Re: Oracle and the VMS delta time restriction

In article <335EB127.5E26_at_ici.co.uk>, Douglas Miller <dgm_at_super.zippo.com> writes:
> 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.

Yes, I believe you do need to relink.

The problem is that Oracle links their kernel with /NOSYSSHR. That means that they will pull run time routines out of the STARLET.OLB object library rather than out of the IMAGELIB.OLB shareable image library.

Thanks for bringing this up. Turns out that I'll have to relink.

        John Briggs vaxs09_at_alpha.vitro.com Received on Thu Apr 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT