Early Warning: VAX VMS 5.5 - Oracle 7.1.3.2

Just a brief note for anyone who may have upgraded their oracle database to 7.1.3.2 under Vax VMS 5.5

There is a bug in this version which seems to make it impossible to add a new datafile to the database. The error messages you get are:

    ORA-01119 Can't create file
followed by:

    ORA-07537 File owner group < MAXSYSGROUP followed by an O/S error:

    Cannot file file.

I called Oracle support in the UK on this one yesterday and there is a patch, but I didn't get the number.

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Jonathan Lewis