Comments on: Oracle BI Report Migration Utility

By: virita

virita — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:43:19 +0000

Hi Lava,

Here is the navigation to upload the Data Template

XML Publisher Administrator–>Dat aDefinition

Create Data Definition

Here you can enter all the deatils to create a data definition and click on ‘APPLY’ button to save the changes.The page navigates to another jsp page where you can find two sections”‘General’ and ‘files’.in the ‘Files’ section you can find a button ‘Data template’ where you can upload your data template file.

Regards,
P.R.Viriita

By: Ike Wiggins, Minneapolis, MN

Ike Wiggins, Minneapolis, MN — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:31:28 +0000

Say you might want to give the Reports6i to BIP Conversion Utilities I wrote a try. It makes the process pretty painless. The post contains a demo video and executable to do the conversion.

http://bipublisher.blogspot.com/2009/05/bi-publisher-reports6i-to-bip.html

Ike

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:26:24 +0000

Thanks for very realistic blog. I will be working on a Migration project of Oracle reports to BIP, starting from mid of august. The report which I have to migrate form Oracle reports to BIP is a very big one having sql query of 300 pages & output files contains 40 pages. It took around 12 hrs to execute that report. The existing reports is not part of Oracle apps but a standalone report. Can you please let me know, if I can use conversion utlility as mentioned in your blog to migrate reports? Is there any usefull & realsitic document for such migration? Any other important points I need to keep in mind while working on this project?
I appreciate your reply & value your time.
Best Regards
Ashish

By: Anshul Singhal

Anshul Singhal — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:09:33 +0000

Hi,

This is really a very good post. I have a question related to XML publisher. I will be thankful if you could please answer me this question as i have asked this question to many forums and no body has even replied to me till now.

how can we create parameters in XML report in case of new report to be developed? Also if there is any standard report with parameters that we are converting into XML, then how do we proceed to create the parameters in XML? Also how can we replace formula columns (of Oracle report6i) in XML publisher?

I am desperatley looking forward for answer from you guys.

Thanks,

Regards,
Anshul Singhal

By: Kasper Kombrink

Kasper Kombrink — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:32:59 +0000

Hi Lava,
I am not familiar yet with 12i. I guess you can read the Oracle XML Publisher User’s Guide. Good luck.

By: Lava

Lava — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:50:59 +0000

Hi..

i am suposed to develop a AP Cheque report into BI publisher in 12i. I am pretty comforatble with RDF->RTF->XML report..
But with Data template i feel easy but trouble some.. And on top I am not able to find the place where we upload the Data template. Pls help…

I went to XML Publisher resp-> Data Template-> I cud see only the general Section.. I cant find the files Section. Pls help

-Lava

By: Kasper Kombrink

Kasper Kombrink — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:13:17 +0000

Hi Kirk,
It seems that you are missing some of the java classes in your classpath. Not sure exactly how the pieces fit together, but I did manage to get it working.
I finally solved the problem. It turns out the DataTemplateGenerator and RFTTemplateGenerator classes are not provided with BI Publisher download, but is a part of the XML Publisher 5.6.3 download. I downloaded the XMLP 5.6.3 and pulled out the file j5472959_xdo.zip. I included j5472959_xdo.zip in my class pathstring and everything worked as it should have.
I put the following in files in my classpath:
Collections.zip, xmlparserv2-904 – available from the JAVA_TOP directories, aolj.jar, xdocore.jar, xmlparserv2-904.jar and collections.jar. In an APPS environment you can also add a pointer to the Apps JAVA_TOP – under here are the necessary XML Publisher libraries.
The command I ultimately used was:
java.exe -verbose -cp xdoparser.jar;collections.jar;j5472959_xdo.zip;versioninfo.jar;xmlparserv2-904.jar oracle.apps.xdo.rdfparser.RTFTemplateGenerator C:\ReportTest\[REPORTNAME].xml
There’s a lot of references on OTN forums by the way.
As for the the BIPBatchConversion utility: I beleive this isn’t a jar file or an executable as part of some BIP installation but a simple script oracle developed internally and uses as part of their own Migration offerering.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/xml-publisher/docs/BIPBurstingImplementationService.ppt
It looks something like this:
#!/bin/sh
# This script will generate a report for each template presnet in the current directory
# Create a variable to hold the classpath
classpath=”DIR/collections.zip:DIR/xmlparserv2-904.zip:JAVA_TOP directory”
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
for file in *.rdf
do
echo “Processing … $file”
if test -f $file
then
# Convert the rdf to xml
echo yes | $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rwconverter.sh batch=yes source=$file dest=$file dtype=xmlfile overwrite=yes; \
# Create a variable to hold the new xml file name, this is just a simple replace
# statement
xfile=”${file//rdf/xml}”;
# Generate the data template plus plsql
echo yes | /local/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java -classpath $classpath oracle.apps.xdo.rdfparser.DataTemplateGenerator $xfile;
# Generate the RTF template
echo yes | /local/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java –classpath $classpath oracle.apps.xdo.rdfparser.RTFTemplateGenerator $xfile;
fi
done
else
echo usage: $0
echo this script will generate a data template and supporting plsql and an RTF template in the current directory
fi
regards,

By: Kirk Shorting

Kirk Shorting — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:20:18 +0000

Kasper,

I have read every Oralce document, blog and technical forum I can find on creating an RFT template from an RDF. The process is always described as simple and the instuctions seem straight forward and yet I cannot get this to work. The most frequent error is “Exception in thread main java.Lang.NoCLassDefFoundError: oracle/apps/xdo/rdfparser/RTFTemplateGenerator”. Evidently, the classes are not being defined properly, but I have made every attempt to define these and nothing works. I have the classes installed. I am new to using java so I assume I have missed something elemental.
This should be as simple as installing the software and running it, but it isn’t. Any help would be appreciated. I don’t look forward to rewriting hundreds of custom reports using MS-Word and BI Publisher, but right now, that is our only option. We have converted 10 reports so far manually.

Thanks,

PS There are references to an executable called “BIBatchconverter”. This is also described as “simple” to use and yet I cannot find this file on any installation of BI that I have installed on my laptop (5.6.3 through 10.1.3.3.1) and there is no reference to it’s existence on MetaLink. Odd!

By: rupali

rupali — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:28:23 +0000

i m designing new database from existing database so i need to migrate
all data from old database to new database so can you hemp me hoe to do that?