go to folder:
StageR12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz in DOS Prompt and type:

D:\StageR12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz\adautostg.pl
And follow the wizard.

Finally you must have these five folders in StageR12 Directory:
1. oraAppDB
2. oraApps
3. oraAS
4. oraDB
5. startCD

Note: If you have downloaded the media from oracle site, then you just need to put the downloaded and extracted folders in the proper directories… No need to do staging.

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Recommended (Not necessary):

There steps are only if your installation fails due to any reason so you can restore your registry and system to pre-installation state:

1. When Staging is done successfully then export the registry and save it on a file.
Start > Run > regedit > File > Export and select the location where you want to store it .

2. Take a Computer Restore Point.
Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore > Create a Restore Point > Enter name of restore point for example ‘PreOra’ and Press the Create.

3. Restart the PC.

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Installing the the EBS R12

So far you have done a great job. Now time to get the job done.

1. Go to folder E:\StageR12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz or where you have done your staging on hard drive or external hard drive and just click RapidWiz

2. On welcome screen > Next and Select Install Oracle Applications E-Bussiness R12 Check on Use Express Installation > Next

3. In Express Configuration Information screen change the following (Leave all to default):
a. MKS directory = C:\cygwin\bin or where “cygwin\bin” is
b. MSDEV directory = C:\MSVS\VC\bin or where VC++ was installed
c. Oracle Base directory =E:\oracle or where ever you want to install oracle applications

4. Follow the wizard and you should pass all the Pre-Install Checks. If not then you did not follow instructions above and help yourself.

5. If you passed all the checks then just Click Next and follow the Wizard and installation will be done in 5 steps and take about 2-3 hrs depends upon the system.

6. After the installation is completed successfully (it should be) then Post-Installation Checks will be preformed. If you passed all the checks It is really a Wonderful and You Rocks

7. If your system don’t pass the Post-Installation Checks even then don’t worry just smile coz installation is successful you need to restart your PC and Open Command Prompt open to staging directory: d:\StageR12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz
And now just type rapidwiz –restart

8. Follow the Wizard and Enter all the info as you enter before Now This time it will take few minutes and you should pass Post-Installation Checks

9. If still a problem just repeat above step again you will get to it . Restart the PC and enter the URL in web browser

http://hostname.mydomain.com:8000/

10. E-Bussiness Login Username = operations Password = welcome

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Comments awaited …..

1) Collapsing Tables

2) Pre-Joining

Pre Joining

3) Splitting Tables
a) Horizontal Splitting
b) Vertical Splitting

Splitting Tables

4) Adding Redundant Columns

Adding Redundant Columns

5) Derived Attributes

Derived Attributes

i) When the EUL Manager screen will be closed, the following screen will be displayed. Click on the “Create a new business area” and click Next.

ii) Select the sales database. I have created a simple sales database in which there are only two tables Buyers and Invoices. From these two tables we will create a simple business area and later on a simple Workbook having annual sales analysis using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop. You might have also these two tables somewhere in your Sales Database. If you do not have then don’t worry, simply create two tables and fill them with some dummy data for learning purpose.

iii) Click on the options button and make sure that the option “Tables owned by user” is selected. You may also select the other option “Tables accessible by user” but we do not need to do so. Click ok and then click Next in the step 2 (Load Wizard).

iv) Select both of these tables and move them to the selected portion from the available side.

v) Click the next button.

vi) Keep the default options selected and click the next button.

vii) Name the Business Area. I have given it the name “SalesBusinessArea”. Keep the other options selected defaults and click Finish.

We have successfully created the Sales business area. You can view from the below screenshot. Next will discuss in detail that what to do with this business area.

i) When you have clicked Yes to the EUL creation prompt message, the following dialog will be displayed.

ii) Click on the button create an EUL then from the dialog box (shown below) click on select button to select the user.

iii) Click on the Select button to select the user. We will select the EUL_OWNER user to save the EUL data into this user.

iv) When the user is selected, click on the Finish button.

v) Wait until the below screen appears.

vi) Click No button when the below message appears because we do not need to load sample data. We will create our own business area.

vii) Close the EUL Manager window by pressing the close button.

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i) Select Start > Programs > Oracle Business Intelligence Tools – (BI Home Name) > Oracle Discoverer Administrator. The Connect to Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administrator dialog box appears.
ii) Enter the username, password and connect string to Log in.

iii) When you will click the connect button, the following message will be displayed. Just click Yes and what to do next will be discussed in next post.

Note: It is not necessary but It is recommended that a separate Admin user should be created in which the EUL (End User Layers) will be generated and all the data will be maintained. We will create a user named “EUL_OWNER”.

i) Login with “system” user on your database.
ii) Create user EUL_OWNER.
iii) Grant the following privilidges to the EUL_OWNER.

SQL> Grant Connect, Resource to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Global Query Rewrite to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Select Any Table to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Create Any Materialized View to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Alter Any Materialized View to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Drop Any Materialized View to EUL_OWNER;
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OPTIONAL PRIVILIDGES
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SQL> Grant Create Any Table to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Create Any View to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Create Any Procedure to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Create Any Sequence to EUL_OWNER;
SQL> Grant Create Any Synonym to EUL_OWNER;

I have installed oracle database 10g. Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 Production and under form Forms [32 Bit] Version 10.1.2.0.2 (Production) Internet Explore ver. 6 as a default browser

When I run Form from browser, the bellow error occurs:

“Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience”.

AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: jvm.dll

ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00050b58

I have also installed jinititor.exe version 1.3.1.22 and change default browser to Mozilla but still a problem

Please guide.

SOLUTION

Are you running your application on windows server 2003 / Vista? If yes then use JPI instead of JINITIATOR. Your problem will be resolved.

Ref: Issue discussed on Yahoo Group

I am using Oracle 10g (10.1.0) on Windows XP. There aren’t problems in database but Enterprise Manager is not running.  When I give the below address on the web

http://TerminalName:5500/em

TerminalName is machine (server) name

Error message shows “The webpage “TerminalName:5500″ cannot be found”

When I checked the services the “OracleDBConsolORCL” it was set at automatic mode but was not started.  So I tried to start it but it couldn’t start and the following message appeared:

Windows could not start the OracleDBConsolORCL on Local Computer.  For more information review the System Event Log.

Then I checked D:\oracle\product\ 10.1.0\admin\ orcl\bdump\ ALERT_ORCL. LOG file but I could not find the System Event Log.

I will appreciate it if you could guide me in this regard.

SOLUTION:

Oracle recommended that you must use IP address when you do installation of oracle 10g. Because there are some files which use IP address. Oracle enterprise manager in oracle 10g is web based. You should use the following commands on command prompt. It may work.

Set oracle_sid=your_ db_name

emctl start dbconsole

If the service started successfully then type its address in URL it will work. Otherwise you should remove all the services from registry then reinstall oracle 10g on an IP Address.

We face such problems for those computers which we are using at home. We have no IP address for these computers because these are single PC.

Microsoft provides a loop back adapter feature. It is present in add/remove hardware control panel. You can install this window feature it will display a network icon on your taskbar. After providing a suitable IP address you should again install new oracle software. At the end of installation it will provide you URL of OEM.

Ref: Issue discussed on yahoo group.

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X Says: What is BI Discoverer?
Y Says: Discoverer is like excel.

X Says: How is it beneficial for Developers and Users?
Y Says: Developers create business areas and in those business areas; views. Administrator gives access to users. Users can do different things on these views like sorting, where conditions are required.

X Says: What access can be given to users?
Y Says: It depends how much access you want to give to users. According to their access they can generate reports as they want.

X Says: Business areas are created either by developers or by user ?
Y Says: By Administrator; Using Discoverer Administrator.

X Says: What is the concept of repository?
Y Says: Repository containing information about data. You can say data about data.

X Says: Should we create it our self in discoverer or it is automatically created?
Y Says: It is automatically created. Discoverer will install all required things. Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Components can be understood through the below image.

X Says: Thanks a lot.
Y Says: Its my pleasure.
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I hope it will be helpful.

Regards

1) Build rtf templates.
2) Create reports using BI admin and upload this template into that.
3) Add the reports in Dashboard

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A DISCUSSION BETWEEN 2 DEVELOPERS ABOUT WHAT IS BIP
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X Says: Please guide more about BIP.
Y Says: This tool is used only for formatting of reports

X Says: But we can do it in Report Builder
Y Says: This is not particularly for developers.

X Says: Then for whom it is?
Y Says: It’s for ordinary users as well. For example; Developer can do using report builder not ordinary user. Moreover, using BIP, end users have access to change format of reports. You will just provide him XML output of data and user will use it as required format.

X Says: Can end user change rtf templates?
Y Says: Yes.

X Says: Is it used with ERP; I mean Oracle Applications?
Y Says: It is very helpful in ERP.

X Says: How?
Y Says: When you want to generate multi-lingual output. For Example; If only one language i.e; English is installed in ERP and there is a requirement to generate report in URDU you will create rtf in URDU and attach with report using XML publisher in ERP.

X Says: Amazing. Any more features?
Y Says: No other purpose of BI publisher.

X Says: Thanks a lot.
Y Says: My Pleasure.
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Regards