Re: 9ias release 2 not recommended

From: sg <s4v4g3_at_europe.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:37:32 +0200
Message-ID: <3D28360C.9040909@europe.com>

FYI I am not complaining, I am warning people who wants to use IAS.

I did install the patch, I have done 7 installations already.

If IAS (any version) was never supported to change hostname/IP how come cloning Oracle Applications 11i is supported? And this product runs on IAS. I suggest you read Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i An Oracle White Paper May 22, 2002. And here it does suggest you cloning an installation. And mind you if you have a look in Oracle 9iAS Release 2 Administration Guide Chapter 7 it tells you "how to modify hostname, port in iAS components" which now is filled as a document bug.

The language installation has not officially filled as a bug, the shell scripts provided to be called by ptlasst.csh do not work, you have to manually modify them.

And just another warn for those who develop in J2EE, you cannot have over 500 TAGS in JSP because the 64K limit is hardcoded in IAS. Filled as a bug and enhancement requested by Support. I know two companies already moved to Bea WebLogic because of this. The reason is simple: you cannot do serious development with such limitations.

The support is simply poor, to be exact you give the solutions to support. This has already happened to us with Oracle Portal v3.x

I would suggest you do some reasearch before coming with statements. And may I ask you have you tried to install iAS?

Sander wrote:

> sg <s4v4g3_at_europe.com> wrote in news:3D261C39.5050606_at_europe.com:
>
>

>>I have NOT put it in production.
>>The reason I am saying this, 9ias r2 was scheduled for Jan 2002
>>which got delayed till Jun 2002 (delayed twice) which was supposed
>>to be a usable product. If this product is not stable why it
>>appears as certified for several platforms?
>>

>
> Did you install the interoperability patches as well? They came on a
> separate CD.
>
>

>>The bug which cannot change hostname/IP does NOT always happen, it
>>happened to me because the place I installed lacked a DNS Server
>>and I had to get rid of domain name, Oracle Support took 2 weeks
>>to say you CANNOT do that in 9.0.2, it will be fixed in 9.0.4
>>(Lafff). 
>>

>
> Currently you simply cannot change hostname/IP. This was never
> supported in any release of WAS/OAS/IAS but could be made to work. Now
> it temporarily does not work - just think before you install.
>
>

>>Lucky it is not used for 11i because many many times we
>>have to clone 11i in other servers with different names!
>>

>
> Cloning an installation has never been supported.
>
>

>>The other bug, you can only have English in Portal, the script ias
>>provides does NOT work to install language options
>>

>
> Do you have a bug number please? Did you get a workaround?
>
> Furthermore: complaining here does not help. Please log enhancement
> requests at http://ers.oracle.com and tell your account manager what
> you don't like about the product.
>
> If Oracle Support is not helping you as good as you would like them to,
> please tell them. Use the Feedback button on Metalink. Include the TAR
> numbers you did not get a reply as wished so a support manager can look
> into the issue - but I hope you were more friendly in your TARs than
> you appear to be here ;-)
>
> Sander
>
Received on Sun Jul 07 2002 - 07:37:32 CDT