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Oracle8i

Release Notes

Release 3 (8.1.7) for Windows NT

November 16, 2000

Part No. A85305-01

TheseRelease Notes contain important last minute information not included

on the Oracle8i docum entation CD-ROM. They m ay also contain

information regarding prod ucts not on your CD-ROM.

This documen t contains these topics:

s New Features

s Products Not on the CD-ROM and Desupported Features

s Documentation

s Wind ows 2000 and Wind ows 98

s

Installation Issuess Known Up grade Issues

s System Management Products

s Oracle8i Network, Directory, and Security Issues for Windows

s Microsoft Wind ows Term inal Server (TSE)

s Oracle Parallel Server

s Precompilers

s Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)

s Oracle Performan ce Monitor for Window s NT

s ORADIM

s Oracle8i Initialization Param eters

s Oracle8i Supp ort for Very Large Memory (VLM) Configurations

s Oracle HTTP Server

s Default JDBC Driver Behavior

s Oracle Migration Workbench

s Known Problems, Restrictions, and Workaround s


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New Features

This section contains these topics:

s Legato Storage Man ager

s Oracle Internet File System

Legato Storage Manager

Legato Storage Man ager (LSM) release 5.7 is certified on Wind ows 2000.

Oracle Internet File System

Oracle Internet File System (iFS) release 1.1 now sh ips as p art of both the:

s Oracle8i for Window s release 8.1.7 CD pack

s Oracle9i Application Server for Windows release 1.0.2 bundle

Products Not on the CD-ROM and Desupported Features

s Oracle Web Pu blishing Assistant and Oracle App Wizard for Microsoft

Visual C++ are not included on th e release 8.1.7 CD-ROM. Theseprodu cts are desup ported.

s No testing of Oracle release 8.1.7 software has been p erformed with

Microsofts System s Managem ent Server (SMS), and Oracle no longer

creates SMS packages for distribution.

Documentation


s Impor tant: Add itional READMEs

s New Location of Installation Guide and Release Notes

s Revised, N ew, and Obsoleted Documen tation for Release 8.1.7

s Corrections to 8.1.6 Documentation

Important: Additional READMEs

Add itional produ ct README files are located in the p rodu ct subdirectories

under the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOMEdirectory or in the

\ RELNOTES directory.


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New Location of Installation Guide and Release Notes

The Oracle8i installation guid e and release notes are not included on the

Oracle8i docum entation CD-ROM. These docum ents are available on the

software CD-ROM an d are selectively installable through the Cu stom

installation type and autom atically installable through all other installationtypes. Access these docum ents after installation from th e Start Menu or by

clicking INSTALL.HTM in the \ DOC d irectory on your hard dr ive. You can

also access these docum ents on the softw are CD-ROM by going to the

\ DOC d irectory and clicking INDEX.HTM.

Oracle docum entation is also available at these Web sites:

http://docs.oracle.com/

http://technet.oracle.com

Revised, New, and Obsoleted Documentation for Release 8.1.7

The Oracle8i docum entation CD-ROM contains gu ides listed as release

8.1.5, 8.1.6 and 8.1.7. Only gu ides listed as release 8.1.7 have been u pd ated

since release 8.1.6. Guides listed as release 8.1.5 and 8.1.6 have not been

revised. How ever, up dates to some of these 8.1.5 and 8.1.6 guides may be

included in:

s TheseRelease Notes

s Oracle8i Documentation Addendum

The follow ing section lists the Oracle8i for Window s guides that have been

revised, are new, or have been obsoleted in the Oracle8i for Window s

docum entation set. Other generic guid es not listed here have also been

up da ted for release 8.1.7. For information on the p articular generic guides

that h ave been revised, are new, or have been obsoleted, see Oracle8iDocumentation Addendum.

Revised Guides for Windows The following gu ides have been revised for thisrelease.

s TheseRelease Notes

s Installation Guide

s Oracle Provider for OLE DB Users Guide

s Oracle Objects for OLE C++ Class Library Help

s Oracle Objects for OLE Help


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New Guides for Windows The following guid es are new for this release andare specific to Legato for Windows.

s Legato Storage Manager Administrators Guide for Windows 2000 and

Windows NT

s Legato Storage Manager Command Reference Guide for Windows 2000 and

Windows NT

Read these guides instead of the genericLegato Storage Manager

Administrators Guide, wh ich is also on the Oracle8i documentation

CD-ROM.

Obsoleted Guides for Windows The following gu ides that w ere included on

the release 8.1.6 docum entation CD-ROM are not includ ed on th e Oracle8ifor Windows d ocumen tation library CD-ROM.

s Oracle Web Publishing A ssistant Getting Started for Windows NT

s Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ Users Guide

Corrections to 8.1.6 Documentation

Oracle8i Administrators Guidefor Windows NT or Oracle8i Client AdministratorsGuide for Windows(Bug 1349024) Conta ins an er ror regarding th e installation ofinterMedia

sup port. This error is located in chap ter 5, "Post-Installation Configuration

Tasks", section "To create the CTXSYS user name and the interMedia Text

data d ictionary tables:", task 4.

4. Run the DR0INST.SQL script to create and p opu late the Oracle

interMedia data dictionary tables:

SQL> @ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\CTX\ADMIN\DR0INST.SQL

ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\CTX\LIB\ORACTXX8.DLL;

The directory path to the DLL should be:

ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\BIN\ORACTXX8.DLL

Oracle8i Administrators Guidefor Windows NT or Oracle8i Client AdministratorsGuide for WindowsThe section "Produ cts Sup porting a Single Oracle Home" on page 3-7 of

either guide contains a list of prod ucts that can be installed on ly one time

per comp uter This list is not up -to-date. See Chap ter 3 of the installation

guide for Windows located in the \ DOC directory of your component

CD-ROM for an up -to-da te list of single Oracle hom e prod ucts.


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Oracle COM Automation Developers GuideRelease 2 (8.1.6) for Windows NT (Bug 1411720) Contains an error regarding support for multi-threaded

external callouts. The following bullet point on p age 1-7 should have been

removed because multi-threaded external callouts are desupported.

s Architectural Model 2

EXTPROC op erates as an N T process that is capable of spawn ing

mu ltiple thread s. When m ultiple sessions are connected to an Oracle

database, only one EXTPROC p rocess is spawned by Oracle instead of

spaw ning separate EXTPROC processes to hand le each d atabase

session. This one EXTPROC process in turn sp awns one thread per

da tabase session.

Windows 2000 and Windows 98


s Wind ows 2000 Sup port

s Windows 2000 Users

s Windows 2000 Multi-language Edition

s Wind ows 95 and Wind ows 98 Users

Windows 2000 Support

Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) on Windows NT is certified on Window s 2000

with the following exceptions:

s Oracle Object Link Manager is not su pp orted on Window s 2000.

s The following Oracle Parallel Server comm and line tools in the \ OPS_

PREINSTALL directory are not supported on Windows 2000:

s LETTERDELETE.EXE

s DELETEDISK.EXE

s LOGPARTFORMAT.EXE

These tools do not p erform on Window s 2000 and d o not report errorswh en they run . Use the Microsoft Comp uter Managemen t tools to

part ition the disks.

Additionally, creating a large num ber of logical partitions may cause a

significant increase in the tim e needed to reboot and lau nch the d isk

administration tools.


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Windows 2000 Users

DNS Domain Name If a Window s 2000 compu ter is not iden tified w ith aDNS dom ain nam e, you receive the following error message:

Calling query w32RegQueries1.7.0.17.0 RegGetValue

Key = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SubKey = SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ParametersValue = Domain

Query Exception: GetValueKeyNotFoundException

Query Exception Class: class oracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilQueryException

...

Perform the follow ing steps:

1. Choose Control Panel > System > Network Identification > More >

Primary DNS.

2. Enter a dom ain n ame, for exam ple, US.ORACLE.COM.

Windows 2000 Multi-language Edition

Oracle8i software is sup ported on the Window s 2000 Multi-langu age

Edition.

Windows 95 and Windows 98 Users

Registration of Oracle Objects for OLE Data Control in Windows 95 On someWindow s 95 system s, the Data Con trol for Oracle Objects for OLE is not

registered p roperly w ith the operating system . This occurs on systems

where an older version of the MFC Runtime Module (MFC42.DLL) is

installed. While this mod ule is up grad ed by Oracle Universal Installer, if

the mod ule is in use, it is not upgraded un til after rebooting.

If an older v ersion of the MFC Run time Module than the one required by

Oracle Objects for OLE (required version is 6.00.8447.0) is insta lled, reg ister

the Oracle Objects for OLE Data Control with the operating system after

rebooting, using the u pgrad ed MFC Runtime Mod ule.

To do this, enter the following at the command prom pt :

REGSVR32 ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\BIN\ORADC.OCX

where ORACLE_BASEis the Oracle base directory and ORACLE_HOMEis

the Oracle hom e directory specified w hen O racle Objects for OLE was

installed.

Note: CRLOGDR.EXE in the \ OPS_PREINSTALL directory w as

not su pp orted on Window s 2000 for release 8.1.6. It is sup ported for

release 8.1.7, but the / d (display) option outp ut is d ifferent from

that on Wind ows N T 4.0.


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Installation Issues



s Deinstallation

s Oracle Intelligent Agen t

s Redistributable System Files

s Using Oracle Hom e Selector on Wind ows 95 or Window s 98

s Oracle8i Managemen t and Integration Custom Installation

s Web-based Installations

s Oracle Workflow Mailer Installation

Known Problems, Restrictions, and Workarounds

s (Bug 1484791) Insta lling Oracle Enterpr ise Manager release 2.2 (and any

of its comp onents) in an existing Oracle Enterprise Manager release

2.1.x Oracle home is not supp orted. You mu st install Oracle Enterprise

Manager release 2.2 in a new Oracle home.s (Bug 1379284) Oracle Universa l Insta ller release 8.1.7 for Wind ows

provid es user interface and help contents for 24 langu ages plus English,

but some Finnish help contents app ear in English.

s (Bug 1221872) Due to a p roblem in Java Runtime Environment (JRE),

Oracle Universal Installer and other Java-based tools currently do not

run if your op erating system locale is Hind i, Tamil, Marathi, Sanskrit,

Konkani, Armenian , or Georgian on Window s 2000.

If your operating system locale is one of those listed above on your

Wind ows 2000 comp uter, temporar ily change it to English by following

the step s described below before installing Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7).

You can chan ge your operating system locale back to the original value

after you finish installing Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) or finish using

Oracles Java-based tools.

In order to change th e operat ing system locale on Window s 2000,perform these steps:

1. Start > Settings > Control Panel.

2. Double-click Regional Options.

3. Chan ge Input Locales to English (...)

4. Choose OK.

Note that th is problem also exists on Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) for

Wind ows N T, but these locales are not sup ported on this operating

system, so the problem d oes not occur.


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s When m oun ting a CD-ROM on a Novell dr ive to a Wind ows N T client

and run ning Oracle Universal Installer, you may get the following

error:

The Java Runtime Environment was not found at hence the

Oracle Universal Installer cannot be run.

As the Novell server d oes not support long filenam es, the d irectory

path for JRE_LOCATION is not recognized (some of the d irectory

nam es have m ore than eight characters). Therefore, this configuration is

not sup ported . Try moun ting the CD-ROM locally or on a Window s NT

Server.

s On slower computers you may notice a "flicker" at the Oracle Universal

Installer loading screen. It does not affect the installation in any way.

s On systems with a combination of Window s NT 4.0 SP5 and an ATI

display driver, a mem ory du mp occurs when the Oracle Universal

Installer window is moved around the screen. Selecting a smaller

display for the screen m ay red uce the frequency of this occurrence. This

problem is a display driver conflict and n o Window s NT patch was

foun d at this time.

s The Help window invoked from Oracle Universal Installers Inventorywindow cannot be scrolled or resized the second time it is accessed. A

workaround is to close the Inventory window. The H elp wind ow is

now accessible. Resize the H elp w indow, then close it. The n ext time

you invoke Help from the Inventory w indow, it app ears at that size.

This is a bug du e to Java D evelopm ent (JDK) 1.1.8.

s When installing Oracle8i on dual boot systems, the software uses the

same p hysical space on both operating systems. Therefore, any tasksdone on Window s 95 are also done on Wind ows N T, including

deinstallation.

You can avoid this by p erforming the following steps:

1. Install Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) into the first environm ent.

2. Before installing in the second environment, prov ide a different

location than th e default wh en Oracle Universal Installer promp ts

you wh ere to create the O racle Universal Installer inventory. The

second environmen t inventory is independent of the first, and

prod ucts can be installed or d einstalled separa tely on both systems.

s Do n ot install release 8.1.5 after installing release 8.1.6 or 8.1.7. If you d o

so, release 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 is fu lly deinstalled and considered not

functional because the requ ired Java Run time Environm ent (JRE)

1.1.7.30 is removed . Note that the sam e issue also app lies to all

non-Oracle home prod ucts that are shared betw een these installations.This problem d oes not occur if you install release 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 after

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s If you have the Beta version of Oracle Provider for OLE DB installed on

your compu ter, deinstall that p rodu ct before reinstalling the new

version of the release.

Deinstallation

You cannot d einstall Oracle JServer separately from other p rodu cts installed

with Or acle8i Release 3 (8.1.7).

Deinstalling Oracle JServer causes Oracle Universal Installer to remove

Oracle8i and oth er products depen den t on Oracle JServer from you r

system.

Oracle Intelligent AgentWith release 8.1.7, users can select ind ividu al Oracle Intelligent Agent

extensions such as Oracle Application Extensions, Oracle HTTP Server

Extensions, Oracle eBusiness Management Extensions, Oracle Forms

Extensions, Microsoft SQL Server Extensions for insta llation, separately

from the basic Oracle Intelligent Agent. Installing an extension will also

install the basic Oracle Intelligent Agent since, the extensions dep end on th e

Oracle Intelligent Agent.

Oracle Intelligent Agent and Data Ga therer services are au tomat ically

started after installation p rovided existing Oracle Intelligent Agent an d

Data Ga therer services are not ru nning. Therefore, Oracle Intelligent Agent

discovers existing services such as databases and listeners up on startu p.

Any service like a d atabase or listener tha t is installed after Oracle

Intelligent Agent is discovered by stopping an d restarting th e Oracle

Intelligent Agent service.

Redistributable System Files

Oracle8i installation m ay attem pt to install several redistributable system

files that are requ ired for Oracle software to function correctly. These files

are shared by other ap plications and m ost likely are in use on the comp uter.

If the version of a g iven system file is less than th e version required by

Oracle, Oracle Universal Installer attempts to up grad e it. Errors may occur

du ring upgrade if the system file Oracle Universal Installer is trying toup grade already exists on the compu ter and h as been d esignated as

read-only.

In this case, Oracle Universal Installer indicates that it encountered

difficulties in copying th e app ropriate file to the system. If such an error

occurs, check to see if the system file in question is writable or if a similar

file of the nam e SYSTEMFILE.OLD exists on the compu ter.

If the system file that Oracle Universal Installer is trying to replace isread -only, chan ge its attribu te so that the file is wr itable, and click "Retry" in

the Oracle Universal Installer wind ow to u pgrade the system file.


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Using Oracle Home Selector on Windows 95 or Windows 98

In some instances, the O racle Home Selector fails to switch the entries in th e

PATH environment va riable as desired. This occurs in cases wh ere the

PATH is defined in m ultip le p laces in the file AUTOEXEC.BAT. For

example, if the following lines exist in AUTOEXEC.BAT:PATH C:\windows

PATH D:\oracle\ora817;D:\oracle\ora816;%PATH%

then an attemp t to switch the order of D:\ ORACLE\ ORA817 with

D:\ ORACLE\ ORA816 in the PATH u sing Oracle Hom e Selector fails.

To work around this limita tion, modify AUTOEXEC.BAT so that the PATH

is defined in one location in the file. Using the above example, if you

modify AUTOEXEC.BAT to read :

PATH D:\oracle\ora817;D:\oracle\ora816;C:\windows

then att emp t to use Oracle Home Selector to sw itch, the order of Oracle

Hom es in the PATH su cceeds.

Oracle8iManagement and Integration Custom Installation

It is not p ossible to install and configure Oracle Internet Directory (OiD)

and Oracle Workflow in the sam e installation session d uring a custom

installation of Oracle8i Managem ent and Integration. If you perform such

an installation an d choose to install both OiD an d Oracle Workflow, the OiD

Configuration Assistant is launched du ring post-installation to configure

OiD in the d atabase, and O racle Workflow is not autom atically configured.

To conf igure Oracle Workflow manually after the installation sess ion is

complete.

1. Exit Oracle Universal Installer at the end of installation.

2. Run the O racle Workflow configuration script. To d o th is, change

directories to ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ WF\ INSTALL, and

enter the following command :

D:\ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\wf\install> inst252.bat wf_acctwf_pwd

wf_homesys_pwdsystem_pwdINSTALL

where:

Note: Oracle Workflow is only configured autom atically wh enyou install it and also create a new database du ring the same

installation session. If you in stall Oracle Workflow and a d atabase

already exists in the Oracle hom e, Oracle Workflow mu st be

man ua lly configured after installation.


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wf_acct = workflow account. Use OWF_MGR.

wf_pwd=password@db for workflow account. Use OWF_MGR.

wf_home = w orkflow top level directory, for examp le, ORACLE_

BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ w f

sys_pwd=password@db for the SYS account , for example, chan ge_on_

install@wfdb

system_pwd=password@db for SYSTEM account, for example,

manager@wfdb

Web-based Installations

It is possible to install Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) using HTTP. To d o th is:

1. Configure your Web server so that it can serv e files from the 8.1.7

release med ia.

2. In the File Locations dialog of Oracle Universal Installer enter the URL

exposed by the Web server that points to the file PRODUCTS.JAR. For

example:

http://acme.us.oracle.com/817/stage/products.jar

When p erforming such a Web-based installation on a compu ter in wh ich no

Oracle produ cts have p reviously been installed, you may experience two

errors du ring installation. These errors occur wh en installing the Oracle

Adm inistration Assistant for Window s NT and Oracle Intelligent Agent.

Both errors occur wh en Oracle Universal Installer attempts to dow nload a

library from the indicated URL. The error messages are as follows:

s First error:

Error Occurred

s Second error:

There was an error during loading library : NtServicesQueries.

To w ork around these two errors, do the follow ing:

1. In both cases, wh en the errors occur, you are given an op tion to stop theinstallation of all compon ents or to stop the installation of that

par ticular comp onent. Choose to stop the installation of only that

particular component and continue.

2. After installation is complete, restart Oracle Universal Installer.

3. Using the sam e URL as was used in the original installation, perform an

Oracle8i Enterprise Edition (Oracle8i Stand ard Edition or Oracle8i

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4. In the Prod uct Selection window of Oracle Universal Installer, choose to

install Oracle Intelligent Agent (located un der Oracle Enterp rise

Manager Products) and Oracle Adm inistration Assistant for Wind ows

NT. You can d eselect any oth er comp onents w hich are selected.

The installation of these two comp onents now proceeds norm ally.

Oracle Workflow Mailer Installation

When installing Oracle Workflow Mailer, the file WFMLR.EXE is incorrectly

installed into the d irectory ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME. Copy this file

into the d irectory ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ BIN before using the

mailer.

Known Upgrade Issues


s Required Supp ort Files Drop-In Comp atibility

s Enabling and Disabling System Triggers

s Heterogeneous Services Agent Control Utility

s Ignore Error ORA-00604: During Upgrade

s Upgrading from 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 to 8.1.7

s Partial Upgrad es of Server-side Comp onents

Required Support Files Drop-In Compatibility

In Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7), Oracle is sup porting d rop-in compatibility of

the 8.1.7 client-side libraries on top of the 8.1.6 client-side libraries. This

means that app lications and tools runn ing in the same Oracle hom e as these

8.1.6 client-side libraries d o not encoun ter ru ntime errors if the libraries are

up grad ed to 8.1.7 du ring installation. How ever, drop-in compatibility is not

supported for client-side libraries being used by a d atabase or listener. If an

attemp t to upgrade the 8.1.6 client-side libraries is made in the sam e Oracle

home as an Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) database or listener, and the d atabase

or listener is not also up graded to 8.1.7, the 8.1.6 versions of the d atabase orlistener w ill break. If you want to keep the older versions of the d atabase or

listener intact, you mu st install Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) in a new Oracle

home.


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Enabling and Disabling System Triggers

Before performing either a m anual d atabase upgrad e or an automated

database upgrade using Oracle Data Migration Assistant, you mu st first set

_SYSTEM_TRIG_ENABLED = FALSE in the initialization parameter file.

After completing the database portion of the upgrad e, you mu st eitherremove _SYSTEM_TRIG_ENABLED from the initialization pa ram eter file

or explicitly set it to TRUE before attemp ting any other u pgrade steps, such

as u pgrad ing Oracle JServer.

Heterogeneous Services Agent Control UtilityThe Heterogeneous Services Agent Control Utility (AGTCTL.EXE)

incorrectly reports its version as 8.1.0.0.0. The version of this u tility is

8.1.7.0.0.

Ignore Error ORA-00604: During Upgrade

Ignore the following error wh en u pgrading from release 8.0.x to 8.1.7.

Despite the error m essage, the u pgrad e has comp leted successfully. Notethat the error does not occur d ur ing up grad e from 8.1.x to 8.1.7.

ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1

Upgrading from 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 to 8.1.7

If you p erformed an u pgrade of your Oracle8i release 8.1.5 software to

Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) in the sam e Oracle home and now want to

up grad e the 8.1.6 softwa re to Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7), you will experiencean installation runtim e error that occurs d ur ing the deinstallation of the

8.1.6 software that you can ignore. Oracle Universal Installer trea ts a

softw are up grad e as a deinstallation of the old software followed by an

installation of the new softw are. While deinsta lling the release 8.1.6

software, an attem pt to un register th e release 8.1.6 DLL OraOLEDB.DLL

fails. An error m essage is displayed ind icating:

A dynamic link library initialization routine failed.

This error occurs because during the u pgrade from release 8.1.5 to release

8.1.6, the file OCI.DLL in ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ BIN w as not

up grad ed p roperly to release 8.1.6. Since this occurs d ur ing the

deinstallation of the release 8.1.6 software, and since both OCI.DLL and

OraOLEDB.dll are up grad ed su ccessfully to release 8.1.7, the error can be

ignored.

See Also: Oracle8i Migration for more information about u pgrad e

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Partial Upgrades of Server-side Components

In certain situations, an attem pt to upgrade some bu t not all Oracle8i

release 8.1.5 or Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) software to Oracle8i Release 3

(8.1.7) may resu lt in the d einstallation of all of the older softw are, even

though you did not choose to up grade that software du ring the current

session. Pay careful attention to the Oracle Universal Installer Summ ary

wind ow to make sure that this does not happ en. For examp le, if you have

performed a release 8.1.6 Oracle8i Enterprise Edition (Oracle8i StandardEdition or O racle8i Personal Edition) Typical installation, and you want to

up grad e only Oracle Intelligent Agent to release 8.1.7, then all of the 8.1.6

compon ents will be deinstalled.

If you w ant to retain the basic functionality that w as present in the Oracle

home with the older software, choose to upgrad e all components that are

installed in th e Oracle hom e.

It is possible to perform a p artial up grad e of some of the software in a

particular Oracle home without running into the problems described here.

To do this, you m ust select a different top -level comp onent in the new

installation session than w as originally chosen wh en installing the older

software. For examp le, using th e same scenario as above, if you performed

a release 8.1.6 Oracle8i Enterprise Edition (Oracle8i Stand ard Edition or

Oracle8i Personal Edition) Typical installation, and you w ant to u pgrade

only some of the components to release 8.1.7, you should select one of the

installation typ es for Oracle8i Client and u pgrad e the software as usu al.

Performing the up grad e in this way will not result in the deinstallation of

all your older software, and only those comp onents you have selected for

installation will be upgraded.

Note: This installation runtim e error does not occur w hen

up grad ing directly from Oracle8i release 8.1.5 or Oracle8i Release 2

(8.1.6) to Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7).

Note: Oracle Corporation d iscourages such partial server-side

up grad es, especially if an older Oracle8i da tabase or listener is

installed in the sam e Oracle home. See "Required Support FilesDrop-In Comp atibility" for more information.


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System Management Products


s Oracle Database Configuration Assistant

s OEM_MONITOR Database Role

s Enterprise Manager Console

Oracle Database Configuration Assistant

When you u se Oracle Database Configuration Assistant to create a custom

database that includ es Oracle JServer, be aware that it can take over an h our

to finish loading Oracle JServer into the d atabase, depending on you r

systems hard ware configuration.

OEM_MONITOR Database Role

The OEM _MON ITOR role can be gran ted to an y database user being u sed

as apreferred credential when registering advanced (database) events

available with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack.

This role is defined in ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ RDBMS\ ADMIN\ CATSNMP.SQL, wh ich is called by the catalogscripts at d atabase creation time. In ad dition to the OEM_MONITOR role,

the da tabase user requires space on their default tablespace within the

monitored database, in order to have some of the advanced events

evaluated . Failure to do so results in an insufficient pr ivilege message.

Enterprise Manager Console

(Bug 1501788) The Oracle Parallel Server extensions to the Enterp riseManager Console have been left out. This causes p arallel servers not to

display u nd er the Databases folder. The symp toms of this problem are the

existence of oracle_sysman_ops and ops_sysman_opsinst folders u nd er the

Netw ork nod e of console following the d iscovery of a node that contains a

parallel server.

The workarou nd for this problem is to append the contents of the file

OPSCLIENT.PROPERTIES (available as a p atch) to the Oracle Enterp rise

Manager prop erties file ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE

HOME\ SYSMAN \ CONFIG\ OEMCLIENT.PROPERTIES.


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Oracle8iNetwork, Directory, and Security Issues for Windows



s Windows Native Authentications Active Directory

s Oracle Internet Directory

s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on Windows N T

s TCP/ IP Sup port on Window s 95

s Enterp rise Java Beans

s Oracle Administration Assistant for Window s NT


s (Bug 1377891) Oracle Corporation norm ally recomm ends that you only

have a single Net8 listener service runn ing on a Window s NT comp uter

at any on e time. This single listener can support m ultiple databases of

the same version as the listener and earlier. If you n eed to have two

different Net8 listener services runn ing on a Window s NT compu ter at

the same time, make sure that they are configured to listen on d ifferent

TCP/ IP port num bers.

If the sam e IP add ress and p ort are used for different Net8 listeners,

then instead of the second an d the consecutive listeners failing to bind

as expected, it allows them to go ah ead an d listen on this IP add ress

and port. This results in u nexpected behav ior of the Net8 listeners. This

is a suspected Wind ows N T operating system problem with TCP/ IPand has been reported to Microsoft.

s (Bug 1379263) For release 8.1.7, after creating a nam e server u sing N et8

Assistant, loading of the TNSNAMES.ORA file fails, and returns the

following error:

nnl-6, nnl-10, nnc-406

The workarou nd for this problem is to use namesctl at the comm andpromp t with the comman d load_tnsnames.

s (Bug 1432994) When using the Net8 Configuration Assistant to

complete Directory Access Configuration against Active Directory,

Oracle schema creation can fail du e to Active Directory display n ot

being pop ulated with all 24 defau lt langu ages. Before running the Net8

Configuration Assistant to complete d irectory access configura tion,

verify tha t d isplay specifiers for all 24 languages are popu lated byentering the follow ing at the comm and promp t:


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ldifde -p OneLevel -d cn=DisplaySpecifiers,cn=Configuration,domain

context -f temp file

where:

domain contextis the d omain context for this Active Directory server.

For example d c=acme,dc=com

temp file is a file where you w ant to pu t the outpu t.

If the comm and reports that less than 24 entries were found , you can

still use the N et8 Configuration Assistant. H owever, it will only report

that Oracle schema creation failed w hen all that failed w as that d isplay

specifiers for some languages were not created.

Windows Native Authentication

s Current user d atabase links are not supp orted w ith Windows N ative

Authentication.

s If the u ser is logged on as a Wind ows 2000 domain user from a

Wind ows 2000 comp uter, then Kerberos is the au thentication

mechanism used by the N TS adap ter.

For all other users (local users, Wind ows N T 4.0 dom ain u sers,Wind ows 2000 dom ain users, Window s 95 users, and Wind ows 98

users), NTLM is the authen tication mechanism u sed by the N TS

adapter. So, if the au thentication is set to N TS, on a stan da lone

Wind ows 2000 or Wind ows N T 4.0 compu ter, ensure that the Window s

Service "NT LM Security Supp ort Prov ider" is started . If this service is

not started on a stand alone Wind ows 2000 or Window s NT 4.0

comp uter, NTS au then tication fails. This issue is app licable only if you

are run ning Window s 2000 or Window s NT 4.0 in stand alone mod e.

Active Directory



s Using on Wind ows 2000

s Oracle Advan ced Security

s Oracle8i 8.1.7 database and Active Directory

Known Problems, Restrictions, and Workarounds When u sing Oracle featuresthat su pp ort Active Directory u sing LDAP, ensure that the Active Directory

compu ter can be successfully reached u sing all of the TCP/ IP hostname

forms possible to reach the d omain controller. For examp le, if the hostnam e

of the domain controller is server1 in the dom ain acme.com, then you canping that comp uter using:

server1.acme.com acme.com and server1


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Active Directory often issues referra ls back to itself in one or m ore of these

forms, dep end ing up on the operation being performed . If all of the forms

cannot be used to reach the Active Directory compu ter, then some LDAP

operations m ay fail.

Using on Windows 2000 If you are using Active Directory with Oracle onWind ows 2000 or Window s NT, then ping the DN S dom ain nam e of your

Wind ows 2000 domain. If this does not w ork, perform either of the

following tasks:

s Set your Wind ows 2000 prim ary d omain controllers IP add ress as your

DNS.

s Add the DNS domain nam e of your Windows 2000 domain and yourdomain contro llers IP add ress to you r H OSTS or LMHOSTS file.

For examp le, your Window s 2000 dom ain is SALES, the DN S domain nam e

for this domain is SALES.ORACLE.COM, the IP add ress of the d omain

controller is 255.255.255.0. On the Windows 2000 computer, either

255.255.255.0 can be set as the DNS, or 255.255.255.0 SALES.ORACLE.COM

can be ad ded to the H OSTS or LMHOSTS file.

If this step is not performed, then errors such as the following a re returnedwh en u sing Active Directory.

Cannot Chase Referrals

Oracle Advanced Security You mu st license Oracle Advanced Security to useActive Directory to man age enterp rise roles.

Oracle8i8.1.7 database and Active Directory On Window s NT and Window s2000, the Oracle database service runs in th e security context of theLocalSystem or a specific local or domain u ser. When using Oracle8i release

8.1.7 with Active Directory, if the d atabase service run s in the secur ity

context of LocalSystem, manually add the compu ter name in wh ich the

database service is run ning. This enables you to access control entries on

the OracleDBSecurity container object in the Active Directory w ith read

permissions on the OracleDBSecurity container object. For examp le, if the

database service OracleServiceORCL is ru nning in th e security context ofLocalSystem in the computer MYPC1, then add MYPC1 with READ

permissions ON OracleDBSecurity object to the access control entries on the

OracleDBSecurity container object.


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Oracle Internet Directory

Several produ cts includ ed w ith Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) are now

directory-enabled an d can take ad vantage of an LDAP version 3 directory

server su ch as Oracle Internet Directory. Purchase of Oracle8i Release 3

(8.1.7) includ es a restricted u se version of Oracle Internet Directory release

2.1.1 for Window s N T that may only be u sed in conjun ction w ith Oracles

directory-enabled comp onents and prod ucts such as Net8, Oracle

Advanced Security, Oracle8i, and all futu re directory-enabled Oracle

products.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on Windows NT

To enable SSL wh en connecting to an Oracle database, do not u se the

default user account in the Windows N T Services dialog box when starting

the O racle service and the listener service. Start th ese services in the same

user accoun t as the w allet created in Oracle Wallet Manager. If the Oracle

service and the listener service are started in the d efault user accounts, SSLdoes not w ork and the listener does not start.

Sup port for SSL, except for HTTPS, is an Oracle Advanced Security featu re.

Oracle Wallet Manager is also an Oracle Advan ced Security feature.

TCP/IP Support on Windows 95

Oracle TCP/ IP sup port for Wind ows 95/ 98 uses Wind ows Sockets 2

interfaces. Therefore, you must install Wind ows Socket 2 Update for

Windows 95 before installing Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7). Download it from

the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads

Wind ows Socket 2 Update for Window s 95 can also be installed by

double-clicking on the file WS2SETUP.EXE located in the \ WINSOCK2

directory at the root of your d istribution med ia.

Enterprise Java Beans

The Comm on Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) oneway call

messages may not be d elivered reliably to the server if a client w rites

several oneway m essages and then imm ediately closes the connection and

exits. This is due to a Window s Sockets API bug on Wind ows NT 4.0 SP6

and SP6a with the Lotus security patch.

See Also: Oracle Internet DirectoryRelease Notes located in th e

README_OID.TXT file in th e ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ RELNOTES d irectory for more information on OracleInternet Directory


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Do not exit imm ediately after invoking onew ay calls, for examp le, by

pu tting a call to Thread .sleep ( ). Add itionally, the CORBA specification

describes oneway call seman tics as best-effort, at-most-once and does n ot

guarantee d elivery of the m essage. The Aurora Object Request Broker

(ORB) guaran tees delivery of even onew ay calls, but because of this bug on

Wind ows N T, it may not gu arantee it on Wind ows N T.

Oracle Administration Assistant for Windows NT

(Bug 993548) When Net8 op erating system n ative au thentication is not

enabled for the database, users are unable to view the database thread

information u sing Oracle Adm inistration Assistant for Window s NT. If this

is the case, and users want to view the database thread inform ation using

Oracle Administration Assistant for Window s NT, they need to run a u tilitycalled OCFGUTIL.EXE with the arguments username an d password. This

utility stores the user nam e and password in the registry location \ \ HKEY_

LOCALMACHINE\ SYSTEM\ Curren tControlSet\ Services\

Oracle8Oraconfig w hich is read by the Oracle Remote Configura tion Agent

to log into the database.

Microsoft Windows Terminal Server (TSE)This section contains these topics:

s Overview of Microsoft Windows Terminal Server

s Sup ported Wind ows Termina l Servers

s Unsupported Oracle Products and Features on Windows Terminal

Servers

s Start ing a Listener on Term inal Server

Overview of Microsoft Windows Terminal Server

Microsoft Window s Terminal Server is a Wind ows thin-client termina l

server, a product that adds sup port for multiple, simu ltaneous client

sessions on the Window s N T Server. Wind ows Termina l Server p rovides an

operating system graph ical user interface (GUI) to users of Oracle8i for

Windows NT databases, release 8.1.7.

Supported Windows Terminal Servers

Oracle8i installations are supp orted on the following Window s Terminal

Servers:

s Window s NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server

s

Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter TerminalServices


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Unsupported Oracle Products and Features on Windows Terminal Serverss Installation of Oracle8i server componen ts from a rem ote Terminal

Services Client onto a Window s 2000 server that is ru nning Termina l

Server Service or a Window s N T 4.0 Termina l Server is u nsupp orted. If

you att emp t to install Oracle8i in this manner, many database

configuration tools, such as Oracle Data Migration, Oracle Database

Configuration Assistant, Ora cle Internet Directory Con figura tion

Assistant, N et8 Configuration Assistant, an d Oracle Workflow

Configuration Assistant, hang. Laun ch all the configu ration tools fromthe Terminal Server console and not from the Terminal Services Client.

s Connecting through the Bequeath ad apter

s Oracle App lications InterConnect

s Oracle Enterp rise Manager

s Oracle FailSafe

s Oracle HTTP Server (powered by Apache)

s Oracle Intelligent Agen t

s Oracle Message Broker

s Oracle Parallel Server u tilities - Oracle Object Link Manager an d

SETLINK.EXE

s Oracle Parallel Server Manager

s Oracle8 JDBC Drivers

Starting a Listener on Terminal Server

(Bug 1458669) The LSNRCTL START comm and does not retu rn a p rom pt

and hangs wh en ru n from th e Termina l Services Client. The listener service

is started but is un usable. A workarou nd is to start the listener service by

using the NET START comm and at the comm and prom pt if the listenerservice is already created. Note that the LSNRCTL START command works

wh en ru n from the Terminal Server console.

Net8 Configura tion Assistant hangs w hen trying to start the Net8 listener

on Microsoft Term inal Server. If this hang occurs during installation, exit

Net8 Configuration Assistant and start the listener service by using the

NET START comm and if the listener service is already created .

See Also: The Microsoft Web site for more inform ation on

termina l servers:

http://www.microsoft.com


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Precompilers



s

Oracle Call Interfaces Pro*C/ C++ Precomp iler

s Oracle XA Library


(Bug 599321) Although all Windows operating systems allow spaces in file

nam es and directory names, the Oracle Pro*C/ C++ and Oracle Pro*COBOL

precompilers will not precomp ile files that includ e spaces in the file name

or d irectory nam e. For examp le, do n ot u se the following formats:

proc iname=test one.pc

or

proc iname=d:\dir1\second dir\sample1.pc

Oracle Call Interface

When adding a registry variable for all sessions, the correct registry key is

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ ORACLE\ HO MEID, not HKEY_

LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ ORACLE, as incorrectly stated in Oracle

Call Interface Getting Started for Windows, release 8.1.6.

Pro*C/C++ Precompiler

s When adding a registry var iable for all sessions, the correct registry key

is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ ORACLE\ HOMEID, not

HKEY_LOCAL_MACH INE\ SOFTWARE\ ORACLE, as incorrectly

stated in Pro*C/C++ Precompiler Getting Started for Windows, release 8.1.6.

s A new batch file called PCMAKE.BAT for compiling Pro*C demos is

located in the following d irectory:

ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ PRECOMP\ DEMO\ PROC

Oracle XA Library

The header file XA.H is installed in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ RDBMS\ DEMO directory. It is incorrectly stated in the Oracle Call

Interface Getting Started for Windows an d Pro*C/C++ Precompiler Getting

Started for Windows release 8.1.6 that the file is located in the ORACLE_

BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ RDBMS\ XA d irectory. Also, the correct name for

the library file is ORAXA8.LIB, not ORAXA.LIB. The current URL forgeneral information abou t XA and TP monitors is:

http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/tp.htm

Mi ft T ti S (MTS)


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Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)


s Correction to Oracle Microsoft Transaction Server Documentation

s

Oracle Service for Microsoft Transaction Server Resource DLLs

Correction to Oracle Microsoft Transaction Server Documentation

Using Microsoft Transaction Server With Oracle8 states that Microsoft

Transaction Server is currently available as p art of the Microsoft Window s

NT 4.0 Option Pack. However, Microsoft Management Console version 1.0

is the version insta lled. This version w orks with Oracle Services for

Microsoft Transaction Server release 8.1.6, and not with release 8.1.7. To u se

Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server release 8.1.7, you must use

Microsoft Management Console version 1.2. Microsoft Management

Console is automatically installed with Microsoft Transaction Server.

Oracle Service for Microsoft Transaction Server Resource DLLs

Certain Chinese language versions of the Oracle Service for Microsoft

Transaction Server resou rce DLLs are not consisten t with Oracle8i Release 3

(8.1.7). These include:

s ORAMTSZHS.DLL

s ORAMMCMTS8ZHS.DLL

s ORAPSMSGZHS.DLL

s ORAPSEVNTZHS.DLL

To obta in the latest releases of these files, contact Oracle Supp ort Services.

Oracle Performance Monitor for Windows NT

Oracle Performan ce Monitor for Window s NT is not installed in the Typical

installation op tion. If you install Oracle Performance Monitor for Wind ows

NT using the Custom installation option, you m ust d isable the

OracleHOME_NAMEDataGatherer service in the Wind ows N T Services

dialog box. Oracle Performance Monitor for Window s NT cannot co-existwith Oracle Data Gatherer (a component of Oracle Intelligent Agen t) on the

same compu ter.

ORADIM


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ORADIM

The following instruction on how to delete services using ORADIM was

omitted from Oracle8i Administrators Guide for Windows NT.

To delete an instance using ORADIM, use the following comm and s:

ORADIM -DELETE -SID SIDA, SIDB, SIDC, ...

ORADIM -DELETE -SVRC SVRCA, SVRCB, SVRC, ...

where:

s SIDA , SIDB, SIDCare the values of the SIDs to delete.

s SVRCA , SVRCB, SVRCare the values of the services to d elete.

Oracle8iInitialization Parameters

The following initialization parameters have been introdu ced on Wind ows

NT for release 8.1.7. These parameters alread y exist on UNIX pla tforms.

s background_core_dump

s core_dump_dest

s shadow_core_dump

Oracle8iSupport for Very Large Memory (VLM) Configurations

A new feature in Oracle8i for Windows N T is supp ort for Very Large

Memory (VLM) configurations, wh ich allows Oracle8i to access more thanthe 4 gigabyte (GB) of RAM traditionally available to Windows NT

applications.

See Also:

s Oracle8i Reference for descript ions of all initialization

parameters and instructions for setting and displaying their

values

s Oracle8i A dministrators Guide for Windows NT, Append ix B,

Oracle8i Datab ase Specifications for Wind ows NT, for

initialization p arameters that are not supp orted on Wind ows

NT

Note: This feature is only available on Intel Pentium II and

Pentiu m III Xeon 32-bit processor.

Specifically Oracle8i Enterprise Edition on Window s NT 4 0 (in conjunction


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Specifically, Oracle8i Enterprise Edition on Window s NT 4.0(in conjunction

with Intels PSE36 driver) can now allocate substantially more database

buffers than previous releases. Further d etails are posted at:

http://www.intel.com/ebusiness/server/resources/pentiumii/xeon/esma.pdf

On Window s 2000, Oracle8i uses the Ad dress Wind owing Extensions(AWE) bu ilt into the op erating system to access more than 4 GB of RAM.

For more inform ation, see the Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/news/fromms/intelpae.asp

To take advantage of this support, you must do the fol low ing:

1. More than 4 GB of RAM must be p resent in the server on which

Oracle8i runs.

2. On Wind ows N T 4.0:

s Service Pack 3 or later m ust be installed.

s The Intel PSE36 driver m ust be installed and operational. See

http://support.intel.com/support/performancetools/pse36/

for fur ther PSE36 system requirem ents and for dow nloadinstructions.

3. On Window s 2000, the user accoun t un der wh ich Oracle8i runs

(typically the local SYSTEM account), has the "Lock mem ory p ages"

Windows 2000 pr ivilege.

4. USE_INDIRECT_DATA_BUFFERS=TRUE must be present in the

INIT.ORA file for the d atabase instance that u ses the VLM support. If

this para meter is not set, then Oracle8i behaves in exactly the same w ayas p revious releases.

5. Set the INIT.ORA p ara meters DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS and DB_BLOCK_

SIZE as desired for the d atabase. Note that the total nu mber of bytes of

database buffers (that is, DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS multip lied by DB_

BLOCK_SIZE) is no longer limited to 3 GB, as was the case in p revious

releases.

6. The VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY (for Wind ow s N T 4.0) or AWE_

WINDOW_MEMORY (for Windows 2000) registry parameter must be

created and set in the app ropriate key for your Oracle home in the

Wind ows N T registry. This parameter is specified in bytes and has a

default of 1 GB. When u sing Wind ows NT 4.0, this param eter tells

Oracle8i how mu ch non-PSE36 memory to use for da tabase buffers.

When using Window s 2000, this param eter tells Oracle8i how mu ch of

its 3 GB address space to reserve for mapp ing in d atabase bu ffers. For

both imp lementations, this mem ory comes from Oracle8is 3 GB virtual

address space, so its value mu st be less than 3 GB. Setting this

parameter to a large value has the effect of using m ore of Oracle8is

add ress space for buffers and using less PSE36 or AWE memory for


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add ress space for buffers and using less PSE36 or AWE memory for

buffers. However, since accessing PSE36 or AWE buffers is somewhat

slower than accessing virtu al add ress space buffers, tun e this param eter

to be as large as possible w ithout ad versely limiting d atabase

operations.

For examp le, assum e that the Oracle8i database is runn ing on an

Wind ows N T 4.0 compu ter with 8 GB of RAM, which m eans tha t the

PSE36 driver h as con trol of 4 GB of RAM. If DB_BLOCK_

BUFFERS=2500000 and DB_BLOCK_SIZE=2048, then a total of 5 GB of

database buffers needs to be allocated . If VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY is

set to 1 GB, then 1 GB of buffers come from the Oracle8i virtual address

space and 4 GB come from the PSE36 dr iver. If you set VLM_BUFFER_

MEMORY to 500 MB, an error occur s at star tup because th ere is not 4.5

GB of memory available to the PSE36 driver for database buffers.

Likew ise, if you set VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY to 3 GB, an error occurs

because the O racle8i address space is limited to 3 GB on Window s NT,

and this address space must also hold Oracle8i code, shared p ool, PGA

mem ory, and other structures.

In general, the higher the VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY or AWE_

WINDOW_MEMORY is set, the fewer connections and mem ory

allocations are possible for Oracle8i. The lower VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY or AWE_WINDOW_MEMORY is set, the lower th e

performance.

7. After these param eters are set, the Oracle8i database can be started and

function exactly the sam e as before except th at m ore database buffers

are available to the instance. In add ition, disk I/ O may be reduced since

more Oracle data blocks can be cached in the SGA. If out of memory

errors occur du ring the startu p sequence, verify the following:s PSE36 dr iver is installed an d functional

s DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS is not set too high for the am ount of

memory in the compu ter. Note that more mem ory than just the

database buffers themselves is required when starting up the

database. For each database bu ffer, a da tabase buffer header is also

allocated in Oracle8is virtual address space. When allocating

2,000,000 database bu ffers, the mem ory for these bu ffer head ersamou nts to several hund red megabytes. This mu st be considered

when sett ing DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS and VLM_BUFFER_

MEMORY.

s VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY is not set too h igh for th e am ount of

add ress space available to Oracle8i. In Window s NTs Performance

Monitor, und er the Process object, monitor the Virtu al Bytes

counter for the "ORACLE" process. If this counter approaches 3 GB,

then out of m emory errors can occur. If this happ ens, reduce DB_

BLOCK_BUFFERS and/ or VLM_BUFFER_MEMORY until the

database is able to start.

Current ly, there is a limitation in SQL*Plus for Wind ows NT wh ereby the


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y, Q w w y

amou nt of da tabase buffers displayed d ur ing database startup is incorrect if

more than 4 GB of buffers are in u se. For instance, if 5 GB of buffers are

used , SQL*Plus incorrectly repor ts that 1 GB is being used . This limitat ion

will be fixed in the next release of Oracle8i.

Oracle HTTP Server

Oracle HTTP Server is autom atically started a t installation w ith the Secure

Socket Layer (SSL) enabled. The server binary nam e is APACHE.EXE, and

is located in ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ APACHE\ APACHE.


s Starting an d Stopp ing the Oracle HTTP Server

s Verifying that the Server is Running

s Viewing th e Default Initial Static Page and Other Status Pages

s Checking Log Files

s Starting the Oracle HTTP Server at the End of Installation

s Start ing the Oracle HTTP Server After a Silent Installation

Starting and Stopping the Oracle HTTP Server

Oracle HTTP Server can be started or stopped in either of two ways:

To start or stop from the Start menu:

Start > Programs > Oracle -HOME_NAME> Oracle HTTP Server > Star t |

Stop

To start or stop from the Services window of the Control Panel:

Start > Settings > Contro l Panel > Services > OracleHOME_NAMEHTTP_

Server > Start | Stop

Verifying that the Server is Running

Start the Task Man ager and check for two APACH E.EXE processes. If you

do not see any APACH E.EXE processes, Oracle H TTP Server is not run ning .

Viewing the Default Initial Static Page and Other Status Pages

The initial static page contains links to docum entation and dem os for each

of the server comp onents. The ServerName is iden tified in the

configuration file \ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ APACHE\ APACHE\ CONF\ HTTPD.CONF. Load this URL to

view d ocum entation and dem os for the components in the server:

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The server-status URL gives specific information regard ing th e current

activity of the server:

http://ServerName/server-status/

For security reasons, the following status pages are d isabled in the d efaultconfiguration files:

http://ServerName/perl-status/

Location: \ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ APACHE\ APACHE\ CONF\ HTTPD.CONF

http://ServerName/jserv/

Location: \ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ APACHE\ JSERV\ CONF\ JSERV.CONF

To enable them, modify the app ropriate configura tion file and restart the

server.

Checking Log Files

Any server p roblems are rep orted to several log files. Log level d irectives inthe configuration files control the am oun t of information w ritten to the log

files.

\ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\APACHE\APACHE\LOGS\ERROR_LOG

\ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\APACHE\APACHE\LOGS\SSL_ENGINE_LOG

\ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\APACHE\JSERV\LOGS\JSERV.LOG

\ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\APACHE\JSERV\LOGS\MOD_JSERV.LOG

Starting the Oracle HTTP Server at the End of Installation

At the end of an Oracle8i server installation, the Oracle HTTP Server is

started as a stand alone process in its own Window s NT Console window. If

you close this wind ow, the H TTP Server stops. It is possible to start th e

Oracle HTTP Server as a background Wind ows NT service; how ever, you

mu st reboot your system to successfully complete this operation. If you

attemp t to start the Oracle HTTP Server service prior to rebooting you r

system, you receive an error and the service does not start. To start theOracle HTTP Server as a Window s NT service after installation, perform the

following steps:

1. At the MS-DOS comm and prom pt, change d irectories to the following

directory:

ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\Apache\Apache

2. Enter the following at the MS-DOS command prom pt:

C:\> apache -k shutdown

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The Oracle HTTP Server service autom atically starts upon reboot. Do

not p erform an y ad ditional steps.

Starting the Oracle HTTP Server After a Silent Installation

(Bug 1503745) When performing silent installations, the Oracle HTTP

Server fails to start at th e end of installation. Start the Oracle HTTP Server

after the silent installation is complete as follows:

1. At the MS-DOS comm and prom pt, change d irectories to the following

directory:

ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\Apache\Apache

2. Enter the following at the MS-DOS command prom pt:

C:\> apache -k start

3. Or you can reboot your system, and the Oracle HTTP Server starts as a

service autom atically up on reboot.

Default JDBC Driver BehaviorIn Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7), the default behav ior for the

ResultSet::getXXXStream () APIs have been m od ified to comply with the

JDBC specification so that th ey return nu ll values for database nu ll

LONG/ LONG RAW values. In earlier versions of the 8.1.x JDBC d rivers,

the default behavior w as to return the em pty stream for database null

valu es. To restore the earlier JDBC defau lt behavior when using the 8.1.7

dr ivers, you m ust u se the Java p roperty jdbc.backward _comp atible_to_8.1.6. For examp le, if this Java p roperty is set at the virtu al machine

runtime, the comm and:

java -Djdbc.backward_compatible_to_8.1.6 myJavaProgram

causes the 8.1.7 JDBC dr ivers to retu rn em pty stream s from calls to

ResultSet::getXXXStream().

The jdbc.backward _compatible_to_8.1.6 Java property applies to 8.1.7 JDBCThin driver and OCI driver.

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s Installation Issues

s Installing Oracle Migration Workbench

s Launching th e Migration Workbench

s Location of the Oracle Migration Workbench Release Notes

s Limitation w ith Obtaining Help from Mod al Dialogs

Installation Issues

To migrate su ccessfully, consid er the following:

Installing into an Oracle_Home Directory Since release 1.3.0.0.0 of theMigration Workbench includes 8.1.7 dependencies, you can only install it

into an 8.1.7 Oracle hom e or its own h ome directory. If you have a previous

release of Oracle installed on you r system, you mu st install this release of

the Migration Workbench into a separate O racle hom e. You then need to

switch your d efault Oracle home to point to your p revious Oracle

installation so that you d o not pick up the new Window s NT clientdep endencies for other app lications you m ay use on the system. Do this

using Oracle Home Selector from th e Oracle Installation Produ cts program

group . In th is case, Oracle Universal Installer d isplays the error m essage:

Oracle Migration Workbench can only be installed into a new ORACLE_HOME

or an existing 8.1.7 ORACLE_HOME.

Problem Launching the Migration Workbench from Windows 95/98 While

launching the Migration Workbench from Window s 95/ 98, you m ay obtainthe Finished - Shortcut To dialog box containing the following error

messages:

Out of environment space

Out of environment space

Bad command or file name

If you obtain th ese error messages, do th e following as a workaround:

1. Right-click the top bar of the MS-DOS dialog box, then choose

Properties.

2. Select the Memory tab.

3. Change the Initial environmen t prop erty from Auto to 1024.

4. Choose Apply, then choose OK.

5. Relaun ch Migration Workbench.

Loading the Source Master Database from Sybase There is a known bu g w ithJ R ti E i t (JRE) ithi th JDK 1 1 7 hi d ithi


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Java Runtime Environment (JRE) within the JDK 1.1.7 shipped within

Oracle. It can cause Oracle Migration Workbench to hang w hen you are

loading th e source master d atabase from Sybase. Therefore, up grad e to Sun

Microsystems Java Developm ent Kit (JDK) 1.1.8, and relaun ch Oracle

Migration Workbench. Dow nload JDK 1.1.8 from:http://java.sun.com/j2se

From the Web site, select the following links and follow th e dow nload

instructions:

1. Java Developmen t Kit 1.1.x (JDKTM 1.1.x)

2. JDK 1.1.x Win32 Release

3. Download JDK 1.1.8_005 Software for Window s 95/ 98/ 2000/ NT 4.0

(Intel Platform ).

Install the app lication in to the C:\ JDK DIRECTORY. Modify the

OMWB.BAT file from the %OMWB_HOME%\ OMWB\ BIN directory by

replacing th e following section of the path :

%NT_START% %JRE% -classpath "C:\Program

Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\rt.jar;C:\ProgramFiles\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\i18n.jar;

with

c:\jdk\bin\java -classpath "c:\jdk\lib\classes.zip;

Installing Oracle Migration Workbench

You can install Oracle Migration Workbench by u sing Oracle UniversalInstaller includ ed w ith Oracle8i (Release 3) 8.1.7.

Launching the Migration Workbench

If you a re run ning Window s 95 or Wind ows 98, restart your system before

run ning Oracle Migration Workbench. Rebooting your system resets the

pa th for th e JRE.

To launch Migration Workbench, choose Start > Programs > Oracle -HOME_NAME> Migration Utilities > Migration Workbench.

Location of the Oracle Migration Workbench Release Notes

You can obtain the release notes for Oracle Migration Workbench release

1.3.0 by choosing H elp > Release Notes from with in the p rodu ct.

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(Bug 1346516) In certain situations w hen you inv oke help within a m odal

dialog, such as the Captu re Wizard, you are u nable to navigate or scroll

through th e help. A workaround is to obtain the help by choosing H elp >

Contents. You can also cancel out of the w izard or m odal d ialog to navigate

successfully through the h elp.



s Export Utility Does N ot Supp ort VOLSIZE Parameter

s

User Privileges for Runn ing Oracle Servicess Comp uter Autom atically Reboots Using Wind ows N T 4.0 SP6a on Dell

GX110

s Oracle Database Service on Window s 2000 in AutoStart Mod e w ith

Logon as SYSTEM

Export Utility Does Not Support VOLSIZE Parameter

(Bug 1417713) The VOLSIZE parameter for the Export ut ility is not

supported on Window s NT. If you attem pt to use the Export u tility with the

VOLSIZE param eter, error LRM-00101 occurs. For example:

D:\> exp system/manager full=y volsize=100m;

LRM-00101: unknown parameter name volsize

EXP-00019: failed to process parameters, type EXP HELP=Y for help

EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully

User Privileges for Running Oracle Services

(Bug 1321952) Depend ing on the p rodu cts that you have installed, a

nu mber of Oracle services are started au tomat ically wh en you restart your

Wind ows N T compu ter. A user with a non-system account mu st have local

adm inistrative rights to run services on a Window s NT comp uter.Computer Automatically Reboots Using Windows NT 4.0 SP6a on Dell GX110

(Bug 1383522) If you are u sing Wind ows NT 4.0 (service pack) SP6a on a

Dell GX110, the comp uter autom atically reboots du ring d atabase creation,

either u sing Oracle Database Creation Assistant or SQL scripts. This

problem d oes not occur on any other typ e of compu ter or service pack. This

bug h as been reported to both Dell and Microsoft.

See Also: Oracle8i Utilities for more inform ation on the Export

utility.

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(Bug 1397927) If you hav e installed an Oracle database service on Window s

2000, when logging in as SYSTEM user (Local System ), with star tup m ode

set to Autom atic, it is possible that the Oracle database service starts but the

database does not start autom atically. The following error m essage iswr itten to th e ORADIM.LOG file in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_

HOME\ DATABASE directory.

ORA-12640: Authentication adapter initialization failed

It has also been observed that the services like Oracle Enterp rise

Managem ent Agent, Oracle Enterprise Manager Managem ent Server and

Oracle Internet Directory m ay also fail for the same reason because theycannot connect to the database.

The workaround s for this problem are:

1. Remove the line sqlnet.authentication_services=(NTS) from

SQLNET.ORA or set sqlnet.authentication_services=(NONE) in

SQLNET.ORA.

2. Start the d atabase manu ally after the Oracle database service has

started using SQL*Plus connecting as u ser nam e INTERNAL. Note that

the INTERNAL user name will not be available after release 8.1.7.

3. Start the serv ice as a specific user :

1. Choose Start > Settings > Cont rol Panel > Services. The Services

dialog box app ears.

2. Select the service you want to start.

3. Click the Startup button. The Service dialog box ap pears.

4. Click This account and sp ecify the user nam e and corresponding

password.

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