CSS to XSS Conversion Utility

Dose anyone know where I can find a utility which converts .css files to .xss format?
Thanks

I don't know of such a utility - the UIX team does not have one. However, you are not necessarily required to convert your CSS documents to XSS. If you just want to include some CSS styles in a uiXML page, you can do so by explicitly using the HTML link element, eg:
<document xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"
          xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<metaContainer>
   <head>
   <contents>
     
     <html:link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/context-root/foo.css"/>
   </contents>
   </head>
</metaContainer>
<contents>

</contents>
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Oracle has multiple character sets, ranging from US7ASCII to AL32UTF16.
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FIXING THE PROBLEM
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(As an aside note: this approach does not use csscan -- I had done something similar previously on a very old system and decided it would take less time in this situation to revamp my old procedures and not bring a new utility into the mix.)
We will need to separate approaches -- one to fix the VARCHAR2 & CHAR fields, and a second for CLOBs.
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alter system set global_names=false scope=memory;
CREATE PUBLIC DATABASE LINK OLD6
CONNECT TO DBUSERNAME
IDENTIFIED BY dbuserpass
USING 'restoreclone:1521/MYSID';
Testing the link...
SQL> select count(1) from users@old6;
COUNT(1)
       454
Here is a row in a table which contains illegal characters. We are accessing RESTORECLONE from PRODCLONE via our link.
PRODCLONE> select dump(title) from my_contents@old6 where pk1=117286;
DUMP(TITLE)
Typ=1 Len=49: 78,67,76,69,88,45,80,78,174,32,69,120,97,109,32,83,116,121,108,101
,32,73,110,116,101,114,97,99,116,105,118,101,32,82,101,118,105,101,119,32,81,117
,101,115,116,105,111,110,115
By comparison, a dump of that row on PRODCLONE's my_contents gives:
PRODCLONE> select dump(title) from my_contents where pk1=117286;
DUMP(TITLE)
Typ=1 Len=49: 78,67,76,69,88,45,80,78,191,32,69,120,97,109,32,83,116,121,108,101
,32,73,110,116,101,114,97,99,116,105,118,101,32,82,101,118,105,101,119,32,81,117
,101,115,116,105,111,110,115
Note that the "174" on RESTORECLONE was changed to "191" on PRODCLONE.
We can manually insert CHR(174) into our PRODCLONE and have it display successfully in the application.
However, I tried a number of methods to copy the data from RESTORECLONE to PRODCLONE through the link, but entirely without success. Oracle would recognize the character as invalid and silently transform it.
Eventually, I located a clever workaround at this link:
https://kr.forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=231927
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On RESTORECLONE you create a view, vv, with UTL_RAW:
RESTORECLONE> create or replace view vv as select pk1,utl_raw.cast_to_raw(title) as title from my_contents;
View created.
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You can now convert from RAW to VARCHAR2 on the PRODCLONE database:
PRODCLONE> select dump(utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 (title)) from vv@old6 where pk1=117286;
DUMP(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(TITLE))
Typ=1 Len=49: 78,67,76,69,88,45,80,78,174,32,69,120,97,109,32,83,116,121,108,101
,32,73,110,116,101,114,97,99,116,105,118,101,32,82,101,118,105,101,119,32,81,117
,101,115,116,105,111,110,115
The above works because oracle on PRODCLONE never knew that our TITLE string on RESTORE was originally in US7ASCII, so it was unable to do its transparent character set conversion.
PRODCLONE> update my_contents set title=( select utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 (title) from vv@old6 where pk1=117286) where pk1=117286;
PRODCLONE> select dump(title) from my_contents where pk1=117286;
DUMP(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(TITLE))
Typ=1 Len=49: 78,67,76,69,88,45,80,78,174,32,69,120,97,109,32,83,116,121,108,101
,32,73,110,116,101,114,97,99,116,105,118,101,32,82,101,118,105,101,119,32,81,117
,101,115,116,105,111,110,115
Excellent! The "174" character has survived the transfer and is now in place on PRODCLONE.
Now that we have a method to move the data over, we have to identify which columns /tables have character data that was damaged by the conversion. We decided we could ignore anything with a length smaller than 10 -- such fields in our application would be unlikely to have data with invalid characters.
RESTORECLONE> select count(1) from user_tab_columns where data_type in ('CHAR','VARCHAR2') and data_length > 10;
   COUNT(1)
    533
By converting a field to WE8ISO8859P1, and then comparing it with the original, we can see if the characters change:
RESTORECLONE> select count(1) from my_contents where title != convert (title,'WE8ISO8859P1','US7ASCII') ;
COUNT(1)
     10568
So 10568 rows have characters which were transformed into 191s as part of the original conversion.
[ As an aside, we can't use CONVERT() on LOBs -- for them we will need another approach, outlined further below.
RESTOREDB> select count(1) from my_contents where main_data != convert (convert(main_DATA,'WE8ISO8859P1','US7ASCII'),'US7ASCII','WE8ISO8859P1') ;
select count(1) from my_contents where main_data != convert (convert(main_DATA,'WE8ISO8859P1','US7ASCII'),'US7ASCII','WE8ISO8859P1')
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got CLOB
Anyway, now that we can identify VARCHAR2 fields which need to be checked, we can put together a PL/SQL stored procedure to do it for us:
create or replace procedure find_us7_strings
(table_name varchar2,
fix_col varchar2 )
authid current_user
as
orig_sql varchar2(1000);
begin
orig_sql:='insert into cnv_us7(mytablename,myindx,mycolumnname) select '''||table_name||''',pk1,'''||fix_col||''' from '||table_name||' where '||fix_col||' != CONVERT(CONVERT('||fix_col||',''WE8ISO8859P1''),''US7ASCII'') and '||fix_col||' is not null';
-- Uncomment if debugging:
-- dbms_output.put_line(orig_sql);
execute immediate orig_sql;
end;
And create a table to store the information as to which tables, columns, and rows have the bad characters:
drop table cnv_us7;
create table cnv_us7 (mytablename varchar2(50), myindx number,      mycolumnname varchar2(50) ) tablespace myuser_data;
create index list_tablename_idx on cnv_us7(mytablename) tablespace myuser_indx;
With a SQL-generating SQL script, we can iterate through all the tables/columns we want to check:
--example of using the data: select title from my_contents where pk1 in (select myindx from cnv_us7)
set head off pagesize 1000 linesize 120
spool runme.sql
select 'exec find_us7_strings ('''||table_name||''','''||column_name||'''); ' from user_tab_columns
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          data_type in ('CHAR','VARCHAR2')
          and table_name in (select table_name from user_tab_columns where column_name='PK1' and table_name not in ('HUGETABLEIWANTTOEXCLUDE','ANOTHERTABLE'))
          and char_length > 10
          order by table_name,column_name;
spool off;
set echo on time on timing on feedb on serveroutput on;
spool output_of_runme
@./runme.sql
spool off;
Which eventually gives us the following inserted into CNV_US7:
20:48:21 SQL> select count(1),mycolumnname,mytablename from cnv_us7 group by mytablename,mycolumnname;
         4 DESCRIPTION                                        MY_FORUMS
     21136 TITLE                                              MY_CONTENTS
Out of 533 VARCHAR2s and CHARs, we only had five or six columns that needed fixing
We create our views on RESTOREDB:
create or replace view my_forums_vv as select pk1,utl_raw.cast_to_raw(description) as description from forum_main;
create or replace view my_contents_vv as select pk1,utl_raw.cast_to_raw(title) as title from my_contents;
And then we can fix it directly via sql:
update my_contents taborig1 set TITLE= (select utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 (TITLE) from my_contents_vv@old6 where pk1=taborig1.pk1)
where pk1 in (
select tabnew.pk1 from my_contents@old6 taborig,my_contents tabnew,cnv_us7@old6
      where taborig.pk1=tabnew.pk1
          and myindx=tabnew.pk1
          and mycolumnname='TITLE'
          and mytablename='MY_CONTENTS'
          and convert(taborig.TITLE,'US7ASCII','WE8ISO8859P1') = tabnew.TITLE );
Note this part:
      "and convert(taborig.TITLE,'US7ASCII','WE8ISO8859P1') = tabnew.TITLE "
This checks to verify that the TITLE field on the PRODCLONE and RESTORECLONE are the same (barring character set issues). This is there because if the users have changed TITLE -- or any other field -- on their own between the time of the upgrade and now, we do not want to overwrite their changes. We make the assumption that as part of the process, they may have changed the bad character on their own.
We can also create a stored procedure which will execute the SQL for us:
create or replace procedure fix_us7_strings
(TABLE_NAME varchar2,
FIX_COL varchar2 )
authid current_user
as
orig_sql varchar2(1000);
TYPE cv_type IS REF CURSOR;
orig_cur cv_type;
begin
orig_sql:='update '||TABLE_NAME||' taborig1 set '||FIX_COL||'= (select utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 ('||FIX_COL||') from '||TABLE_NAME||'_vv@old6 where pk1=taborig1.pk1)
where pk1 in (
select tabnew.pk1 from '||TABLE_NAME||'@old6 taborig,'||TABLE_NAME||' tabnew,cnv_us7@old6
      where taborig.pk1=tabnew.pk1
          and myindx=tabnew.pk1
          and mycolumnname='''||FIX_COL||'''
          and mytablename='''||TABLE_NAME||'''
          and convert(taborig.'||FIX_COL||',''US7ASCII'',''WE8ISO8859P1'') = tabnew.'||FIX_COL||')';
dbms_output.put_line(orig_sql);
execute immediate orig_sql;
end;
exec fix_us7_strings('MY_FORUMS','DESCRIPTION');
exec fix_us7_strings('MY_CONTENTS','TITLE');
commit;
To validate this before and after, we can run something like:
select dump(description) from my_forums where pk1 in (select myindx from cnv_us7@old6 where mytablename='MY_FORUMS');
The above process fixes all the VARCHAR2s and CHARs. Now what about the CLOB columns?
Note that we're going to have some extra difficulty here, not just because we are dealing with CLOBs, but because we are working with CLOBs in 9i, whose functions have less CLOB-related functionality.
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(table_name varchar2,
fix_col varchar2)
authid current_user
as
orig_sql varchar2(1000);
type cv_type is REF CURSOR;
orig_table_cur cv_type;
my_chars_read NUMBER;
my_offset NUMBER;
my_problem NUMBER;
my_lob_size NUMBER;
my_indx_var NUMBER;
my_total_chars_read NUMBER;
my_output_chunk VARCHAR2(4000);
my_problem_flag NUMBER;
my_clob CLOB;
my_total_problems NUMBER;
ins_sql VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(1000000);
   orig_sql:='select pk1,dbms_lob.getlength('||FIX_COL||') as cloblength,'||fix_col||' from '||table_name||' where dbms_lob.getlength('||fix_col||') >0 and '||fix_col||' is not null order by pk1';
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   my_total_problems := 0;
   LOOP
        FETCH orig_table_cur INTO my_indx_var,my_lob_size,my_clob;
                EXIT WHEN orig_table_cur%NOTFOUND;
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        my_chars_read := 512;
        my_problem_flag :=0;
        WHILE my_offset < my_lob_size and my_problem_flag =0
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                DBMS_LOB.READ(my_clob,my_chars_read,my_offset,my_output_chunk);
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                IF my_output_chunk != CONVERT(CONVERT(my_output_chunk,'WE8ISO8859P1'),'US7ASCII')
                        THEN
                        -- DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Problem with '||my_indx_var);
                        -- DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(my_output_chunk);
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And we can use SQL-generating SQL to find out which CLOBs have issues, out of all the ones in the database:
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RESTOREDB> set linesize 120 pagesize 100;
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   where mytablename||' '||mycolumnname in (select table_name||' '||column_name from user_tab_columns
         where data_type='CLOB' )
      group by mytablename,mycolumnname;
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     69703 MY_CONTENTS                                  DATA
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create or replace procedure CLOB2BLOB (p_clob in out nocopy clob, p_blob in out nocopy blob) is
-- transforming CLOB to BLOB
l_off number default 1;
l_amt number default 4096;
l_offWrite number default 1;
l_amtWrite number;
l_str varchar2(4096 char);
begin
loop
dbms_lob.read ( p_clob, l_amt, l_off, l_str );
l_amtWrite := utl_raw.length ( utl_raw.cast_to_raw( l_str) );
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utl_raw.cast_to_raw( l_str ) );
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l_off := l_off + l_amt;
l_amt := 4096;
end loop;
exception
when no_data_found then
NULL;
end;
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Create table my_contents_lob (pk1 number,data blob);
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      SELECT data INTO v_blob FROM my_contents_lob WHERE pk1=16 FOR UPDATE;
      clob2blob (v_clob, v_blob);
    END;
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DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(DATA)
                             329
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam...
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create index my_contents_lob_pk1 on my_contents_lob(pk1) tablespace my_user_indx;
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(table_name varchar2,
fix_col varchar2)
authid current_user
as
orig_sql varchar2(1000);
type cv_type is REF CURSOR;
orig_table_cur cv_type;
my_chars_read NUMBER;
my_offset NUMBER;
my_problem NUMBER;
my_lob_size NUMBER;
my_indx_var NUMBER;
my_total_chars_read NUMBER;
my_output_chunk VARCHAR2(4000);
my_problem_flag NUMBER;
my_clob CLOB;
my_blob BLOB;
my_total_problems NUMBER;
new_sql VARCHAR2(4000);
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DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(1000000);
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We can now take this data, export it from RESTORECLONE
exp file=a.dmp buffer=4000000 userid=system/XXXXXX tables=my_user.my_contents rows=y
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For paranoia's sake, double check that it worked properly:
select dump( utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(data)) from my_contents_lob;
On our 10g PRODCLONE, we'll use these stored procedures:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION CLOB2BLOB(L_CLOB CLOB) RETURN BLOB IS
L_BLOB BLOB;
L_SRC_OFFSET NUMBER;
L_DEST_OFFSET NUMBER;
L_BLOB_CSID NUMBER := DBMS_LOB.DEFAULT_CSID;
V_LANG_CONTEXT NUMBER := DBMS_LOB.DEFAULT_LANG_CTX;
L_WARNING NUMBER;
L_AMOUNT NUMBER;
BEGIN
DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(L_BLOB, TRUE);
L_SRC_OFFSET := 1;
L_DEST_OFFSET := 1;
L_AMOUNT := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(L_CLOB);
DBMS_LOB.CONVERTTOBLOB(L_BLOB,
L_CLOB,
L_AMOUNT,
L_SRC_OFFSET,
L_DEST_OFFSET,
1,
V_LANG_CONTEXT,
L_WARNING);
RETURN L_BLOB;
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION BLOB2CLOB(L_BLOB BLOB) RETURN CLOB IS
L_CLOB CLOB;
L_SRC_OFFSET NUMBER;
L_DEST_OFFSET NUMBER;
L_BLOB_CSID NUMBER := DBMS_LOB.DEFAULT_CSID;
V_LANG_CONTEXT NUMBER := DBMS_LOB.DEFAULT_LANG_CTX;
L_WARNING NUMBER;
L_AMOUNT NUMBER;
BEGIN
DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(L_CLOB, TRUE);
L_SRC_OFFSET := 1;
L_DEST_OFFSET := 1;
L_AMOUNT := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(L_BLOB);
DBMS_LOB.CONVERTTOCLOB(L_CLOB,
L_BLOB,
L_AMOUNT,
L_SRC_OFFSET,
L_DEST_OFFSET,
1,
V_LANG_CONTEXT,
L_WARNING);
RETURN L_CLOB;
END;
And now, for the piece de' resistance, we need a BLOB to CLOB conversion that assumes that the BLOB data is stored initially in WE8ISO8859P1.
To find correct CSID for WE8ISO8859P1, we can use this query:
select nls_charset_id('WE8ISO8859P1') from dual;
Gives "31"
create or replace FUNCTION BLOB2CLOBASC(L_BLOB BLOB) RETURN CLOB IS
L_CLOB CLOB;
L_SRC_OFFSET NUMBER;
L_DEST_OFFSET NUMBER;
L_BLOB_CSID NUMBER := 31;      -- treat blob as WE8ISO8859P1
V_LANG_CONTEXT NUMBER := 31;   -- treat resulting clob as WE8ISO8850P1
L_WARNING NUMBER;
L_AMOUNT NUMBER;
BEGIN
DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(L_CLOB, TRUE);
L_SRC_OFFSET := 1;
L_DEST_OFFSET := 1;
L_AMOUNT := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(L_BLOB);
DBMS_LOB.CONVERTTOCLOB(L_CLOB,
L_BLOB,
L_AMOUNT,
L_SRC_OFFSET,
L_DEST_OFFSET,
L_BLOB_CSID,
V_LANG_CONTEXT,
L_WARNING);
RETURN L_CLOB;
END;
select dump(dbms_lob.substr(blob2clobasc(data),4000,1)) from my_contents_lob;
Now, we can compare these:
select dbms_lob.compare(blob2clob(old.data),new.data) from my_contents new,my_contents_lob old where new.pk1=old.pk1;
DBMS_LOB.COMPARE(BLOB2CLOB(OLD.DATA),NEW.DATA)
                                                             0
                                                             0
                                                             0
Vs
select dbms_lob.compare(blob2clobasc(old.data),new.data) from my_contents new,my_contents_lob old where new.pk1=old.pk1;
DBMS_LOB.COMPARE(BLOB2CLOBASC(OLD.DATA),NEW.DATA)
                                                               -1
                                                               -1
                                                               -1
update my_contents a set data=(select blob2clobasc(data) from my_contents_lob b where a.pk1= b.pk1)
    where pk1 in (select al.pk1 from my_contents_lob al where dbms_lob.compare(blob2clob(al.data),a.data) =0 );
SQL> select dump(dbms_lob.substr(data,4000,1)) from my_contents where pk1 in (select pk1 from my_contents_lob);
Confirms that we're now working properly.
To run across all the _LOB tables we've created:
[oracle@RESTORECLONE ~]$ exp file=all_fixed_lobs.dmp buffer=4000000 userid=my_user/mypass tables=MY_CONTENTS_LOB,MY_FORUM_LOB...
[oracle@RESTORECLONE ~]$ scp all_fixed_lobs.dmp jboulier@PRODCLONE:/tmp
And then on PRODCLONE we can import:
imp file=all_fixed_lobs.dmp buffer=4000000 userid=system/XXXXXXX fromuser=my_user touser=my_user
Instead of running the above update statement for all the affected tables, we can use a simple stored procedure:
create or replace procedure fix_us7_CLOBS
(TABLE_NAME varchar2,
     FIX_COL varchar2 )
    authid current_user
    as
     orig_sql varchar2(1000);
     bak_sql varchar2(1000);
    begin
    dbms_output.put_line('Creating '||TABLE_NAME||'_PRECONV to preserve the original data in the table');
    bak_sql:='create table '||TABLE_NAME||'_preconv as select pk1,'||FIX_COL||' from '||TABLE_NAME||' where pk1 in (select pk1 from '||TABLE_NAME||'_LOB) ';
    execute immediate bak_sql;
    orig_sql:='update '||TABLE_NAME||' tabnew set '||FIX_COL||'= (select blob2clobasc ('||FIX_COL||') from '||TABLE_NAME||'_LOB taborig where tabnew.pk1=taborig.pk1)
   where pk1 in (
   select a.pk1 from '||TABLE_NAME||'_LOB a,'||TABLE_NAME||' b
      where a.pk1=b.pk1
             and dbms_lob.compare(blob2clob(a.'||FIX_COL||'),b.'||FIX_COL||') = 0 )';
    -- dbms_output.put_line(orig_sql);
    execute immediate orig_sql;
   end;
Now we can run the procedure and it fixes everything for our previously-broken tables, keeping the changed rows -- just in case -- in a table called table_name_PRECONV.
set serveroutput on time on timing on;
exec fix_us7_clobs('MY_CONTENTS','DATA');
commit;
After confirming with the client that the changes work -- and haven't noticeably broken anything else -- the same routines can be carefully run against the actual production database.

We converted using the database using scripts I developed. I'm not quite sure how we converted is relevant, other than saying that we did not use the Oracle conversion utility (not csscan, but the GUI Java tool).
A summary:
1) We replaced the lossy characters by parsing a csscan output file
2) After re-scanning with csscan and coming up clean, our DBA converted the database to AL32UTF8 (changed the parameter file, changing the character set, switched the semantics to char, etc).
3) Final step was changing existing tables to use char semantics by changing the table schema for VARCHAR2 columns
Any specific steps I cannot easily answer, I worked with a DBA at our company to do this work. I handled the character replacement / DDL changes and the DBA ran csscan & performed the database config changes.
Our actual error message:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00210: expected '<' instead of '�Error at line 1
31011. 00000 - "XML parsing failed"
*Cause:    XML parser returned an error while trying to parse the document.
*Action:   Check if the document to be parsed is valid.
Error at Line: 24 Column: 15
This seems to match the the document ID referenced below. I will ask our DBA to pull it up and review it.
Please advise if more information is needed from my end.

Upgrade from ICM 6 to 7 (TR) -- Domain conversion tool / UMT

Hi, we are currently upgrading from 6 to 7.0 and subsequently to 7.5 (TR, new hardware, new domain, new instance). So far we've staged our W2k3 domain and all the other soon to be ICM servers.
I'm currently trying to migrate the domain users and it tells me that I need to use the Domain Conversion Tool to go migrate the domain users from 6 to 7. (Staging guide chpter 4)
I can't find any documentation on the Domain Conversion Tool, when I run the executable I can see the different triggers (below) but that's it.
I've done an export and gotten a file but what next?
Do I do a convert now?
is the convert going to change my production database?
I'm also reading that the Domain Conversion Tool was replaced by the UMT (for 7.0 to 7.+).
Or should I now use the UMT and point it to my export file?
Im afraid to run the convert and and messing up my Rogger sideA database?
Has anybody use this tool?
any tips and or documentation is appreciated. Thanks
D:\ciscoutils\domainCnvTool>domcvt
The syntax of this command is:
DomCvt.exe /DB:dbname /F:filename /M:mode [/OD:old domain name]
          [/ND:new domain name][/P:password]
   /DB:dbname           Specifies the database name to operate on (e.g. cust1_sideA)
   /F:filename          Specifies the full path of the file to import or export to
   /M:mode              Indicates export mode or convert mode
                         E Export mode
                         C Convert mode
The following switches are only needed in Convert Mode:
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   /ND:new domain name Specifies the new domain name to convert to in NetBIOS form (e.g. MyDomain) or DNS form (e.g. MyDomain.mycompany.com)
   /P:password          Specifies the default password to be set for all the users in the new domain
Use quotation marks when there are spaces in the file name or password

Hi,
From the 7.x(y) Staging Guide:　
Common Steps Required before Migrating any ICM ComponentOn the Domain Controllers:
Confirm that Domain Controllers have been upgraded from NT Domain to Windows 2000Active DirectoryOn the CallRouter Server:
　\RouterA\Router\CurrentVersion\Configuration\Global\DBMaintenance.
Note:
If moving a CICM with SideA and SideB disable the Configuration changes on bothsides.
On the Logger server:　
Copy the Domain Conversion Tool (DomCvt.exe) from the ICM 5.0(0) or ICM 6.0(0) Third-PartyTools CD as applicable (Domain Conversion Utility folder) onto the Logger server.
Export the ICM user list using the DomCvt tool using the following command:
domcvt /DB:<instancename>_sideA /F:c:\DomConvert\userlist.txt /M:E.
And then lower down in the guide:
On the Logger server:
Step 18
Run the Domain Conversion Tool to convert the ICM users exported earlier, using the followingcommand:
domcvt /DB: <instance_name>_sideA /F:c:\DomConvert\userlist.txt /M:C /OD:<old_domain_netbios_name> /ND: <new_domain_netbios_name>Note: You can use the /p option to create a global password. If you do not use the /p option,the password is reset to null.
I'm looking to run this myself shortly. The only caveat with this info is that its extracted from the section related to ICM5 and migration from multiple to single forest ... so possibly not the correct info. However, there's not much documentation on this as you've seen!
Jed

Best Practice for serving static files (gif, css, js) from front web server

I am working on optimization of portal performance by moving static files (gif, css, js) to my front web server (apache) for WLP 10 portal application. I end up with moving whole "framework" folder of the portal WebContent to file system served by apache web server (the one which hosts WLS plugin pointing to my WLP cluster). I use <LocationMatch> directives for that:
Alias /portalapp/framework "/somewhere/servedbyapache/docs/framework"
<Directory "/somewhere/servedbyapache/docs/framework">
<FilesMatch "\.(jsp|jspx|layout|shell|theme|xml)$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>
<LocationMatch "/partalapp(?!/framework)">
     SetHandler weblogic-handler
     WLCookieName MYPORTAL
</LocationMatch>
So, now browser gets all static files from apache insted of the app server. However, there are several files from bighorn L&F, which are located in the WLP shared lib: skins/bighorn/ window.css, wsrp.css, menu.css, general.css, colors.css; skins/bighorn/borderless/window.css; skeletons/bighorn/js/ util.js, buttons.js; skeleton/bighorn/css/layout.css
I have to merge these files into the project and physically move them into apache served file system to make mentioned above apache configuration works.
However, this approach makes me exposed bunch of framework resources, which I do not to intend to change and they should not be change (only custom.css is the place to make custom changes to the bighorn skin). Which is obviously not very elegant solution. The other approach would be intend to create more elaborate expression for LocationMatch (I am not sure it's entirely possible giving location of these shared resources). More radical move - stop using bighorn and create totally custom L&F (skin, skeleton) - which is quire a lot of work (plus - bighorn is working just fine for us).
I am wondering what is the "Best Practice Approach" approach recommended by Oracle/BEA - giving the fact that I want to serve all static files from my front end apache server instead fo WLS app server.
Thanks,
Oleg.

Oleg,
you might want to have a look at the official WLP performance support pattern (Metalink DocID 761001.1 ) , which contains a section about "Configuring a Fronting Web Server Serving WebLogic Portal 8.1 Static Artifacts ".
It was written for WLP 8.1, but most of the settings / recommendations should also to WLP 10.
--Stefan

Find command syntax to perform an audio conversion

Hi there,
I have to navigate through a tree of directories in which I have some .flac files and for each one I find launch a command to convert them to an iTunes recognized format (around 4000 files and a few hundred directories) possibly in the same directory where the flac file is found.
I can find the flac with the find "/Volumes/Qmultimedia/rjamusic -iname \*\.flac" command, what next ?
Thank you very much
Rob
Mac OS X Lion, iTunes 10.5.2

From the man file:
-exec utility [argument ...] ;
             True if the program named utility returns a zero value as its exit status. Optional arguments may be
             passed to the utility. The expression must be terminated by a semicolon (``;''). If you invoke find
             from a shell you may need to quote the semicolon if the shell would otherwise treat it as a control
             operator. If the string ``{}'' appears anywhere in the utility name or the arguments it is replaced by
             the pathname of the current file. Utility will be executed from the directory from which find was exe-
             cuted. Utility and arguments are not subject to the further expansion of shell patterns and constructs.
EXAMPLE
find / -type f -exec echo {} \;
             Use the echo(1) command to print out a list of all the files.
Add whatever audio conversion utility you are using instead of echo.

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Hi,While working on a Dataload rule file,I was facing this problem.I'm getting date in the format "m(m)/d(d)/yyyy hh:mm:ss". Is there a way to change this to "mm/yy" ??(There won't be anyproblem if I get mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss style. but unfortunately not.)

Can you run the file through a "conversion process" prior to loading?We do similiar thing here. We get a feed from Hyperion Enterprise and run it through a home grown conversion utility written in Windows Script before we load into Essbase.It reads in the file line by line and then writes out a new file properly formatted.

Conversion of Oracle Reports to BI Publishser.

Hi,
When trying to convert the oracle report to BI publisher using the conversion utility Iam encountering the below error.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: oracle/apps/x
do/rdfparser/BIPBatchConversion (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
The below steps I followed
1) copied all necessary .jar files to the D:\jdev\project folder
2) Set the classpath
3) set the path and class path with correct java home C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0\lib
ran the below command to convert the .xml file created using the report converter tool.
D:\Jdev\project>java.exe -classpath aolj.jar;xdocore.jar;collections.jar;j5472959_xdo.zip;versioninfo.jar;xmlparserv2-904.jar oracle.apps.xdo.rdfparser.BIPBatchConversion -source d:\Desg\output -target d:\Desg\output -debug
Any Suggestion is highly appreciated.
Thanks.

You have to change the system parameters :
DESTFORMAT = Delimited
DESNAME = c:\file.xls
DESTYPE = FILE

RTFTemplateGenerator - migraton Utility

Hi All, I am trying to convert my existing 10g reports to BIP 11g.
Is there a conversion utility for this?
I am familiar with the conversion utility for BIP10g but from my understanding abt 11g, it cannot be reused. Am I correct?
When I use the RTFTemplateGenerator to create templates for my existing reports, I dont see charts and graphs getting converted. Is this expected or am i doing something wrong? What are the other caveats I need to bear in mind when using this conversion utility to create RTF templates?
Also, since I am using the BIP10g jars to create the templates, can I use the same ones in 11g or is there some other upgrade utility i need to use for that?

Jorge, Thanks for the links.
In effect, you recommend to use the migration utility to convert to 10g and use upgrade assistant to upgrade to 11g?
And also, any mention about charts from oracle reports? do they usually get migrated?
The link i fillowed to add the jars is, http://bloggingaboutoracleapplications.org/oracle-bi-report-migration-utility/
Am i missing chart detail since I didnt certain jars?
Thanks for your help.
(P.S : I am finding your links useful, marking your reply as helpful grants you points or should I do something else? )

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