Re: Oracle 10.8 vs. 11i: The Good, Bad, Ugly and Unknown

I will add some agreement with what George is saying.

My company, a medium sized bank, is using Oracle Budgeting and Planning, which is based on Oracle Financial Analyzer 11i (version 6.3.1) and Oracle Express Server. My primary user, an accountant, was demanding certain report printing features which OBP Web (the primary user interface) could not provide.

First, Oracle suggested that he use OFA Web, instead. But, it didn't work much better. Then, they said he should use the OFA thin client. It worked with some printers, but not others (how odd).

Anyway, I am the system DBA (really an RDBMS DBA, but I'm stuck with trying to support all this other stuff) and the user kept pressing me for a solution. So, with one of his specific problems (where the thin client printed to some printers but not others), I opened a TAR with OBP support. They immediately kicked the TAR to OFA support. OFA support said that, to get what he wanted to work, I would have to apply "OFA patchset 6" to the server and client. A prerequisite to OFA patch 6 was Oracle Web Agent (OWA) patchset 4. Whew.

So, I installed all that crap. Then, when OBP support heard what had been done, they insisted I back out the OFA and OWA patches, saying their product would not work with them. So, now, my primary user is mad, again.

At least this little corner of 11i is a great mass of bugs and confusion.

Tim Received on Wed Jun 26 2002 - 05:14:33 CEST