
Hi Everyone,
As you no doubt know: in BI 4.0, when accessing BW OLAP data through an MDX BAPI .UNV - [using tools such as Web Intelligence, or Explorer (since SP06)] - the SOFA / MDA olap middleware was only ever a porting of the BOE XI3.x 32-bit library.. hence required hosting an out-of-process relationship with ConnectionServer32.
However, since BI4.1 SP01 (GA) this library has been ported to 64-bit, allowing it to be hosted in-process in the WebIProcessingServer.
OK... But you may ask - How is this administered in practice?
Well, i refer you to section "7.11.1 To Enable SAP BW 64-bit Connections" in the 4.1 Data Access guide: http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp1_data_acs_en.pdf
Please be aware that you need to explicitely choose this 64-bit BW driver (in install UI) when upgrading .
For example, after completing my update from 4.0 SP06 to 4.1 SP01, I had to go back to the original ‘baseline’ install (in my case, SP04) and click ‘Modify’ . I then located this option:
For info, this was already a 64-bit process on Linux in BI4.0; but on Windows platforms it was added with the advent of 4.1 SP1 (GA), and is planned to be back-ported to 4.0 SP08.
I 'll also confirm again that the Explorer Indexing process continues to go through tge WebIntelligence Processing Server to access .unv (since BI4.0 it doesn't go directly, as in XI3.x).
To conclude - the above mentioned enhancement should help mitigate against the SP06 tuning recommendations (as required previously for Explorer - BW OLAP .unv support, on the old 32 bit library) in the area of:
I hope this information is of use to you.
Kind Regards,
H
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