Monday, February 4, 2013

obiee 11.1.1.6.8 is available

Please note, since OBIEE 11.1.6.11 is available (see here) you should consider it instead of 11.1.1.6.8.


Patch 11.1.1.6.8 is available from Oracle support site (support.oracle.com). 
The first part of the patch is Patch 16094198). 

It's the most updated / latest version (actually patch bundle) of OBIEE, installed on top of the basic 11.1.1.6.0 version.

I didn't see a Windows 32 bit server version of this patch. Personally, I think it's a good idea.
Also note that while the 7th patch of client Installers exists on Linux X86 (and not only X86-64), the only Linux version of other patch components is X86-64.

It can be installed on OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0, 11.1.1.6.1, 11.1.1.6.2, 11.1.1.6.2 BP1, 11.1.1.6.4,11.1.1.6.5, 11.1.1.6.6 and  11.1.1.6.7 .

As usual, the real patch has 7+1 parts. The installation steps for the first 7 are similar. I recommend reading the first readme – patch 16094198 readme file. To be totally correct it’s not the first 7, but first 6 since patch number 7 contains only client tools (BI Administration, MapViewer…) and to the best of my knowledge are not relevant to non-Windows installations.

The Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6.8 patchset comprises a number of patches:
Patch Abstract
16094198 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (1 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Installer
16094192 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (2 of 7) Oracle Real Time Decisions
16080520 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (3 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
16094205 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (4 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence ADF Components
16094211 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (5 of 7) Enterprise Performance Management Components Installed from BI Installer 11.1.1.6.x
PLEASE note, this is platform specific patch (Windows 64, Linux X86, X86-64, IBM AIX Power 64, Solaris SPARC 64, Solaris X86-64, HP-UX Itanium)
16067995 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (6 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence
PLEASE note, this is platform specific patch (Windows 64, Linux X86-64, IBM AIX Power 64, Solaris SPARC 64, Solaris X86-64, HP-UX Itanium) 
16097082 Patch 11.1.1.6.8 (7 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Platform Client Installers and MapViewer

Additionally there is the patch number 8, it is named JDeveloper Patch, but it is for OBIEE as well. It's the same patch you used if you installed 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 or later. So if you already installed it, I see no reason to do it again.
Patch 13952743JDeveloper patch -   - RUP3 MLR4.3  CUMULATIVE: BASED ON JDEVADF_11.1.1.6.2_GENERIC_120329.1447.6268.1 (last release 11.1.1.6.2)
The installation steps are same as 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 as we described here.
Please note, that readme tell you to do the following backups:
  • The ORACLE_HOME\bifoundation\server directory
  • The ORACLE_INSTANCE\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\repository
  • The ORACLE_BI_HOME\bifoundation\jee\mapviewer.ear\web.war\WEB_INF\conf\mapViewerConfig.xml, if you have modified it. This last bullet is relevant to those who configured the OBIEE Maps (described, in Hebrew here).
I'm not aware of any new features in 11.1.1.6.8.

You can see a list of bugs fixed by this release in the following:

OBIEE 11.1.1.6.8 - bugs fixed

The table above was updated on 5-Feb. (The blogger who copied this post to his blog is welcome to copy the updates as well).



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