BPC 10 to IDT connection

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I have quite an urgent question that I need some guidance from all you SAP gurus on!

According to documentation we have found it is possible to connect BPC 10 to BI4 using Information Design Tool. Unfortunately, despite dowloading the relevant software and obtaining log ins we have not been able to complete the connection process.

So far we have:

Installed Business Objects BI platform 4.0 with Information Design Tool (IDT), BPC 10, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update on the Planning and Consolidation Web server and ODBO provider.

Each time we try to connect the errot mesage:

'no hosting information design tool could be found.'

Any advice would be really apprecaited!

Thank you in advance for any help.

Sara

[JohnL]

Hi Sara,

Are you using windows AD or BOE authentication?

What ODBO provider are you using? Is it installed on the same machine where the IDT is installed?

I think you may have to create an XMLA OLAP connection within the CMC using the default BPC 7.5 driver.

Thanks,

John

[Former Member]

Hi John i have a similar problem.

I create an XMLA OLAP connection but when i try to create an Business Layer on it , receive the error message that BICS nonn support this type universe.

Thank's.

Andrea

[Former Member]

Hi Andrea

You don't need to create the universe on BICS connection, besause of you should use your source of data (model or query) via XMLA directly for reporting.

[Former Member]

Hello M.A Volodina,

My team and I are currently facing a similar situation, could you please help us with your expertise?

Requisite: We are trying to create Web Intelligence reports on top of information

hosted at BPC MS 10 level, how ever BPC MS XMLA connection does not

retrieve any values, and w hen it does it takes long runtimes (sometimes

throw s timeout error).

Thank you for your help

Best regards,

Raquel Oliveira

[Former Member]

Hi Raquel ,

how do you solve your Problem ?