Proxy As Upgrade to 11g Does Not Like NQSession.User
Christian Screen | | September 1, 2012

In Oracle BI 10g the application was a lot more tolerant of bad design cavalier usage of variables. We noticed an issue recently during an upgrade where the Proxy As configuration in Oracle BI 10g used the NQSession.User variable to identify the user logged into Presentation Servers acting as Proxy.
For example the getValues element of the LogonSQLParamsTemplate.xml file looked something like:
select TARGETID from OBIEE_PROXYAS where UPPER(PROXYID) = UPPER('VALUE_OF(NQ_SESSION.USER)')
As you can see in the image below the resulting NQSQuery log file when using 11g Proxy As turns this logic to resolve to the BISystemUser instead of the user logged in (ex: tom1234).
Solution
Quite simple, just leverage the Proxy As configuration logic from the Oracle BI Documentation, which points you to reference the {@USER} variable using the proper syntax. This was the correct way of doing it in Oracle BI 10g as well even though the VALUE_OF() use of the USER session variable worked in the legacy tool.
In this case:
select TARGETID from OBIEE_PROXYAS where UPPER(PROXYID) = UPPER('@{USERID}')
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