In a prior blog entry here, i had shown how to use BI Server as a data source for loading data from Essbase into custom tables. That approach basically used the Sun ODBC-JDBC bridge which in most cases has bad performance. Today we shall see how to use the native BI Server JDBC driver to connect to BI Server and in-turn use that for loading Essbase Data into a custom table.
One of the major advantages of ODI is the fact that it can be used to connect to any data source that has a valid jdbc driver. In order to make ODI to use the BI EE JDBC driver, we need to make the JDBC driver (jar file) of the BI Server to be accessible by ODI. The jar file(bijdbc14.jar) of BI Server can be obtained from the BI Publisher web server installation folder {OracleBI}\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\xmlpserver\xmlpserver\WEB-INF\lib. The main reason why we are going to the BIP folder structure is because BIP uses the JDBC driver of BI Server to do reporting on BI EE metadata.
The above screenshot basically provides the database driver class and the connection string of the JDBC driver of BI EE. Now copy this driver jar file to {OracleDI}\oracledi\drivers directory.
Now open up Topology Manager and create a new Universal Data Server. Use the above driver class and connection in the JDBC URLs.
Ensure that you are able to test the connection using Administrator username and password.
Now, in the physical schema choose any subject area in the Presentation Layer.
Now once this is done, go to the Designer and create a Project. And import the necessary Knowledge Modules that i had shown in the last blog entry. Since we are using JDBC, we can do a selective reverse of all the necessary tables.
But be aware that, BI EE supports multiple presentation tables with the same name across subject areas. But ODI currently does not support multiple table import with the same name (as there is no BI EE specific RKM. This can be resolved if you build a separate RKM. Also, though you might be able to reverse objects with special characters, they would not work within an Interface. So, its better to create aliases with proper ODI supported naming conventions. ). Lets choose just 4 such tables, Basic, Market, Scenario and Year.
Now lets build a very simple interface wherein we would be inserting Gen2, Market and the Measure value into a dummy table. Remember in BI EE, whenever you are bringing in multiple tables from a single presentation subject area, no joins are needed i.e. a cross join would have to be configured across multiple tables.
If you execute this interface you would notice that BI Server would generate the MDX accordingly and would then insert the output of the MDX to the database table.
This should give you an idea of how to go about using multiple BI EE subject area tables in an ODI interface and then using that interface to load data into a database table. Also, this method should typically be as fast as your BI Server is since it uses the JDBC connectivity as opposed to the JDBC-ODBC bridge.
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