Oracle® Warehouse Builder Concepts 11g Release 2 (11.2) E10581-06 March 2014 Oracle Warehouse Builder Concepts, 11g Release 2 (11.2) E10581-06 Copyright © 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Primary Author: Reema Khosla This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law for interoperability, is prohibited. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. If you find any errors, please report them to us in writing. 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Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................................................. xi Audience....................................................................................................................................................... xi Documentation Accessibility..................................................................................................................... xi Related Documents .................................................................................................................................... xii Conventions ................................................................................................................................................ xii 1 What's New in Oracle Warehouse Builder 1.1 New Feature Highlights for Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 (11.2).................... 1-1 1.2 New Features by Group for Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 (11.2) ................... 1-1 1.2.1 Native Support for Heterogeneous Databases................................................................ 1-2 1.2.2 SOA Integration Enhancements for ETL and Data Quality .......................................... 1-2 1.2.3 Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Enhancements ...................................... 1-2 1.2.4 Developer Usability Enhancements.................................................................................. 1-2 1.2.5 Administrator Usability Enhancements........................................................................... 1-3 1.2.6 ETL Mapping Enhancements............................................................................................. 1-3 1.2.7 Process Flow Enhancements .............................................................................................. 1-3 1.3 Complete New Feature List for Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 (11.2) ............. 1-4 1.3.1 Advanced Find Support in Mapping Editor.................................................................... 1-4 1.3.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Integration......................................... 1-4 1.3.3 OLAP Cube-Organized Materialized Views Support.................................................... 1-4 1.3.4 Code Template Mappings and JDBC Connectivity Support......................................... 1-5 1.3.5 Copy and Paste of Operators and Attributes in Mapping Editor ................................ 1-5 1.3.6 Current Configuration Drop-down Box in Design Center Toolbar ............................. 1-5 1.3.7 Enhanced Support for Flat File Imports........................................................................... 1-5 1.3.8 Enhanced Table Function Support.................................................................................... 1-6 1.3.9 Experts Available in Editor Menus ................................................................................... 1-6 1.3.10 Expression Editing in Operator Edit Dialog.................................................................... 1-6 1.3.11 Extensible Platform Framework........................................................................................ 1-6 1.3.12 Automated Orphan Management Policy for Loading Dimensional Objects.............. 1-7 1.3.13 Grouping and Spotlighting of Objects in Mapping Editor............................................ 1-7 1.3.14 Heterogeneous Audit and Reporting ............................................................................... 1-7 1.3.15 Improved Management of Locations Registered in Multiple Control Centers.......... 1-7 1.3.16 Improved Metadata Search and Find for Dependency Management ......................... 1-8 1.3.17 Improved User Interface for Managing Locations (for Sources and Targets) ............ 1-8 1.3.18 Java-Based (J2EE) Control Center Agent.......................................................................... 1-8 iii 1.3.19 Key Lookup Operator Enhancements .............................................................................. 1-8 1.3.20 Mapping Debugger Enhancements .................................................................................. 1-8 1.3.21 Metadata Import from COBOL Copybooks .................................................................... 1-9 1.3.22 Multiple Configuration Management Usability Improvements................................... 1-9 1.3.23 New JDeveloper-Style User Interface ............................................................................... 1-9 1.3.24 Operator Comments Included in Generated PL/SQL Code...................................... 1-10 1.3.25 Organizing Objects with User Folders .......................................................................... 1-10 1.3.26 Quick Mapper in Mapping Connection Dialog Box.................................................... 1-10 1.3.27 Repository Browser Changes.......................................................................................... 1-11 1.3.28 Chunking for Parallelizing Large Table Updates ........................................................ 1-11 1.3.29 Simplified Oracle Warehouse Builder Repository Upgrades .................................... 1-11 1.3.30 Support for EJB/Java Activity Type in Process Flows................................................ 1-11 1.3.31 Improved Code Generation for Extraction of Peoplesoft Application Data............ 1-12 1.3.32 Support for OMB*Plus Activity Type In Process Flows ............................................. 1-12 1.3.33 Support for Subqueries in Join Operator....................................................................... 1-12 1.3.34 Web Service and SOA Integration Support for ETL and Data Quality .................... 1-12 2 Introduction to Oracle Warehouse Builder 2.1 Overview of Oracle Warehouse Builder and Its Benefits ..................................................... 2-1 2.1.1 Use Cases for Oracle Warehouse Builder......................................................................... 2-2 2.2 Quick Start for Using Oracle Warehouse Builder .................................................................