Well, made it back to town in one piece after a long night of flying. Wanted to make sure I posted my presentation slides and paper before calling it a day. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.
Report Bursting and Email/Fax Delivery with BI Publisher Enterprise – Presentation
Report Bursting [...]

For those of you that couldn’t make it to RMOUG you missed a great show. Definitely rates up there with Collaborate and OOW. I’m hanging out in the hotel lobby now waiting for my shuttle to the airport to get me back home on the red-eye. Have a bit of snow on [...]

Oracle Report Manager is the online report distribution system that provides a secure and centralized location to produce and manage...

I’m headed out to Denver for RMOUG Training Days this coming week to deliver a paper on BI Publisher Enterprise. If you’re at the show, drop by and say hello! Here is a link to the abstract:
http://www.teamycc.com/RMOUG_2010_Conference/Presentations.html#Lowe
and here is a sneak preview.

Anna Wichansky, Senior Director, Applications User Experience, and Chair, Oracle Usability Advisory Board

We applied a CPU patch an Oracle Infrastructure 10.1.2.3 and after that the OC4J containers did not start anymore.

In de $ORACLE_HOME/ldap/log/oidldapd01.log the following error:

Bind failed on communication endpoint (13)  

With an opmnctl status the OID seems to be up.

When this problem occurs you need to execute root.sh.

In the browser we got an 401 Unauthorized error when we tried to start an application behind Oracle Access manager.

In the log.xml in $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/[OC4J_CONTAINER]/log/[OC4J_CONTAINER/oc4j/ the error:

[CoreIDLoginModule]: Could not authentication user using ObSSOCookie token. Exception: [CoreIDLoginModule]: Could not fetch groups from Access Server. Exception: The requested resource could not be mapped to a policy domain in the Policy database. Check if the corresponding directory service is up.

Recently I reset the password of a site on an old laptop. The password was man@best. At a friend's place I tried logging on to the site with the password man@best. However the password wouldn't work. My gut feeling said that the password would work on the old laptop. However I could not exactly say why. Once I got back home, sure enough the password worked when entered through the old laptop. I then realized that the left shift key of the old laptop had ceased to function. I use my left thumb to press left shift key and index finger to press the @ key.

From time to time we’ll get involved in helping a customer update their workflow processes. As every customer’s workflow is slightly different to meet their own business requirements, we’ve done our fair share of troubleshooting to ensure it follows the correct path.
In my opinion, the best place to start is to use the Status [...]

A business process is a set of recurring activities that produce an output/outcome that is of value to...

Recently Sundeep contacted me when he was trying to install 11gR2 and the runInstaller gave failed message for 4 OS patches.

I went through 11gR2 install guide for Solaris SPARC (64-bit) available on http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10863/toc.htm#i1011296.

In our environment, we are on correct Solaris patchset. However, these 4 patches are required in addition to being on the current patchset:

4.1 Operating System Requirements
The following are the operating system requirements for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2):

By Jeremy Ashley, Vice President Applications User Experience, Oracle

Nice blog post about Perm Gen

http://oraclebpelindepth.blogspot.com/2009/04/javalangoutofmemoryerror-permgen-space.html
http://www.freshblurbs.com/explaining-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-permgen-space

Download the WebGate software from:
http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/ias/101401/oam_int_linux_v8_cd1.zip

Login with putty on the server:
su - root

mkdir -p $WEBGATE_HOME/gcc

cp /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 /appl/oracle/access_10.1.4/gcc/
cp /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 /appl/oracle/access_10.1.4/gcc/

unzip oam_int_linux_v8_cd1.zip

./Oracle_Access_Manager10_1_4_2_3_linux64_APACHE22_WebGate

I wrote a short paper that compares the performance of BI packages based on publicly available benchmarks. The packages evaluated were Cognos ReportNet, BO XI and OBIEE. The paper can be found Performance Comparison of BI tools- CRN, BO and OBIEE.docx

Features of Customer Model:

• The 11i customer model is build to handle the new requirements of CRM and e-commerce. These new requirements introduced new features and user interfaces for the 11i Customer Model

• The customer model is based on a new foundation that provides for a number of important new features in Release 11i+ and Release 12

• The 11i Customer Model handles customer types of organizations and people.

• Modify customer form to match against and link with global registry

Fairly short blurb today but I found it helpful so I thought I would pass it along. I posted a couple of weeks ago on the ability to Submit a Concurrent Request Outside of Oracle EBS. Following in the same vein, I had a requirement to submit a concurrent request as a database [...]

We had an problem in de $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/logs/soa_group....log

<2010-01-13 10:19:05,694> <ERROR> <ari.collaxa.cube.services> <PCException::<init>> Identity Service Authentication failure.
<2010-01-13 10:19:05,695> <ERROR> <ari.collaxa.cube.services> <PCException::<init>> Identity Service Authentication failure.

Metalink:

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=404902.1&type=NOT

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Anna Wichansky, Senior Director, Applications User Experience, and Chair, Oracle Usability Advisory Board

I’ve been doing some internal training on the ins and outs of BI Publisher to the folks here at STR Software and we’ve covered BIP Enterprise in some depth and have moved on to how BIP works in E-Business Suite with Bursting Control Files.
So in this process, we’ve talked about printing from BIP [...]

The end of this turbulent year is coming soon. The year where Oracle delivered new versions of their business applications. PeopleTools 8.50 and PeopleSoft 9.1 have been released. On this year’s Oracle Open World Larry Ellison announced the first version of Fusion Applications.