Compatibility Oracle 9i and Solaris 10.5
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I found the following article somewhere that : Oracle 9i can not install on the solaris sparc 10.5
Art:
**Certify - Product Version and Other Selections: Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition On Solaris Operating System x86**
**General Notes For Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition On Solaris Operating System x86:**
**Sun Solaris OS 10 Information:**
**o The following database products are certified on the Sun Solaris 10 operating system:**
**+ Oracle Database 10gR1 (with 10.1.0.3 Patchset) for Sun Solaris x86**
**o When Oracle Database 10gR2 releases on Sun platforms later in 2005, the following releases will be certified on the Sun Solaris 10 operating system:**
**+ 10gR2 Database for Sun Solaris SPARC64**
**+ 10gR2 Database for Sun Solaris AMD64**
**+ 10gR2 Database for Sun Solaris x86**
**o Note:Oracle 10gR1 non-RAC databases are certified to work in Solaris 10 non-global (local) Containers on the existing supported platforms for SPARC and x86. Oracle RAC does not work in Solaris 10 local Containers. See metalink note 317257.1 for best practices document for deploying Oracle database in a Solaris 10 non-global Container.**
**Release Information:**
**Oracle 9i certification is NOT planned on this platform.**
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Hi,
I found the following article somewhere that : Oracle 9i can not install on the solaris sparc 10.5
Art:
**Certify - Product Version and Other Selections: Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition On Solaris Operating System x86**
**General Notes For Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition On Solaris Operating System x86:**
**Sun Solaris OS 10 Information:**
**o The following database products are certified on the Sun Solaris 10 operating system:**
**+ Oracle Database 10gR1 (with 10.1.0.3 Patchset) for Sun Solaris x86**
**o When Oracle Database 10gR2 releases on Sun platforms later in 2005, the following releases will be certified on the Sun Solaris 10 operating system:**
**+ 10gR2 Database for Sun Solaris SPARC64**
**+ 10gR2 Database for Sun Solaris AMD64**
**+ 10gR2 Database for Sun Solaris x86**
**o Note:Oracle 10gR1 non-RAC databases are certified to work in Solaris 10 non-global (local) Containers on the existing supported platforms for SPARC and x86. Oracle RAC does not work in Solaris 10 local Containers. See metalink note 317257.1 for best practices document for deploying Oracle database in a Solaris 10 non-global Container.**
**Release Information:**
**Oracle 9i certification is NOT planned on this platform.**
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Subject: Oracle Server and UNIX Transaction Processing Monitors - 1
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network services. Article 2 describes when you would choose to have the TP
Monitor manage the transactions.
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Product & Vendor FCS Known OS/Platform Ports
"TUXEDO System/T" 1986 UNIX SVR4 & SVR3: Amdahl, AT&T,
UNIX System Laboratories Bull, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, ICL,
190 River Road Motorola, Olivetti, Pyramid,Sequent,
Summit, NJ 07901 Sun, Toshiba, Unisys, NCR, Stratus
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"TOP END" 1992 UNIX SVR4: NCR
NCR Corporation
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Dayton, OH 45479
"ENCINA" 1992 IBM AIX, HP, Sun (SunOS and Solaris)
Transarc Corporation Other: OS/2, DOS, HP-UX, STRATUS
707 Grant Street (Depends on DCE)
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
"CICS/6000" 1993 AIX: IBM
IBM Corporation (Depends on DCE)
"CICS 9000" 1994 HP-UX
HP
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Product & Vendor FCS Known OS/Platform Ports
"VIS/TP" unknown unknown
VISystems, Inc.
11910 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75243
"UniKix" 1990 UNIX: ARIX, AT&T, NCR, Pyramid,
UniKix Sequent, Sun, Unisys
"MicroFocus 1993 SCO Unix, AIX
Transaction System"
Micro Focus
26 West Street
Newbury RG13 1JT
UK
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above.
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What is XA? How does XA help Oracle7 work with UNIX TPMs?
XA is an industry standard interface between a Transaction Manager and a
Resource Manager. A Resource Manager (RM) is an agent which
controls a shared, recoverable resource; such a resource can be
returned to a consistent state after a failure. For example, Oracle7 Server
is an RM and uses its redo log and undo segments to be able to do this.
A Transaction Manager (TM) manages a transaction including the
commitment protocol and, when necessary, the recovery after a failure.
Normally, Oracle Server acts as its own TM and manages its own commitment
and recovery. However, using a standards-based TM allows Oracle7 to
cooperate with other heterogeneous RMs in a single transaction.
The commonly used TPMs include a TM component for this purpose. In order to
use the TM capability of the TPM rather than Oracle7's own transaction
management, the application uses a transaction demarcation API (called TX)
provided by the TPM rather than the SQL transaction control statements (e.g.
"commit work"). For each TX call, the TM then instructs all RMs, by the
appropriate XA commands, to follow the two-phase commit protocol. We
call this a TPM-managed transaction.
The following picture shows these interfaces within a monolithic application
program model. This is the model most commonly described in the
DTP literature. We'll see later what the picture looks like when we add
Oracle7 and when we switch to a modularized client-server application
program model.
| |
| |
| Application Program (AP) |
| |
| |
| | | |
Resource Manager API | | | |
(e.g. SQL) -----|--|------------- | TX API
| | v | |
--------|------------- | |
| v | | v
---------------------- | | --------------------
| | | | | |
| Resource | | |<----->| Transaction |
| Managers | |--- | Manager |
| (RMs) | |<-------->| (TM) |
| |--- | |
| |<----------->| |
---------------------- XA --------------------
Interface
The XA interface is an interface between two system components, not
an application program interface; the application program does
not write XA calls nor need to know the details of this interface.
The TM cannot do transaction coordination without the assistance of
the RM; the XA interface is used to get that assistance.
How does the DTP Model support client-server?
The above picture was actually simplified to make it easier to explain
the role of XA. In a true distributed transaction architecture, there
are multiple applications, each with an Application Program, a Resource
Manager, and a Transaction Manager. The applications communicate by
using a Communication Resource Manager. The CRM is generally provided
as a component of the TPM. It includes the transaction information when
it sends messages between applications, so that both applications can
act of behalf of the same transaction. The following picture
illustrates this:
Client Application
| AP |
||| | |
SQL ||| | TX | CRM
||V V | API
-||-- ----- |
| |V | | | V
--|-- |<---| | -----
| V || | | | |
----- |<----| TM |<-->| CRM |
| || | |XA+ | |
| RMs |<-----| | -----
| | XA | | A
----- ----- | Server Application
| -----------------------------
| | AP |
| -----------------------------
| ||| | |
| SQL ||| | TX | CRM
| ||V V | API
| -||-- ----- |
| | |V | | | V
| --|-- |<---| | -----
| | V || | | | |
| ----- |<----| TM |<-->| CRM |
| | || | |XA+ | |
| | RMs |<-----| | -----
| | | XA | | A
| ----- ----- |
| |
| |
-------- |
/ |
/ |
/ |
Most TP Monitor products include both a TM and a CRM, and also provide
additional functions such as task scheduling and workload monitoring.
What is XA+? What does Oracle need to do to comply with it?
XA+ is an interface that lets the X/Open model actually be distributed
because it allows a communication resource manager to tell a TM on the
server that a message from a client just came in for a particular
transaction. Oracle is not currently planning to provide an X/Open
communication resource manager, so we don't have any plans right now
to do XA+. Version 2 of the DTP model paper from X/Open describes it.
The status of the current XA+ specification is "snapshot".
When would I choose an Oracle-managed transaction vs a TPM-managed
transaction?
Oracle Server is very efficient at managing its own transactions. If
the TPM manages the transaction, in general some additional overhead
will be incurred.
The two main reasons a customer might prefer to use a TPM-managed
transaction are as follows:
(1) He may need to update RMs from different vendors. Experience so far
has been that the most common case is wanting to update both Oracle and
a TP Monitor managed resource such as a transactional queuing service
in the same transaction (see Article 3).
(2) He may want to use the model of having several different services in
a transaction, even to the same database. For example, the
"debit_credit" service could be split into a "debit" service and a
"credit" service. This is a very attractive model, but this type of
modularity does exact a performance penalty (see Article 4).
Can I get a version of XA to run on Oracle Server version 6?
No, the XA functionality uses two underlying mechanisms in the Oracle
Server which are not available in version 6: two-phase commit and
session switching. The upi calls for these functions do not not exist
in version 6.
When would I use XA vs Oracle7 to coordinate all-Oracle distributed
transactions?
Generally speaking, Oracle Server should be used to coordinate all-Oracle
distributed transactions. The main reason for using XA to coordinate
transactions would be that you want to use the TP Monitor service-oriented
architecture. That is, you would like to construct an application built of
services and service requests in order to benefit from the modularity and
workload control such an environment provides.
TP Monitor Application Architecture
===================================
What might a TP Monitor application look like?
Most TPM applications will consist of two more more programs, where
there are front-end client programs which request services and back-end
server programs which provide services. In this case, the TPM supplies an
additional capability which is transactional communication. The client
describes the boundaries of the transaction, through the use of the TX API,
and the TPM relays that transaction information to each requested service.
The overall application structure generally looks like the following in the
client-server model. The "TP Monitor Services" box is not necessarily a
process. It could be one or more processes, or just libraries coordinating
through shared memory. Each client process and server process could be on
a different machine. Normally, the application server processes would be
connected to their Oracle Server processes using the IPC driver; the TPM
would be used to deliver messages between application client processes on
one machine and application server processes on another. However, the
application server processes could also be connected with the standard
Oracle SQL*Net to shadow processes on different machines. This might be
useful if one of the databases was on a machine which did not support TPMs.
|Application| |Application| |Application|
| Client 1 | | Client 2 | | Client 3 |
| | | | | |
\ TPM API | TPM API / TPM API
| |
| TP Monitor Services |
| |
| --------------------- |
| | Transaction Manager | |
---------------|---------------|---------------------
TPM API | | XA | XA | TPM API
| | inter- | inter- |
| | face | face |
| | | |
----------- | | -----------
|Application| | | |Application|
| Server 1 |--- ---| Server 2 |
| (Pro*C) | | | | (Pro*C) |
| SQL | SQL
| | | |
| Resource ----------- ----------- |
| Manager | | | | |
| | Oracle7 | | Oracle7 | |
| | Server | | Server | |
| | Process | | Process | |
| | | | | |
| ----------- ----------- |
| | | |
| ----------------------------------------------------- |
| | | |
| | SGA | |
| | | |
| ----------------------------------------------------- |
| |
Application client programs might be written in C and be linked with
TPM libraries. Alternatively, they could use a screen painter product.
Application server programs would be written in Pro*C or Pro*COBOL and
be linked with TPM libraries, the normal Oracle7 user-side libraries
and libxa.a. The Oracle7 Server process is the regular Oracle7 executable.
More complicated application architectures can also be constructed. Most of
the TPMs allow a server to become a client of another service, so you can
involve additional servers.
Could I use Oracle7's Multi Threaded Server as the SQL*Net connection in the
previous picture?
Yes, but that will not be needed in many cases. For example, both
application server processes in the previous picture could talk to a
single Oracle7 Server process through the Multi Threaded Server in the
previous picture. However, since the TPM architecture typically reduces
the number of server processes, the reduction in processes using Multi
Threaded Server may be less significant than in an architecture without
TPMs. If the application will use database links, however, then MTS will
be required.
How do I write an Oracle TP Monitor application?
The actual API used to talk to the TPM varies between vendors, so you need
to get the documentation from the vendor. However, all have a way to
indicate where a transaction begins and ends and a way to send a request
and receive a response from a client to a server. Some use an RPC model,
some use a pseudo-RPC model, and some use a send/receive model. The TX API
described earlier is a subset of the TPM API as defined by each of
the TPM providers.
The client program and server program might look something like the
following examples. We h (such as Tuxedo's
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