Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Preparing for EPM Hyperion Upgrade from 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.2.3


We are preparing for upgrade from 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.2.3 on Windows server and back end will be SQL DB. 

Existing main components are Essbase,Planning,Reporting and Anaysis

Here are some links to gather information about architecture and to know defects fixed in the current release(11.1.1.3) to latest release to present to the team and management.


2> EPM System Defects Fixed Finder (Doc ID 1292603.1)





Thursday, November 7, 2013

LCM Utility is not generating Calculation Manager Rules and other options in Shared Services

Hi Readers,

Environment: 11.1.1.3 / websphere 6.x

My team was trying to schedule automate backups of web forms , calculation manager rules etc. And they are trying to generate migration file via LCM shared services and selecting the required components to generate migration xml file . This xml file will use to schedule the backup for the selected components via utility.bat.

In One environment they are able to complete the task but in other environments they don't see the calculation manager rules and other options in LCM.Please refer below screenshots for working and non working environment to understand more what we are going to fix

Working Environment:



Non Working Environment:













We raised SR with Oracle and it's more than 2 months we did not find the solution.
Finally, I start comparing the working and non-working environment and found that we need to set EDIT_DIM_ENABLED=true under planning Application and restart the services. This parameter fixed our issue.

Steps:
1> Open Planning application from workspace
2> Administration --> Manage Properties
3> Add or Edit the parameter EDIT_DIM_ENABLED  to true

Screenshot:




You can also perform this step from the back end. Here are the steps :


1> Modify the value manually of EDIT_DIM_ENABLED to 'true'  in the table using update SQL. 
Note: There may be many entries for this parameter . Please find the exact property_id  for your planning application and change this parameter in the same row
2> Stop RMI planning service
3> Stop Planning JVM
4> Start RMI Planning service
5> Start Planning JVM

Hope this helps .... Happy Reading.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Change Native Admin user Password in Hyperion 11.1.1.3

Hi Guys,

In most cases , no one changes Hyperion admin password. Sometimes for Audit purpose you may need to change . 
I followed Metalink doc (808213.1) to change Admin password successfully and did end to end validation .

Environment :Hyperion 11.1.1.3 , (Planning & Essbase) , SQL Database

Here is the step by step approach I followed.

BACKUP
1> Shutdown the services 
2> Take SQL repositories/DB's offline - Shared services and other databases for your environment.
3> Backup the folders where you installed/configured the software on all the servers (if multinode)                eg: c:/Hyperion and all the Essbase cubes.
4> Backup all the SQL repositories/DB's  

BACKUP VERIFICATION
5>Rename the existing folders eg: C:\Hypeiron --> C:\Hypeiron_Orig
6> Rename the SQL DB's  eg:  HSS --> HSS_ORIG




7> Restore Folders from the backup
8> Restore SQL DB's form the backup (note: rename the datafiles while restoring so that original datafiles won't overwrite) Refer above image after restore HSS again appears
9> Start the DB's and services
10> Verify the environment (In my case everything was successfully)

PASSWORD CHANGE
11> Download LDAP Browser Editor
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/13765.html

12> Unzip this on HSS Server
13> Right click on lbe.bat and edit the file . Set the JAVA path as per your environment
eg:
echo off

if "X%JAVA_HOME%" == "X" goto setjavahome
goto setup

:setjavahome
rem #### MODIFY ##########
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Hyperion\common\JRE\Sun\1.5.0
rem #######################

:setup
set JNDI_LIB=lib\ldap.jar;lib\jndi.jar;lib\providerutil.jar;lib\ldapbp.jar
set JSSE_LIB=lib\jsse.jar;lib\jnet.jar;lib\jcert.jar

set COMMON=.;%JNDI_LIB%;%JSSE_LIB%
set EXEC=browser.jar lbe.ui.BrowserApp

set CMD="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -cp %COMMON%;%EXEC%

echo %CMD%
%CMD%

14> Create new file 'openldap.cfg' on the same location where lbe.bat file resides.
eg:
#################################
 # LDAP Browser v2.8 config file #
 #################################
 basedn=dc=css,dc=hyperion,dc=com
 port=************
 managerlogin=yes
 managereferrals=no
 limit=0
 derefaliases=always
 sslport=636
 version=3
 timeout=0
 password=security
 host=************
 managerdn=cn=root, dc=css,dc=hyperion,dc=com

Port and Host information you can find on the workspace under MSAD configuration. Host name is most likely your HSS server name

15> After completion of above file,double click / execute lbe.bat file and select "openldap" and Connect.

16> Expand "ou=People" and select "cn=911"














17>Double-click on the userPassword field.













18> click “Set”, enter passwords the new password and click “OK”.













19> As per Metalink doc we need to verify the CSS.xml file . But in my case nothing has been changed in CSS.xml
20> Login to shared services with new Admin password. I hope you logged in successfully.
21> Restart the services and the servers 
22> Do the validation

NOTE: If you used admin user in Planning Data Sources then change the same there as well (If required). 

Knowledge:
 In lower environment (eg: 11.1.1.3) Admin password was stored in the openLDAP db and some info is stored in the repository DB. In later versions, everything is stored in the repository (RDBMS) DB. In 11.1.2.3, you just go into HSS console and update the password.






Happy Reading.

Leave Comments .

Thanks.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

PowerPoint can't read file while exporting Hyperion Fincanical Reprot from Workspace into Powerpoint

Hi,

Recently users were unable to export Hyperion Financial Report from Workspace into Powerpoint. They get below error message.


PowerPoint can't read  "Path\filename.ppt"

Here is the workaround for this issue:

1> Save the .ppt file exported from Workspace.
2> Rename the saved file by changing the extension from .ppt to .mhtml
3> Launch PowerPoint and open the .mhtml file from PowerPoint 
4> Save the file opened in PPT as PPT 97-2003 Presentation
5> The resulting .ppt file can then be opened in PowerPoint .

Hyperion environment : 11.1.1.3

Leave the comments, if this article helps to resolve your issue.

An error occurred - while accessing Planning Dimensions/Application

Hi,

Recently , we faced issue "An error Occurred" while accessing Dimensions under Planning Administration from Workspace. You can similar error when you login to the Planning. This issue comes after planning patch on websphere server.


In Planning log you see error : /LogOn.jsp failed to compile

To resolve this issue, we added below entry in 'ibm-web-ext.xmi' file and recycled the Planning JVM.




FYI, this issue occurred in 11.1.1.3 / SQL srever DB and using Websphere 6.x env.

Location of this file is on Planning server under Websphere path. (you can get the idea of the xmil file path in the planning log file as well)

C:\IBM\WebSphere6\AppServer\profiles\yourservername_node\config\cells\Hyperion_DEV_Cell\applications\Planning.ear\deployments\Planning\HyperionPlanning.war\WEB-INF

Note: If you redeply planning ear file this setting will disappear . you have to add this setting again in the 'xmi' file.

Happy Reading!!!!

Monday, September 23, 2013

How to change Native Admin user for Hyperion


Please find below oracle ID for How to change Native Admin user for Hyperion.

How To Reset Native Admin User's Password for Hyperion Shared Services in version 9.x? (Doc ID 808213.1) - can use Version 9.2.0.0.00 and later

Unable to view PDF Preview in Hyperion Workspace

Hi Readers,

After Hyperion FR patches in 11.1.3 environment , Users are not able to generate PDF files  from Hyperion  Workspace.

User are able to open reports in workspace --> Explore -->XYZ(folder) --> open report.

After opening the report they are doing File --> Open In --> PDF Preview. They are getting blank page in workspace. After investigation I suspect that HR Printers may got corrupted. So I re created those on FR Server and issue is resolved.

Steps to Recreate FR Printers

No need to stop any service while performing below step and there is no impact on existing functionality

Step1
Login to Server FR Server

Delete the existing HRPRinters before creating new ones.

  1. From the Start menu, select  "Printers & Faxes".
  2. Select and delete the HRPrinters.
  3. Right click ‘properties’ à Delete. (do this for all HRPrinters 1-5)
  1. Right-click on any remaining printer on the list, and select Properties.
  2. Select the Ports tab.
  3. In the window, widen the Port column, then scroll down and delete the Hyperion ports.

Delete ports for all HRprinters (1-5)

Step2

Verify the file HRCreatePrinters.ini on below path and verify the StartNum and StopNum Parameters D:\Hyperion\Products\biplus\bin


Step 3

Go to D:\Hyperion\products\biplus\bin

Run HRCreatePrinters.exe

Step 4


Verify the printers in “Printers & Faxes” and verify the port for all the printers (right click à propertiesà ports)

Leave comments..if it helps.

Regards
Guru

HARSnapin Initialize() Error - 2147467259 java.rmi.UnmarshalException

Hi Guys,

Recently  one of the user getting below error message while opening the reports in Hyperion FR studio .

FYI, We have 11.1.3 Hyperion version and recently we deployed lot of patches to make 11.1.3 compatible with Windows 7  .



To resolve above issue, I copied HReports.jar and Foundation.jar from the FR server to the client machine where he is using FR studio to open the reports. (take the backup of existing files before replacing it)

Location on server: D:\Hyperion\products\biplus\lib   
and hope the same location is on the client machine as well.
 

Happy Reading