Oracle and the VMS delta time restriction

Oracle Co. have told me that Oracle is affected by the VMS delta time restriction (of 9999 days on unpatched versions of VMS up to 7.0), and recommended that any Oracle customer not running VMS 7.1 either upgrade or apply the Digital supplied patch to lift the restriction.

But they also claim that I will need to relink all Oracle and Oracle-related EXE's after applying the patch (for versions 6.0 thu 7.0). I can find no evidence that anything in the Oracle linking procedures pulls in any of the affected libray routines directly out of STARLET.OLB, which is surely the only thing that would mandate a rebuild. Does anybody have any facts or opintions on this subject? I really don't want to relink unless I have to --- our Oracle environment is too complex for this to be an easy job. Received on Wed Apr 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT