I have made a blogpost in the past about integrating Oracle eBS R12 and Oracle BI 10g. In the course of an upgrade of Oracle BI Applications (OBIA) to OBIA 7.9.6.3, I came to the subject of integrating Oracle eBS R12 and Oracle BI 11g. Of course you should start with the documentation. Next to that, Oracle provides a note on Oracle Support (ID 1343143.1). A lot of integration steps are equal to the 10g version.
In short:
There are two sides (Oracle eBS & Oracle BI) where you need to make some preparations.
Oracle eBS:
You need to define the link from to Oracle eBS to Oracle BI. This functionality hasn’t changed and I have described that process here. Combined with the ‘FND: Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE base URL’-profile option in Oracle eBS, you now are ready to navigate from Oracle eBS to Oracle BI.
Oracle BI:
Now the Oracle eBS side is ready, you’ll have to prepare Oracle BI for accepting login requests from Oracle eBS. This parts differs a little from 10g. The changes in the Repository are still the same and consist of validation of the ICX-cookie in the Oracle eBS Connection Pool and the Authentication via Session variables. You can choose to either authenticate via the GROUP- system variable or directly via the new 11g ROLES-system variable.
After that you need to change the Oracle BI configuration;
- authenticationschemas.xml (ORACLE_HOME/bifoundation/web/display)
- instanceconfig.xml (ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent/coreapplication_obips1)
Note: Don’t get mislead by the following sentence; ‘<!–This Configuration setting is managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control–>’. You must adjust these settings directly in the instanceconfig.xml itself.
This should (all) be sufficient to log into Oracle BI via a selected responsibility in Oracle.
In a following post I will cover the subject of applying Data Security in Oracle BI, based on the Oracle eBS Responsibility.
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