Dear Experts need your guidance to resolve this.
We had initially 4.1 SP3, things were ok barring slow performance and some minor issues. We updated to SP4, problems started with AnswerExPrompts, split of merged prompts, crashing of APS server while refreshing WEBI reports based on multisource UNX. we were told these issues are fixed in FP4.4 and we applied it. Now we regret applying SP04 and FP4.4. It created following problems;
Environment : Windows 2012 Server with BI 4.1 SP04 FP4.4. datasource SQL Server 2012. ODBC DSN based on SQL Server
In single source universe;
(A) all date objects not parsing. When investigated we found database has date fields defined as datetime whereas in datafoundation in the structure it is showing as Timestamp. Since Timestamp gives binary values it is not parsing.
Change of date field structure in DF will be a big and risky task as there are quite a few date fields as well as if we add any additional table with dates we will have to do the same for it.
(B) When reports with date prompts based on the another UNX (which we did not check integrity or do anything post update) refreshed takes date correctly as dd/mm/yyyy from prompt calendar. but gives wrong result. Example if I take 01/01/2014 (Jan) to 10/01/2014 (Jan) for 10 days it gives result for 01/01/2014 to 01/10/2014 (9 months 1 day).
When we checked the SQL script within report post refresh it shows date being compared with mm/dd/yyyy format. Strange!!!
We have not defined any format for date objects in the universe. Server/Client Regional setting is English UK, PVL in CMC is set to English UK and -Duser.timezone=UTC set in Apache Tomcat Java Configuration. But with no success so far.
What is surprising that all these reports were validated in SP3, now all have gone for toss.
Please help as this is frustrating us and there is no option of reverting back to SP3 due to security permissions and involvement of multiple departments in carrying out the exercise.
Our UAT is delayed.
Thanks in Advance