BRBACKUP fails with DB13 and TIVOLI on AIX and ORACLE

Hi,
We have the Tivoli setup for SAP on AIX and Oracle.
when we run the brbackup directly we are able to get it through. But when we do the same with DB13 and Tivoli attached we are not able to get through and it throws an error.
Would be very nice and kind of you if you could share your setup knowledge with me regarding Tivoli and SAP.
Thanks & Regards
Shrenik
9393930803

Unfortunately nobody here has a crystal ball to look into and see what is happening on your system in both cases.
We could ask you "have you done this" or "did you configure that" but it´s very cumbersome.
So please: provide logfiles of failed attempts if there is "an error" so we see which error it is and we can see if we can help.
Markus

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3. Even if at a certain time EclipseLink was a bit late compared to Hibernate (feature), EclipseLink evolved very fast and we can consider now that they close the gap.
4. No additional fee as soon as you have Weblogic license. You will need to pays additional fee if you want some professional support on Hibernate.
5. We are currently relying on Hibernate for our legacy offer and are facing pb in second level cache (JGroups). Today, we are riding off this part!. Consequences are limitation in clustering approach (perf)
6. On EclipseLink side we do succeed to manage first and second level cache in a clustering approach.
7. Indeed Hibernate is open source, so you can imagine handling it. In reality, the code is so complex that it is nearly impossible to modify it. Moreover as it is LGPL, you need to feedback all the modified sources to the community systematically.
8. All tests performed by Oracle concerning Weblogic are using EclipseLink. Moreover, Oracle says that some specific optimizations are done to manage Oracle DB.
9. Hibernate comes from JBoss community.
Right now we are preferring Hibernate but there are concerns/reasons like EclipseLink developed by Oracle and preferred ORM in Webogic/ Oracle DB world (compatibility of ORM with DB and App. server), support comparison with both ORM, which are preventing to finalize the decision.
Please help me with you views and opinions and share you experience with us so that we can make a perfect decision.
If you want you can also reply to me @ [email protected].
Thanks.

The way the ORMs are designed, integration with application servers are relatively simple, and all provides the same features. Also since WebLogic have been around for a while, all ORMs are all well tested in this configuration.
Hibernate has lot more users, and is likely very often used with Oracle DB, so you can expect not much bug against Oracle DB, maybe even less bug than EclipseLink, which is not much used. EclipseLink does provide support for some esoteric Oracle DB features like hierarchical and flashback queries.
OpenJPA and DataNucleus are also JPA compliant. It’s likely that Open JPA has a higher user base than EclipseLink, so less unknown bugs.
Oracle paying support is well known to be a bad joke. It’s a negative return to use this channel, even if they would be free. So in reality, you end up to use the open (free) forum to get support.
What’s was lacking with Hibernate before is Dynamic Fetch Planning, but they now have some support, see http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3414. OpenJPA was the first to implement this must have.
EclipseLink has query in memory, which can be used, but the API do not help to leverage it, and EclipseLink’s leadership made it clear that they are not going to make it better, instead they want to push Coherence cache.
Hibernate has an open API for second level cache, which mean you can get out of problem by using another implementation, for example, EHCache seems to be professionally tested, so I would be surprise you find obvious bugs.
I cannot comment on Hibernate source code quality, but I can tell you that locking mechanism in EclipseLink is used to be very fragile, and many concepts are dispersed over the code base.
The runtime monitoring of Hibernate have always been great due to the fact that JBoss have always been strong on JMX, EclipseLink has not much usable features on this.
If I would be you, I would consider OpenJPA or Hibernate instead of EclipseLink, the main reason is that because EclipseLink has a so low user base, I have found lot of obvious bugs in production, like if I was the only user of it. Then, when I submitted bugs to the small development team, which do not encourage user base contribution, they were too busy trying to keep up adding the JPA interfaces on top of their existing proprietary APIs.

Problem setting up APEX 4 with WebLogic and Oracle XE

I'm am trying to install and test Application Express 4 (latest version) on a brand new installation of Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle XE.
I have followed the Installation Guide for APEX and have successfully installed all tables and scripts into my Oracle XE schema and am able to connect to the Application Express Workspace login page (http://localhost:8080/apex) but am not able to log in. All styles and images are missing.
I have followed the steps in the Application Express Listener Guide to install the Listener to my WebLogic deployments and have my i.war and apex.war files deployed but these apparently are not working. When I go to my WebLogic server and view the /apex/ListenerConfigure page I can see the page but get an HTTP 404 "Page Not Found" error and appears to be looking for the WLS's apex/apex directory.
Note: My Oracle XE / APEX setup is on a separate server than my WebLogic server.
Also, I see the APEX Listener file (apex-confix.xml) from the install zip file but I don't believe it is being used anywhere, as the documentation never told me what to do with it.
Any help would be awesome. Let me know what I can provide that I haven't. Thanks!

Thank you, I was able to use what you said as well as this information here: Installing Apex 4 on Oracle XE: Almost there, but no cigar yet!
Thank you for the help :)

RsultSet getString(String) returning next row with WL8 and Oracle drivers

When using the following function with the SQL: SELECT A, B, C FROM D
WHERE A=E and i call the campoString("A") i received the expected value
for the campoString("B") and so on.
public String CampoString(String s) {
int i = 0;
String sr;
try {
System.out.println("Campo a buscar:"+s);
sr = rsVentasTotales.getString(s);
System.out.println("Valor:"+sr);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
sr = "vacio";
if(sr == null)
sr = "vacio";
if((i = sr.indexOf('\n')) >= 0) {
if(i > 0)
return sr.substring(0, i - 1);
else
return "DATO ALTERADO";
} else {
return sr;
Oracle latest drivers, and Oracle Server 7, WebLogic platform (workshop) 8.1
public int Conectar() {
try {
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
catch(ClassNotFoundException _ex) {
return 0;
try {
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, usuario, password);
comando = con.createStatement();

Carlos de Luna Saenz wrote:
Same result putting the jar at the beggining of the classpath...:-(
WLS Production Mode=
.You need a semicolon after "ojdbc13.jar".
Joe
CLASSPATH=C:\bea\weblogic81\samples\workshop\SicPros\SicProsv35\WEB-INF\lib\ojdb
c14.jarC:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\weblogic_knex_patch.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\common
\lib\log4j.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\debugging.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\l
ib\knex.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\javelin\lib\javelin.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\w
lw-lang.jar;;C:\bea\JDK141~1\lib\tools.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\weblogic_s
p.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\weblogic.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\ojdbc14
.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\ant\ant.jar;C:\bea\JDK141~1\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\be
a\WEBLOG~1\common\eval\pointbase\lib\pbserver44.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\common\eval\
pointbase\lib\pbclient44.jar;;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\webserviceclient.jar;C:
\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\webserviceclient+ssl.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\xbe
an.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\xmarshal.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\xqrl.j
ar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\netui\netui-compiler.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\li
b\wli.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\wlxtrt.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\server\lib\fop.j
ar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\integration\lib\wlai-server.jar;C:\bea\WEBLOG~1\integration\a
dapters\sample\lib\sample-eis.jar;
Greetings.
Joe Weinstein wrote:
Ok.
Once you get this working, I will have some suggestions that
will make this run much faster. For now, I think the issue
is the driver version. We package an old oracle thin driver
inside our weblogic.jar, so you need to get oracle's latest
appropriate driver, and edit the start-weblogic script so
the driver you want comes before the weblogic.jar in the
-classpath argument for the java line that starts the server.
PS:
I am looking at the code, thank you, but you still haven't
explicitly said what problem you're having!
thanks
Joe
Carlos de Luna Saenz wrote:
The problematic class is, there is no weblogic code on it, the
project i am on is to migrate a iPlanet app to a web logic server:
If you need the JSP using this class please let me know. The
application uses not standards, taglibs or anything besides .java
files and .jsp files.
package externos;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Date;
public class sicprosR{
public String strSQL;
public String er;
Connection con;
private ResultSet rsVentasTotales;
String url;
CallableStatement ps;
Statement comando;
protected String usuario;
protected String password;
public boolean estado;
public sicprosR() {
ps = null;
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@17.3.5.101:1521:dbx1";
usuario="xxxxx";
password="xxxx";
estado = false;
public Date CampoDate(String s) {
Object obj = new Date();
try {
obj = rsVentasTotales.getDate(s);
catch(SQLException _ex) { }
return (Date)obj;
public double CampoDouble(String s) {
double d;
try {
d = rsVentasTotales.getDouble(s);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
d = 0.0D;
return d;
public int CampoInt(String s) {
int i;
try {
i = rsVentasTotales.getInt(s);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
i = 0;
return i;
public String CampoString(String s) {
int i = 0;
String sr;
try {
System.out.println("Campo a buscar:"+s);
sr = rsVentasTotales.getString(s);
System.out.println("Valor:"+sr);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
sr = "vacio";
if(sr == null)
sr = "vacio";
if((i = sr.indexOf('\n')) >= 0) {
if(i > 0)
return sr.substring(0, i - 1);
else
return "DATO ALTERADO";
} else {
return sr;
public boolean Commit() {
try {
con.commit();
catch(SQLException sqlexception) {
er = sqlexception.getMessage();
return false;
return true;
public int Conectar() {
try {
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
catch(ClassNotFoundException _ex) {
return 0;
try {
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, usuario, password);
comando = con.createStatement();
catch(SQLException sqlexception) {
er = sqlexception.getMessage();
return -1;
try {
rsVentasTotales = comando.executeQuery(strSQL);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
return -2;
estado = true;
return 1;
public int Conectar(int i) {
try {
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
catch(ClassNotFoundException _ex) {
return 0;
try {
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,
Estructura.usuario, Estructura.clave);
comando = con.createStatement();
catch(SQLException sqlexception) {
er = sqlexception.getMessage();
return -1;
try {
rsVentasTotales = comando.executeQuery(strSQL);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
return -2;
estado = true;
return 1;
public boolean Ejecuta(int i) {
if(i == 1)
try {
rsVentasTotales = comando.executeQuery(strSQL);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
return false;
else
try {
comando.executeUpdate(strSQL);
catch(SQLException sqlexception) {
er = sqlexception.getMessage();
return false;
return true;
public int Sig() {
try {
if(rsVentasTotales.next()) {
estado = true;
return 1;
} else {
estado = false;
return 0;
catch(Exception _ex) {
estado = false;
return -1;
public boolean Siguiente() {
try {
if(rsVentasTotales.next()) {
estado = true;
return true;
} else {
estado = false;
return false;
catch(Exception _ex) {
estado = false;
return false;
public String convierteCantidadLetras(double d, String s) {
String s1 = Double.toString(d);
s1 = truncaADosDecimales(s1);
try {
ps = con.prepareCall("{ call
get_Palabra_De_Valor_Numerico(?,?,?) }");
ps.setString(1, s1);
ps.setString(2, s);
ps.registerOutParameter(3, 12);
ps.execute();
return ps.getString(3);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
return "No se pudo realizar la conversion";
public String convierteCantidadLetras(double d, String s,
PrintWriter printwriter) {
String s1 = Double.toString(d);
s1 = truncaADosDecimales(s1);
try {
ps = con.prepareCall("{ call
get_Palabra_De_Valor_Numerico(?,?,?) }");
ps.setString(1, s1);
ps.setString(2, s);
ps.registerOutParameter(3, 12);
ps.execute();
return ps.getString(3);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
return "No se pudo realizar la conversion";
public boolean inicio() {
try {
rsVentasTotales.first();
return true;
catch(SQLException _ex) {
return false;
public String truncaADosDecimales(String s) {
int i = 0;
String s1 = "";
i = s.indexOf(".");
if(s.length() <= i + 3) {
s1 = s.substring(i + 1, s.length());
} else {
s1 = s.substring(i + 1, i + 3);
s1 = s1.substring(0, 2);
if(s.substring(i + 1, i + 2).equals("0"))
s1 = "0" + s1;
s1 = s.substring(0, i) + "." + s1;
return s1;
Joe Weinstein wrote:
Hi! I need two more things from you, please:
1 - A full statement of what problem you're having.
2 - More of the code. All I see here is you are getting
a connection directly from Oracle's driver, and code which
does a ResultSet.getString() call.
I need to see the logic from getting the connection, to creating
the statement, to executing the query, to doing ResultSet.next()
for each row and getting the row data for each.
It seems that this is either an application code or jdbc driver
problem because no weblogic code is being used, so it could probably
be duplicated in a small stand-alone program (without any weblogic
stuff).
Joe
Carlos de Luna Saenz wrote:
When using the following function with the SQL: SELECT A, B, C FROM
D WHERE A=E and i call the campoString("A") i received the expected
value for the campoString("B") and so on.
public String CampoString(String s) {
int i = 0;
String sr;
try {
System.out.println("Campo a buscar:"+s);
sr = rsVentasTotales.getString(s);
System.out.println("Valor:"+sr);
catch(SQLException _ex) {
sr = "vacio";
if(sr == null)
sr = "vacio";
if((i = sr.indexOf('\n')) >= 0) {
if(i > 0)
return sr.substring(0, i - 1);
else
return "DATO ALTERADO";
} else {
return sr;
Oracle latest drivers, and Oracle Server 7, WebLogic platform
(workshop) 8.1
public int Conectar() {
try {
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
catch(ClassNotFoundException _ex) {
return 0;
try {
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, usuario, password);
comando = con.createStatement();

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