BMC Decision Support - Database Automation 8.9

The BMC Decision Support – Database Automation product is a powerful web-based reporting and analytics product.

Release notes and notices Updated 12 Mar 2018

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Date	Title	Summary
March 12, 2018	8.9.02.001 enhanements	Support for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform version 4.2 Service Pack (SP) 5
October 20, 2017	8.9.02 enhancements	Installation and other product updates Support for version 8.9.02 of BMC Database Automation
May 17, 2017	Open schema view updates	A few updates in the BMC Database Automation reporting database provide access to the Compliance-views and other enhanced views in BMC Decision Support – Database Automation. To access the updated views, you need to upgrade to BMC Database Automation version 8.9.01.001. For more information, see 8-9-01-001-Patch-1-for-version-8-9-01 in the BMC Database Automation documentation.
April 17, 2017	8.9.01 enhancements	Support for Open schema Support for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform version 4.1 Service Pack 9 Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Support for version 8.9.01 of BMC Database Automation
September 23, 2016	8-9-00-enhancements	Support for version 8.9.00 of BMC Database Automation

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Installation and other product updates

Starting with version 8.9.02, to access BMC Decision Support – Database Automation reports, you do not need to install the product. You just need to run the Content Deployment utility on the computer where BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform is installed. For instructions to run the Content Deployment utility, see Performing-the-installation-for-versions-8-9-02-and-later. The BMC Decision Support – BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite installer has been renamed to BMC Decision Support – Network Automation and consists of only the BMC Decision Support – Network Automation installation program, not BMC Decision Support – Database Automation.

In addition, URG Mapper does not transfer user information from the BMC Decision Support – Database Automation data warehouse to BusinessObjects BI. You need to create user accounts in Central Management Console to implement access control. For more information, see Creating-users-in-BusinessObjects-Business-Intelligence.

Supported version of BMC Database Automation

Version 8.9.02 of BMC Decision Support – Database Automation supports version 8.9.02 of BMC Database Automation.

Downloading and upgrading to the service pack

For download instructions, see Downloading-the-installation-files.

For instructions on upgrading to the service pack, see Upgrading.

Frequently asked questions and other information

This topic provides information that supplements the BMC Decision Support – Database Automation 8.9 documentation. It contains the following sections:

Frequently asked questions

This section provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about BMC Decision Support – Database Automation.

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Where to find information previously provided in a guide or manual

Document title	Found here in
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Administrator Guide	Administering
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Type of information	Found here in
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Contents of a service pack or patch and instructions particular to it	The child topic for that service pack or patch under Release notes and notices For issues corrected in the service pack or patch, sort the table in Known-and-corrected-issues by the "Corrected in" column
Other information	Placed in context throughout this space, but listed and linked to in Technical bulletins. You will not have this topic in the first release of the product such as 8.8.00.

Where do I find information that was previously published as a flash bulletin?

Flashes contained urgent information about product issues and are delivered after a product is released. On docs.bmc.com, this information is delivered in an "Urgent issues" topic, under Release-notes-and-notices. If this topic does not exist for a given product release, no urgent issues have been discovered for that release.

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Yes, all the content for BMC Decision Support - Database Automation 8.9 is in this space.

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