Trying to connect to a repository in ODI using OCI. Target database is Oracle 11.1.0.7. Throws this error: [sourcecode] com.sunopsis.sql.l: Oracle Data Integrator Timeout: connection with URL jdbc:oracle:oci8:@ODIPRD and user ODI_USER. at com.sunopsis.sql.SnpsConnection.a(SnpsConnection.java) at com.sunopsis.sql.SnpsConnection.t(SnpsConnection.java) at com.sunopsis.sql.SnpsConnection.connect(SnpsConnection.java) at com.sunopsis.tools.connection.DwgRepositoryConnectionsCreator.a(DwgRepositoryConnectionsCreator.java) at com.sunopsis.tools.connection.DwgRepositoryConnectionsCreator.a(DwgRepositoryConnectionsCreator.java) at com.sunopsis.graphical.l.oi.a(oi.java) […] [/sourcecode] Normally this error would be caused by a misconfigured Oracle client. For example, a missing or incorrect tnsnames.ora entry. I validated these and got a successful response using tnsping.

I’ve been involved with some performance work around an ODI DWH load batch. The batch comprises well over 1000 tasks in ODI, and whilst the Operator console is not a bad interface, it’s not very easy to spot the areas consuming the most runtime. Here’s a set of SQL statements to run against the ODI work repository tables to help you methodically find the steps of most interest for tuning efforts.

I’m installing ODI agent on our database server using OUI. I selected the “Server” option at install time to get the Agent only, but looking in oracledi/bin odiparams.sh is missing: $ls -l *.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 685 Nov 21 15:58 agent.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 908 Nov 21 15:58 agentscheduler.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 707 Nov 21 15:58 agentstop.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 941 Nov 21 15:58 agentweb.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 724 Nov 21 15:58 jython.