Does Unicom System Architect still support using Oracle database? - oracle

When System Architect was an IBM product it supported Oracle DB.
The current version is 11.4.4.2.
Reading the vendor's product page does not list Oracle, it only lists MS SQL Server. But a 2016 Unicom report says 11.4 supports Oracle.
Wikipedia and SO say it supports Oracle, but they are both old information.
Does anyone have experience on this?

Based on vendor conversations, 11.4.2.7 does support Oracle. 11.4.3 likely does not.

On the page you refer to press the evaluate-button and you will see
Request for Information
If you would like to submit a Request for Information for an Enterprise Architecture tool, please send an email to Architect.Sales#unicomsi.com
So why not ask the vendor? I think he will know.

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OBIEE RPD reusability in OAS and OAC

May I know if RPD developed for OBIEE is reusable in OAC (Oracle Analytics Cloud) and OAS (Oracle Analytics Server) without any glitch or change? I was told by some experts that it is reusable , however wanted to cross validate if there is some required change or condition to be able to reuse.
Thanks
"Yee-ish". Depends on which version you're coming from and how badly things were done in the legacy version. I just gave a webinar on the subject:
Edit: Oracle doesn't allow direct linking, sorry.
First, go to the hub: https://go.oracle.com/analyticscommunity
From there search for "OAS Upgrade" or use the direct link. It will work whne you have a valid cookie.
https://gateway.on24.com/wcc/eh/2258334/lp/2587842/upgrading-from-obiee-to-oas-the-benefits-the-path-to-modernising-your-analytics-gianni-ceresa-datalysis-christian-berg-dimensionality
Adding to above, we recently migrated from OBIEE12214 to OAS and there were only a few issues in Migration. About RPD there was no issue we were able to use it just like that. Notice Repository Versions between the OAS and OBIEE12214 They are the same 356!
A tip when you do the BAR file migration from 12214 in the RPD the username and password for the connection pools are lost. Best advise is open the 12C rpd and save it using OAS Admintool and then upload it to OAS.

Database note taker Oracle db

I'm trying to find a tool that will help me to build a documentation for a database.
I need to write comment on column / table and to have a summary of data flow that creates/modifies data and most important, at a conceptual level what data means. I'm also looking for a free tool
After a long search, I found out http://databasenotetaker.com/ which seems to be suitable for my purposes.
My database is Oracle.
From the documentation they say it potentially support every database but I can't connect to Oracle.
I don't know how to specify the driver in the connection window:
According to their documentation
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Can Database Note Taker connect to other database platforms?
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Yes and we will add support for other platforms in the future. So long as it's a relational database and there are freely available connectors, then Database Note Taker will be able to work with it. Out of the box you can connect to Microsoft Sql Server, and MySql via ODBC."
Out of the box you can't connect to Oracle, therefore you need a driver. Check with them to understand which driver they mean when they said "freely available connectors". Out-of-the-box in this context refers to the drivers that appear in the selection list.
My advice: Ask them which kind of driver do you need. If standard ODBC is ok, you must download the ODBC driver from Oracle.
https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/winx64-64-downloads.html
Important Check whether this product supports 64 bits or it is 32, in order to select the right ODBC driver.

Connecting Power BI to ORacle? Filling out TNSNames.ORa

We are using Oracle cloud CRM. Our organization has been using it since quite few years and the people who set it up have already left. I am new here and am trying to connect the CRM data to Power BI. I intalled the ODAC drivers and everything. However, I do not know what to enter in my tnsnames.ora file. That file has asked for service name, server name and hostID/name. No one in the organization has this information. I reached out to Oracle support and here is the response they gave:
Oracle’s response to the service request: “These details are not found in Documentation because they cannot be provided. You'll need to reach out to Power BI support to see if there are alternate ways to create this integration without these details.”
Does anyone know why Oracle would not share these details with us? If there is any other way to find out the server and service name? How should I proceed in such scenarios.
As of now, we use a link to login to the service and we do not have much documentation
Let me attempt to translate.
We are using Oracle cloud CRM
Oracle is hosting our application.
I am new here and am trying to connect the CRM data to Power BI
We want to query the database being used to store our application data.
Oracle’s response to the service request: “These details are not found in Documentation because they cannot be provided..."
This is where it gets fun, they are saying - we do not give clients direct access to the database where their data is hosted. So in other words, you CANNOT connect your tool directly to the database.
So, I think you're best bet, is to look into REST APIs that have been published for you as a subscriber to the service. This is often provided in lieu of providing direct access to your hosted environment.
Your other bet is to contact someone in your organisation that has the oracle connections in a file which you could load SQL Developer by Oracle, and explore the connections there. Most likely this will be a data engineer or IT contact in your organisation who will have this information. Once you have the connection info visible, you can then enter this directly in Power BI after creating an Oracle connection.

Power BI dynamic filtering according to user account

I want to develop indicators using Microsoft Power BI.
I have a Datawarehouse on SQL Server and I directly query from the DW.
I would like to display different information according to the user accessing the report.
I didn't find a way on how I can dynamically filter the data according to the user account.
Is it possible?
If not, then what are the possible solutions to do it?
I believe what you are looking for is Row-Level Security and it is out with Sql server 2016 and Azure Sql DB, check here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn765131.aspx
I too have been looking for a similar solution to the same problem, I am using Azure SQL DW and I have been told the Row-Level Security will be coming to AzureSQLDW with GA, but not sure of the date on that.
So back to your question as far as I know the only possible solutions would be to use Sql 2016 Row-Level Security or you can also use SSAS in front of your data warehouse.
Hope that helps.

What is the Reporting tool that I will use in APEX?

I'm going to develop a new system using Oracle APEX.
I used to use Oracle Reports Builder to develop reports in Oracle Forms.
What Reporting tool should I use in APEX?
I need something with Oracle Reports features such as Conditional Formatting, PL/SQL support, etc?
Thanks and Regrads
You can use Oracle Reports with Apex - see this rather old how-to doc. Essentially, if you have Reports set up to run via the web then you can run a report via a URL like this:
http://myserver:7777/reports/rwservlet?report=myreport.jsp&userid=myuser/mypassword#mydb&desformat=pdf&destype=cache&p_empno=1234
So it is then just a matter of constructing this URL in Apex and using it. You can avoid passing the password as a parameter by using single sign-on for Apex and Reports.
See Quick Start Guide to Oracle Reports Server 9.0.4 for further details.
The recommended approach I think is to use BI Publisher, but that is expensive to license. There may be cheaper third-party alternatives to BI Publisher that can be used, but I don't know them.
I think there are a number of people in the Apex community waiting for a nice solution to this requirement!
You have that in APEX forms with PL/SQL. But you have to be more specific or you can try in http://apex.oracle.com/i/index.html creating a workspace and see what can be done with APEX.

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