Odi 11g-new-features-overview-1622677

An Oracle White Paper
March 2013
Oracle Data Integrator 11g
New Features Overview

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Executive Overview............................................................................3
Oracle Data Integrator 11.1.1.7.0 Release .........................................4
Oracle Data Integrator 11.1.1.6.0 Release .........................................6
Oracle Data Integrator 11.1.1.5.0 Release .......................................10
Oracle Data Integrator 11.1.1.3.0 Release .......................................16
Conclusion .......................................................................................28

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Executive Overview
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a best-of-breed data integration platform focused on fast bulk data
movement and handling complex data transformations.
Oracle Data Integrator is fully integrated with the Oracle technology stack, including Oracle Database,
Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic, Big Data Appliance, WebLogic Server, Business Intelligence, and
Oracle Applications. ODI is the strategic data integration platform for Oracle.
The 11g version of ODI has pushed the state of the art technology in data integration further ahead of
the rest of the industry. Since the first ODI 11.1.1.3.0 release in July 2010, Oracle has continued its
investments on this strategic data integration platform with the 11.1.1.5.0, 11.1.1.6.0 and 11.1.1.7.0
releases.
This whitepaper describes in detail some of the new features and capabilities offered in the Oracle
Data Integrator 11g platform.

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Oracle Data Integrator 11.1.1.7.0 Release
Feature Highlights: Hot Pluggability
A core strategy and a key feature of Oracle Fusion Middleware is hot-pluggability. Built for the
heterogeneous enterprise, Oracle Fusion Middleware consists of modular component software
that runs on a range of popular platforms and interoperates with middleware technologies and
business applications from other software vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. The hot-
pluggability aims to make components deployable and operational in non-Oracle environments
and on multiple application servers.
IBM WebSphere Support
This ODI release introduces the support of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
ODI Agents and datasources can now be deployed on Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) and IBM
WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
Other Features
In addition to the IBM WebSphere support listed above, the following features have been
included in this patch.
XML Driver Enhancements
Full support for XML Schema constructs by using standard Oracle parser:
• New JDBC driver parameter compat_mode to indicate the compatibility with mapping
modes such as the XDK XSD parser.
• New JDBC driver command WRITEMAPPINGFILE to help understand the relational
structure that has been created for the XSD/DTD file. The mapping file contains the
element/attribute name to table/table.column name mapping for each
element/attribute.
• The JDBC command CREATE SCHEMA includes now the compat_mode parameter.
SSL Support for Standalone Agent
The Standalone Agent now supports the SSL protocol for secure connectivity. New parameters
added to specify the Standalone Agent server side transport protocol and to configure the SSL
truststore and keystore:
• New environment variables in agent.sh/agent.bat scripts.
• New configuration variables in odiparams.sh/odiparams.bat scripts.
• Java system properties in odiparam.sh/odiparams.bat scripts.

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Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Integration
The OdiEnterpriseDataQuality Open Tool introduced in ODI 11.1.1.6 to invoke an Oracle
Enterprise Data Quality Job is now available as a standard ODI tool. The tool includes a new,
optional parameter to connect to MBean domains.

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Feature Highlights: BI and Data Warehousing
The following features have been added in this release for customers using Oracle Data
Integrator in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects.
Shortcuts
This ODI release introduces new objects called shortcuts which greatly improve productivity by
allowing end users to express the large commonality that often exists between two different
versions of the same source application, such as same tables and columns, same constraints, and
same transformations.
Shortcuts are links to common Oracle Data Integrator objects stored in separate locations and
can be created for datastores, integration interfaces, packages, and procedures. In addition,
release tags have been introduced to manage the materialization of shortcuts based on specific
tags.
Tracking Variables and Sequences
Variables and sequences are often used in Oracle Data Integrator processes. Oracle Data
Integrator 11.1.1.6 introduces a new feature allowing end users to determine the actual values of
variables and sequences that were used during an executed session. Tracking variables and
sequences is extremely useful for debugging purposes.
With the variable tracking feature you can also easily determine whether the variable was used in
a mapping or an internal operation such as an Evaluate Variable step.
Figure 1 - Variable and Sequence Values are displayed in the Operator Navigator

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Global Knowledge Modules
ODI 11.1.1.6 introduces Global Knowledge Modules (KMs) allowing specific KMs to be shared
across multiple projects. In previous versions of Oracle Data Integrator, KMs were specific to
Projects and could only be used within the project into which they were imported. Global KMs
are now listed in the Designer Navigator in the Global Objects accordion.
Enhanced Session Logging
The readability of the execution logs has been improved in this patch for Knowledge Modules
and Procedure steps. The final code for source and target commands is now available in the
Operator Navigator, making it easier to review executions containing several runtime parameters.
Handling Failed Load Plan Enhancements
It is now possible to change the execution status of a failed Load Plan step from Error to
Complete on the Steps tab of the Load Plan run Editor. This particular Load Plan step will then
be ignored the next time the Load Plan run is restarted. This is useful, for example, when the
error causing this Load Plan step to fail is not possible to fix at the moment and you want to
execute the rest of the Load Plan regardless of this Load Plan step status.
Enhanced Variable Handling in Load Plans
Load Plan variables that are not used in a Load Plan can now be hidden to improve the
readability of Load Plans.
Feature Highlights: Development Lifecycle
Oracle Data Integrator has been enhanced to further simplify the management of the
development lifecycle. The following feature has been added in ODI 11.1.1.6:
Smart Export and Import
Exporting and importing Oracle Data Integrator objects between repositories is a common
practice when working with multiple environments such as Development, Quality Assurance and
Production. The new Smart Export and Import feature guides you through this task and
provides advanced code management capabilities.

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Smart Export automatically exports an object with all its object dependencies. It is particularly
useful when you want to move a consistent lightweight set of objects from one repository to
another because Oracle Data Integrator manages all object dependencies automatically while
creating a consistent sub-set of the repository.
The Smart Export and Import feature is a lightweight and consistent export and import
mechanism providing several key features such as:
• Automatic and customizable object matching rules between the objects to import and
the objects already present in the repository
• A set of actions that can be applied to the object to import when a matching object has
been found in the repository
• Proactive issue detection and resolution that suggests a default working solution for
every broken link or conflict detected during the Smart Import
Figure 2 - Smart Export and Import provides a lightweight and consistent export and import
mechanism.

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Feature Highlights: Data Quality
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality extends the Data Quality features of Oracle Data Integrator to
provide advanced data governance capabilities. This release integrates Oracle Data Integrator and
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality together.
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Integration
With the EnterpriseDataQuality Open Tool it is now possible to invoke an Oracle Enterprise
Data Quality (Datanomic) Job in a Package. Developers can design a Data Quality process in
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality and then invoke it in a Package in ODI along with the ETL
steps.
The EnterpriseDataQuality Open Tool is installed using the standard procedure for Open Tools
and can be used in a Package or a Procedure, similarly to the tools provided out of the box in
Oracle Data Integrator.
Other Features
In addition to the features listed above, the following features have been included in this patch.
Groovy Editor
This release introduces the Groovy editor. The Groovy editor provides a single environment for
creating, editing, and executing Groovy scripts within the ODI Studio context. It provides all
standard features of a code editor such as syntax highlighting and common code editor
commands.
Support of Undo and Redo Operations
It is now possible to undo or redo changes in editors, dialogs, wizards and in the Property
Inspector using the following keyboard shortcuts: CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y.
Autocomplete for Text Fields and Lists
Certain text components and drop down lists in the ODI Studio now support the auto-complete
feature, making end users more productive.
Version Numbering for Knowledge Modules
The version numbering of Knowledge Modules improves the information provided to identify
the used environment:
• It is now possible to determine when a Knowledge Module (KM) has been modified
and when it is not the original Knowledge Module as released by Oracle.
• The KM modifications can be tracked by a version number.
• It is now possible to find out when a KM has been released with an external component
such as a jar file or a dll file (This is the case for example for the SAP and Hyperion
KMs.)
• It is possible to indicate whether a given ODI version is compatible with a specific KM
version.

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Feature Highlight: SOA and Application Integration
Oracle Data Integrator is the only ETL tool that can run entirely within a Service Oriented
Architecture. ODI is the most deeply integrated ETL product for running data integration as a
service, accessing web services and writing to web services as a target. ODI 11.1.1.5 has been
further enhanced for facilitating application integration and more advanced interaction with a
SOA stack.
Complex File Technology
Complex file formats (multiple record files) can now be integrated using the new Complex File
technology. This technology leverages a new built-in driver that converts transparently complex
file formats into a relational structure using a Native Schema (nXSD) description file.
Figure 3 - Complex files described with the Native Format Builder can be integrated in
Oracle Data Integrator
With ODI 11.1.1.5 the nXSD formats may be created manually, or with a graphical tool called
the Native Format Builder Wizard (included with BPEL Process Manager). The Native Format
Builder Wizard guides you through the creation of a native schema file from the following
formats shown in Figure 3. A sample data file format for the selected type must already exist; you
cannot create a native schema without one. You can also select to modify an existing native
schema previously created with this wizard, except for those generated from a Document Type
Definition (DTD) or COBOL copybook.

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Web Services Enhancements
Web service support in Oracle Data Integrator has been enhanced with the following capabilities:
Web Service Container Based Authentication
When external authentication and container based authentication with Oracle Platform Security
Services (OPSS) are configured, authentication can be passed to the ODI Run-Time Web
Services using HTTP basic authentication, WS-Security headers, SAML tokens and so forth.
Asynchronous Web Services and Callbacks
Oracle Data Integrator batch jobs are long running sessions in a web service context. Long
running transactions are handled using asynchronous web service calls and callbacks. Starting
with this release, a scenario or session can be started using the Run-Time Web Services on a one-
way operation. When the session completes, the result of the execution can trigger an operation
on a callback address. This pattern can be used for handling any WSAddressing compliant long
running sessions, started for example with Oracle BPEL.
Full SOAP Support for Outbound Calls
The OdiInvokeWebService tool now supports full-formed SOAP messages as an input, including
the SOAP header and body. Access to the SOAP header improves the ease of interaction with
web service security, authentication, and other application-specific information.
Features Highlights: BI and Data Warehousing
The following features have been added in this patch level for customers using Oracle Data
Integrator in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Projects.
Load Plans
Oracle Data Integrator is often used for populating very large data warehouses. In these use
cases, it is common to have thousands of tables being populated using hundreds of scenarios.
The execution of these scenarios has to be organized in such a way that the data throughput
from the sources to the target is the most efficient within the batch window. Load Plans help the
user organizing the execution of scenarios in a hierarchy of sequential and parallel steps for these
types of use cases.
Load Plans are new objects introduced in this release to organize at a high level the execution of
packages and scenarios. Load Plans provide features for parallel, sequential, and conditional
scenario execution. They also support advanced restartability and exception handling capabilities.

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Figure 4 - Load Plans support parallel, sequential and conditional execution
Load Plans can be created and modified in production environments. They can be started,
stopped, and restarted from a command line, from Oracle Data Integrator Studio, Oracle Data
Integrator Console or a Web Service interface. They can also be scheduled using the run-time
agent's built-in scheduler or an external scheduler.
Load plans are not substitutes for packages or scenarios. They are used to organize at a higher
level the execution of packages and scenarios. Unlike packages, Load Plans provide native
support for parallelism, restartability and exception handling. Load plans are moved to
production as is, whereas packages are moved in the form of scenarios. Load Plans can be
created in Production environments.
The Load Plan instances and Load Plan runs are similar to Sessions. The difference is that when
a session is restarted, the existing session is overwritten by the new execution. The new Load
Plan Run does not overwrite the existing Load Plan Run, it is added after the previous Load Plan
Runs for this Load Plan Instance. The Load Plan Instance cannot be modified at run-time.
A scenario is an atomic runtime component that is given to the production. When in production,
the production administrator can orchestrate the various scenarios using Load Plans in order to
optimize the time taken to execute the ETL jobs in the given timeframe and ease the
administration of all the ETL jobs.

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For example, the production administrator will:
• Rely on Load Plans to orchestrate the execution of the various Scenarios produced by
the ETL developers as part of their own projects and will organize the production
globally instead of a per-project approach.
• Design the load plans in order to handle the parallelism of the scenarios in order to best
use the hardware resources
• Design the load plans in order to handle serial steps to avoid overloading the system
with too many scenarios at a given time
• Modify the load plans to take into account the real execution times and tune the load on
the systems
• Rely on the load plans to restart only what is needed to be restarted in case of failure.
This relies on the fact that the scenarios should be designed in order to be fully
restartable (see above)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Data Lineage
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) users need to know the origin of the
data displayed on their reports. When this data is loaded from source systems into the data
warehouse using Oracle Data Integrator, it is possible to use the Oracle Data Integrator Lineage
for Oracle Business Intelligence feature to consolidate ODI metadata with OBIEE and expose
this metadata in a report-to-source data lineage dashboard in OBIEE.
Figure 5 - OBIEE Users can click to view the Lineage of the data from their dashboards

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An important capability that Oracle has provided is the ability to view detailed metadata lineage
information from directly within the BI Answers dashboards.
Figure 6 - OBIEE Users can see the Lineage details directly in their BI dashboards
Other Features
In addition to the features listed above, the following features have been included in this patch
level.
Commands on Connect/Disconnect
It is now possible to define data server commands that will be automatically executed when
connections to this data server are created or closed by ODI components or by a session. Such a
command can be used for altering and pre-configure sessions (for example, for
internationalization of messages or forcing implicit conversions), or in multi-tenant infrastructure
where commands must be placed at connection time to access information of a given tenant.
Built-in Technology Additions and Updates
The following technologies used in Oracle Data Integrator have been added and updated to
benefit from their new features:
• Embedded HSQL engine is upgraded to version 2.0. This embedded engine is used for
the Memory Engine as well as the XML and LDAP Drivers' built-in storage
• Jython BSF engine is updated to version 2.1
• JAX-WS/JRF is now used as a standard stack for web service calls and processing. Axis
is no longer used
Groovy Technology
Groovy is added to the list of scripting engines supported by Oracle Data Integrator for use in
knowledge modules and procedures.
Ordered and Non-Ordered Join Syntax
Technologies can now support both the ordered or non-ordered (database-specific) syntax for
joins. The Oracle DB technology was modified to support both join syntaxes.

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New Method for Setting Task Names
A new setTaskName method is available to update at run-time the name of a task. This API can
be used in knowledge modules and procedures to modify at run time the task name displayed in
the log, making it more readable for production users.
Shared Library for WLS Agent
A new template called Oracle Data Integrator - Agent Libraries includes libraries shared by all the
deployed JEE agent in a domain, and must be deployed before the Oracle Data Integrator -
Agent default template or a generated template.
This shared library facilitates the deployment, patching and maintenance of ODI domains, as it is
deployed once and shared by both the default and user-generated templates.
Performance Optimization
The following optimizations have been made in the design-time and run-time components to
improve their performance:
• Long text storage modified to use CLOBs.
• Agent-Repository network communications reduced at run-time
• Agent JDBC to JDBC loading mechanism reviewed and optimized

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Architecture for Enterprise-Scale Deployment
Oracle Data Integrator 11g dramatically changes the vision of data integration in the information
system. In fact, it makes data integration a key service in the information system, providing the
backbone infrastructure for Enterprise Information Management.
Desktop WebLogic 11g / Application Server
JVM ODI Studio
FMW Console
Designer
ODI Plug-in
Java EE
Operator Servlet Container Web Service ContainerApplication
ODI SDK
Topology
Java EE Runtime WS
Security
Application
ODI Console Public WS
Data
Java EE Services
ODI SDK Agent
Data Sources Connection Pool
Repositories Sources and Targets
JVM
ODI Master
Runtime WS
Repository ODI Work
StandaloneRepository
Agent
Legacy Files / XML DBMS Applications DW / BI / EPM
ERP/CRM/PLM/SCM
Figure 7 - ODI 11g Component Architecture
The new Oracle Data Integrator platform integrates in the broader Fusion Middleware platform
and becomes a key component of this stack. Oracle Data Integrator 11g provides its run-time
components as Java EE applications, enhanced to fully leverage the capabilities of the Oracle
WebLogic Application Server. Oracle Data Integrator components include exclusive features for
Enterprise-Scale Deployments, high availability, scalability, and hardened security.
High Availability and Scalability
High-Availability (HA) and Scalability is fully supported via clustered deployments for Java EE
components. The ODI components deployed in WebLogic Server benefit from the capabilities
of the WLS cluster for scalability, including JDBC Connection Pooling and Load Balancing.
In addition to the cluster-inherited HA capabilities, the run-time agent also supports a
Connection Retry mechanism to transparently recover sessions running in repositories that are
stored in HA-capable database engines such as Oracle RAC.

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Figure 8 - High Availability Configuration for Oracle Data Integrator JEE Components
Corporate Security Integration
Security in Oracle Data Integrator can be hardened and unified with the corporate
security stores.
The source and target data server passwords can be externalized in the enterprise credential
store. The externalized passwords are no longer retained in the Oracle Data Integrator
Repository.
In addition, the Oracle Data Integrator user can be mapped to users from the corporate identity
store (LDAP, Oracle Internet Directory or Active Directory). With this feature, authentication
is delegated to the corporate authentication service and Single Sign-On (SSO) can be enabled.
With these external password storage and external authentication features, passwords as well as
user identities can be retained in a centralized location meeting any corporate standards for
security.
Enterprise-Scale E-LT Architecture
The E-LT architecture mandates the use of lightweight run-agents able to run in strategic
locations (for example on a Data Warehouse server) for optimal performances of the
integration processes. Oracle Data Integrator 11g continues the support of Standalone
Agents. Standalone agents support the same level of service as the Java EE Agent,
including corporate security integration and connection retry, yet require a simple Java
Machine. Standalone agents also support the ODI built-in load-balancing feature and can

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be protected using Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN).
With this new architecture, every run-time component of Oracle Data Integrator
guarantees high scalability, 24/7 availability, and best-in-class security.
Simplified Deployment and Unified Administration
Enterprise-Scale deployments frequently end up being a dilemma between simplicity and
efficiency. Indeed, setting up components in highly available and highly secured
configurations is a challenge that not every administrator is ready to accept. In addition,
monitoring and managing such configurations can become a complex activity.
Simplified Deployment
Oracle Data Integrator simplifies the deployment and administration of the data
integration services and components. Java EE components deploy easily and quickly in an
Oracle WebLogic Server using preconfigured templates or templates that are generated
based on the metadata defined in the topology. It is also possible to create data server
definitions for sources and targets in the topology and to deploy these in few clicks as
datasources in an Oracle WebLogic Server.
With these deployment capabilities, creating or extending a domain for data integration is a
matter of minutes.
Figure 9 - Wizard for creating an Agent Template for WLS

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Unified Administration and Monitoring
The Data Integration Architecture includes a number of components, including the Java
EE and Standalone Agents as well as the Oracle Data Integrator Console web application.
To manage and monitor these components, Oracle Data Integrator provides a new plug-in
that integrates in Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control.
With this plug-in, the Fusion Middleware administrator can manage from a single screen
his data integration components along with his WebLogic servers, his deployed web
applications, or his SOA composite applications.
This component allows the administrator to monitor the status, metrics, and notifications
of Oracle Data Integrator components, including Repositories, Agents and Oracle Data
Integrator Console instances.
Figure 10 - Oracle Data Integrator in Oracle Enterprise Manager
Better Control over Production
Having a large-scale deployment involves frequently hundreds of integration flows and
requires extreme tools for monitoring the production environment.
Oracle Data Integrator enhances the control capabilities available to the production operators by
providing unique features.
Oracle Data Integrator Console
The new Oracle Data Integrator Console replaces and unifies the former 10g Metadata Navigator
and Lightweight Designer components. This web interface for production operations has been
rewritten using the ADF-Faces Ajax Framework for a rich user experience.
Using this console, production users can set up an environment, export and import the
repositories, manage run-time operations, monitor the sessions, diagnose the errors, browse
design-time artifacts and generate lineage reports.

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This web interface integrates seamlessly with Oracle Fusion Middleware Control Console and
allows Fusion Middleware administrators to drill down into the details of any Oracle Data
Integrator design-time and run-time object.
Figure 11 - Oracle Data Integrator Console
Enhanced Session Control
Sessions can now be stopped in an immediate mode. This new mode aborts the current
operation (for example, a long-running SQL statement started on a database engine) instead of
waiting for its completion before stopping the session.
In addition to this mechanism, sessions that failed due to a repository or the run-time agent
failure are automatically identified as stale and moved from the Running state to the Error state
for operator review.
Enhanced Error Management
Error messages raised by Oracle Data Integrator Components and Sessions have been enhanced
to provide administrators and production operators with precise information for troubleshooting
and fixing the status of the architecture and debugging the sessions.
Enhanced messages cover component lifecycle (agent startup, shutdown, schedule refresh, and
so forth) as well as session lifecycle (incorrect scenario version, load balancing issue, agent not
available and so forth). They render clearer errors starting at the lowest level of the session (steps
and task). These error messages are enriched with context and infrastructure information to help
development or production users quickly find the source and solution for an issue.
Errors raised by components or sessions are automatically notified to the operation administrator
in Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control.

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Design-Time Productivity
Oracle Data Integrator 11g introduces a new JDeveloper-based integrated development environment
(IDE) called the Oracle Data Integrator Studio. This client is entirely redesigned in this release to
dramatically increase the developer’s productivity and make advanced features more accessible.
Design-Time Experience
New IDE Based on JDeveloper IDE Framework
The new Oracle Data Integrator studio is used as a replacement for all Oracle Data Integrator 10g
modules (Designer, Topology, Operator, and Security Manager). All the features of these modules now
appear as Navigators within the Oracle Data Integrator Studio.
This new IDE provide state-of-the-art features for developer productivity, including redesigned and
reorganized editors in addition to enhanced windows, improved docking, and document navigation
and management.
Figure 12 - In Oracle Data Integrator Studio, Editing the “Customer” Interface

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Redesigned Interface Editor
The Interface Editor, used to create the integration interfaces, has been entirely redesigned to use the
JDeveloper diagramming framework, providing:
• Enhanced diagram look and feel, plus manual or automated diagram layout organization
• Better support of large diagrams via thumbnails, zoom in/out, and bird’s eye
• Small but useful features such as source column drag and drop in the target mapping and
column sort/selection in the mapping
• Reorganized and searchable Property Inspector
Auto-Fixing
When saving an interface or clicking the Error button in the Interface Editor toolbar, the list of all
design errors is displayed with meaningful messages and tips. Automated fixes are suggested and can
be applied with a single click.
Quick-Edit
The new Interface Editor includes a new Quick-Edit tab to edit the interface diagram faster. The
Quick-Edit Editor displays the interface components in a tabular form, supports mass-updates, and
intuitive and accessible keyboard navigation.
Figure 13 - Quick Edit view for the “Customer” Interface

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Small (yet Important) Things
In addition to these major changes, some small improvements have been made in ODI to make the
developer’s life easier. For example:
• Code Simulation – When running a session at design-time, it is possible to make a code
simulation instead of running a full execution. This simulation mode generates a session
simulation report displaying the generated code for review.
• Reverse-Engineering – When a model is created, the reverse-engineering context is
automatically set to the default context. In addition, when performing a selective reverse-
engineering, the system tables are now hidden from the display.
• Scenario Naming Convention – A user can define a pattern (using for example the object
name, folder path, or project name) for the naming convention that is automatically applied to
new scenarios created by this user.
• Long Object Names – Object names have been extended to support long database object
names (128 characters) and repository object labels (400 characters).
Java API for Task Automation
Oracle Data Integrator 11g introduces a new Java API for creating and managing both design-time and
run-time operations.
Using this API, it is for example possible to perform the following operations:
• Create or modify the topology contents
• Set up projects and models
• Create and browse interfaces, procedures, and packages
• Start and manage sessions and monitor their status
This API allows developers to programmatically perform operations without using the user interfaces
and to create their own applications to access the repository content.
E-LT Features for Better Performance
New core features have been built in Oracle Data Integrator Studio around the E-LT architecture and
declarative design approach to support a more productive development process and better
performances at run-time.
Datasets and Set-Based Operators
This major enhancement introduces the notion of datasets in interfaces. A dataset represents the data
flow coming from a group of joined and filtered source datastores. Each dataset includes the target
mappings for this group of sources. Several datasets can be merged into the interface target datastore
using set-based operators such as Union and Intersect.
Figure 15 illustrates the use of datasets to merge data from a source file and from an HR system. Each

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of these datasets (From File, From HR) is a flow with its own set of source tables, joins, filters and
mappings.
Figure 14 - One interface merges with a UNION operator flows from two diagrams
These two flows appear in different diagram tabs in the Interface Editor. They are merged using the
UNION operator as shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15 - Two diagram tabs for the datasets in the Interface Editor
This feature accelerates the interface design and reduces the number of interfaces needed to
merge several data flows into the same target datastore.
Partitioning
Oracle Data Integrator now supports partitioning features of the data servers. Partitions can be
reverse-engineered using RKMs or manually created in models. When designing an interface, it is
possible to define the partition to address on the sources and target datastores. Oracle Data
Integrator code generation handles the partition usage syntax for each technology that supports
this feature.
Lookups
A wizard is available in the Interface Editor to design a lookup from a driving source datastore to

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a lookup datastore or interface. These lookups appear as a compact graphical object in the
Sources diagram of the interface. The user can choose how the lookup is executed: as a Left
Outer Join in the FROM clause or as an expression in the SELECT clause (in-memory lookup
with nested loop). This second syntax is frequently more efficient on small lookup tables.
This feature simplifies the design and readability of interfaces using lookups, and allows
optimized execution of these lookups.
Figure 16 - Lookup Creation Wizard
Derived Select for Temporary Interfaces
When using a temporary interface as a source in another interface, it is possible to avoid
persisting the target datastore of the temporary interface by generating instead a Derived Select
(sub-select) statement corresponding to the execution of this temporary interface. Consequently,
the temporary interface no longer needs to be executed to load the temporary datastore. The
code generated for the sub-select can be optionally customized in an IKM.

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Figure 17 - Use Temporary Interface as Derived Table option can be checked when an interface is
used as a source
This feature eliminates the need for complex packages to handle the execution order of temporary
interfaces. It dramatically simplifies the execution of cascades of temporary interfaces.
Support for Native Sequences
Oracle Data Integrator now provides support for a new type of sequences that directly maps to
database-defined sequences. Such a sequence is selected from a list retrieved from the database when
the sequence is created. Native Sequences are used as regular Oracle Data Integrator sequences, and
the code generation automatically handles technology-specific syntax for sequences.
This feature simplifies the use of native sequences in all expressions and enables cross-referencing on
native sequence usage.
Support for Natural Joins
Oracle Data Integrator now provides support for Natural joins, defined at technology level. A natural
join does not require any join expression to be specified, and is handled by the engine that processes it.
This engine matches automatically columns with the same name.
Automatic Temporary Index Management
When creating joins or filters on source tables, it is possible to have Oracle Data Integrator
automatically generate temporary indexes for optimizing the execution of these joins or filters. The
user simply selects the type of index from a list for the given technology. Knowledge modules
automatically generate the code for creating and dropping the temporary index as needed.
This feature accelerates join and filter execution and enables better performances for integration
interfaces.
Figure 18 - Two temporary Indexes (Non-Unique and Unique) will be created for optimizing the
execution of the join between SRC_CUSTOMER and AGE_GROUP

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Broaden Connectivity
Data Integration is about moving and transforming data from sources to targets in a heterogeneous
world. In this context, hot-pluggability, that is being able to access and integrate any source and any
target in the most performing way, is a constant challenge that Oracle Data Integrator addresses using
the knowledge modules architecture.
The Oracle Data Integrator highly flexible knowledge module architecture allowed the release of
significant connectivity improvements in the previous version lifecycles. These improvements
included:
• Application Adapters for Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JDE EnterpriseOne,
SAP ERP, and SAP BW,
• Performance optimizations for Teradata
• Adapters for Oracle OLAP and Oracle Changed Data Capture.
• Adapters for Hyperion Planning, Financial Management, and Essbase
• Changed Data Capture using Oracle GoldenGate.
• Oracle Date Integrator 11g adds to this long list the following improvements:
• Adapter for sourcing from ADF-View Objects exposed in an Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition Server
• Support for Oracle Database Multi-Table Insert
• Support for Teradata Multi-Statements
Of course, the Knowledge Modules have also been enhanced in various manners to support the new
productivity and performance enhancements such as datasets and temporary indexes.

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Conclusion
With the Oracle Data Integrator 11g releases Oracle introduced several new enhancements such as a
redesigned ODI Studio user interface, WebLogic support for ODI agents’ deployments, Java API,
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Data Lineage, Load Plans, Web Services
Improvements, Smart Export and Import, Global Knowledge Modules or the integration with Oracle
Enterprise Data Quality.
The ODI 11g releases continue to improve Oracle’s strategic Data Integration platform while
preserving the key product differentiators: Declarative Design, Knowledge Modules, Hot-Pluggability,
and E-LT.

ODI 11g New Features Overview
March 2013
Author: ODI Product Management
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