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Release Notes
10g Release 2 (10.2) for IBM z/OS (OS/390)
B25389-03
April 2010
This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release. Unless stated otherwise, the information in this document applies equally to z/OS, and z/OS.e.
It contains the following topics:
This document may be updated after release. To check for updates to this document and to view other product-specific release notes, see the Documentation section on the OTN Web site:
http://oracle.com/technology/documentation
For additional information about this release, go to the Install CD-ROM, open the file welcome.html, and click the ReadMe tab. This provides access to the readme files.
The following sections contain updates to the Oracle Database 10g documentation:
The Text Telephone (TTY) phone number for non-technical support is listed incorrectly in several documents. The correct phone number is 1.800.464.2330.
Refer to Oracle Database Installation Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390) to determine the total Oracle non-database disk space requirements, including those for code, JCL, and samples.
In Chapter 6, the following paragraph is missing from the "Synchronization of Oracle and IMS TM Updates" subsection of the "IMS TM Application Design Considerations" section under "Developing Oracle Applications for the IMS TM Environment".
An AM4IMS application program running in a BMP must issue an IMS CHKP or ROLB prior to termination. For example, a Cobol program would access Oracle, then invoke CHKP or ROLB before the exiting the GOBACK statement.
In the sections 8.7.4, "Step 4: Edit the Listener.ora File" and 8.8.2, "Step 2: Create or Modify the Listener.ora File" of Chapter 8, "Oracle Net" in Oracle Database System Administration Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390), the following parameters should be added to the existing list of parameters in the LISTENER.ORA file.
RS_NOTIFICATION=FALSE SUBSCRIBE_FOR_NODE_DOWN_EVENT=FALSE
The following is a Database regional parameter in addition to the ones mentioned in the section 3.4, "Database Regional Parameters" of Chapter 2, "Configuring a Database Service and Creating a New Database" in Oracle Database System Administration Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390):
ALERT_ROUTCDE | ALRTRCDE
ALERT_ROUTCDE specifies that alert log messages should also be written to the operator console and provides a list of routing codes. The following is the format of this parameter:
ALERT_ROUTCDE ( routcde[,routcde,...] )
The routcde value specifies a numeric routing code in the range 1 - 29 and 65 - 128. Multiple values may be specified, separated by commas. Refer to the WTO macro in the MVS Assembler Services Reference for a description of each routing code.
If you omit this parameter, database messages are written only to the alert log.
The following is a Database regional message in addition to the ones mentioned in the section 9.1, "Messages MIR0001I to MIR0622I" of Chapter 9, "Database Region Messages" in Oracle Database Messages Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390):
Cause: Information from the alert log. These messages are only issued when the ALERT_ROUTCDE parameter is specified.
Action: No action is required
This release of Oracle10g for IBM z/OS (OS/390) does not include support for the following features and functions. Existing customers should also consult Oracle10g Enterprise Edition System Administration Guide for z/OS for unsupported features or functions that should be taken into consideration during a migration or upgrade.
Automated Storage Manager
Cross Platform Transportable Tablespaces
Generic Connectivity using ODBC
HTML_DB
Oracle Data Mining
Oracle Dynamic Services Server
Oracle HTTP Server
Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Messaging Gateway
Oracle Real Application Cluster Guard
Oracle Java Server Pages
Oracle Personalization
Oracle Ultra Search
Oracle Workflow
Oracle Workspace Manager
The following is a list of known restrictions to this release of Oracle Database on IBM z/OS:
Non-repudiation of Advance Queuing messages sent across a firewall using Internet Document Access Protocol (IDAP) is not supported in this release.
Oracle database files on IBM z/OS are implemented as VSAM linear data sets. IBM does not provide a space release function for VSAM data sets, so using ALTER DATABASE...RESIZE to make a database file smaller has no effect. Database files can be resized larger, both manually (with ALTER) and automatically as they fill (when a tablespace is defined with AUTOEXTEND).
No support is available currently for automatically recalling IBM z/OS data sets that are used by the Oracle server if they have been migrated to other media by IBM's DFSMShsm, or a similar product. This applies to the VSAM linear data sets (LDS) comprising the database, and to non-VSAM data sets such as parameter files. All such data sets must be on disk in their original form when they are opened by the server.
To use 10g Release 2 (10.2) Client with a C program, you must complete the following steps:
Ensure that the C for z/OS V1R2 compiler is installed, instead of or addition to the C for OS390 V2R10.
Recompile all OCI programs using the C for z/OS V1R2 compiler with the ENUM(INT) option.
Note:
Refer to z/OS V1R2.0 C/C++ Compiler and Run-Time Migration Guide for additional information about this issue.The following is a list of restrictions that apply to the IEEE standard floating point numbers:
The new BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT database data types are not supported for client applications running on z/OS.
This restriction applies to both customer-written applications and Oracle tools and utilities on z/OS. Attempts to store or fetch these types from a client program running on z/OS produces unpredictable results with both local and remote Oracle10g servers.
Use of z/Architecture Binary Floating Point (BFP, also known as IEEE 754 floating point) in Oracle applications running on z/OS is not supported.
This restriction means that customer-written Oracle applications cannot bind or define host variables that are BFP types in an Oracle SQL statement. This restriction also affects tools and utilities: both SQL*Loader and the server External Table feature cannot load file data that is BFP.
Traditional System/370 floating point data (now known as Hexadecimal Floating Point or HFP) remain supported, as in the past.
The following java methods are not supported with the JavaVM:
java.lang.Runtime.exec()
java.lang.System.load()
java.lang.System.loadLibrary()
java.lang.System.mapLibraryName()
java.nio.channels.
Native compilation of Java or PL/SQL programs is not supported.
Oracle Datapump is restricted to HFS and zFS file systems.
The following sections contain issues that affect Oracle Enterprise Manager Intelligent Agent:
Oracle10g Database for IBM z/OS supports only a minimal set of system statistics and these may not reflect the actual performance of the system.
Configuration of the Agent must be done manually. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant is not supported with this release.
Oracle10g Database for IBM z/OS (OS/390) supports database startup and shutdown from the console. Before you can use this feature, the OSDI rdbms and net subsystem must be active.
Oracle10g Database for IBM z/OS (OS/390) does not support the iSQL*Plus interface from the console.
Currently, Oracle10g Database for IBM z/OS (OS/390) only ships with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent. Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Console is not supported, though this release does support a remote Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Console. This is because the repository for this console must not reside on a z/OS platform.
External Tables is an Oracle feature that enables you to process non-Oracle operating system files as Oracle database tables. On IBM z/OS, the External Tables feature is limited to accessing files in the HFS and zFS file systems.
Oracle JDBC OCI drivers are supported for a limited subset of features. When you use a feature that is not supported, an error is returned with a message displayed to state that the feature is not supported. The Database character set must be WE8EBCDIC1047 or similar.
The following sections contain issues affecting Oracle OLAP:
Dynamically linking options into the Oracle kernel as part of the Oracle Universal Installer installation is not supported in this release. If you choose the OLAP optional feature, then after the Oracle Universal Installer installation is complete, you must complete the following task manually to link the required code into Oracle:
Set your $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_HLQ_PDS.
Do this by running the ENV file in your ORACLE_HOME location. For example:
cd $ORACLE_HOME/server/rdbms make -f ins_rdbms.mk olap_on make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle
A backup copy of the oracle executable is kept automatically in $ORACLE_HOME/server/rdbms/bin. It is named oracleO.
(Optional) Allocate a temporary AUTHLOAD to hold the new Oracle executable.
The final stage of the relink make attempts to copy the new Oracle executable into your AUTHLOAD, provided the link is successful. To allocate a temporary AUTHLOAD:
Allocate your new AUTHLOAD, using the same attributes as the current AUTHLOAD
Set the ORACLE_HLQ_PDS environment variable to point to this new HLQ.
Refer to the Oracle OLAP documentation to run the OLAP installation scripts.
At a minimum, you must run the script $ORACLE_HOME/olap/admin/olap.sql.
If you use ARCHIVE mode with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), then you must either set the LOG_ARCHIVE_FORMAT/DEST values, or ensure that each instance within the Oracle Real Application Clusters cluster is in a separate subsystem and uses the same OSDI service name for each instance. Failure to do so causes database recovery to fail, due to an inability to find archive log files.
For Oracle Security Server, an Oracle10g server or client on IBM z/OS cannot be a participant in an Oracle security connection. However, an Oracle database server on IBM z/OS can be the security repository.
The SDO_GEORASTER feature is not supported.
The DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER PL/SQL package is not supported.
The following configuration assistants for Oracle Universal Installer are not supported:
Database Configuration Assistant (dbca)
Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant (emca)
The utilities Oracle Trace and dbnewid are not available.
Additional utilities are also not available with this release. For a complete list of unavailable utilities, refer to the documents Oracle Database Installation Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390), and Oracle Database System Administration Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390).
The following parts of the XML Developers Kit are not supported:
XML Class Generator for Java and C++
Propagation from object queues with BFILEs is not supported in Oracle Database 10g.
When running SQL*Plus, if the linesize variable exceeds the SPOOL data set record length, the record truncates, and you may receive the following error:
SP2-0308: cannot close spool file.
To work around this problem, ensure that the SQL*Plus linesize variable is less than or equal to the SPOOL data set record length.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4564229.
If you upgrade an Oracle9i database to Oracle Database 10g release 1, Oracle Flashback features using a timestamp may fail. To work around this problem, enter the following SQL script from the Oracle Database 10g database:
SQL> DELETE FROM smon_scn_time WHERE orig_thread <> 0; SQL> COMMIT;
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3994270.
The following XML DB components are not supported in this release:
WebDAV access
HTTP access
FTP access
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