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Comment on Still Having Fun with 64-bit Windows and ODBC by Matt Hawkins

Matt Hawkins — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:14:34 +0000

Dallas,

Very useful information, I would not have thought of exporting from the registry.
I guess if you’re feeling adventurous you could change the path of the entries in the reg file before importing?
Also Crystal Reports 2011 has a shortcut to the 32bit ODBC panel for convenience.

Matt

Comment on More Fun with 64-bit Windows and ODBC by Still Having Fun with 64-bit Windows and ODBC

Still Having Fun with 64-bit Windows and ODBC — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:57 +0000

[...] 4.0 SP2 Patch 10 instead of my previous exploits with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 (see related post). My challenge was to easily copy ODBC DSN’s from a customer’s existing XI 3.1 [...]

Comment on Identifying SAP BusinessObjects queries using END_SQL by Michael Welter

Michael Welter — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:19:39 +0000

For Teradata, it’s better to use the BEGIN_SQL parameter, along with the Teradata Query Banding feature. In fact, Teradata can use this feature to implement Database security.

Comment on Ten Features That Absolutely Must Be in Feature Pack 3 by Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:49:33 +0000

Andrea,

Yes, you are correct about the server component. There are actually two mobile servers – the “legacy” mobile server from the old Blackberry/Symbian/Microsoft CE days and the “new” mobile server that was introduced with (I think) XI 3.1 SP3 FP3.4. I haven’t heard of any specific improvements on the server – most of them are coming on the mobile apps themselves.

You should take your question to your SAP sales rep.

Dallas

Comment on Sizing the Adaptive Processing Server in BI 4.0 by Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:44:59 +0000

Pradeep,

Thanks for writing – I’m just starting the process of building the QA environment, so I don’t have all the answers yet. I’m already setting expectations that we’ll have to try some different things with the APS as there is no “cookbook” yet.

Dallas

Comment on Ten Features That Absolutely Must Be in Feature Pack 3 by Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:12:28 +0000

I’am interested about BI Mobile and not Explorer.

In BI4 platform , the BI Mobile is included on the server and i think that his release life cycle depends at release of BI4 server.

With FP3 for BI4, i think that will be different update and enhancement but i would know if will be upgraded also the BI Mobile 4 server.

Thanks.

Andrea

Comment on Sizing the Adaptive Processing Server in BI 4.0 by Pradeep Putty

Pradeep Putty — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:53:05 +0000

Hi Mark,
I was following your recent tweets of your recent implementation of 4.0,even i am doing sizing for our environment,i have couple of questions.
1.how did you split 24 cpu licenses on 6 servers.did you guys leave some licences for future
2.whats t6 he ram you set up
3.how did you split APS over 6 servers
4.for 1200 users 6 servers is pretty high right,are those 1200 = concurrent users or total named user count.
5.above questions confused me of what i set forth in my company.

Comment on Ten Features That Absolutely Must Be in Feature Pack 3 by Alper

Alper — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:13:22 +0000

About Andrea’s question : FP3 will come with an enhanced “Explorer” called “Exploration Views” if that counts. i wonder when will the html5 version of xcelsius arrive

Comment on Ten Features That Absolutely Must Be in Feature Pack 3 by administrator

administrator — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:35:19 +0000

Andrea,

Thank you for your question.

No, I haven’t heard anything about BI Mobile and FP3. Remember that BI Mobile also supports XI 3.1 and has a release cycle independent of the rest of the BI platform.

Comment on Ten Features That Absolutely Must Be in Feature Pack 3 by Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:48:52 +0000

Hi experts,
have you news about BI Mobile 4 SP3?

Thanks.

Andrea