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    Discoverer in Oracle Applications
    Sunday, November 05, 2006
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    One of my readers reminded me that I have not covered on discoverer for Apps DBA yet so thought of putting some bits and pieces for you on Discoverer and later on How to Integrate Discoverer 10g with Oracle Apps 11i. So lets start this discussion about overview & things you should know about Discoverer as Apps DBA.

    Whats is Discoverer Server ?
    Discoverer is and ad hoc query, reporting, analysis and publishing tool which help business users to get quick access to information from datawarehouse or OLTP systems. In Apps, Discoverer version 4i used to be installed & configured out of the box which is desupported now. You should configure Apps with Discoverer 10g (I am going to cover about how to configure discoverer 10g with E-Business Suite)

    What should I know about Discoverer as an Apps DBA ?
    Though each component in Apps like forms, reports, web server including Discoverer in itself are quite big and more you know about them better it is for you . Few Important things you should know about Discoverer in Apps is like how to start/stop & how to access it. In case of any issues you should be able to troubleshoot discoverer.

    What is EUL ?
    You will hear lot about EUL from business analyst which means End User Layer, which is the key to provide ease of use to underlying data in Oracle Apps Database.

    Technical things about discoverer in Apps ..
    --In Apps default discoverer version 4i, is installed under $ORACLE_HOME/discwb4
    --Script to start discoverer server is addisctl.sh under $OAD_TOP/admin/scripts/$CONTEXT_NAME
    -- This script in turn start discoverer processes which can be start by startall.sh under $ORACLE_HOME/discwb4/util (This script is different from adstrtal.sh)
    -- startall.sh calls scripts like startgatekeeper.sh, startlocator.sh , startoad.sh, startosagent.sh to start gatekeeper, locator, oad & osagent resp.
    -- In Apps two major way to access EUL is via Discoverer view & Discoverer Plus edition (You can use Discoverer Administration Edition as well)

    Quiz to reader :
    A. How will you find discoverer version in Apps ?
    B. What URL you use to access Disco viewer & Disco plus .

    Post your answers via comments

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    • At 10:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      for viewer it is

      http://hostname.domainname:port/dicswb4/viewer

       
    • At 4:29 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Hi,

      Plus--http://hostname.domain:port/discwb4/html/english/welcome.htm

      Viewer--
      http://hostname.domain/discoverer4i/viewer

      Version
      $ORACLE_HOME/Discwb4

      $ string –a dis4pr | grep –i ‘discoverer version’

       
    • At 4:31 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Hi,

      Viewer--
      http://hostname.domain:port/discoverer4i/viewer

      Plus----
      http://hostname.domain/discwb4/html/english/welcome.htm

      Version:

      Goto $ORACLE_HOME/Discwb4

      $ string –a dis4pr | grep –i ‘discoverer version’

      Thanks

       
    • At 7:53 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Thanks a lot for comments,

      Second answer is correct one .

      i.e.

      Plus--http://hostname.domain:port/discwb4/html/english/welcome.htm

      Viewer--
      http://hostname.domain/discoverer4i/viewer

      Version
      $ORACLE_HOME/Discwb4

      $ string –a dis4pr | grep –i ‘discoverer version’

      Please mention your name if possible for your feedback & answers

       
    • At 3:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      hi atul
      I want to use the discoverer4i in my existing apps. So after starting the discoverer server does it have a default user and password provided by oracle to access for the first time.

       
    • At 3:23 PM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Hi Santosh,
      You can use sysadmin or apps user to access dscoverer .

      Ask Discoverre Functioanl analyst to grant EUL access to any other Application users which you created later .

      Atul

       
    • At 7:48 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Please tell me what is the URL if i have to access Oracle 10g.

       
    • At 8:05 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Hi Anonymous,
      We are going to cover this in my coming post on how to configure Apps with Discoverer 10g

      Atul

       
    • At 3:18 PM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Mudasir,
      Its now available at

      http://becomeappsdba.blogspot.com/2006/11/discoverer-10g-oracle-11i.html


      Atul

       
    • At 11:31 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Just wanted to share the below

      The location for looking for dis4pr is $ORACLE_HOME/diswb4/bin

      where ORACLE_HOME -> 8.0.6. Oracle Home

       
    • At 4:43 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Thanks for information. I would like to ask that we have oracle discoverer 4.1.37 version, so how to upgrade to 4.1.48.06? I heard that there is a patch for this, would you elaborate more on this.

      Arizuddin
      arizudding@rcjubail.gov.sa

       
    • At 10:22 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      hi atul
      how to configure workflow and Discoverer,

      i mean , my discoverer reports to schebuled based on events

       
    • At 10:38 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      You mean you want to configure Disco & workflow with apps or any other thing ?

      If this is 11.5.9 and higher disco & WF are already integrated with Apps

       
    • At 10:39 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Arizuddin
      Do you wish to upgrade it to 4.1.37 (This is obsolete & desupported now) I would suggest you to configure 10g Disco with Apps which I am going to cover in a day or two by 18 Feb 07 in this blog

       
    • At 5:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Hi Atul,
      I have created EUL using Discoverer 10g Administrator, but my server side is running 9i AS can I still use Discoverer Plus/Viewer to show reports based on 10g EUL?

      Thanks Anand

       
    • At 1:59 PM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Anand,
      Your Discoverer Desktop Admin version is 10g and EUL on server is 9i. As soon as you try to connect to 9i Server it will display message that You are using old version of EUL kindly upgrade & it will upgrade EUL on server to 10g

       
    • At 11:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      .HI Atul

      Can you tell me about the Single Sign on facility with Orale Discoverer 4i and Oracle APPS release 11i (11.5.10)

      How I am gonna setup SSO (Single Sign on to Discoverer Plus From ORacle APPS 11i)

       
    • At 11:27 PM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Hi anonymous, for configuring sso with any oracle apps component only certified way is to use sso server which comes with 10g AS . so Install 10g AS & use 10g AS for & sso with 10g AS in apps .

      Another option is to use 10g Disco itself (install 10g AS with disco option) follow metalink note # 313418.1 Using Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i when you install 10g disco install infra first (sso & oid) and then install disco middle tier & configure disco 10g with apps

       
    • At 9:12 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      could you please explain more about discoverer like why do we use it? if its for reporting, we have CM and reports server for such functionality...why use disco then???also what do you mean by analysis??

       
    • At 11:56 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Hi Anonymous,
      Discoverer is for Business Intelligence reporting .

      These are more complex reports & mainly targeted for OLAP kind of reports . Soon you might see discoverer being replaced by BIEE (Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) build on siebel analytics

       
    • At 4:39 AM, Blogger Kriz said…

      Hi Atul,
      Thanks for the great info.
      I have a query.
      Iam using Disc 10 on Apps 10 and access Disc Viewer via a URL call from Custom form.
      I have created Disc reports using LOGIN_A and granted access to some users.
      But if there is a any session issue in Viewer it is still asking the LOGIN_A's pwd even though I logged in using one of the granted user name.
      Please help;
      Thanks!!

       
    • At 5:52 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Hi Kriz,
      Are you talking about application server 10g or applications 11i ?

      Raise any questions/issues at http://teachmeoracle.com/forum

       
    • At 5:43 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

      Hi,

      how to integrate OLAP Report with Oracle application in 11.5.10.2

       
    • At 5:48 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

      Hi,

      How to integrate OLAP report with Oracle applications 11.5.10.2

       
    • At 10:54 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Hi
      This is Krishna, will you please tell me how we register the discoverer reports. i have followed the process but it is giving some errors.

      Krishna

       
    • At 10:50 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      How to connect to discoverer viewer in Release 12?

       
    • At 10:51 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      what abt release 12

       
    • At 7:58 PM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Use http://hostname.domainname:http_port/discoverer/viewer

       
    • At 6:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      How i will configure oracle discoverer 1og with oracle apps 12i. how oracle user will be permitted to access the responsibility

       
    • At 7:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      I everyone,

      I would like to know how to get à paper shema of the table relation created by the sysadmin in Discoverer.

      Is there a tool that do it ?

       
    • At 4:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      good see a lot of info exchanging between u guys on discoverer which i wasnt even aware of

       
    • At 6:56 AM, Blogger Unknown said…

      Hi,

      First of all thanks for sharing the such a useful information across the blog.

      I would like to know the Whether we can install on linux x86 that is 11i instaces server, is yes where i will get the Discoverer 10g on linux Software.

      Thanks in advance
      Krishna Kumari

       
    • At 7:05 AM, Blogger Atul Kumar said…

      Krishna,
      We have moved to http://onlineapsdba.com so kindly check on new site and raise your doubts there

       
    • At 1:13 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      hi,
      client is using discoverer viewer to access reports and most of the users use the same id to login to viewer edition to access the reports.

      I do know that in Viewer we’ll need to turn off anything that allows the user to save changes/preferences as what they are saving is not only for themselves, but everyone else using that ID to access the reports.

      can you tell me what attibuites we need to change in discoverer viewer Configuration file for this.

      Anuj malhotra

       
    • At 4:01 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

      Dear expert;
      I'm new to both Oracle Apps and Discover 10g; I've installed oracle application server on a linux box(as_linux_x86_bi_101202);
      I try to access to discoverer by browsing http://charon.cd.celtel.com:7777/ but i can go far. could some one help me with the basic
      alka

       
    • At 4:52 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

      Hi all;
      When I try to logon logon a DB, I recieve following error message:
      =================================
      Attempt 1. CORBA protocol : 0 of 1 processes started. Hint: An administrator can further diagnose connection problems by running the "checkdiscoverer" script under ORACLE_HOME/discoverer/util.
      ==================================
      and when I run the checkdiscoverer.sh ; I get following message:
      ===============================
      /home/oracle/Home/jdk/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      =============================

      thanks for the help

       
    • At 2:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Does anyone know about a solution for the CORBA-error described by Alka?

       
    • At 2:08 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

      HI,

      When i am trying to login the Discoverer..its throwing following error..

      Error
      Authentication Failed.
      (You do not have access to any End User Layer tables)

      HOw i can give acess ??

       
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