OBIEE 12.2.1.2.0 wlst importService issue

Ed Chavez

Hi,

I'm trying to import the metadata from a previous instance to my recently upgraded 12.2.1.2.0 and I get this error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception  in reading bar: Illegal char <:> at index 39: content/catalog/root/users/user005/btw:+rh+worker+counthead/

The command I executed inside wlst (D:\OracleBI12212\Middleware\Oracle_Home_12212\oracle_common\common\bin):

importServiceInstance('D:\OracleBI12\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\BIDomain', 'ssi', 'D:\Migratons\ssi.bar',true,true,true)

Now my question is... why does wlst care how my users call their folders!, it would be a real issue trying to fix all of the folder and object names in the catalog.

So to add more info, if you see, Im using the wlst that resides in the new folder structure that 12.2.1.2.0 creates on top of my old 12.2.1.0 installation. But in the importServiceInstance command I needed to use the old Oracle Domain as parameter because if I use the new Oracle domain parameter I get a "Failed in getting Singleton Data Directory" error which is insane.