Oracle® Database

3.1 Enabling Automated Backups

While installing Oracle Database, the Specify Backup and Recovery Options screen may appear truncated if the system does not have the required fonts installed. If the system has only fixed-width fonts, you may not be able to fully specify the required information in the Backup Job Credentials area of the screen. To work around this issue, do not select Enable Automated Backups on this screen. After the installation is complete, use Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control to enable automated backups.

3.2 Oracle interMedia

A known issue exists with Oracle interMedia on Oracle Database 10g. The problem may arise when making calls to mmtk_process() or mmtk_ext_process() in ordibody.sql, yielding errors such as the following:

ERROR at line 1:
   ORA-29400: data cartridge error 
   IMG-00714: internal error 
   ORA-28579: network error during callback from external procedure agent 
   ORA-06512: at "ORDSYS.ORDIMGEXTCODEC_PKG", line 164
   ORA-06512: at "ORDSYS.ORDIMGEXTCODEC_PKG", line 160
   ORA-06512: at line 1 
   ORA-06512: at "ORDSYS.ORDIMG_PKG", line 525
   ORA-06512: at "ORDSYS.ORDIMAGE", line 59
   ORA-06512: at "TKIDIUSER.IMG_PROCESSCOPY", line 12
   ORA-06512: at "TKIDIUSER.TKIDIPCU_MAIN", line 57
   ORA-06512: at line 1

The problem is being tracked internally by Oracle bug number 4203210.

3.3 CRS/RAC Known Issues

The following are known Cluster Ready Services (CRS) issues in the current release:

• While installing CRS, the device on which an installation is created is visible and accessible across all nodes of a cluster installation. For example, for a CRS installation created on disk A to run on nodes B and C, disk A is accessible on both nodes. For this reason, it is not necessary to copy a device across nodes. You may see error messages similar to the following in the .ERR files created under the log directory of orainventory:

  Error in copying file : rootadd.com
  oracle.ops.mgmt.cluster.ClusterException: PRKC-1004 : Problem in copying file to node
  
  

  These errors can be safely ignored.

• During a Custom installation of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Network Configuration Assistant (NETCA) is displayed at the end of the installation procedure even though the Database Creation option is not selected. You must run Virtual IP Configuration Assistant (VIPCA) before running NETCA for RAC. To do so, perform one of the following tasks:

  • Cancel the NETCA, and then run VIPCA, NETCA and Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) in that order.

  • Run VIPCA from a separate window, then continue with NETCA that is displayed during custom installation, and then run DBCA.

• In the RAC database alert log files, messages similar to the following are displayed:

  SSKGXP_IP: Primary interface down
  operation
  location
  error error 0
  
  

  These messages are displayed if a private interconnect is not selected for RAC cluster communication, and the public IP address of the nodes are used for cluster communication. These messages can be ignored.

• While running srvctl or crs_* commands, you must enclose the arguments to these commands in double quotes. For example:

  SRVCTL START DATABASE "-d" "orcl"
  CRS_STAT "-p" "ora.ORCL.ORCL1.inst"
  
  

  Unlike Java, OpenVMS is case insensitive. Thus, the SRVCTL commands throws an error if the arguments are not passed with the right case. Moreover, the resource name you enter for CRS_* commands should match the name it is registered with in the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR).

• While running Virtual IP Configuration Assistant (VIPCA), tracing information is displayed on the terminal from where VIPCA is run. You can ignore this information. To suppress the tracing information, you must define the following logical name before running VIPCA.

  $ DEFINE X$SRVM_TRACE X
  

3.4 Security for External Jobs

Refer to section 1.5.6 of Administrator's Guide to set the security for external jobs.

3.5 Non-Applicable Parameters

The following INIT.ORA parameters are not applicable to OpenVMS. Do not change their default values:

• BACKUP_TAPE_IO_SLAVES

• BWR_IO_SLAVES

• DISK_ASYNCH_IO

• TAPE_ASYNCH_IO

• DB_WRITER_PROCESSES

3.6 Known Problems

The following are known problems in the current release:

• Bug 4420104: Temporary files PERLPIPE*.COM created in login directory

  This has no impact on the functioning of the EMAgent. The temporary files can be manually deleted. Refer to the bug for more details and latest updates.

• Bug 4420463: Delays in Listener Start/Stop from Console

  This problem has not been observed in an Oracle installation, but has only been observed within the internal test QA area, which was set up with additional spooling of debugging information. However, the latency may reproduce in a customer environment, although very unlikely. To correct this, repeat the operation or perform the operation directly on the Server box where the listener is running. The modified status is automatically picked by the EM console within a few minutes of the direct operation.

• 5333539: ORA errors with additional information are incorrectly reported in 10g release 1.

  The ORA errors that contain additional errors, the additional information get translated into VMS errors.

• If you select 'Generate Database Create Scripts' when running the Database Configuration Assistant, then error messages similar to the following are displayed:

  P2-0310: unable to open file
  "DISK:[INSTALL_TEST.DHAYTER.Home15]/sysman/admin/emdrep/sql/core/latest/admin/admin_check_repos_user.sql"
  
  SP2-0310: unable to open file
  "DISK:[INSTALL_TEST.DHAYTER.Home15]/sysman/admin/emdrep/sql/core/latest/admin/admin_create_repos_user.sql"
  
  

  These errors can be safely ignored. It is not required to create a repository on OpenVMS, since the Database Console product is not supported.

• When performing an Oracle Database Custom installation, the following message may appear in the ORA_ROOT:[ADMIN.sid.CREATE]JSERVER.LOG file:

  1 :ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_JAVA", line 236
  1 :ORA-06512: at line 2
  1 :ORA-29558: JAccelerator (NCOMP) not installed. Refer to Install Guide for instructions.
  
  

  This message can be safely ignored as the JAccelerator component is not supported.

• After running the RUNINSTALLER command, messages similar to the following may appear on the terminal session from which the command was started:

  Unknown host: _WSA38
      X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string
    "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
  
  

  The Installer GUI should still appear and these messages can be ignored.

4.1 NetCA Help

In the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant (NetCA) help, the link to the Select Oracle Context help topic is broken. The text for this topic is as follows:

Directory Usage Configuration, Select Oracle Context

Oracle administrative content has been found in more than one location in the directory. Oracle administrative content is stored in Oracle Context, a subtree in the directory that stores Oracle entries.

From the list, select or enter the location you want to use as the default Oracle Context location from which this computer will access Oracle entries, such as connect identifiers.

4.2 NetCA IPC Protocol

If you select the use of the IPC protocol for the network layer, NetCA cannot reliably determine whether or not the key value specified in the protocol is in use. To let the user specify whether or not the key is actually available, NetCA displays the following message:

The information provided for this listener is currently in use by other software on this computer. You can proceed with this configuration as it is, but it will not be possible to start this listener until the conflict is resolved. Would you like to continue with the configuration anyway?

When this message is displayed, you should check if there are other listener processes on the system. In addition, you should ensure that the key value you have specified is not already in use. If it is not in use, then proceed with the configuration session. If it is in use, then shut down the listener using the key. Alternatively, you can use the NetCA screen to specify that you do not want to continue with the installation and then select a key value that is not in use on the system.

4.3 Grid Features

Oracle Database New Features for Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1) lists two Grid features that are not available in this release of Oracle Database 10g: Resonance and Transparent Session Migration.

4.4 Installing Enterprise Security Manager

To install Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), install Oracle Client and choose the Administrator installation type.

4.5 Full-Text Searching with Oracle Text

For full-text searching with Oracle Text, you must create XML tables manually.

If you will need to use Oracle Text indexes for text-based ora:contains searches over a collection of XML elements, then do not use the XML schema annotation storeVarrayAsTable="true". This annotation causes element collections to be persisted as rows in an Index Organized Table (IOT). Oracle Text does not support IOTs.

To be able to use Oracle Text to search the contents of element collections, set parameter genTables="false" during schema registration. Then create the necessary tables manually, without using the ORGANIZATION INDEX OVERFLOW clause. The tables will then be heap-organized instead of index-organized (IOT), as shown in the following example:

CREATE TABLE PurchaseOrder of XMLTYPE
  XMLSCHEMA http://localhost:8080/home/SCOTT/poSource/xsd/purchaseOrder.xsd
  ELEMENT "PurchaseOrder"
  VARRAY "XMLDATA"."ACTIONS"."ACTION"
    STORE AS TABLE ACTION_TABLE ((PRIMARY KEY 
       (NESTED_TABLE_ID, ARRAY_INDEX)))
  VARRAY "XMLDATA"."LINEITEMS"."LINEITEM"
     STORE AS TABLE LINEITEM_TABLE ((PRIMARY KEY 
       (NESTED_TABLE_ID, ARRAY_INDEX)));

4.6 Oracle Net Configuration Files

Files such as LISTENER.ORA, TNSNAMES.ORA, SQLNET.ORA, if configured manually, or copied and edited from earlier releases of Oracle Database may have record attributes that are incompatible with Oracle Database 10g release 2. The software cannot read such files. The required record format is stream_lf and the record attributes are carriage_control and carriage_return.

This may result in:

• Inability to start the listener

• Services not registered with the listener

• Inability to connect to other databases

• ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name

Run the following command on each file affected:

$ DIR/FULL filename

An output similar to the following may be displayed:

Record format:      Variable length, maximum 255 bytes
Record attributes:  Carriage return carriage control

If the output includes the preceding entries, then run the following command:

$ CONVERT/FDL=SYS$INPUT filename filename
RECORD
 CARRIAGE_CONTROL CARRIAGE_RETURN
 FORMAT STREAM_LF
^Z