Product Set
2-2
Oracle9
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Installation Guide Release 2 (9.2.0.2) for HP Alpha OpenVMS
Product Set
The following components are included on the product CD-ROM:
Oracle9
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Release 2 (9.2.0.2)
Oracle Net
Release 2 (9.2.0.2)
Changes and Enhancements
In order to take full advantage of the latest OpenVMS CPU and compiler
optimizations in Oracle software products, Oracle9
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Release 2 (9.2.0.2) and
associated Oracle9
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Release 2-based products will require HP OpenVMS
AlphaServers with EV56 or later generation CPUs. AlphaServers with earlier
generation CPUs will see a performance degradation. Refer to Note 181307.1 on
MetaLink for a list of affected models and for instructions on how to identify the
CPU model number.
The following changes and enhancements are unique to this release of Oracle9
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for
HP OpenVMS:
2349006 - CHANGE CALL TO SYS$CREPRC TO HAVE PRC$M_IMGDMP SET
In releases prior to Oracle9
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Release 2 (9.2.0.2), when one of the background
processes terminated abruptly with an access violation, no useful information was
readily available regarding the cause for termination. For troubleshooting, certain
actions needed to be taken, and the crash needed to be reproduced. Starting with
this release, by default, an image dump will be created when a background process
aborts. If you do not want this feature enabled, you can turn it off using the
following commands:
$ define/system ORA_<
SID
>_<
PROCESS_NAME
>_DMP FALSE
$ <start the instance and open the database>
Example:
$ define/system ORA_PROD_LMD0_DMP FALSE
$ sqlplus/nolog
SQL> connect / as sysdba
SQL> startup
Please note that this change has no effect on normal daily production behavior.
Oracle Corporation recommends that you do not define the dump logical.
