12c - Add Data Source is missing

Question

OK, what kind of stupid thing did I do THIS time?

Here's what my screen looked like until recently:

And now it looks like this:

The icons are a bit different because I was experimenting with the style in the earlier version.  The later (bad) version is the default style.

What parameter makes the Add Data Source option appear as shown in the first screenshot?

[Deleted User] · Answer

Whom? Every Product Manager you know. Kick them in the nads a couple of times and tell them to run to their sales guys and tell THEM that this would be uber epic in terms of revenue.

(I can dream can't I?)

Mark.Thompson · Answer

Yeah, but shout to whom?  I can rant over here in the forum all I want, but what good does it really do?  I'm not a "customer".  I'm an OBIEE trainer who is passionate about OBIEE, but I work for an Oracle Platinum Partner, so my voice carries no product $$$ of influence.

I have introduced this feature to students in my classes, who are now going to be stunned when they upgrade to 12.2.1.2.  I feel like I have done them a huge disservice by introducing the functionality as part of Answers.  But it is completely illogical to think that for each new feature I find, and for which I write content, I must first consult ... something, someone, somewhere ... to make sure that the new feature is actually supposed to be in the product.  The 'New Calculated Measure' yellow ruler - in or out?  Definitely in, right?  So how is this one any different?  A hundred new features, and we're supposed to somehow know that this ONE shouldn't be there?

The one thing that I can do is alert those organizations who have taken our 12c training classes, and have them shout loud and long at Oracle.

[Deleted User] · Answer

@Mark T. Breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out ;-)

It was a "bug" that it made it into the rolled out product. Not a bug as in "the product isn't functioning". Believe me it's not the worst or weirdest thing we found over these last years.

Also this has got to do with the product roadmap and how this will evolve over time. Not much we can do about this from our side apart from repeatedly shouting "We want this in!".