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These Release Notes document important last-minute information not included in the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition for Windows NT documentation set, or in the online release notes. Topics include:
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Attention: Review these Release Notes before installing or using your Oracle products. |
The Java Runtime Environment included with our release (1.1.1)
is not officially certified on Windows 98 by Sun Microsystems (it will
be supported in a later release). Two of our products (Net8 Easy Config
and Net8 Assistant) depend on JRE. While this JRE is not officially supported
on Windows 98 our testing has not uncovered problems with the use of the
above products.
If you install Oracle8 products and then upgrade to Windows
98, some products will display a warning that they may not run correctly
on Windows 98.
All of the products in this release have been tested on Windows
98, and they do indeed run on Windows 98.
If you click on the Details button of this warning dialog
box, a message appears telling you to call Oracle Support. Calling Support
is not necessary; just click on the "Don't display this message" box. The
message will no longer appear.
Due to French government regulations on encryption, you cannot
set your system default locale to French (Standard) in the Regional Settings
Control Panel of Windows NT.
Oracle Client Software Manager (OCSM) support is not included
in release 8.0.5.
Oracle Software Manager (OSM) support is not included in
release 8.0.5.
Specific topics discussed are:
Keep the following considerations in mind when configuring Oracle Names Servers with the Oracle Net8 Assistant:
You can use one listener for spawning databases for multiple
Oracle homes. You only need to add all the System Identifiers (SIDs) to
the SID_LIST section in the ORACLE_HOME\NET80\ADMIN\LISTENER.ORA
file. Since the SID is unique on a system across different Oracle homes,
the listener can spawn the database thread for a specific SID in the correct
Oracle home, and the ORACLE_HOME parameter (used in UNIX environments
only) is not needed in the LISTENER.ORA.
You can use release 8.0.5 listeners to spawn release 8.0.5
or 7.3.x databases. In a mixed environment, however, you cannot
enable the use of shared sockets. Oracle Corporation recommends using different
listeners for release 8.0.4 and 8.0.5 databases.
There are some restrictions in using release 8.0.5 listeners to spawn both release 8.0.5 and release 8.0.4 databases. These restrictions include:
If you use the Oracle Database Assistant to create a new
database in a new multiple Oracle home, the LISTENER.ORA file located in
ORACLE_HOME\NET80\ADMIN is updated with the SID information if you
click Yes in the dialog box, but the TNSNAMES.ORA file is not updated.
You must use the Oracle Net8 Assistant or the Oracle Net8 Easy Config tool
to specify a new service name for the new SID.
When a database is migrated from one Oracle home to another Oracle home, the SID of the migrated database is added to the LISTENER.ORA file located in the ORACLE_HOME\NET80\ADMIN directory for the second Oracle home, but the SID still remains in the LISTENER.ORA file for the first Oracle home. This entry can cause a conflict in the SIDs if you need to bring up both the listeners. You should either:
or
When Connection Manager is used in an Oracle Names environment,
it automatically attaches itself to every listener address registered for
an Oracle Names Server. If the listener address list contains greater than
or equal to five addresses, then you may not be able to connect to that
particular listener through the Connection Manager. In that case you need
to reduce the listener address list.
The TRCROUTE application is not supported on Windows platforms.
On Windows NT and Windows 95, use $ORACLE_HOME\NET80\LIB\TNSAPI.LIB
and the include file $ORACLE_HOME\NET80\INCLUDE\TNSAPI.H.
If you must re-install the Oracle Intelligent Agent, ensure
the ORACLE_HOME\NET80\AGENT\CONFIG\NMICONF.LST file that is overwritten
contains an entry for CONFOPS.TCL. After auto-discovery is performed, the
Oracle Intelligent Agent runs the scripts in this file. CONFOPS.TCL is
required for OPSM.
You will find several README files included with your products.
Though this Release Note contains all of the vital information you need,
other important or interesting information is contained in the README files.
README files may be included for products you did not purchase or license;
their presence does not mean that you should have their products. Use your
Oracle8 Documentation Library (HTML) to access all of the release notes
and readme files.
A new utility has been included in the Oracle Performance
Monitor. The purpose of the utility is to enable users to change registry
values without manually editing the values.
OPerfCfg [-U <username>] [-P <password>] [-D [<database
name>]]
-U is the username that Oracle Performance Monitor logs in
as
-P is the password for the username
-D is the service name or database name that Performance
Monitor connects to
If no parameter is specified following -D, the existing service
name is replaced by an empty string (and Performance Monitor connects to
the default database).
Install Oracle8 only on a disk that is private to and exclusively
owned by the installation system (e.g. the system disk). Unless you have
specific reasons to do so and understand the risks involved, do not install
Oracle on a disk that could be owned or mounted by more than one system.
Advanced users using Oracle on cluster drives must refer
to their Oracle Fail Safe documentation before attempting installation.