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Oracle Query Optimizer Vanishing Acts

Charles Hooper — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:51:46 PST

February 3, 2012 A couple of days ago I noticed an interesting thread on the comp.databases.oracle.server Usenet group that described a problem of vanishing tables. The title of the thread certainly caught my attention, and I was a bit disappointed that the there was little to no magic involved in the vanishing act. The situation reported in [...]

Completion status for ocm is Fail: Fail [ Unknown ] installing ocm

RahulS — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:15:41 PST

When it comes to 11.1.2.X, some times installation of common components fails, Common components includes installing essbaseProductCommonComponents, installing ocm, installing oracle_common, installing productCommonComponents,installing tools, installing commonComponents, installing essbase_integration_services, installing OUI etc. and we get fail status for OCM in installation summary logs:
Completion status for ocm is Fail
Fail [ Unknown ] installing ocm
Fail ocm assembly was not saved in SoftwareRegistry.
Fail commonComponents assembly was not saved in SoftwareRegistry.
Summary: Fail
In windows: Install, com.hyperion.cis.OCMOracleHomeSetup, dbg, Finished with exit code 0
com.hyperion.cis.OCMOracleHomeSetup, wrn, OCM installation check failed: C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\ccr\bin\configCCR.exe does not exist or In Linux: Install, com.hyperion.cis.OCMOracleHomeSetup, wrn, OCM installation check failed: /opt/app/oracle/middleware/EPMSystem11R1/ccr/bin/configCCR does not exist

Though we can ignore this error and go ahead with configuration because its just failing for Oracle Configuration Manager. Oracle Configuration Manager is used to collect client configuration information and upload it to the Oracle repository. When the client configuration data is uploaded on a regular basis, customer support representatives can analyze this data and provide better service to the customers. For example, when a customer logs a service request, they can associate the configuration data directly with that service request. The customer support representative can then view the list of systems associated with the customer and solve problems accordingly.For more information on OCM please visit: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/install.102/e10041/intro.htm

Above issue occures because:
1. Some missing/corrupted files in the CCR bin folder
2. Can be the access issue
3. You haven't downloaded Additional Content (This will fail the installation for other components under Common Components as well),
For Case1: One of the ways to resolve the issue is:
1. Go to a server where EPM is installed successfully, (Contact me if you need the backup of bin folder)
2. Copy bin folder from MIDDLEWARE_HOME\epmsystem11r1\ccr location,
3. Come back to the server where installation is failing,
4. Back up Bin Folder or Rename it,
5. Paste Bin Folder it to the server where you are facing this issue,
6. Make sure the user who is installing EPM system has the write access to this folder.
Make sure that you copy the folder from the server where you the have the same environment.
Case2: Check the access to folder for the user who is installing EPM.
Case3: We have a separate component in E-Delivery as "Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Additional Content Release 11.1.2.1.0" Please download and extaract the same to the installable folder.

Try installing again! All the best!

Cheers...!!!
Rahul S.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HyperionPlanning/117320818374228

Nuremberg Sausage???

Mike Dietrich — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:08 PST

I'll try almost all food wherever I am in the world (except for Scorpios-on-a-Stick, Sheep Penis and such stuff). But I didn't try this in our hotel in Rio:

No offense - but Nuremberg (or in German: Nürnberg) is my hometown - and Nürnberger Bratwürste look a little bit different. If you'd ever visit Germany and you'll have to chance to see Nürnberg you might order "Drei im Weggla" (three [sausages] in a bread bun) and every Franconian will understand you

But still Roy and me had some fun at the breakfast buffett

Next Gig: JDK 7 Updates in OpenJDK at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday, February 4th

$utils.escapeXML($entry.author) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:43:36 PST

Edvard Wendelin and I will be speaking at the FOSDEM conference's Java Libre developer room about the JDK 7 Updates Project in OpenJDK in room K.4.401 starting at 11:30 AM.

See you there!

Obregado :-)

Mike Dietrich — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:34:07 PST

Thanks a lot to everybody who did visit our workshops in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the past days. And actually our "Thank You" or Obregado! can't express how Roy and me felt in the past days. I believe I've never felt so welcome - you all, customers, partners and Oracle folks were simply great. Thanks a lot for that. We've had a great time - and we hope you had some fun as well and enjoyed the hands-on lab as well.

Let us know if anything with your upgrades does not run as desired - or if all worked out well. And also if you'd like to try the "Turbo xTTS" technique. The note got published last night and I'll write something about it in the upcoming weeks.

So we hope to see you again - maybe in 2014 during the World Cup I'll push Murilo to setup another series of workshops by then

And thanks a lot for all your comments and feedbacks - we really appreciate that!!

Obregado!!!

E-Business Suite and APEX integration using Views

Dimitri Gielis — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:38:39 PST

Integrating APEX and EBS by using views is one of the easiest solutions (at first sight!).

This is the first scenario, where I have an APEX application and I want to integrate with data sitting in EBS.

Pre-requisites:

APEX is installed in the same database as EBS (see previous post).
My APEX application (actually Workspace) is linked to my own (non-EBS) Oracle schema.

If you want to view data coming from EBS in your APEX application, follow these steps:

Identify where the data is in EBS

If you are not familiar with the data model of EBS, it can be hard to find the right information. A good starting point would be the APPS schema, because that has access to the complete Oracle E-Business Suite data model. You can compare it with the SYSTEM schema, which has access to the entire database.

This pictures shows an overview of the APPS schema and base product schemas.

You can read more about the APPS schema in the EBS documentation.

In my example I wanted to find the people that are in my organisation (HR). I started to look for views that would give me that information. My first query was like this:

select object_name
from user_objects
where object_name like '%PEOPLE%'
and object_type = 'VIEW'
order by 1

That query returned 82 rows in my environment. In the results I saw e.g. ADS_PEOPLE_V, HRBG_PEOPLE, PER_ALL_PEOPLE, PER_PEOPLE, PER_PEOPLE_F etc.

I started to look at the definitions of those, but if you are not familiar with EBS it's hard to know which one is the one you need. So my recommendation would definitely be; when you are not that familiar with EBS, talk with somebody who knows more about it. For me that is the case, I only started to look into EBS and actually do something with it, a few weeks ago.

When I talked to somebody more experienced in EBS, he told me I probably wanted to look at PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F. Hmm, that wasn't in the result set of the above query. After investigating a bit more PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F is a synonym for HR.PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F.

I wanted to understand the naming convention in EBS a bit better e.g. for the PER%PEOPLE% objects.

Below I created a table how I interpret the EBS objects:

View /Synonym (^)	count(*)	count(distinct person_id)	Interpretation
per_all_people_f (^)	32295	18518	Synonym to real HR table
per_all_people	0	0	Needs EBS session (record inFND_SESSIONS) so it knows what you can see
per_all_people_d	32295	18518	All records but showstranslated text if user settings are applied
per_people	0	0	Needs EBS session, showseffective records based on user's date
per_people_f	32295	18518	EBS security implemented, youonly see records you are allowed to see
per_people_v	0	0	Needs EBS Session, includes alot of display text and is language dependend
per_people_x	18518	18518	EBS security implemented (sameas per_people_f), but limits to only the effective records (WHERE TRUNC(SYSDATE) BETWEEN EFFECTIVE_START_DATE ANDEFFECTIVE_END_DATE)

So to me PER_PEOPLE_X looks like a good candidate to use in my APEX application. If I'm not logged into the app as an E-Business user I still see all records that are effective at the time I run the query.

Create a view on top of the EBS views and use some naming conventions so it's easy to recognise which objects you created and are not native EBS ones.

create view apex_per_people_vw as select * from per_people_x
Grant access on that view to the schema that is linked to your APEX workspace and application

grant select on apex_per_people_vw to apex_ebs
Create a view in your own schema that selects everything from the view in the apps schema.
We do that so that the views are a one-on-one mapping between schema's, but they show up in the APEX wizards.

create view apex_per_people_vw as select * from apps.apex_per_people_vw
Create an Interactive Report on top of the view

This first examples shows how you can view data from EBS in your own APEX application. We can now create a calendar, charts etc. in APEX based on the data coming from EBS. In the next post I will show how you can edit this data.

Previous related posts:

Changes to svccfg import and delete

Tom Whitten — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:24:01 PST

The behavior of svccfg import and svccfg delete fmri has changed in S11 if the manifests are in SMF's standard locations. The standard locations are /lib/svc/manifest and /var/svc/manifest with /lib/svc/manifest being the preferred location. If your manifest is stored under one of these two directories, you shouldn't be using svccfg import at all. You should only use svccfg delete fmri when you are prohibited from removing the manifest for some reason and still want to remove the service from the system. Instead, the preferred action is:

        # svcadm restart manifest-import

The reason is that in S11, SMF keeps the repository in sync with the files in the standard locations, and the manifest-import service is the mechanism for maintaining this synchronization. So instead of using svccfg import copy your manifest to a standard location and type:

        # svcadm restart manifest-import

Instead of using svccfg delete remove your manifest from its location and restart manifest-import.

In each case manifest-import will detect any changes in the standard directories and update the repository accordingly. Note that the manifest-import service runs asynchronously from the svcadm command, so it may take a short amount of time for the changes to take effect.

Also the manifest-import service not only detects file additions and removals. It also detects changes to manifests and profiles. If you are a service provider, this gives you an upgrade path if your manifest changes. Simply deposit your new manifest over the old one and make sure that manifest-import is restarted. Restarting of manifest-import is usually handled by the packaging service.

Let's look at some examples. First, let's get the manifest for our new service imported.

# cp mysvc.xml /lib/svc/manifest/site
# svcadm restart manifest-import
# svcs mysvc
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         15:19:41 svc:/mysvc:default

Now delete the service:

# rm /lib/svc/manifest/site/mysvc.xml 
# svcadm restart manifest-import
# svcs mysvc
svcs: Pattern 'mysvc' doesn't match any instances
STATE          STIME    FMRI

Now let's look at what happens if you stray from this advice and use svccfg delete. First, reinstall the manifest just as we did before.

# cp mysvc.xml /lib/svc/manifest/site
# svcadm restart manifest-import
# svcs mysvc
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         15:34:41 svc:/mysvc:default

Now the fun begins.

# svccfg delete -f svc:/mysvc
# svcs mysvc
svcs: Pattern 'mysvc' doesn't match any instances
STATE          STIME    FMRI

It looks as if the service has been removed from the repository, but it really hasn't been. Since the manifest file is still on the file system, the service is merely masked in the repository. This can lead to confusion. Even if you modify the manifest and restart manifest-import, svcs will not find the service. This is because the masking is done at the administrative layer (see Sean Wilcox's discussion of layers). The masking is not removed by changing the manifest, although manifest-import will record the changes in the repository.

How can we find a masked service.

# svccfg listcust -M | grep svc:/mysvc
svc:/mysvc manifest MASKED
svc:/mysvc:default manifest MASKED

The first line of output shows that the service is masked. Masking a service also masks it instances which is why we see the second line.

So if you accidentally mask a service, how can you unmask it? We enter svccfg interactive mode, select the service and then use the delcust command.

# svccfg
svc:> select mysvc
svc:/mysvc> delcust
 Deleting customizations for service: mysvc
svc:/mysvc> quit
# svcs mysvc
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         15:50:46 svc:/mysvc:default

The svcs command shows that the service is unmasked.

What is R?

mhornick — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:56:24 PST

For many in the Oracle community, the addition of R through Oracle R Enterprise could leave them wondering "What is R?"

R has been receiving a lot of attention recently, although it’s been around for over 15 years. R is an open-source language and environment for statistical computing and data visualization, supporting data manipulation and transformations, as well as sophisticated graphical displays. It's being taught in colleges and universities in courses on statistics and advanced analytics - even replacing more traditional statistical software tools. Corporate data analysts and statisticians often know R and use it in their daily work, either writing their own R functionality, or leveraging the more than 3400 open source packages. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) open source packages support a wide range of statistical and data analysis capabilities. They also focus on analytics specific to individual fields, such as bioinformatics, finance, econometrics, medical image analysis, and others (see CRAN Task Views).

So why do statisticians and data analysts use R?

Well, R is a statistics language similar to SAS or SPSS. It’s a powerful, extensible environment, and as noted above, it has a wide range of statistics and data visualization capabilities. It’s easy to install and use, and it’s free – downloadable from the CRAN R project website.

Statisticians and data analysts like R because they typically don’t know SQL and are not familiar with database tasks. R allows them to remain highly productive. For example, writing R functions is simple and can be done quickly. Functions can be made to return R objects that can be easily passed to and manipulated by other R functions. By comparison, traditional statistical tools can make the implementation of functions cumbersome, such that programmers resort to macro-oriented programming constructs instead.

So why do we need anything else?

R was conceived as a single user tool that is not multi-threaded. The client and server components are bundled together as a single executable, much like Excel.

R is limited by the memory and processing power of the machine where it runs, but in addition, being single threaded, it cannot automatically leverage the CPU capacity on a user’s multi-processor laptop without special packages and programming.

However, there is another issue that limits R’s scalability…

R’s approach to passing data between function invocations results in data duplication – this chews up memory faster. So inherently, R is not good for big data, or depending on the machine and tasks, even gigabyte-sized data sets.

This is where Oracle R Enterprise comes in. As we'll continue to discuss in this blog, Oracle R Enterprise lifts this memory and computational constraint found in R today by executing requested R calculations on data in the database, using the database itself as the computational engine. Oracle R Enterprise allows users to further leverage Oracle's engineered systems, like Exadata, Big Data Appliance, and Exalytics, for enterprise-wide analytics, as well as reporting tools like Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition dashboards and BI Publisher documents.

Standard Locations (why?)

Sean Wilcox — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:10:59 PST

The manifest-import service manages importing of manifests that are delivered as part of a package for an application. This instantiates the service and its instances on the system. The manifest-import service will then manage re-importing those manifests if they are modified/upgraded in some way.

Also, the manifest-import service manages the application of profiles that are in the standard location for profiles of /etc/svc/profile/site. If these profiles change or are removed then the support for them can be removed from the services on the system.

Finally once the application has served its purpose and the delivering package is removed from the system along with the removal of the manifest the service will then be cleaned up by the manifest-import service.

With that the manifest-import service needs a well known place to be able to find the manifests for a service, and be able to find those manifests under a certain set of rules. One, the cleanup side of the service needs to be able to know for sure that a manifest is removed and not that a location is simply temporarily unavailable.

Before the Solaris 11, the manifests were located in /var/svc/manifest. But this location might or might not be available at boot because /var can be a separate filesystem, that is not mounted early in boot. With the Solaris 11, the manifests were moved to /lib/svc/manifest so that the manifests would be available at the beginning of system boot. Therefore, manifests are to no longer be placed in /var/svc/manifest as it is strictly supported for backwards compatibility only.

So with this standard location that is guaranteed to be available at boot SMF can now make sure that changes and upgrades to manifests are imported before any services are started. This way services that need to start early in the boot cycle (even before /var might be mounted, if the manifest is in /lib/svc/manifest) will be guaranteed to start with their new property values.

Also, if the manifest is removed from the system, there is a chance for the service to be removed from the system before it attempts to start and does not find the service binaries and/or other files that may be required for the service to run.

Put your manifests and profiles in the standard location and let SMF manage your import, apply and ultimately the cleanup of your services and instances.

So in summary the benefits are :

1. manifests can be imported early in boot before any services are started that might use the information from the manifests.

2. upgrades of manifests and profiles can be done during this early boot phase as well, so that services get the new information before they start.

3. if manifests are removed, then the manifest-import service that manages these can know for sure that the manifests are removed and clean up the services.

4. manifests in a standard location are the base layer for services and their property group and property sets.

heap monitor update

user12610965 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:54:42 PST

I have made some changes to heap monitor. I added the process virtual size and report all metrics in megabytes using a floating point format.

Get Heap Monitor Here

Using prtpicl to get cache sizes

Darryl Gove — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:45:13 PST

If you are on a SPARC system you can get cache size information using the command fpversion, which is provided with Studio:

$ fpversion
 A SPARC-based CPU is available.
 Kernel says main memory's clock rate is 1012.0 MHz.

 Sun-4 floating-point controller version 0 found.
 An UltraSPARC chip is available.

 Use "-xtarget=sparc64vii -xcache=64/64/2:5120/256/10" code-generation option.

The cache parameters are output exactly as you would want to pass them into the compiler - for each cache it describes the size in KB, the line size in bytes, and the associativity.

fpversion doesn't exist on x86 systems. The next best thing is to use prtpicl to output system configuration information, and inspect that output for cache size. Here's the cache output for the same SPARC system using prtpicl.

$ prtpicl -v |grep cache
              :l1-icache-size    0x10000
              :l1-icache-line-size       0x40
              :l1-icache-associativity   0x2
              :l1-dcache-size    0x10000
              :l1-dcache-line-size       0x40
              :l1-dcache-associativity   0x2
              :l2-cache-size     0x500000
              :l2-cache-line-size        0x100
              :l2-cache-associativity    0xa

Come To The Mountains!

fteter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:54:11 PST

The lovely and vivacious Debra Lilley and I are co-presenting at the Utah Oracle User Group's Apps SIG on Monday, Feb. 13. We'll be talking about the Road to Fusion. You can learn more at www.utoug.org. Lunch, a gorgeous view of the magnificent Wasatch mountains, some leading edge information on Fusion Applications, and watching me tease Debra. What more could you want? Come to the mountains and join us!

New PeopleSoft Applications Portal Features Announced

John Webb — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:47:53 PST

In case you missed it, please check out the link here on the PeopleSoft Technology BLOG:

PeopleSoft Technology BLOG

Increase your CRM Knowledge

Tony Berk — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:47:44 PST

Looking for something to watch when you are done with all of the pre-Superbowl hype or seen enough of the shell with shoes on videos? Check out what our friends at Oracle University have been working on: The Oracle Learning Library. Click on the "Siebel" channel link and you will find tutorials, demos and other useful resources.

And continue to check back since Oracle University continues to add more titles and will cover additional CRM products (hint: more coming on Fusion CRM).

BPM Composer - A Life

MPF — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:51:48 PST

Role Based Development & Deployment

As BPM 11g matures, so does BPM Composer... it is becoming the default UI for BPM development, both for processes and rules, especially from a "Business User" perspective.

This blog explains how to control access to projects, and more importantly, how to secure deployment of those projects....

Share Project in BPM MDS

1. Assuming that the project has been created initially in BPM Studio (JDev).

2. Save the project to BPM MDS (weblogic user)....

3. Unlock the project, releasing it from BPM Studio control (notice the user name in the MDS navigator...."weblogic")...

Share Project Within BPM Composer

4. Log on to BPM Composer with the same user as the BPM MDS connection (weblogic)....

5. Choose the project, it is marked as "Private"....

6. Clicking on "Private" brings up the "Share" wizard....

7. Choose the users/groups to share with, the "LoanAgentGroup"....

8. Choose what privileges to give the group ("viewer") and "Share"....

9. Repeat for "Editors" privilege....

10. Log into BPM Composer with a user not in any role granted privileges ("jstein" in this case)....

... can only see his projects.

12. Log into BPM Composer with user in the "Viewer" role....

... can view the project but cannot edit (no edit option available)....

Secure Deployment in BPM Composer

13. Log into BPM Composer with user in the "Editor" role...

...can now "Edit" the project.

14. Edit the project and try to "Deploy"....

..."Deploy" option is not available (greyed out).

15. Log into BPM Composer as "Project Owner" and try clicking deploy again....

...it is possible this time.

16. Before deploying create an Approval Workflow....

17. Choose a user (or group) who should approve the deployment....

18. Now try to deploy....

...must send for Approval....

19. Log into BPM Workspace as the deploy approver...

...and Approve...

20. Log back into BPM Composer as the project owner and browse the "Approval Workflows"....

21. Notice the deployment has been approved....

22. Select it and "Deploy"....

23. Provide at least the necessary user/pwd and revision....

24. And Deploy....

World Economic Forum in Davos Addresses Supply Chain Risk

Stephen Slade — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:46:00 PST

Much is being written on supply chain risk theses days but the key point to this effort is how organizations are responding. It's the 2 year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and 100 of thousands still live in tent cities. Recovery from disruption is often very slow. The same applies to other catastrophes as they impact your supply chain. And as economies rebound, new measures need to be put in place to 'shore-up' and strengthen your flow of vital products from plant to consumer. Just as the levees of New Orleans have been strengthened, firms of all sizes are installing new collaboration tools to have alternatives at hand.

This topic gains momentum and was the subject at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland (Jan 25-29, 2012) see http://www.weforum.org/events. The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

see this Oracle paper: DOES_THE_WORLD_NEED_A_BETTER_SUPPLY_CHAIN

Captain Support: Not to the rescue…

Tim... — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:24:29 PST

This morning, the display on one of my computers was a bit odd. I rebooted the machine and when it came up I got no output on the monitor. I plugged my laptop into the monitor and that worked fine, so it looked like the graphics card had died. I popped down to a local PC store and had the choice of remortgaging my house for new graphics card, or buying a cheap and cheerful one. I did the latter. Even so, the new card was much flasher than the old one.

I put the card in the machine and it booted up and I had a display again. Trouble was, GNOME shell had failed to start and I was knocked back into fallback mode, that looks a bit like GNOME2. Sigh. Forgot to check the the card against support for the ever-so-picky GNOME shell.

I now have a choice to make:

Ditch it and get a new graphics card… again…
Switch to KDE or XFCE… shudder…
Stay with the fallback option until Fedora 17, when allegedly GNOME shell will not be so bloody fussy.

I’m probably going to stick with the last option as I can’t be bothered to waste any more time on this. All of a sudden, Windows and Mac OS X don’t seem so bad after all…

Cheers

Tim…

PS. I don’t need a lecture on why GNOME shell is so picky. I know all the arguments. I’ve read all the crap. Doesn’t mean it’s not a pain in the ass when you buy a newer and more powerful graphics card and you end up with an inferior user experience.

Chronicle…

Tim... — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:16:02 PST

I thought Chronicle was a cool film. Three kids find some weird object and develop super powers. How will it affect them and how will they choose to use them?

It has the “shot on my camcorder” feel, like Cloverfield, and has a kind of Akira feel to me. While I was watching it I kept expecting someone to say, “With great power comes great responsibility!”

The effects are pretty cool. At the start they look like they are going to be a bit low budget, but by the end they get pretty impressive.

Nice mix of teen angst, super powers and destruction. Obviously not targeted for 42 year old men, but it hit the mark for me. I guess that says a lot.

Cheers

Tim…

What Free/Open Source software is Solaris 11 still missing

darrenm — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:05:51 PST

Note this is not a commitment from Oracle to deliver anything as a result of your answers, nor is it an official survey of any kind.

Okay first my dirty little secret... my family home desktop machine runs Windows 7. Earlier this week I had a need to check the MD5 or SHA256 checksum on an iso image I'd downloaded. On Solaris I'd just run 'digest -a sha256' or sha256sum on Solaris or any Linux distro. But on Windows 7 the best I could come up with was code it up in Java myself or install the GNU versions via Cygwin.

So that got me thinking, the Solaris 11 repository has a lot more "upstream" Free/Open Source tools and frameworks than any other release of Solaris ever had. We have Python (which is really a core part of Solaris 11 now), Ruby loads of the GNU runtime and development toolchains and much much more. However many common Linux distributions still have more than we do but some of that isn't target at server use cases.

So what Free/Open Source software is Solaris 11 still missing that you use to run your business on your Solaris servers?

Even if you don't have Solaris 11 installed you can quickly search for packags at http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release

Please add details in the comments.

Again note this is not a commitment from Oracle to deliver anything as a result of your answers, nor is it an official survey of any kind, just my curiosity. I will of course log the relevant bugs for viable things if any come up.

ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-03

Bob Rhubart — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST

Today's Quote

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
-- Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)

Today's Links

Sound SOA Footprint; Cloud Smart Start; Let the Conference Come to You
www.oracle.com
This week on the OTN Architect Home Page.
Using Oracle VM Server 3.0.3 SDK | Honglin Su
blogs.oracle.com
Honglin Su shares instructions on how use the Oracle VM Server SDK to build a device driver for Oracle VM Server 3.0.3.
Coherence Special Interest Group (BACSIG)
coherence.oracle.com
February 16, 2012 - 5:30pm
Oracle Conference Center, 350 Oracle Parkway Room 102 Redwood Shores, CA
Presentations:
- Introducing the Coherence GoldenGate Adapter (Shaun Smith, Principal Product Manager, Oracle)
- Atomic Partition-level Transactions (Robert Lee, Lead Engineer, Oracle)
- Transforming Coherence Visibility - Performance Insight with Enterprise Manager (Madhav Sathe, Principal Product Manager, Oracle)
Feburary Events- IOUG regional events, TDWI, RSA and more | Oracle Database Insider Blog
blogs.oracle.com
February is a busy month. Thanks to Mandy Ho's list, you don't have to miss a thing.
WebLogic Deployment: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions | Dr. Frank Munz
www.munzandmore.com
Dr. Frank Munz shares "answers to many question that typically pop up when explaining WebLogic deployment concepts."
WebLogic 12c: Node Manager Best Practices| Dr. Frank Munz
www.munzandmore.com
Dr. Frank Munz shares even more stuff, this time a set of best practices collected over the last couple of years.
Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Java
Feb 14, 9am - 1pm PT / Noon - 4 PM ET
Get a head start and learn the latest on Java's evolution by taking part in hands on labs and sessions while interacting with Oracle Java experts in live, moderated chats.
7 Best Practices of Web Experience Management | Alakh Verma
blogs.oracle.com
Alakh Verma identifies and summarizes "some of the best practices of Web Experience Management(WEM) to create delightful customer experience based on the recent research report by CITO Research."
How I Used CGroups to Manage System Resources In Oracle Linux 6 | Ginny Henningsen
www.oracle.com
Ginny Henningsen (with co-author Lenz Grimmer) describes how to use kernel resource controllers in Oracle Linux 6 to manage the allocation of system resources.
Oracle XE and Hudson Co-Existence | Duncan Mills
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Duncan Mills reports on how he hurdled a roadblock.
Oracle SOA 10G Tricks: Optimize calling path between ESB and BPEL | A-Team - SOA
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The SOA A-Team advises: "In Oracle SOA Suite SOA 10G, it is a good practice to have BPEL and ESB co-located at the same JVM. Doing so not only improves performance, but also allows JTA global transaction propagation between the two."