Lately I have been faced with the need to install a FixPack on one of my Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1 systems. Doing so has reminded me of some key points and tips that I wanted to share with the Business Objects community. FixPacking BO 3.1 is truly a different experience:
Not Your Father’s [...]
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I really cannot explain why it is that I have NEVER seen any documentation that advises Business Objects XI administrators on how to stop and start Business Objects properly. For those of us running part of our business on BO XI we are very concerned about minimizing errors for users and scheduled jobs while [...]
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A “CMS Cluster” is a group of Business Objects XI Central Management Servers (abbreviated CMS, which is a BO service\daemon) that are interrelated and connected so that they may work in conjunction to manage the various other BO servers and provide most of the basic functionality of Business Objects. Clustering them allows for greater [...]
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If you have spent some time with your Business Objects XI auditing data then you have probably asked yourself what significance is of the the error code values for the AUDIT_EVENT table’s ERROR_CODE property. If you haven’t yet pondered this then I suspect you haven’t looked closely at your data, OR you don’t have [...]
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The question has come to my mind many times over the years and this month it has come to my inbox.
Thanks to Pluto for inspiring me to write this article.
The question: Is it possible to peer into the Business Objects XI CMS InfoStore (a.k.a. database repository) without Query Builder or the BOXI SDK????
The answer: No
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If you have ever had a serious issue with your Business Objects environment that wasn’t easily fixed by a service pack, fix pack, or limited availability fix then you probably have had to enable logging on some or even all of your BusinessObjects servers. This is also frequently referred to as “tracing”. I’d [...]
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