Migrating From OBIEE 11g To OBIEE 12c Via Migration Tool Fails With 'Unexpected error during import: NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException'

(Doc ID 2217960.1)

Last updated on APRIL 30, 2017

Applies to:

Business Intelligence Server Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.1.1.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are to migrate OBIEE server from version 11.1.1.7 to version 12.2.1.1 or higher.

The installation of version 12.2.1.1 was finalized without any errors.

After installing, You tried to migrate the catalog and the repository using the BI Migration Tool; however, it fails when importing the JAR file with the following error:

Changes

Cause

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