As new versions of different pieces of the WCI architecture are made available and supported, you as customers will inevitably start moving to these new versions. In this particular case, I am referring to the latest Oracle DB version that is supported which is 11.1.0.6 and above. Unfortunately, I have received a number of emails recently where different people have run into problems trying to deploy WCI on this version of the DB.
To hopefully clear some things up for other customer deployments, I thought it would be beneficial to make you aware of some known changes that need to be made before starting up the database instance and therefore before running WCI for the first time.
In the release notes for WCI 10gR3, there is a note at the bottom of the supported platform listing that mentions a couple of changes that need to be made within the initPLUM10.ora file when using Oracle DB 11g. Here is the exact note at it exists within the release notes:
NOTE: When running WCI with Oracle 11g with the provided initPLUM10.ora file, make the following modification: Change 'compatible = 10.2.0.0.0' to 'compatible = 11.0.0'. Also, to prevent problems with "group by" optimizations when using WCI with Oracle 11g you must add the following configuration to the bottom of your init$ORACLE_SID.ora file: _optimizer_group_by_placement=false.
If you do not make these necessary changes, then the portal will not startup properly and you will never get to see a login page. Hopefully this information will help some of you prevent this problem in the future.
Comments (2)
Hi Brian
Is there any release date for WCI 11g?
Is there any document anywhere with the details about upcoming changes?
Thanks
Srinivas
Posted by Srinivas | October 8, 2009 9:41 PM
Posted on October 8, 2009 21:41
Srinivas,
At present, there is not a release date available for WCI 11g, but you can guarantee that I will let all of you that read this blog know when I know.
As for a document that talks about the upcoming changes, the best one that I can point you to is on the WebCenter Interaction OTN page and that is the Statement of Direction. This should at least get you started. You can find it at the following URL: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webcenter/interaction/pdf/wci_10gr3_sod.pdf
Posted by brian.harrison
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October 12, 2009 6:03 AM
Posted on October 12, 2009 06:03