Re: Early Warning: VAX VMS 5.5 - Oracle 7.1.3.2

In article: <821873744snz_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> Jonathan Lewis <Jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

Bit late for us, Jonathon.

Just to clarify - this bug seems to affect ALL versions of VMS and OpenVMS.

It is fixed in 7.1.5

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