Issues: Migration from 3.0.6.6.5 to 3.0.9.8.3A

Question

G'day All,
Over the last week or so I have performed some test migrations using copies
of our production Portal environment and here are some of the issues that I have encountered.
ISSUE 1 - Performance
Using a stopwatch (primitive, I know) I visited a few parts of our Portal and recorded timings
Performance did not improve dramatically. In fact, after the 3.0.9.8.3A patch, some things slowed right down.
I tested using a Sun Ultra 80 (2 x 450MHz CPUs) our Development host.
(I also tested using a spare Ultra 10 (1 x 333MHz) This was MUCH slower than the numbers seen below)
In all the timings below, I did the following:
1.Logged on as PORTAL30 this takes me to the Portal Home page showing the Build tab
2. Clicked on the Navigator icon
3. From the Navigator Pages section, I clicked on our company homepage
4. From the Main tab on the company homepage, I clicked on our Customer Service tab (one of many that we have)
5. Click on the Ops & Security tab (another one of ours)
6. Click on Logout
Timings are in SECONDS
Pre migration - Portal 3.0.6.6.5 iAS 1.0.2.0.1
Log in          4     3
Navigator     3     3
Homepage     3     3
First tab     4     3
Second tab     3     3
Logout          1     1
Post iAS migration - Portal 3.0.6.6.5 iAS 1.0.2.2.0
Log in          4     3
Navigator     3     3
Homepage     3     3
First tab     4     4
Second tab     3     4
Logout          1     1
** No significant difference
Post Portal migration - Portal 3.0.9.8.2 iAS 1.0.2.2.0
Log in          3     3
Navigator     3     3
Homepage     3     4
First tab     4     4
Second tab     3     3
Logout          1     1
** No significant difference
Post iAS Patch 1866039 Required by Portal 3.0.9.8.3A
Log in          3     3
Navigator     3     3
Homepage     4     4
First tab     4     4
Second tab     3     3
Logout          1     1
** No significant difference
Post Portal migration - Portal 3.0.9.8.3A iAS 1.0.2.2.0
Log in          3     3
Navigator     19     19 !!!!!!!!
Homepage     20     21 !!!!!!!!
First tab     3     3
Second tab     3     3
Logout          1     1
** Bringing up Navigator and the first page from Navigator now takes ages.
Analysing PORTAL30 objects using wwsbr_stats.gather_stats made no difference
to the above timings.
Anyone have any ideas about this???
Bear in mind that this slow down probably only affects me as the
developer since end users pretty much stick to the tabs on the homepage
and never need to use Navigator.
And end user login and presentation of the company homepages takes about 4 seconds.
ISSUE 2 - Fonts
During the migration, many of our developed forms/reports now contain headings/labels that
are so small as to be unreadable (eg 1 point in size)
This seems to be due to the fact that originally the fonts were sized as (-3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3)
relative sizing. This has been screwed up during migration and has ended up as fonts
being sized 1, 2, 3 points in size.
I will have to visit each form and report and set sizes accordingly.
The PEOPLE_APP application supplied by Oracle also suffers from this problem and is a little harder
to fix. (Check Metalink)
ISSUE 3 - Menu permissions
I have a couple of menus that are only viewable by certain groups.
This permission disappeared along the way leaving the menu NOT visible to anyone.
I will have to visited each menu and set permissions once again.
I hope this list may help others embarking on the same migration path.
I would highly recommend copying your production environment and practising on the copy first.
Regards,
Tony Cook
eSign Australia
[email protected]

Answer 1

I'm Sorry, reading a couple of posts down, it says... the upgrade scripts should be available between April 23rd to 28th.
Jon Reed