Re: Dear Oracle Corp.: ORACLE 7.2: No more OFA / $ORACLE_BASE support ?

I would be very interested in this too. I just recd the 7.2 version for Irix and
don't see even the mention of OFA. However the Performance Tuning Tips manual still claims OFA needs to be followed for all the good reasons.

Thanks,
Jayasree.

Frank.Hajduk.Materna.DE (Frank Hajduk) wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Does someone out there know something about the following statement from
>the $ORACLE_HOME/orainst/unix.stp file (7.2.2 for SNI RM400):
>
>/* We're not supporting OFA for now, so this code goes away: ...
>
>I am german and I have a problem to identify the meaning of that
>statement. Does this mean:
>
>a) All future versions of ORACLE are not supporting OFA? We are using the
>OFA as our Oracle installation standard. What shall we do? What are the
>alternative/new 'standards' for the new versions?
>
>b) Maybe Oracle 7.2.3 or 7.3 are supporting OFA...
>
>For us, a) is very painful because we have to install 7.2.2 and future
>releases on more than 200 OFA-installed UNIX-Servers. So we need a
>statement from Oracle Corp. (USA).
>
>I think this is imortant enought to post this article.
>
>Frank
>
Received on Thu Oct 26 1995 - 00:00:00 CET