Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Table of Contents Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS..............................................................................................................................1 Release Notes.......................................................................................................................................................2 February 2016.....................................................................................................................................................3 Contents...............................................................................................................................................................4 Preface..................................................................................................................................................................5 Purpose of This Manual.....................................................................................................................................6 Intended Audience..............................................................................................................................................7 Access to Oracle Support...................................................................................................................................8 Document Structure............................................................................................................................................9 Chapter 1Installing Oracle Rdb Release 7.3.2.0............................................................................................10 1.1 Oracle Rdb on HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64..............................................................................11 1.2 Requirements...............................................................................................................................................12 1.2.1 Ensure No Processes Have RDMSHRP Image Activated............................................................12 1.3 Intel Itanium Processor 9500 "Poulson" Support...................................................................................14 1.4 Maximum OpenVMS Version Check.......................................................................................................15 1.5 Database Format Changed.........................................................................................................................16 1.6 Using Databases from Releases Earlier than V7.0...................................................................................17 1.7 Invoking the VMSINSTAL Procedure.....................................................................................................18 1.8 Stopping the Installation............................................................................................................................19 1.9 After Installing Oracle Rdb.......................................................................................................................20 1.10 VMS$MEM_RESIDENT_USER Rights Identifier Required..............................................................21 1.11 Installation, Configuration, Migration, Upgrade Suggestions..............................................................22 Chapter 2Software Errors Fixed in Oracle Rdb Release 7.3.2.0..................................................................25 2.1 Software Errors Fixed That Apply to All Interfaces...............................................................................26 2.1.1 OpenVMS Privileges Now Used as Override for External Routines...........................................26 2.1.2 Unexpected Bugcheck When Using COUNT Aggregate Function..............................................26 i Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Table of Contents 2.1 Software Errors Fixed That Apply to All Interfaces 2.1.3 Wrong Results Returned From REVERSE Index When Using IS NULL Predicate...................27 2.1.4 Join Query With Multiple Transitive Equalities Bugchecks........................................................28 2.1.5 Excessive Page Faulting of Query Using QSORT.......................................................................29 2.1.6 Unexpected Bugcheck With Exception SOR$$TREE_INSERT.................................................29 2.1.7 Unexpected Bugcheck During Routine Invocation When Domain is Undefined........................30 2.1.8 Unexpected Alignment Faults When Converting Floating Values to Text..................................31 2.1.9 Count Query Returns Wrong Result From a View.......................................................................32 2.1.10 Unexpected Failure of External Functions When Username is All Numeric.............................33 2.2 SQL Errors Fixed.......................................................................................................................................34 2.2.1 Unexpected Loss of Index Column Attributes When Using the EXPORT DATABASE Statement..............................................................................................................................................34 2.2.2 Unexpected Error From CREATE OUTLINE Statement............................................................35 2.2.3 Unexpected Bugcheck When Query Includes SORT Operation..................................................35 2.2.4 Unexpected RDMS−F−BAD_SYM Error When Renaming View..............................................35 2.2.5 Unexpected Memory Leak for TRUNCATE TABLE..................................................................36 2.2.6 Unexpected Error When Using the REFERENCES Column Constraint Clause.........................36 2.2.7 Unexpected DEADLOCK Reported by ALTER DATABASE Statement...................................37 2.2.8 Unexpected SQL−F−BUGCHK Generated by Dynamic SQL.....................................................38 2.2.9 Unexpected SQL−F−SYNTAX_ERR Error When Dynamic SQL is Passed a Long Statement..............................................................................................................................................38 2.2.10 Unexpected Bugcheck Generated When NOT LIKE Used With a Literal................................39 2.2.11 Incorrect Results From COUNT (DISTINCT value−expression) Aggregate............................39 2.2.12 Unexpected Bugcheck From CREATE VIEW Containing OUTER JOIN................................40 2.2.13 Unexpected Bugcheck When Using GROUP BY of Function Calls.........................................40 2.2.14 Unexpected Bugcheck From SQL Module Language Compiler................................................41 2.2.15 PROTECTION IS ANSI Databases Now Support Roles in Access Control List......................41 2.2.16 Unexpected Failure of MAX (or MIN) When STORE USING Map Has No OTHERWISE Clause....................................................................................................................................................43 2.2.17 Unexpected SYSTEM−F−ILLPAGCNT Error When Using LARGE MEMORY Option for LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE Statement...................................................................................44 2.3 RMU Errors Fixed......................................................................................................................................45 2.3.1 RMU/BACKUP/AFTER_JOURNAL Ignored the Default Database Journal Backup Compression Setting.............................................................................................................................45 2.3.2 %RMU−F−FILACCERR When RMU/RECOVER Did Not Close AIJ Files It Created............47 2.3.3 RMU/BACKUP/AFTER_JOURNAL/LOG Command Did Not Put Out the %RMU−I−LOGCOMPR Message.......................................................................................................47 2.3.4 Possible Misleading Messages From RMU/RECOVER/JUST_CORRUPT and RMU/RECOVER/AREAS...................................................................................................................48 2.3.5 %DCL−W−ABKEYW Errors when Abbreviating /THREADS, /THRESHOLDS, /READ_ONLY, /READ_WRITE qualifiers.........................................................................................53 2.3.6 RMU/BACKUP Did Not Output the OpenVMS RMS STV Status for Errors Opening Storage Areas........................................................................................................................................55 2.3.7 RMU Dump Backup Now Allows Optional Backup File if Journal Qualifier Used....................55 2.3.8 Unexpected RDMS−F−OUTLINE_FAILED When Using RMU Verify Key_Values...............57 2.3.9 RMU/UNLOAD/AFTER_JOURNAL Could Fail With a SYSTEM−W−ENDOFFILE Error...57 ii Oracle® Rdb for OpenVMS Table of Contents 2.3 RMU Errors Fixed 2.3.10 Unexpected Indices and Triggers Extracted for Hidden Tables.................................................59 2.3.11 Unexpected Failure of Script Generated RMU Extract ITEM=PROTECTION........................59 2.3.12 RMU/UNLOAD/AFTER_JOURNAL/SAVE_METADATA Memory Corruption Problem....60 2.3.13 RMU/RECOVER Bugcheck Dump Caused by OpenVMS SYSTEM−W−NONLOCAL Error......................................................................................................................................................60 2.3.14 Unexpected Missing SELECT Clause in Trigger Definition From RMU Extract.....................62 2.3.15 Unexpected ACCVIO Failure When Using RMU Extract.........................................................62