Constraints at Working with BI Server on Linux

There are the following constraints at working with BI server installed on Linux OS:

  1. Domain and integrated domain authentication, as well as connection of domain users from Active Directory are available only if the repository is based on Oracle DBMS or PostgreSQL DBMS. This also requires advanced settings. Integrated domain authentication is available only for PostgreSQL DBMS.

  2. Connection to the repositories based on any supported DBMS, except for Teradata, is available. The WEB Service driver also enables the user to connect to DBMS via BI server web service. If BI server is installed on the Windows server, connection is available to any supported DBMS including Teradata. A repository connection based on Microsoft SQL Server DBMS is available with the use of ODBC driver after additional setup. The Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server for working with character data supports UTF-8 for SQL_CHAR and UTF-16 for SQL_WCHAR.

  3. Working with ADOMD catalog is not supported.

  4. Modeling and statistics methods using the X11, X12-ARIMA are not supported. TRAMO/SEATS and R package methods will be available if they are integrated into the system.

  5. Data from Microsoft Access (*.mdb) database cannot be imported.

  6. On working with ETL task, and also on working via Fore with providers and consumers of the Dt assembly, there are the following constraints:

  1. Working with emails is available using resources of the Net assembly only if cross-platform classes are used, which name contains the Curl* prefix.

  2. On working with files and folders using resources of the IO assembly take into account differences between the file systems used in Windows OS and Linux OS. Some properties and methods may not work or work incorrectly.

  3. Work with visual forms is not supported, as well as with resources that are designed to work with visual components of development environment (the Forms, ExtCtrls assemblies resources and others).

  4. The visual dialog boxes implemented in Ui Assembly resources are not supported.

There are the following constraints:

Used font constraints

Used code pages constraints

Constraints for supported languages

See also:

Installing BI Server on Linux OS