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Oracle 8i Certification for AIX 5.3?
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on 5.3 it is indeed oracle 9. And I wonder for how long that will still last.I think if you're planning a migration to 5.3 , consider doing an upgrade of your oracle db's to 10g.
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Well, when i looked into the metalink for oracle
i read this sentence and i was amazed and confused at the same time
"Oracle Products are certified for AIX5L on whatever servers that IBM supports with AIX5L. This includes IBM eServer pSeries and iSeries servers.
AIX5L certifications incldue AIX5L versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
10g is only certified on 5.2 & 5.3."
That's the exact wording i found!!
any comments?
i read this sentence and i was amazed and confused at the same time
"Oracle Products are certified for AIX5L on whatever servers that IBM supports with AIX5L. This includes IBM eServer pSeries and iSeries servers.
AIX5L certifications incldue AIX5L versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
10g is only certified on 5.2 & 5.3."
That's the exact wording i found!!
any comments?
Probably you should read:
"Supported Oracle Products are certified..."
True, ORA-8 is no longer supported. But it being a 32-bit software from the AIX 43 era, it will run on any AIX since then. The 32-bit environment hasn't changed since AIX433.
We still have some ORA-8 databases running on AIX - 43, 51, 52 and 53. We are upgrading to newer versions. Sometimes in a migration path, it may even be necessary to run ORA-8 on an AIX5L platform during your migration.
Make sure you get a patch for Oracle-post-wait kernel extension for AIX5 64-bit kernel, or downsize your AIX kernel to 32-bit, so that your existing PW extension will load into the AIX kernel.
HTH,
p5wizard
"Supported Oracle Products are certified..."
True, ORA-8 is no longer supported. But it being a 32-bit software from the AIX 43 era, it will run on any AIX since then. The 32-bit environment hasn't changed since AIX433.
We still have some ORA-8 databases running on AIX - 43, 51, 52 and 53. We are upgrading to newer versions. Sometimes in a migration path, it may even be necessary to run ORA-8 on an AIX5L platform during your migration.
Make sure you get a patch for Oracle-post-wait kernel extension for AIX5 64-bit kernel, or downsize your AIX kernel to 32-bit, so that your existing PW extension will load into the AIX kernel.
HTH,
p5wizard
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