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2369779 - How to unlock the CMS database with new data access driver for BI 4.2 SP3+ [VIDEO]

Symptom

One of the mostly requested feature by BI platform administrators is an integrated and easy to use Reporting & Analysis solution for the CMS database.
As of now this is provided by the BI platform through the Query Builder, an HTML application to query the metadata.
With the new CMS data access driver introduced in SAP BI 4.2 SP3 you can use a universe and native reporting clients to query the metadata of the CMS repository database.


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Environment

SAP BusinessObjects Business Objects Platform (BI) 4.2 SP3+

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.3

Keywords

how to, unlock CMS, data access driver, 4.2, SP3, system databases, BI, bo, , KBA , BI-BIP-ADM , BI Servers, security, Crystal Reports in Launchpad , BI-BIP-SL , Semantic Layer , How To

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