We have deployed BO 4.0 and Explorer on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine. We deployed the web applications on SAP NetWeaver Java AS 7.3. The BO and explorer version deployed is 4.0 SP02 Patch 11.
THe wdeploy GUI tool do not have the option to deploy the web applications directly to 7.3 version of Java AS. We got a work around as suggested by the web applications deployment guide.
THe work around is to deploy the web applicaitons using wdeploy manually through commnad prompt. It took almost an hour and the deployment went through successfully in two steps.
The wdeply file creates the .sca files
JSPM is used to deploy the .sca files to NetWeaver Java AS 7.3
After the deployment, the web applications work fine. But the issues start coming up when we restart the application server.
The CMC application logon page throws page missing error.
THe BI Launchpad application presents a page with few weird characters.
The LCM application presents an incomplete page and when I try to view the source, I could see the JSP code embededded on it… That is weird as it means that the JSP page is not being interpreted properly.
The “dswsbobje” application work without any issue and am able to connect to the BO platform from all the thick clients as well. Other Netweaver web applications work fine as well.
The log file has got errors related to struts framework.
Deploying the .sca file another time makes the web applications work but it again fails when we restart the application server.
There has been an issue identified with SAP Netweaver 7.3 AS. When the server is restarted, the BusinessObjects BI Launchpad and CMC no longer work. This has been identified as being caused by an issue with the SAPJVM. SAP are looking to develop fix for this. They have issued a workaround in the mean time.
The workaround is to add the following switch to the Java Options/Parameters:
-Dcom.sap.vm.disableparserfactoryservicecache=true
This is done by running the configtool.bat in E:\usr\sap\BJ1\J00\j2ee\configtool
In the Config tool go to Cluster-data -> template -> Instance ID (your instance)
Open the VM Parameters Tab and then Additional Tab
Click New
Then add the parameter -Dcom.sap.vm.disableparserfactoryservicecache=true
Save the changes and restart Netweaver AS
Does Explorer work on environment when CMC and BI Launchpad work?
What was the SAP note that talked about the issue with the SAP JVM?
I have deployed BOBJ BI 4.0 Sp04 on NW7.3.1 Java. It’s working fine.
Then I deployed the explorer and explorer_help.sca files. When open up BI Launchpad the Explorer icon appears with a ‘X’ and hovering over the URL is shows:
??? dummy.action.Launch_ExplorerApplication.display.name???
However, when I enter in the following URL directly, it opens Explorer up ok:
http://:50600/explorer/index.jsp
I made sure the version of explorer being installed is the correct one - as per SAP Note 1614402 - Link to BusinessObjects Explorer 4.0 does not work in BI Lauchpad
I redeployed the explorer.sca and exploer_help.sca files using JSPM.
Doesn’t seemed to have changed anything.
Can’t find any other useful SAP notes. So I’ll probably end up logging a case soon.
Am sorry that I could not get back earlier… Some notes from our SAP Basis Admin…
Maintain J:\sbo4\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\wdeploy\conf\config.sapappsvr73 according to SAP note 1675075;
· Ensure SAP_metadata.properties is maintained properly for all BOE applications;
· Implement SAP note 1689098 NetWeaver 7.3 Java AS Explorer 4.0 blank after login movie not loaded
o Edit: J:\sbo4\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\explorer\WEB-INF\classes\default.settings.properties > Set disable.compression.filter=true
· Also make sure SAP note 1405408 Slow performance of Business Objects web applications under SAP Netweaver 7.1 is implemented
There is an issue with displaying CMC and BI launchad on NetWeaver;
· SAP note 1675291 HTTP 404 Error or corrupt output of CMC, BI and LCM links after NW 7.3 restart;
o Occurs only with a specific version of SAP JVM (6.1.34) and you need to use a later one;
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