CA Business Intelligence-Specific Parameters

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CA Business Intelligence-Specific Parameters

The CA Business Intelligence installer for the BusinessObjects Enterprise installation uses the tags under the [BIEK] section of the response file for its pre-installation phase.

These values are read before control is transferred to the BusinessObjects Enterprise installer:

BIEK_INSTALL_SAMPLES

This value can be set to either 0 or 1:

0 = Do not install sample templates.
1 = Install sample templates

DataConnectionX

Where X is the index number of data connections. This parameter is automatically generated and should not be modified.

Description

The description of the data connection.

The following parameters can be modified:

NetworkLayer

The layer of the data connection.

You can find the valid values for the NetworkLayer in the registry at the following locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 12.0\default\Shared\ConnectionServer\Network Layers
Client Access AS400
DB2 CAE
Essbase
Informix CLI
ODBC
OLE DB
OLE DB OLAP
Oracle OCI
SAP BAPI
Sybase CTL
Teradata

Rdms

The Relational Database Management System (RDMS) name of the data connection.

The supported RDBMS values for each network layer can be found in the cscheck.xml file found in:

<INSTALLDIR>\CommonReporting3\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86\dataAccess\connectionServer\tools

Example of some of the entries in this file:

MySQL 5
MS SQL Server 2000
MS SQL Server 2005
Oracle 10
Oracle 9
Sybase Adaptive Server 12
Sybase Adaptive Server 15
DB2 UDB v8
DB2 UDB v7

UserName

The user of the data connection.

Password

The user password of the data connection.

DataSource

The data source of the data connection.

Server

The server name of the data connection.

Some possible combinations include:

Database Engine	Network Layer	RDMS	User- name	Pass- word	Data Source	Server
SQL Anywhere	ODBC	Sybase SQL Anywhere 12	X	X	Data Source Name (for Windows, this name is the ODBC system DSN name)	X
MySQL	ODBC	MySQL 5	X	X	Database name	X Note: The server for MySQL is in the format of: servername:port number For example: localhost:3306.
MS Access 2002	ODBC
MS SQL Server	ODBC	MS SQL Server 2000 MS SQL Server 2005	X	X	ODBC System DSN name	X
Oracle	Oracle OCI	Oracle 9 Oracle 10	X	X	TNS name
Sybase	Sybase CTL	Sybase Adaptive Server 12 Sybase Adaptive Server 15	X	X	Database alias
DB2	DB2 CAE	DB2 UDB v7 DB2 UDB v8	X	X	Database alias

Note: X = Required