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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite 4.0 Support Package 5 Patch 2


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12/27/2012

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About these Release NotesThese Release Notes contain important information about known issues, fixed issues and design limitations present inSAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Patches. To see whether known issues in one Patch are fixed in a subsequent Patch,use the ADAPT number of the known issue to search within the PDF.

Only the last four Patches are available on SMP at any moment. If you expect that you will need an additionalinstallation at a later time, download all relevant patches from the same Patch Level at the same time as olderPatches will not be available on SMP once they are removed.

Before installing the software, we recommend that you read the entire document.

Where to find more information about this release:

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http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700000646492012E/xi4sp4_bip_patch_update_en.pdf




SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite 4.0 Support Package 5 Patch 2 - Release Notes

Web services does not work out of the box in Information Platform ServicesADAPT01669756

Web services (dswsbobje) does not work out of the box in Information Platform Services after installing SP05. Toworkaround this issue, open dswsbobje\WEB-INF\conf\axis2.xml, comment out the following lines and thenredeploy dswsbobje on the web application server:

<messageFormatter contentType="application/json"class="com.sap.xcelsius.ws.json.XcelsiusJSONMessageFormatter"/><messageBuilder contentType="application/json"class="com.sap.xcelsius.ws.json.XcelsiusJSONBadgerfishOMBuilder"/>

Known Issues and Limitations for SAP BusinessObjectsBusiness Intelligence Suite 4.0 Support Package 5 Patch 2

1/1


ADAPT01561596

WebIntelligence report name should be updated correctly when it is changed in Translation Manager Tool.

This problem has been resolved.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01580268

Blank Web Intelligence report is generated when we mention a customized path for output cache directory and theimage directory in the Web Intelligence processing server properties.

Problem is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01599452

Hyperlinked Web Intelligence document shows in the first Web Intelligence document window. Two WebIntelligence documents are nested in the same window.

This problem is resolved.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01620490

Audit text files for Web Intelligence view on demand and refresh (Event_Type_ID 1003) does not capture Selectstatement (Event Detail 25) for all data source types


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01640898

Cascading List of LOV’s report is popping with internal server error when viewed on the client for prompt on a"DateTime" field.

Issue fixedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01644121

Unable to migrate CR2008 reports containg renamed stored procedure.

The above issue is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

Fixed Issues for SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceSuite 4.0 Support Package 5 Patch 1

1/16


ADAPT01645374

2nd and 3rd expand operation on a specific document fails

Validated on Aurora_4.0_Patch5.1 build 905 and issue is not reproducibleLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01646742

Web Intelligence : BICS connection 'Save language" property. The session language may not be used if thisproperty is unchecked.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01651387

In a Publication based on a WebIntelligence report, when using an identifier from a "dynamic recipent" report,which is not present in the a "main" report, it fails with error “ Element doesn't belong to the container”

problem is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01651766

The hierarchy objects change randomly in the Query Panel of Crystal Report.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01655533

In a German operation system, after exporting a Crystal report 2011 into Microsoft Excel Workbook Data-onlyformat (.xlsx format) from BI LaunchPad, an error was given while opening the Excel file with Excel 2007 or Excel2010.

The problem is resolved.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01657171

Refresh of BEX documents does not work if prompts have default value & LOV of the prompt has more levels

Validated on Aurora_40_SP04_Patch - Build 891Refresh of BEX documents work fine prompts that have default valueIn mobi and webi, LOV of the prompt has more levels giving same error message.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01658537

The Dashboard should refresh successfully without freezing.Description:

2/16


The Dashboard should refresh successfully without freezing.Limitations:

New Behavior:

ADAPT01661366

Web Intelligence : When accessing a Bex query that contains a "Compound" object, this one may not be correctlydisplayed if the corresponding "Key" object is not added into Web Intelligence query panel.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01661640

For AIX its not possible to save any crystal report from Crystal Reports Enterprise 4.0 Designer to the SAPBusiness Objects Enterprise server when SAP JVM is used.This issue was very specific to the customer environment.

Following config setting (work around) was suggested to the customer which helped resolve the issue.The SAP JVM has a work-around (-Dsun.java2d.print.polling=falseLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01661699

In the Mobile BI app on Ipad charts show “Data not available” after filtering a second time

Issue is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01662993

Web Intelligence graphs are not displayed when exported from Web Intelligence SDK as dHTML output format

This issue has been resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01663664

When you refresh a WebIntelligence report with query stripping enabled and if one the stripped objects doesn'tbelong anymore to the associated BEX Query, an exception is raised.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01663684

When converting a linked universe, Extra tables on objects from the core universe are not converted

When converting a linked universe, Extra tables on objects from the core universe are convertedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

3/16


ADAPT01663855

When a WebIntelligence report is based on a .unx universe, each user action generate a new session.

This problem has been resolved for the default deployment of the AdaptiveProcessingServer server.In case new servers have been created in the Central Management Console, follow the steps below:-Stop all the customized servers that contains "DSLBridge" service-One by one, do the following steps-Right click on the customized server and choose "Select services"-Remove the element "DSL Bridge Service" from the list on the right -Click OK-Right click on the customized server again and choose "Select services"-Add again the element "DSL Bridge Service" to the list on the right -Click OK-Start the customized serverLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01664884

Web Intelligence dHTML fails to strip query when there is a prompt from a BEx variable or a Query Filter

This problem is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01665518

There was an issue fixed in Patch 3.4 (ADAPT01633808: IE8 had issues getting hold of LOV). However that fix didn't work for the case when https was setup on reverse proxy server rather than the BOEwebserver. Browser ------https*------>WebSEAL -------http**---->BOE. The latest fix fixes the issue by not doing the check for secure connection.

please referer aboveLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01665662

Java stack update

Java components shipping with the BI platform have been updated to contain the latest security and stability fixes.

- Oracle JDK 1.6 update 37 on Windows, Solaris and Linux- IBM JDK 1.6 SR11 on AIX- Oracle JRE 1.6 update 37 on Windows, Solaris, Linux and AIX- SAP JVM build V6.1.044 on Windows, Solaris, Linux and AIXLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01665956

Having a line break in table text wraps the table by default in Mobi

Issue is fixedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

4/16


ADAPT01665963

Expand to Level option impacts non-default hierarchy, which lead to data vary from SP04.

Expand to Level option should only work on Default Hierarchy, non-default hierarchies should return the defaultstructure. Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01666352

HTTPS mixed content warning in Internet Explorer 8 when switching to Design mode in Web Intellignece Viewer


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01666501

Error occurs when refreshing QaaWS connections with Date type prompt.Error message: "An internal error occured while calling 'answerPromptsEx' API. (Error: ERR_WIS_30270)"

User can refresh QaaWS connections with Date type prompt successfully.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01666767

User Attributes are defined in the CMC (Open CMC with any Browser: http://SERVER_NAME:8080/BOE/CMC) in'User Attributes Management' Component, once defined in this component, its value can be defined in any UserProperties ('Users & Groups' component).

Then the User Attributes value can be used in any Secured Query (in a Secured BLX for instance).

The issue behavior is:When we edit a secured BLX and we are connected with the corresponding user we can easily substitute thedefined User Attribute in order to retrieve the declared value in any Object like Dimensions for instance (the use of@variable('SI_MY_USER_ATT') parameter).

But if we use the same User Attribute in a Query, the Query Execution failed because the substitution not applies.

A Query failed using a User Attribute in a BLX

Query execution NOT failed using a User Attribute in a secured BLXLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01666907

in IDT, if a linked universe containing index aware objects is converted, List of Values on this objects are notproperly converted.'[error]' is displayed instead of the List of Values name in object parameters, and the Lov is unavailable.

This problem is resolved.

Lovs from index aware objects are now properly converted and attached to the object.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

5/16


ADAPT01666920

In IDT, filters from core universe are not properly converted. Mandatory options are ignored.

This problem is solved.

Filters from core universe contains properly the mandatory option after linked universe conversion.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01667264

Cell content is truncated in a Web Intelligence document when saved as PDF. This is the case when the cell widthis a bit smaller than the text it contains


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01667335

Cannot translate content data of Web Intelligence reports in Translation Management Tool even if GetLocalized()function has been used.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01667496

The "Show/Hide key values" is not visible in Web view mode when refreshing a Web Intelligence report with aQuery Filter prompt, based on a BEx query as a data source.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01668130

Joins based on keys are not detected for keys created manually


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01668304

In WebIntelligence reports, the options 'Show rows with all empty measure values' and 'Show rows for which allmeasure values = 0' have no effect on tables.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01668799Description:

6/16


In the information design tool, changes to the SQL custom script are lost when the Query Panel is closed and re-opened.

This problem is resolved. Limitations:

New Behavior:

ADAPT01668807

When export Web Intelligence report to PDF, the size is not the same if using client tools (Webi Rich Client) andweb tools (Applet & Dhtml)

This issue has been resolved. You can customize the DPI size PDF output. For this, tou have to modify the file :"C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\java\lib\procWebiPublishing.properties"In this file, you can change value for "pdf_dpi" parameters. This file will be taken into account only for WebIntelligence Scheduling and PublishingLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01669601

In the information design tool, when a calculated measure name contains an accented letter, it does not returnany data when used in a query.

This problem is resolved. Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01669759

An Enterprise user is unable to change their own password through the CMC preferences page in InformationPlatform Services after installing SP05.

This issue is resolved.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01670312

After having renamed the CMS cluster, the access to the secured connection of a retrieved universe causedinapropriate CMS prompting to the previous CMS cluster name, whereas the user was already connected to it

The problem is now solvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01670322

Using the Semantic Layer SDK, the Cube parameter is not kept when editing an OLAP connection.

The Cube parameter is now kept when editing a connection using the Semantic Layer SDK.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:


7/16


in IDT framework SDK, if the destination is different from the source when saving a complete relational universe(Data Foundation and Business Layer), objects from the business layer still use the original Data Foundation,even if setDataFoundation() method is used to change it.


The objects from a business layer now correctly use the Data Foundation set with setDataFoundation() method.Limitations:

New Behavior:

ADAPT01670605

When more than one person schedule Web Intelligence reports from different client at around the same time, anerror message "An Error has occured


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01670704

If a Business Layer contains a measure which parent is another measure, an exception "MeasureImpl cannot becast to BlContainerImpl" is thrown when loading the business layer using the Semantic Layer SDK.

The issue is fixed.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01670819

When we open ZEN applications via OpenDocument URL in iPad Safari then rendering problem occurs.

The issue is Fixed.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01670837

The column name of a multi objects LOV, where we hide one column, is not correct.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01671371

In WebIntelligence reports based on universe created on top of SAPBW, list of values for hierarchical nodes onlydisplay technical names but no description.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01671876

The Technical Name is displayed instead of the Name in the BusinessLayer of a Web Intelligence query based ona BEx query.New Behavior:

Description:

8/16



ADAPT01671916

When reporting off an SAP BW BEx Query with a hierarchy node variable, it prompts to select the hierarchy value,but the displayed hierarchy text value corresponds to the key value, and not to the text value.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672184

Explorer didn't support more than 26 columns in excel

the problem is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672186

The presence of country names with xml balise "<" and ">" , ex: <France", blocked the geography reconciliationdialog box

the problem is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672188

When jvm setting of the explorer servers aren't sufficient for a particular task, a request timeout exception wasraised.

The out of memory exceptions are rendered more explicitLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672293

After having converted a legacy universe (UNV) to contains a mandatory universe prompt definition to newuniverse type (UNX), the mandatory universe prompt is not well taken account when using this new one.

This problem is fixed.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672338

When a dimension and a filter has the same name in Information Design Tool, the Check Integrity returns anAmbigous Object Path error.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672381

9/16


Universe prompt is not working in Runtime.

Correct data are retrieved when selecting different values for universe prompt.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672638

Information Designer Tool : Rename the tables in a Data Foundation may not correctly update the BusinessLayer and Joins.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672745

In IDT, SQL options not modified in Access restrictions (UNV universes) are not properly converted in somecases.


IDt convert now correctly non-modified SQL options from Access restrictions.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673018

When a hierarchy node variable is fixed to a specific hierarchy in a Bex query, the other explicit hierarchies are allexposed in the business layer (in the Query Panel).

This issue has been resolved.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673758

When a universe object is dependent on a hidden object declared in the Information Design Tool or the UniverseDesign Tool, it was not possible to use it in the Web Intelligence Query Panel.

End user can use objects in the Web Intelligence Query Panel even if they rely on hidden objects, declared in theInformation Design Tool or the Universe Design Tool but not visible in the Query Panel outline.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674171

Searching any existing value in a List Of Values returns no data while it should return the searched value (as thisvalue exists).


New Behavior:

Description:


10/16


CMS was using incorrect query to determine if the database supports 2G long BLOBS or if HADR is on. This wascausing database corruption and the CMS was bot able to start after applying SP05

CMS uses the correct query to determine if the database supports 2G long BLOBS or if HADR is on and it iscapable to run after patch installLimitations:

New Behavior:

11/16


ADAPT01636445

Drilling down does throw an error and then data is not the same after refreshing.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01658464

On the Authentication page of the Central Management Console (CMC), AD or LDAP groups may be deletedwhen the Update button is clicked more than once.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01658887

The objects of the UNX universe are not translated in a Web Intelligence document.

This problem is resolved.

For Webi documents created before the fix user must re execute them for the translations to appear. If thedocument is not re executed then it will still show the non translated object names even after installing this patch.

Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01659377

Adding a text with double quotes and a carriage return in a Web Intelligence document using Web viewer,prevents from saving as the Web Intelligence document


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01660221

A Webi report that is based off of a BICS connection to a BEx data source is scheduled to a "PDF" or "Webi"format. The expected behaviour is that all of information that is returned will be shown correctly and some of thefields don't show up as "#TOREFRESH".


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01662037

Copying a list of values from a Web Intelligence filter and pasting them to an external application (like Notepad)gives incorrect values.New Behavior:

Description:

Fixed Issues for SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceSuite 4.0 Support Package 5 Patch 2

12/16



ADAPT01662076

Using Life Cycle Management(i.e,Promotion Management), when we move a group then all the dependant userswithin the group are not getting promoted.

The issue is fixed.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01665064

OLAP reports were not executed successfully when launched inside BI Workspace.

OLAP reports are launched successfully from BI Workspace.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01669160

Column disappears in structure mode when the column contains merged cells.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01671320

Web Intelligence : Using the Web viewer option, when refreshing document based on a SAP legacy universe thatcontains SAP variables, the prompt dialog box may not appear correctly.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01671934

If the connection is triggered by cell and the return value binds the cell at the same time, we will send un-necessary connection request to server.

In one time sequence, the cell won't be triggered twice.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01672408

Custom Calculation expressions are not updated when using a key figure whose description is based on a BEXvariable.

Changing the variable value will now update any relevant calculation expressions as well.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:


13/16


SAP BW connections using SSO without a saved language are not respecting a users Product Locale languagesetting in BOE(Business Objects Enterprise); English data is always retrieved.

A users Product Locale language setting is now taken into account and the data fetched is based on thatlanguage.

Ideally, the PVL (Preferred View Locale) setting in BOE would be used instead, but due to architectural limitationsthe Product Locale is used. PVL use will be incorporated in a later release.

Limitations:

New Behavior:

ADAPT01672965

Details of measure is not null when measure is null (SP4 Patch6)


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673037

Unable to resize columns in Web Intelligence reports in DHTML client from table body (header works)


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673086

Hierarchies with a display folder value of "\" do not display properly and cause java exceptions to be surfaced tothe end user.

There are no longer any exceptions surfaced and the hierarchies display correctly.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673312

On Web Intelligence, when accessing BPC datasource, in some case you were not able to add all levels of adimension with multiple evdescription objects.

On Web Intelligence, you can select all levels of a dimension with multiple evdescription objects.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673313

List of values for Hana Input parameters of type Currency was empty

Issue has been resolved.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673380

Information Design Tool : Incorrect message "Found circular references. Check the @DerivedTable function callsin the query expression. (QTJ 00550)" may occur. New Behavior:

Description:

14/16



ADAPT01673465

When a Web Intelligence report that was upgraded from XIR3.1 to BI4 has a changed data source from .unvuniverse to a .unx universe using Web Intelligence Rich Client, an error occurs.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01673504

Promoting publication adds extra dependencies.

Issue is resolvedLimitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674144

Scaling default value from BW is not being displayed in A-OLAP.

Scaling default value from BW is now displayed in A-OLAP instead of scientific notation.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674309

"Error : INF" and "Error refreshing the report" messages appear when running a Web Intelligence query using twoattributes with same caption of a dimension.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674332

Information Design Tool : An error my occur when saving a data foundation after having deleted a self join.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674451

Response time of the Web Intelligence open document keep growing during the whole stability test.


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674619

Java Applet starting time is slow, caused by lookup of classes on the Tomcat server.New Behavior:

Description:

15/16



ADAPT01674658

Sending information to the Viewer module in a BI workspace usingopenModule did not work properly.

Sending information to the Viewer module in a BI workspace usingopenModule is now supported.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01674868

Drag and drop is not working in DHTML Client using Safari 6


New Behavior:

Description:

ADAPT01675166

Information Design Tool : Query Panel : "allow use of subqueries" Query option may not correctly be takenaccount with SAP ERP connection type.

This problem is resolved.It is not possible to add a subquery when using a SAP ERP connection.The query option is now "unckecked" and "disabled" with such a connection type.Limitations:

New Behavior:

Description:

16/16

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