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# Oracle® Database

Release Notes

10g Release 2 (10.2) for Solaris Operating System (x86-64)

B15703-01

February 2006

This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release. This document supplements Oracle Database Readme and may be updated after it is released.

This document may be updated after it is released. To check for updates to this document and to view other Oracle documentation, select the Documentation link or the Software & Patches link on the Oracle Database 10g release 2 Beta Program Web site.

To check for updates to this document and to view other Oracle documentation, refer to the Documentation section on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site:

`http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/`

For additional information about this release, refer to the readme files located in the `$ORACLE_HOME/relnotes` directory.

This document contains the following topics:

- Certification Information

- Unsupported Products

- Preinstallation Requirements

- Documentation Corrections and Additions

- Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Issues

- Other Known Issues

- Documentation Accessibility

## 1 Certification Information

The latest certification information for Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) is available on OracleMetaLink at:

`http://metalink.oracle.com`

## 2 Unsupported Products

The following products are not supported with Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2):

- Grid Control Support

  Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) can be managed as a target by Grid Control 10.1.0.4. However, Oracle Database 10g release 2 is not supported by Grid Control 10.1.0.4 as a repository.

- JDBC 1.2 driver

  JDBC 1.2 driver is not supported on Solaris 10

- Radius with the CHAP protocol

- Sun Cluster 3.1 is not certified on Solaris 10

- Verity

  Verity filters used for Oracle Text are not supported on Solaris 10.

## 3 Preinstallation Requirements

Refer to the installation guides for the preinstallation requirements.

## 4 Documentation Corrections and Additions

None

## 5 Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Issues

Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:

- Installing Enterprise Security Manager

- Installing Oracle Database on a Computer That has an Automatic Storage Management Instance

- extjob Executable Required Directory Permissions

- Modifying a Virtual IP Address Node Application

- Network Attached Storage for RAC Databases

### 5.1 Installing Enterprise Security Manager

To install Oracle Security Manager, install Oracle Client and then select the Administrator installation type.

### 5.2 Installing Oracle Database on a Computer That has an Automatic Storage Management Instance

Oracle Universal Installer displays an error message that reads `0`. This message is displayed after you specify the database home and path in the Specify Home Details screen and click Next. Ignore the error message whenever it is displayed, and continue the installation.

### 5.3 extjob Executable Required Directory Permissions

To enable the `extjob` executable to locate required libraries, the `$ORACLE_HOME/lib` directory and all of its parent directories must have execute permissions for `group` and `other`.

### 5.4 Modifying a Virtual IP Address Node Application

When modifying the name, IP address, or netmask of an existing virtual IP address (VIP) resource, use the following command:

    srvctl modify nodeapps

and include the existing interfaces for the VIP in the `-A` argument. For example:

    srvctl modify nodeapps -n mynode1 -A 100.200.300.40/255.255.255.0/eth0

This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4500688.

### 5.5 Network Attached Storage for RAC Databases

To use NAS as a shared storage for RAC, apply the following patches:

- Patch `112168-03` for Solaris 8

- Patch `114388-03` for Solaris 9

## 6 Other Known Issues

The following sections contain information about issues related to Oracle Database 10g and associated products:

- Materialized View and Partition Change Tracking Rewrite

- Host-Based Mirroring

- Oracle ODBC Driver Limitations

- Importing a User Certificate Into Oracle Wallet Using Oracle Wallet Manager

- Removing Metrics for Wait Classes Removes Them Permanently

### 6.1 Materialized View and Partition Change Tracking Rewrite

When the query has single column in-lists, the materialized view has ranges, and partition change tracking rewrite is used, you might get stale results with Query Rewrite. Turn off the fresh partition containment rewrite to avoid this problem by using the following command:

    SQL> alter session set "_query_rewrite_fpc" = false;

### 6.2 Host-Based Mirroring

The host-based mirroring is not supported with ASM. Note that there is no issue with resilvering for storage based mirroring.

Workaround: Use ASM redundancy.

This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4466206.

### 6.3 Oracle ODBC Driver Limitations

Oracle ODBC driver for Solaris does not work if you use the REAL data type for a column and the application tries to retrieve data as native double or float data type through PL/SQL stored procedure.

Workaround: Instead of the REAL data type, use the NUMBER(s,p) data type while creating a table.

This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4551566.

### 6.4 Importing a User Certificate Into Oracle Wallet Using Oracle Wallet Manager

Oracle Wallet Manager will fail to recognize the user certificate as valid if you capture the user certificate contents from the Oracle Certificate Authority site and save this as a flat file. This is because when saving as a flat file, all the lines of the user certificate are run together with no line breaks.

Workaround: Edit the user certificate. Insert a new line after `-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----` and a new line before `-----END CERTIFICATE-----`.

### 6.5 Removing Metrics for Wait Classes Removes Them Permanently

Do not remove the key values for the wait class metrics. Doing so removes them permanently and currently there is no easy way to recover them.

This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4602952.

## 7 Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at `http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/`.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

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