#security toolkit

What is the BI mobile data access dilemma? Currently, to maintain tight security requirements (to prevent hacking) you have to trade off usability (enter security credentials multiple times to get access to data multiple times). What if BI was so pervasive that you looked at it as often as email? How can we keep it safe and still make it easy to use?

By now we all know that iOS 7.1 is available and most of us probably have it installed.  With this update there were also some updates to Xcode.  One change in how architectures are handled impacts our doc on deploying with our Security Toolkit.  

On page 11, step 6 you will need to change the way you select the proper architectures for building the project.

In the newest version of Xcode this is handled a bit differently.  There are 2 settings to change:

Build Active Architecture Only – Set to No

Valid Architectures – armv7 armv7s (remove arm64)

If you do not do this you will get errors like the following when you build:

(null): Linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Did you know that using the BI Mobile HD security toolkit you can 'code' your organizations servers so that end users do not have to worry about setting them up manually.

Look it is super easy to for end users to add a new server to our iPhone and iPad application but why not make is so they just do not have to worry about it.

Keep in mind this requires some Xcode skills and you have to be deploying our application in your companies enterprise application store.

Here is the code for the method:

// To add a server you can do the following: [super createServer:@"<Provide server name>"

host:@"<Provide host>" port:<9704> enableSSL:FALSE enableSSO:FALSE username:@"<Provide username or blank (user will be prompted)>"password:@"<Provide password or blank (user will be prompted>" setAsDefaultServer:NO]; 

For more details refer to the appendix in our Building the BI Mobile HD application for enterprise deployment guide.

This video goes along with our document for the Security Toolkit that can be found here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/building-the-bi-mobile-hd-app-1993081.pdf