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Generating a custom Load Plan for

Custom Sources for a cleaner finish in
OBIA with ODI
OBIA 11.1.1.8.1 11.1.1.7.1 WITH ODI (Oracle Data Integrator)

This Document is written by Shahed Munir and Krishna Mohan of Deliver BI

Public Release Date: 01st September 2014
Version: 1.0

Table of Contents
Description Of Change ............................................................................................................................ 2
BIACM Config .......................................................................................................................................... 2
Step 1: Creation of Custom Offering ................................................................................................... 2
Step 2: Creation of Source for the new offering ................................................................................. 2
Step 3: Creation of Custom Functional Area....................................................................................... 2
Step 4: Creation of relation between Offering and Functional Area .................................................. 3
Step 5: Creation of fact group (Repeat for each Fact Group) ............................................................ 3
Step 6: Creation of Func Area to Fact Group Relation (Repeat for each Fact Group) ........................ 3
Linking BIACM Fact Groups to ODI Objects ............................................................................................ 4
Fact Model / Dimension Model .......................................................................................................... 4
Load Plan Steps (provided only for SILs, but SDE steps will be the same) .......................................... 5
Dev Components............................................................................................................................. 5
Load Plan System Component (Required for a New Fact Group or Dim Group) ................................ 7
Generate the Custom Load Plan in BIACM ......................................................................................... 8

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Description of Change
The creation of new offerings or fact groups for BIACM load plans cannot be achieved using the out
of box OBIA product. Here is the workaround.
Follow the steps below to create Custom Offering with custom facts and dimensions. This offers the
flexibility to create load plans that are completely independent to out of box load plans. This
approach also offers the capability to run custom plans at different frequency to OBIA out of the box
plans
Offering Function Areas Fact Groups which then link to Dimension Groups

BIACM Config
Either run the samples below or you can use the working scripts in Load Plan Scripts 1 to 6 to
generate the custom offering and fact groups. The scripts have been tested. The below samples are
a guide. The fact Groups can be extended to support multiple sources or feeds. The Load Plan scripts
are in a Zip file on our Box server in the same location as this document and will fall in line with the
screen shot examples given in this document.

Step 1: Creation of Custom Offering

insert into c_bia_offering values
(0,'XXDBI_CUSTOM_OFRNG','XXDBI_CUSTOM_OFRNG','Deliver BI Custom Analytics',NULL,
1,'XXDBI','01-JAN-2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);

Step 2: Creation of Source for the new offering

insert into c_bia_offering_ds_type_rel values
(null,'XXDBI_CUSTOM_OFRNG','EBS_12_1_3','BIApps','01-JAN-2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);

Step 3: Creation of Custom Functional Area

insert into c_functional_area values
(0,'XXDBI_OFFER1','XXDBI_OFFER1','Deliver BI Functional Area 1,null,1,'BIApps','01-JAN2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);
insert into c_functional_area values
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(0,'XXDBI_OFFER2', 'XXDBI_OFFER2','Deliver BI Functional Area 2',null,1,'BIApps','01-JAN2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);

Step 4: Creation of relation between Offering and Functional Area

insert into c_bia_offering_funcarea_rel values
(0,'XXDBI_CUSTOM_OFRNG','XXDBI_OFFER1','BIApps','01-JAN-2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);
insert into c_bia_offering_funcarea_rel values
(0,'XXDBI_CUSTOM_OFRNG','XXDBI_OFFER2','BIApps','01-JAN-2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);

Step 5: Creation of fact group (Repeat for each Fact Group)

insert into c_fact_group values
(0, 'XXDBI_OFFER1_FG1', 'XXDBI_OFFER1_FG1','Deliver BI Functional Area 1 - Fact Group 1',null,null
,'BIApps','01-JAN-2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);

Step 6: Creation of Functional Area to Fact Group Relation (Repeat for each
Fact Group)
insert into c_funcarea_factgroup_rel values
(null, 'XXDBI_OFFER1','XXDBI_OFFER1_FG1','BIApps','01-JAN-2014','BIApps','01-JAN-2014',-1);

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Linking BIACM Fact Groups to ODI Objects

Login to ODI Studio.
The following step lets ODI know the association between Offerings / Functional Areas (defined in
BIACM) to the models and mappings that will be run as part of load plan

Fact Model / Dimension Model

When creating new FACT/Dimension Model (Table) carry out the following:
Navigation - Models --> Oracle BI Applications --> Oracle BI Applications --> Fact -->
The navigation above is just an indicator the flexfields can be applied directly do dimensions.
Pick the model and navigate to Flexfields tab
- Uncheck the Default checkbox against OBI Fact Group
- In the value field enter DRM_FG1 Or Whatever the fact group ID may Be.

Foreign Key Reference must exist on the Model table _D that requires loading. It can reference itself
if need be. This is applied to a Dimension table so that the Load Plan will not error So if you dont
have a fact table treat the dimension table as a fact.

To make sure that the flexfields are populated correctly so that the load plan can pick up the
interfaces. I like this piece of SQL if you have more than 1 model you can see if they all have the
flexfield value filled ready for a custom load plan.
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This piece of sql can be executed as BIACOMP User in the database (sqlplus or toad).
select distinct t.i_table,t.res_name from snp_table t, snp_ff_valuew ff
where t.i_table=ff.i_instance and ff.ff_code='OBI_FACT_GROUP' and short_txt_value in ('DRM_FG1')

Load Plan Steps (provided only for SILs, but SDE steps will be the same)
Dev Components
The Scenarios for the Packages created will need to be added into new load plan steps.
SDE Mappings must be referenced from the SDE and relevant source container.

BIAPPS Load Plan --- > SDE --- > EBS_12_1_3

BIAPPS Load Plan --- >Load Plan Dev Components -- > SIL

In Designer go to Loan Plans and Scenarios

Navigate to: LOAD PLAN DEV COMPONENTS SIL

Create a Load Plan Dev Step:

Name of Load Plan Component :

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Rename the root step to DRM_FG1 or fact group name

Goto Steps Tab

-

Add the scenario that needs to be executed.

Remember to set the scenario version to -1 (Save the Step then go back into the Scenario
step and change the version to -1). Steps have a version number of -1 as they are the 1st
packages that were created for the interfaces

Add as many Steps as you like for Dimensions or facts . Remember the Fact_group flexfield must be
enabled on the models for the relevant steps created.

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Load Plan System Component (Required for a New Fact Group or Dim
Group)
This step loads all object or steps within a Parent load plan step in dev components.

In Designer goto Loan Plans and Scenarios

Navigate to: BIAPPS Load Plan Load Plan System Components SIL 2 SIL Fact Group

Then

Navigate to: Root step parallel PROC_Serial

Add Load Plan System Step
Note: This can be created directly under main parallel step but at the end of PROC Serial. Does not
have to be a subjob of PROC_Serial. Just Right click OUT on the Step and Right Click and down
Basically create this step under PROC_SERIAL will be a neater finish like below screen shot.

Create a step for $${3 SIL FACT DRM_FG1}

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The Load Plan System step must contain the Load Plan Dev Component Parent step name in $${}
As shown in the above screen shots we have placed $$ ---> Eg:- $$(3 SIL Fact DRM_FG1 ) ---> So
when the LPG generates the Final Load plan $$(3 SIL Fact DRM_FG1 ) would be replaced with the
content inside it.

Once these steps have been completed then its time to Test the new Offering and Fact Group in
BIACM

Generate the Custom Load Plan in BIACM

Login to BIACM
Create a New Load Plan SIL / PLP Only if there is no SDE Needed
Pick the Custom Offering and Fact Group that was created with the scripts 1-6 and Generate the
Load plan.

As you can now see RX Custom Analytics has is its own offering and a custom fact group. This
offering and load plan can be scheduled independently for custom source data.

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