Re: Oracle 10g on AIX 5.3 ML3

p595pimp <christiancolborn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey guys... I'm doing an Oracle 10g implementation on AIX...
prerequisite APARs that I need to install for the Oracle 10gR2 install
are as follows:
-IY63533
-IY65305
-IY58350
-IY65361
-IY65362

what I'm wondering is:
does anyone have experience with the Oracle 10gR2 install?

Yes.

does anyone have experience with these APAR's?

what I'm trying to get at is... does anybody know if these particular
APAR's make any kind of changes to current the current AIX config that
I should be aware of?

before I do a whole test LPAR to check out these changes prior to
applying them to production machines... I was just wondering of anybody
could tell me what kind of effects might show up... or, where do you
find info on particular APAR's that will tell you EXACTLY what they're
doing... what filesets they change, etc....

An APAR (Authorized Program Analysis Report) is a bug accepted by IBM
and the fix for it.

As a non-IBMer, you will probably never find out detailed information about
a specific APAR and what it does.

For example, all that you can get about IY63533 is

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY63533

which doesn't say much more than 'something was wrong with Java and we
fixed it'.

Sometimes a (recent) fix will be available for individual download
at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/, then you can have a good guess
as to what it fixes.
Most of the time, if you search for a certain APAR, you will find
an updated version of the software that incorporates the APAR.

You can track that with the 'instfix' command.

I recommend that you just install the required APARs and don't worry
too much. If you don't trust IBM's software quality, you're in trouble
anyway if you run AIX.
Of course a bugfix can introduce a new bug, but that cannot be helped.

If you stick with the versions recommended by Oracle, at least you have
a chance that others have hit the bug too and Oracle knows about it and
tells you on Metalink.

By the way, the software quality of Oracle has become quite abominable
recently. If you do not trust IBM's APARs, I'd recommend that you do not
use the latest software versions by Oracle.

8.1.4.7 was pretty stable. But it is out of support.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
.

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