Connect to OBIEE RPD using ODBC Connection

[wonga]

I'm trying to connect to the repository for OBIEE using an ODBC connection and the list of subject areas appears to load in Power BI, but I am unable to load any data into Power BI in order to make visualizations and reports.

Has anyone tried doing this and found a solution? Thanks.

[arify]

@wonga, do you have another tool to connect your OBIEE server to see the table names? Maybe you can see what tables you need from there, and then type that in PBI?

[wonga]

@arify

I do have a tool to do just that, but the point of using this ODBC connection is to avoid having to reference table names and instead reference the subject areas (which contain all the aggregates). If I were to reference the table names, I would just connect directly to the Oracle Database using the built-in connector.

Interesting thing is that before in June's release of PBI Desktop, I was able to connect to the Application Server using ODBC but like @wbsissonii mentioned, no data shows up, only the names of the subject areas.

[arify]

@wongain that case, you might need to wait for the fix to be released. Meanwhile, can you still do that just so we can diagnose the problem correctly and make sure we're not missing another problem?

Thanks

[arify]

@wonga, we have another customer who is using the same driver & datasource but they aren't getting this failure. In Excel, there are 2 things you can use to connect to ODBC, under Data tab, they're called "Microsoft Query" and "Data Connection Wizard". Can you try to connect with them and let us know if that works?

[wonga]

@arify I only had 32-Bit versions of Office to test with and it isn't able to load any tables (says something along the lines of "There are no visible tables"). There might be something in the Oracle RPD that is not exposing the tables to 3rd party applications possibly...

[arify]

Another question, are you connecting to a normal Oracle database, or is this a different datasource?