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The ArtOfBI.com Podcast has managed to persuade one of the top Oracle Business Intelligence experts on the globe, to take an hour out of what could only be called a tumultuously hectic schedule to talk tech, BI, music, and more.

Stewart Bryson, Managing Director of RittmanMead North America is gracious enough to give us a sense of his passion toward Oracle Business Intelligence and doing the things that he enjoys.

It is an absolute pleasure to share this one-on-one chat where Stewart tells us how Business Intelligence has changed his life, how things under the “Red Umbrella” are looking good, and how his journey from a non-technical degree to landing in the “destination career” of BI at RittmanMead was mainly skill and hard work but also a bit of chance.
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I was at a project recently where someone had updated several Linux config/text files using a Windows machine.
They FTP‘d the files to their desktop, used notepad or something similar to make the edits, and then FTP’d the file back to the Linux server thinking that all would work swimmingly. Unfortunately they overwrote the original files when they uploaded the files back to the Linux server.

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As you know when this happens, Linux can recognize these foreign line breaks and places a nasty ^M at the end of each break as it interprets it as an actual character. This renders most config files, especially a XML based config file, useless for parsing by the program trying to read the file.

The solution is regular expression based and looks kinda funky but it works.

Basically open the file in question using the VI editor. Hit the colon command to start the menu input and enter the expression below against the file.

:%s/[ctrlkey+v and ctrl-key+M]//g

which will give you

:%s/^V^M//g

References

• http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/how-to-remove-m-character-with-vi/

Here is a crib-sheet on creating a new Presentation Catalog in OBI 11g.

The Oracle BI Server and WebLogic Server should be up and running.

1. Stop the system component service for Presentation Services.
2. Specify a new web catalog folder location (one that does not exist) for the catalog on the Repository tab of the Deployment main tab page in Fusion Middleware Control Enterprise Manager.
   • Example: <INSTANCE_HOME>/…/catalogs/mynewcatalog
3. Apply Changes.
4. Activate Changes.
5. Restart Presentation Services.

Upon restarting presentation services the new web catalog folder will be  created for you automatically and be set as the active catalog.

References

• Oracle Presentation Services Documentation