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Symptom 

The following is a collection of notes and articles compiled together in order to assist with issues related to connectivity between BI and BPC datasources.

Environment 

l BI Platform 4.x /3.xl  SAP Planning and Consolidation 7.5 /10.x for Microsoftl   SAP Planning and Consolidation 7.5 /10.x for Netweaver

Resolution 

General topics

l The XMLA connector for BPC (BPC XMLA) is different than the Microsoft XMLA and uses different libraries. The BPC XMLA connectoruses the BPC COM+ application logic tier while the MS XMLA connects directly to the underlying MS OLAP cube and bypassing the BPCbusiness logic.

l  As of BPC 10 SP04 Patch 02, the BPC XMLA is no longer installed by the BPC setup program and it needs to be manually configured. Formore details please refer to SAP Note 1713232 - How to configure XMLA for BPC 10.

l  As of FP03, BI 4.0 Dashboards can no longer be traced due to the upgrade of the Adobe Flex SDK to 4.0 and the way the DashboardDesign produces the SWF file. For more details refer to SAP Note 1632820 - How to debug and trace Xcelsius dashboards connected to aweb service.

l SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Feat Pack 3 supported platforms (update on Jan 27, 2012) - https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-146406 l SBOP BI PLATFORM 4.0 PAM - https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?

 _APP=00200682500000001303&_EVENT=DISP_NEW&00200682500000002804=01200615320900003804 

SAP Notes specific to BI4 -> BPC 10 NW connections

l 1730125 - BPC 10.0 NW BW Integration via SAP BW OLE DB Providerl 1808656 - SAP Note Not able to connect to a BW "transient" Query from Web Intelligence through BICS connectionl 1857992 - Transient queries not marked as MDX enabled by Object Services

Additional information related to BI connections to BPC 10 NW

l Questions and Answers: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and the Semantic Layer for SAP Netweaver BWhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c05314bb-e5a3-2e10-0e81-9e5a2db585df?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&51887500376956 

l Best Practices for SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 in combination with SAP NetWeaverhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d056e1bc-2794-2e10-959e-8779c5623cc5?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&51586852230547 

l Web Intelligence 4.0 BICS Case Study http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-36077 l BICS vs BAPI vs DF Relational Connection http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-web-intelligence/blog/2012/07/19/bics-vs-bapi-

vs-df-relational-connection  l Building queries based on BEx queries http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir4/en/xi4sp5_bex_queries_en.pdf  

Troubleshooting

l 1909019 - How to troubleshoot connectivty issues between BI and BPC data sources with Fiddlerl

1613532 - Error "Could not find provider BPCMDX.4" when creating a Universe connectionl 1797313 - Authentication error when creating an IDT connection to BPC 7.5 using XMLAl 1632820 - How to debug and trace Xcelsius dashboards connected to a web servicel 1613548 - How to troubleshoot the BPC ODBO driver connectivity issuesl 1690965 - How to test ODBO connectivity on 64-bit editions of Windowsl 1709467 - Troubleshooting BPC ODBO / XMLA issues

See Also 

l 1731626 - Connectivity options between various BusinessObjects BI tools and BPCl 1784015 - BPC MS: What are the required components for BPC and Xcelsius Integration

Keywords 

BOE, Xcelsius, UNX, UNV, Business Objects 

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