ODI other New features in OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1

Oracle is moving ahead with the ODI integration to the BI Package, in the words of Oracle,

"With the 11.1.1.7.1 release of the Oracle BI Applications, you can now use Oracle Data Integrator 11g (ODI11g) as the embedded data integration engine within the product. Along with the introduction of several new BI applications and extensions to existing ones, the introduction of ODI11g has allowed Oracle to simplify the configuration process for the BI Applications as well as leveraging ODI's high-performance "ELT" (Extraction, Load and Transform) for data loading."

Apart from this other features include:

Visualization Enhancements: Performance Tiles, 100% Stacked Bar, Freeze Headers, Waterfall  Chart, View Suggestions, Trellis Chart Grid

User Interaction Improvements: Navigation/Action from Totals, Breadcrumbs, Pass context

to ADF, Search with Endeca MDEX, Save as Analysis on Dashboard, Trellis Actions

BI Mobile HD Enhancements: Analytics available on mobile without additional development,  Data dense visualizations enabled by in memory analytics, enhanced right click interactions, better interactivity with native gestures, offline access to content with fine grained security to grant or revoke privileges

Port Setting in BIPublisher 10 G standalone

 This article is dealing only with BIP Standalone and reader should not get confused with OBIEE+BIPublisher Port setting.


1. Locate the default-web-site.xml file.

Note:  Usually the path is like oc4j home/j2ee/home/config/default-web-site.xml. OC4J reads this file when it starts up.

2. Open the file in text editor. In this file you can see the default port which had been set during the installation. Change the port value to thee desired port number.

3. Stop then Start the OC4J server.

4. Log into the application with new port number.

I came across this when I wanted to set my BIP's port to 80 but OC4J was not starting up when I tried to start after editing the port number. When I gave port number as 8080 it started up and I was able to access the application.

The possible reasons is, there are some other applications in my machine which requires a server and it might be creating a clash. Anyway my experiment continues.