IFS and NLS

Does iFS support NLS ?
If the answer is no, is it foreseen and when ?
Thanks Luca
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If you are from a part of the world where your thougths can not be described in 7-bit ASCII you can get some NLS-functionality into iFS. Ignore the install-guide and create the database in your favorite character set (I used WE8ISO8859P1). Then you will at least get interMedia Text searches to work in all supported locales. You will also be able to create documents with non-ASCII names, but beware!! There is no filename conversion in the SMB protocol yet. You will also see some problems with MIME-encoded headers and quoted printable emails. But by simply having the database functionality in my locale did transfer iFS from totally usless to something brilliant :-)

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Oracle ifs and BEA weblogic

Oracle ifs and BEA weblogic
We have one application server with weblogic and and ifs 1.0.9 , and one db server with Oracle 8.1.7.
with the following configuration:
Web server
appl server with weblogic 6.0 and ifs 1.1.9
Oracle 8i Enterprise with interMedia text
We need to use the iFS API call for our application.
As I know, weblogic 6.0 support JDK1.3 but ifs 1.1.9 supports up to JDK1.2.
Is this configuration possible?
Any conflict if two version JDK co-exist inside same machine?
Any suggestion?
If I separate the appl. server into two machines, that is,
one server installed with weblogic, the other one installed with ifs.
How could I make use the ifs API call from appl. server?
Is there any configuration guides for this setting?
Thanks a lot.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Luis:
The iFS API is 100% pure Java. You can use it from any other Java application, be it JSP, EJB, or a standalone application.
So it really comes down to the CLASSPATH. The iFS API is split among a set of .jar files, and some of the configuration information is stored in .properties files that are outside of these .jar files. All of this stuff needs to be in the CLASSPATH of whatever JVM is calling the iFS API.
The iFS API uses the Oracle JDBC driver to communicate with the Oracle database. This is another requirement. You can't use another JDBC driver; you have to use ours.
So again, it's all about configuration.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Would you mind to share more detail on configurating weblogic to integrate the iFS API?
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TO_NUMBER and NLS parameters......don't understand

I am trying to get my head around the use of format elements and NLS parameters with TO_NUMBER and TBH am at my wits end. So I'm going to start with something simple. I've never bothered or had to bother with the third parameter 'nls params' for NLS settings and now that I have I really regret it.
This works even though the '.' and ',' characters are not in their normal positions....
SQL> SELECT TO_NUMBER( '17.000,23', '999G999D99', 'nls_numeric_characters='',.'' ') FROM DUAL;
TO_NUMBER('17.000,23','999G999D99','NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS='',.''')
17000.2
So why is this version throwing up an error? (I should say all I've changed is the order of ',' and '.' in the string)
SQL> SELECT TO_NUMBER( '17,000.23', '999G999D99', 'nls_numeric_characters='',.'' ') FROM DUAL;
SELECT TO_NUMBER( '17,000.23', '999G999D99', 'nls_numeric_characters='',.'' ') FROM DUAL
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01722: invalid number
Also does the order of characters matter here 'nls_numeric_characters='',.'' ') ?
I apologise but when marking code in my spl*plus CLI and trying to paste here as 'SQL insert' lines ended up missing or wrapping or line spacing changing seconds later. I ended up with one line written over the other and the missing lines only being visible when highlighted!!!

Also does the order of characters matter here 'nls_numeric_characters='',.'' ') ?
Of course the order is important. How would you tell the meaning of each character if it wasn't?
First character is the decimal separator, and the second is the thousand separator.
Your first query is OK because the decimal separator used in the input string is '.' and the thousand separator is ',', which matches exactly the characters specified in the NLS parameter.
The second query failed for the opposite reason.

Transactions accross iFS and 'normal' database

I want to do a combined transaction where file operations are combined with normal table data transactions - for instance I would like to delete a file and at the same time insert a row in my log-table (this is just an example :-)).
The documentation is quite unhelpful here as it gives me no description on how to do this. Has anybody out there tries this ?
Thanks in advance
Jacob

Hi,
Is there a way to do something like this? I need to update a field in another schema on the same database as IFS, based on a action that happens in IFS.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jacob Due (jcd@ramboll:
Tkanks for the input but I really want a more general approach :-) - using a trigger will make something happen allways (I might have application functionality that should not trigger any action other than the iFS action), and I really do not like having my application code in database triggers. So what I whish for is that I can somehow have a shared transaction spanning across the iFS and the normal database with full two phase commit.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Running ifs and ctx as service

I am trying to run ctx and ifs as a service so that I can log off the administrator. I have created a service using the windows2000 resource toolkit, and start ifs and ctx in a .bat file for the service to run. I added two dependencies to the service: OracleTNSListener and OracleServiceORCL817. I get these errors in the log files:
**Ctx Error**
11-14-04 08/27/02 === OCO server startup ===
11-14-04 08/27/02 Initialized CORE
11-14-12 08/27/02 === Server failure ===
11-14-13 08/27/02 DRG-11100: unable to connect to the database
11-14-13 08/27/02 ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
11-14-14 08/27/02 Fail to OCIServerAttach...
11-14-15 08/27/02 === Server shutting down ===
**Agents and protocol log **
Tue Aug 27 11:00:08 CDT 2002
IfsException in starting ServerManager; FATAL
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10620: Unable to construct connection pool
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10633: Unable to create library connection
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10600: Unable to construct library connection
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
Server Manager exiting.
My question is if it is even possible to do this and if so why don't these start?
** File Service runs**
call c:\oracle\ora817\ifs1.1\bin\ifsstart.bat
call c:\oracle\ora817\bin\ctxsrv -user ctxsys/ctxsys -log c:\oracle\ifsconfig\ctxm.log
Urgently need advice.

If you have database and iFS on one computer, your problem is probably the sequence of starting services.
You probably don't have database or/and listener started by the time you start iFS.
Maybe the solution is to modify your scripts to check that database is started or to wait some time before starting iFS.
Alexandre

IFS and iAS (OAS)

We currently use OAS as our web server. All pages are dynamically generated and stored on our Oracle 8i database. My question is this: Is there a way to connect from my OAS web page to iFS and be authenticated to iFS with the username/password combination I entered to access the web site?

Joe
Here's the JspLogin class I used in a demo once. It implements the IfsHttpLogin interface.
Once you've instantiated it you'll need to connect to the repository and obtain a LibrarySession interface and then invoke the setSession() method on the JspLogin object.
The code will look something like this
LibraryService ifsService = new LibraryService();
CleartextCredential me = new CleartextCredential(username,password);
ConnectOptions connect = new ConnectOptions();
connect.setLocale(Locale.getDefault());
connect.setServiceName(service);
connect.setServicePassword(schemaPassword);
LibrarySession ifsSession = ifsService.connect(me,connect);
if (DEBUG) {
Alert.log("JspUtilities.obtainSession: Session Created.");
JspLogin login = new JspLogin();
login.setSession(ifsSession);
httpSession.putValue(IFSHTTPLOGIN,login);
Note IFSHTTPLOGIN is defined as follows
public static final String IFSHTTPLOGIN = "IfsHttpLogin";
I used this code once in a demo. I've not tested that the Login object this creates will allow the complete iFS WebUI to run. This code is definitely supplied as is, with no warranties or anything else for that matter.
Regards
MDD
package ifs.demo.common.jsp;
import oracle.ifs.beans.DirectoryUser;
import oracle.ifs.beans.FolderPathResolver;
import oracle.ifs.beans.LibrarySession;
import oracle.ifs.beans.LibraryService;
import oracle.ifs.common.IfsException;
import oracle.ifs.adk.security.IfsHttpLogin;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent;
public class JspLogin implements IfsHttpLogin
private LibrarySession m_IfsSession;
private FolderPathResolver m_Resolver;
// Default constructor required by the jsp spec for the USEBEAN tag
public JspLogin() throws IfsException
public void setSession(LibrarySession ifsSession)
throws IfsException
m_IfsSession = ifsSession;
m_Resolver = new FolderPathResolver(ifsSession);
m_Resolver.setRootFolder();
public LibrarySession getSession()
return m_IfsSession;
public FolderPathResolver getResolver()
return m_Resolver;
public void valueBound(HttpSessionBindingEvent parm1) {
public void valueUnbound(HttpSessionBindingEvent parm1) {
}

IFS and Excel Documents

Good Morning,
I am new to working with iFS. My questions revolves around placing excel documents into iFS. We want to place excel spreadsheets into iFS and then we want to read the data from the excel sheet into the database. Is this possible?

could you explain exactly what you mean? do you mean parsing the contents of the excel spreadsheet (into CSV for example)?

IFS and EJB

I want to develop an EJB session bean that utilizes the IFS Java API. Is this a supported configuration. Are there any examples of IFS and EJB.
Thanks,
Brian
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First, if you define an iFS content type whose name and structure matches the schema of your XML document, the iFS SimpleXMLParser will automatically decompose the XML document and store each section as attributes on the iFS object. Refer to the Oracle iFS Developer's Guide for instructions on creating new content types and parsing XML instances.
Second, you can store XML documents in iFS without parsing the XML using the Web UI upload via browse interface. Oracle iFS 1.0 is configured so that it uses interMedia text to index the XML document. Subsequently, you'll be able to execute content searches for the document using section criteria (e.g. content contains 'interMedia' within 'Title').

IFS and Highlight

Is it possible to create a Highlight for a Context Search within iFS and how i do them?
I got a SearchResultObject and would like to create and display a highlight on each result object.
Thanks for all contribute.
Stefano.

There are two ways to search by 'section' in XML documents.
First, if you define an iFS content type whose name and structure matches the schema of your XML document, the iFS SimpleXMLParser will automatically decompose the XML document and store each section as attributes on the iFS object. Refer to the Oracle iFS Developer's Guide for instructions on creating new content types and parsing XML instances.
Second, you can store XML documents in iFS without parsing the XML using the Web UI upload via browse interface. Oracle iFS 1.0 is configured so that it uses interMedia text to index the XML document. Subsequently, you'll be able to execute content searches for the document using section criteria (e.g. content contains 'interMedia' within 'Title').

IFS and Portal repositories

I need to craft a content management solution using both iFS and portal and whilst I thought this would be easy - it isn't. Why do iFS and Portal use different document repositories?? (they should either be the same - or at least be configurable to be the same!!). I know that you can extend iFS but I'm noJava expert so wouldn't have a clue how to go about it.
Has anyone written anything for iFS that would allow me to read and write documents to the Portal repositories?? If so would you be willing to share the information.
Thanks
Tim

The following thread, http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum36/HTML/001021.html,
confirms Oracle are looking at integrating but with no timelines. I agree customising Portal to us iFS as for it's doc mgnt is an ideal solution. It is something that we are currently embarking on and will let you know how it goes.
Bernard

IfS and ifSWithoutElse: What is their functinality?

Hi All,
In SP 15 two new standard functions: ifS and ifSWithoutElse have been added.
How are they different from if and ifWithoutElse functions?
Could not find much about them on SAP Help.
Regards,
Anurag Mahendru.

It has been clearly defined in the oss note
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1090369
For your benefit and the benefit of the group I am pasting the content from the above oss note
*********************Start of note**********************
Summary
Symptom
The behaviour of functions 'if' and 'ifWithoutElse' in Message-Mapping has been changed. We have changed it after we've become aware of the fact that both functions behave inconsistently with the documentation.
This change has some important consequences, which are described in this note.
Let us consider the function 'if'. The situation with 'ifWithoutElse' is analogous to it.
There are, in fact, two distinct use-cases for the function 'if':
1. One is when the function is used as an if statement. For example, consider this pseudocode:
if <condition>
value = <expression1>
else
value = <expression2>
end
In this case, one expects that the <condition> expression is evaluated first and then, depending on the value of the condition, one of the branch expressions is evaluated and assigned to variable 'value'.
2. The second use case is when the function is used as a procedure. In pseudocode:
value = if (<condition>, <expression1>, <expression2>)
In this case, all three expressions (<condition>, <expression1> and <expression2>) whould be evaluated first and the results of this expressions would be passed to function 'if', which in turn, would return one of them, depending on condition value, to be assigned to 'value' variable. This second use-case is also known in some programming languages as function 'iif'.
In Message-Mapping, the analog of evaluating an expression is advancing a pointer on one of the argument queues of a function. It turned out that the function 'if' did not consistently work either way and that the customers need both variants of the function. The SAP Note 1053706 has delivered the first patch to the function 'if'. This patch was not functionally complete and the function 'if' was patched again. The SAP Note 1085331 has delivered the finally fixed function 'if'. With this Note, the function always works as in use-case 2 above. That is, all arguments are evaluated first, then value of one of them is returned. To minimize compatibility problems with old usages, the function makes one exception to this rule: in case when evaluating one of the branches throws an Exception, the function ignores it, if the exception is in the branch that is not selected by condition.
This change in behaviour can lead to some of the Message-Mappings producing different results than before implementing the patch.
One common problem situation is when one of the branches of function 'if' contains a User-Defined function that produces side-effects. Like increments and stores a counter in 'GlobalContainer', for example. Such functions will be executed more times than before and will cause the numbering to go awry.
Other terms
Message Mapping, XI, PI, IF,IFS IFSWIthoutElse Boolean functions
Reason and Prerequisites
See above.
Solution
To provide customers with functions to use in use-case 1 above, SAP will deliver new standard functions 'ifS' and 'ifSWithoutElse'. The 'S' in the names states for 'Statement'. The new functions will be delivered in
Patch level 1 of SP21 of XITOOLS 3.0,
and SP22 onwards
Patch level 1 of SP14 of XITOOLS 7.0,
Patch level 2 of SP15 of XITOOLS 7.0
and SP16 onwards
SP05 of SAPXIESR 7.1 and SAPXIPCK 7.1,
and subsequent Support Packages of each corresponding major release.
It is not recommended to install the patches between SAP Note 1053706 and 1085331. If you decide to install a patch from Note 1085331 or any subsequent release, carefully test Message-Mappings before deploying the patch in productive systems.
In case the upgrade is necessary and Message-Mappings do not work as before, there is a possibility to workaround the problem. There's no known generic workaround for all kinds of problems that can arise.
Note :
IFS and IFSWIthoutElse functions have a Limitation.
When the The IFS and IFSWIthoutElse functions have the UDF of type Queue or Context, it will be executed unconditionally.
i.e the Queue UDF will be executed once even it does not have a matching condition in the input queue and the Context UDF will be executed once for every Context in the input queue, even if there is no matching condition in the input context.
For situation with functions leaving side-effects described above, we recommend to add a new argument to the User-Defined Function and create the side-effect conditionally based on that argument. Most probably you will want to put in this additional argument the same queue that you use in condition for function 'ifS'.
Please read the relevant Note 1158485 also.
Header Data
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 30.04.2008 13:52:29
Priority: HotNews
Category: Program error
Primary Component: BC-XI-IBD-MAP Mapping
*********************End of note**********************

Lost inside my ifs and elses

i was in the middle of trying to amend my program and something has changed and i just cannot work out what is goin wrong. it is something to do with my ifs and elses and else ifs and my brackets cause this is all that i've changed. i've been tryin to sort it out for over an hour. any help would be massively appreciated. this is in the actionperformed method of main interface for an applet, i can post up the whole class if that would help:
          //Guess section begins: if guess button is pressed...
      if (e.getSource()==guessButton) {
              //counter increments and buttons are disabled
                  counter = counter +1;
                  harryRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  montanaRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  deVitoRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  corleoneRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  gunRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  knifeRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  poisonRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  ropeRadio.setEnabled(false);
                  guessButton.setEnabled(false);
                  newGameButton.setEnabled(false);
               newGuessButton.setEnabled(false);
               //if gunRadio or montanaRadio is selected
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     play(getDocumentBase(), "crowdcheer.wav");
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             newGameButton.setEnabled(true);
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       play(getDocumentBase(), "impress.wav");
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       newGuessButton.setEnabled(true);
/*if no correct guesses send try again to text area, play .wav file and enable new guess button*/
           else{
     resultText.setText("Try Again");
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          if (counter==3) {
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resultText.setText("Thats 3 guesses, you better watch out the
murderer is\n"+"coming after you for squealing to the police");
           play(getDocumentBase(), "laugh04.wav");
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           newGameButton.setEnabled(true);
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((e.getSource()==newGameButton)||(e.getSource()==newGuessButton)) {
           resultText.setText("Catch him before he kills again");
           newGuessButton.setEnabled(false);
           harryRadio.setEnabled(true);
           montanaRadio.setEnabled(true);
           deVitoRadio.setEnabled(true);
           corleoneRadio.setEnabled(true);
           gunRadio.setEnabled(true);
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           ropeRadio.setEnabled(true);
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        if (e.getSource()==newGameButton)
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           guessButton.setEnabled(true);
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Here's your code fomatted, this should make it more obvious. Hint, if (counter == 3).
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          //counter increments and buttons are disabled
          counter = counter + 1;
          harryRadio.setEnabled(false);
          montanaRadio.setEnabled(false);
          deVitoRadio.setEnabled(false);
          corleoneRadio.setEnabled(false);
          gunRadio.setEnabled(false);
          knifeRadio.setEnabled(false);
          poisonRadio.setEnabled(false);
          ropeRadio.setEnabled(false);
          guessButton.setEnabled(false);
          newGameButton.setEnabled(false);
          newGuessButton.setEnabled(false);
          //if gunRadio or montanaRadio is selected
          if ((gunRadio.isSelected()) || (montanaRadio.isSelected())) {
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                    play(getDocumentBase(), "crowdcheer.wav");
                    resultText.setText("Well done, you caught the killer");
                    newGameButton.setEnabled(true);
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                    play(getDocumentBase(), "impress.wav");
                    resultText.setText("You got one guess right");
                    newGuessButton.setEnabled(true);
          //if no correct guesses send try again to text area, play .wav file and enable new guess button
          else {
               resultText.setText("Try Again");
               play(getDocumentBase(), "doh.wav");
               newGuessButton.setEnabled(true);
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          if (counter == 3) {
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                    //play(getDocumentBase(), "crowdcheer.wav");
                    resultText.setText("Well done, you caught the killer");
          else {
               //else set text in results text, play .wav file, disable newGuess and guess buttons and enable newGame
               resultText.setText(
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               newGuessButton.setEnabled(false);
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          harryRadio.setEnabled(true);
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          deVitoRadio.setEnabled(true);
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          ropeRadio.setEnabled(true);
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          newGameButton.setEnabled(false);
     //if newGame button is pressed set text to resultText and enable guessButton, and return counter to 0
     if (e.getSource() == newGameButton) {
          resultText.setText("Catch him before he kills again");
          guessButton.setEnabled(true);
          counter = 0;
     }

How to synchronize files in the iFS and a record of table ?

I have table that contains information about a documents. Document's name, author, project number, etc... Documents are files made by Word or Autocad etc.. Documents are saved in the iFS.
One record in the table should correspond one document in the iFS.
Do somebody know how can I syncronice the Table and iFS so, that if someone add's (or delete) a file to the iFS, that reflects to the table too ? This mean that a record should be added to the table.
Do I need some special column in the record that points to document ?
Thanks,
Antti

A better solution is to use iFS metadata to store your additional properties, instead of using a custom table. You could create a Document subclass with additional attributes, your you could attach a Category with the additional attributes to Documents in iFS. Then you could use the iFS API to get and set these attributes and they would be stored, managed, and exposed as part of the iFS content management.

SQL*Loader and NLS

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In control file replace:
MATUR_DT POSITION(78:85) DATE 'YYYYMMDD',
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On *nix set NLS_DATE_FORMAT environment variable to YYYYMMDD

OAS 4.0.8.2 and NLS problem

Hi,
I migrated from OAS 4.0.8.1 to ...2.
When I setup the net80 configuration using Easynet config I get the following error from the testing of the connection:
ORA-12705: Invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified.
It just worked fine with the earlier version of OAS.
Anyone...pls...

Problem solved.
I deleted OAS 4.0.8.2.0 and installed Web-to-go. Then I installed OAS 4.0.8.2.0.

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