Multimedia objects

Hi there folks. Hope your year is going well so far.
Has anyone used multimedia content (AVIs, WAVs, JPEGs, etc.) stored
in BinaryData objects? Is there an easy way to 'play' these on a windows
client? Are there any gotchas in terms of storing to/retrieving from the
Database? Do I need to use ActiveX controls to do this stuff?
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Duncan Kinnear,
McCarthy and Associates, Email: [email protected]
PO Box 764, McLean Towers, Phone: +64 6 834 3360
Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand. Fax: +64 6 834 3369
Providing Integrated Software to the Meat Processing Industry for over 10 years
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Well, since none of the above mentioned actions fixed the problem, Oracle Support finally suggested that I set the registry entry back to 10.2.0.3 and then redo the Oracle Multimedia Upgrade. I did the following steps and this took care of the problem:
- connect sys as sysdba
- update registry$ set version='10.2.0.3' where cid='ORDIM';
- shutdown immediate
- startup migrate
- @$ORACLE_HOME/ord/im/admin/imdbmig.sql
Thanks everyone.

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RE: Multimedia objects

Duncan,
You do not necessarily need ActiveX controls, but you will need
to use some kind of external libraries to handle the display on
the client. ActiveX is one option, of course.
Depending on what other things your application is doing, this
might be a good place to consider a browser-based client. I
find browsers to be cumbersome for a more typical business
application, but they might be particularly well-suited for
multimedia, and a lot of your viewing and playing needs will
be already built-in. You would still use Forte for the business
logic and services, of course.
As for storing the large objects in the database, this will
depend on the volume and volatility of the objects. Unless the
volume of data is relatively small and frequently modified, we
generally do not recommend storing large objects in the DBMS.
Otherwise, you will be putting a pretty heavy burden on the DBMS
in terms of transaction throughput, journaling, backup, and
recovery. The DBMS may be able to handle it, but you may well
find the solution less than satisfactory. This is particularly
true for items that rarely change once they are stored. The
backup strategy alone is much different for that type of data
than what is appropriate for the more volatile data that is
typically stored in a DBMS.
We recommend that you store the large objects as files, and use
the DBMS to store the location and file name. A Forte Service
Object can handle retrieving the stored items and returning them
to the client as files or as BinaryData objects, depending on
which works best on the client. (Some view libraries will insist
on files, others will accept data in memory.)
Other things you may want to consider when dealing with BLOB's
(Binary Large OBjects) will include the bandwidth necessary for
the large volume of data, server and client-side caching for
performance, and minimizing the network traffic by designing the
system to only move the BLOB's when necessary. In fact, our
Distrubuted Storage Manager product was designed to address
these and other related issues.
Hope this helps,
Jeanne
=====================================================
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MSF&W Software
Product Development
(217) 698-3535 ext. 207
http://www.msfw.com
=====================================================
/\ Imaging Developer - the only imaging product
\/ integrated into the Forte Development Environment
=====================================================
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[<a href="mailto:[email protected]">mailto:[email protected]]On</a> Behalf Of Duncan Kinnear
Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Multimedia objects
Hi there folks. Hope your year is going well so far.
Has anyone used multimedia content (AVIs, WAVs, JPEGs, etc.) stored
in BinaryData objects? Is there an easy way to 'play' these on a windows
client? Are there any gotchas in terms of storing to/retrieving from the
Database? Do I need to use ActiveX controls to do this stuff?
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Duncan Kinnear,
McCarthy and Associates, Email: [email protected]
PO Box 764, McLean Towers, Phone: +64 6 834 3360
Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand. Fax: +64 6 834 3369
Providing Integrated Software to the Meat Processing Industry for over 10
years
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Duncan,
You do not necessarily need ActiveX controls, but you will need
to use some kind of external libraries to handle the display on
the client. ActiveX is one option, of course.
Depending on what other things your application is doing, this
might be a good place to consider a browser-based client. I
find browsers to be cumbersome for a more typical business
application, but they might be particularly well-suited for
multimedia, and a lot of your viewing and playing needs will
be already built-in. You would still use Forte for the business
logic and services, of course.
As for storing the large objects in the database, this will
depend on the volume and volatility of the objects. Unless the
volume of data is relatively small and frequently modified, we
generally do not recommend storing large objects in the DBMS.
Otherwise, you will be putting a pretty heavy burden on the DBMS
in terms of transaction throughput, journaling, backup, and
recovery. The DBMS may be able to handle it, but you may well
find the solution less than satisfactory. This is particularly
true for items that rarely change once they are stored. The
backup strategy alone is much different for that type of data
than what is appropriate for the more volatile data that is
typically stored in a DBMS.
We recommend that you store the large objects as files, and use
the DBMS to store the location and file name. A Forte Service
Object can handle retrieving the stored items and returning them
to the client as files or as BinaryData objects, depending on
which works best on the client. (Some view libraries will insist
on files, others will accept data in memory.)
Other things you may want to consider when dealing with BLOB's
(Binary Large OBjects) will include the bandwidth necessary for
the large volume of data, server and client-side caching for
performance, and minimizing the network traffic by designing the
system to only move the BLOB's when necessary. In fact, our
Distrubuted Storage Manager product was designed to address
these and other related issues.
Hope this helps,
Jeanne
=====================================================
Jeanne Hesler <[email protected]>
MSF&W Software
Product Development
(217) 698-3535 ext. 207
http://www.msfw.com
=====================================================
/\ Imaging Developer - the only imaging product
\/ integrated into the Forte Development Environment
=====================================================
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[<a href="mailto:[email protected]">mailto:[email protected]]On</a> Behalf Of Duncan Kinnear
Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Multimedia objects
Hi there folks. Hope your year is going well so far.
Has anyone used multimedia content (AVIs, WAVs, JPEGs, etc.) stored
in BinaryData objects? Is there an easy way to 'play' these on a windows
client? Are there any gotchas in terms of storing to/retrieving from the
Database? Do I need to use ActiveX controls to do this stuff?
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Duncan Kinnear,
McCarthy and Associates, Email: [email protected]
PO Box 764, McLean Towers, Phone: +64 6 834 3360
Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand. Fax: +64 6 834 3369
Providing Integrated Software to the Meat Processing Industry for over 10
years
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Is it possible to copy and paste special add multimedia object to pdf?

I am trying to add multiple audio files to a pdf. Is there a way I can automate adding the interactive object into the same place on multiple mages with the same image poster, with same advanced settings. I am happy to select the audio file itself manually. Really need to copy and paste in place the multimedia object on multiple pages.

No.
RMAs can be copied and pasted, but you cannot change the media file and cannot store the settings from one RMA as some form of 'preset' for others to use.

Multimedia methods and MCT CPUs vs Intel CPUs

Ok, totally a geek questions here and not 100% to do with multimedia except for how it relates to CPU choice.
I see in the docs: http://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/nonsun/oracle/11.1.0.6.0/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28415/ch_dba.htm
that multimedia objects mainly do this:
I/O Pattern(Source) = Sequential read
I/O Pattern(Dest.) = Sequential write or N/A
I/O Pattern(Amount) = either Media header or All
CPU Usage = everything from Low to High
So now looking at the characteristics of the Sun UltraSPARC processor, which is noted for doing sequential stuff rather poorly, it is a wise choice to use Intel/AMD type CPUs with a Multimedia intense database?
Even if we bulk load objects with SQL*Loader, the processing of the files with multimedia methods seems to all be sequential and wouldn't use any of the beneficial things of chip multithreading. For sequential reads/writes, the Intel/AMD option performs much better.
Any thoughts or experiences using UltraSPARC with interMedia or Multimedia objects? Good or bad ...
Thanks
LJ

The Oracle Multimedia documentation provides a general characterization of I/O patterns for various operations. It is in this context (I/O patterns) that the word sequential is used. This refers, in general, to reading a file from beginning to end always in a forward direction. It has nothing to do with threading and processor scheduling. This is intended to help admins make storage planning decisions.
High application throughput can be achieved using parallelism at the application level. For example, you can have multiple jobs that are loading and initializing data simultaneously. On *unix platforms, this work will be done by multiple, single-threaded processes. On the windows platform, there is one Oracle server process with many threads.
The stuff in the Ars article is very far removed from what you can control in your database application. Concentrate on getting your storage planned properly and write a good application.

Apache 2.0, Apache 1.3 and mod_dav? Will apache 2.0 work?

I am just beginning the process of installing intermedia on a win 2k , 9i database configuration. I noted that the mod_dav module is not listed under the module listing for apache 1.3.
see-http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/index.html
The mod_dav module though is listed for apache 2.0. Will intermedia work with apache 2.0? Apache states that 2.0 differs substantially from 1.3.
Thanks-

I assume you will need to use file based mod_dav? Are you interested in ora_dav?
In general, the new direction is to use the intermedia java classes or the PL/SQL agent to store/deliver images into/from the database. It is quite easy to create a servlet with the same functionality as the interMedia web agent, but more flexible and will work in more environments. There is a simple photo album application that illustrates how to use the java classes.
The javadoc on the classes is:
http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/intermedia/htdocs/intermedia_servlet_jsp_software/index.html
The photo album example is:
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/intermedia/htdocs/intermedia_servlet_jsp_samples/imedia_servlet_jsp_readme.htm
The PL/SQL interMedia web toolkit is a web based tool that allows you to create PL/SQL procedures for the storage and delivery of multimedia objects using an Oracle database. It is a browser based GUI that will allow you to create and test the procedures.
More information on this at:
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/intermedia/htdocs/imedia_plsqlgw_sample/imedia_plsqlgw_readme.htm

Trying to understand the code???

Hi,
I am trying to understand the following bit of code, currently the code puts each catalogue into a different row of the table but i want each catalogue to be put in the next column
(so the catalogues appear across the page on the actual web page). The following code is for the page in question but im not sure how much is relevant so i will paste it all and highlight the section i think is relevant:
<html>
<%-- DECLARATIONS --%>
<%@ page import="se.ibs.ns.cf.*, se.ibs.ccf.*, se.ibs.bap.*, se.ibs.bap.util.*, se.ibs.bap.web.*, java.util.*, se.ibs.ns.icat.*, se.ibs.bap.asw.cf.*, java.lang.*" %>
<% ItemCatalogueBean bean = (ItemCatalogueBean)SessionHelper.getSessionObject("ItemCatalogueBean",session);
   String resourcePath = bean.getResourcePath(null);
   String title = "Product catalogue";
   String languageCode = bean.getLanguageCode();
%>
<%@ include file="FuncHead.jsp" %>
<BODY class="IBSBody" onLoad="loaded = true;">
<form method="POST" action=<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueSearchServlet", response) %> name="basicForm">
<%@ include file="FuncSubmitScript.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="FuncPageBegin.jsp" %>
<div align="center">
<table border="0" width="895">
    <tr>
      <td align="left" width="502">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" width="500">
    <tr>
      <td class="IBSPageTitleText" align="left" valign="top" width="238">
          <%@ include file="FuncPageTitle.jsp" %>
          <%@ include file="FuncPageTitleImage.jsp" %>
                <br>
       On this page you can see the product catalogues. Click on one of the
       links to go to the next level. Alternatively you can click the <b>Search
       catalogue</b> button to find the products of interest.</td>
           <td width="248" valign="bottom">
            <div align="left"><%@ include file="FuncShoppingCart.jsp" %></div>
           </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</div></td></tr></table></div>
<input type="submit" value="Search catalogue" name="ACTION_NONE" onClick="submitButtonOnce(this); return false">
<hr>
<%-- REPEAT CATALOGUES --%>
<div align="left">
<table border="0" width="100%">
<% Vector catalogues = bean.getItemCatalogues();
        int cataloguesSize = catalogues.size();
           for (int i = 0; i < cataloguesSize; i++){
                  BAPItemCatalogue cat = (BAPItemCatalogue) catalogues.elementAt(i); %>
          <%-- LINK AND MARK AS NEW --%>
              <tr>
                     <td width="23%"><a class="IBSMenuLink" href="link" onClick="javascript:invokeLink('<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueCategoryServlet", response) %>?CODE=<%= ToolBox.encodeURLParameter(cat.getCode())%>'); return false">
                          <%= cat.getDescription(languageCode) %></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width="40%" align="right">
                          <% if (cat.isNew()) {%>
                                 <img border=0 src="<%= resourcePath %>new.gif">
                          <% } %>
                    </td>
              </tr>
          <%-- CATALOGUES IMAGE AND INTERNET INFORMATION (text, multimedia objects,downloads, links...) --%>
              <tr>
                     <td width="23%" valign="top" align="left">
                          <% if (bean.isAdvanced(cat) && bean.hasMultimediaImage(cat)) { %>
                               <a href="link" onClick="javascript:invokeLink('<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueCategoryServlet", response) %>?CODE=<%= ToolBox.encodeURLParameter(cat.getCode())%>'); return false">
                               <img border="0" src="<%= bean.getMultimediaImage(cat) %>"></a>
                    <% } else {%>
                               <img border="0" src="<%= resourcePath %>Catalog.gif">
                          <% } %>
                     </td>
                     <td class="IBSTextNormal" width="40%" valign="top">
                          <%= bean.getWebText(cat) %>
                     </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                     <td width="23%">
                     </td>
                     <td width="40%">
                     <% Vector mmLinks = bean.getMultimediaLinks(cat);
                  int mmLinksSize = mmLinks.size();
                          for (int ml=0; ml<mmLinksSize; ml++){
                               BAPCodeAndDescription mmLink = (BAPCodeAndDescription)mmLinks.elementAt(ml); %>
                               <a class="IBSLink" href="<%= mmLink.getCode() %>" target="_blank"><%= mmLink.getDescription() %></a><br>
                     <% } %>
               <% Vector webLinks = bean.getWebLinks(cat);
                    int webLinksSize = webLinks.size();
                    for (int wl=0; wl<webLinksSize; wl++){
                               BAPCodeAndDescription webLink = (BAPCodeAndDescription)webLinks.elementAt(wl); %>
                               <a class="IBSLink" href="<%= webLink.getCode() %>" target="_blank"><%= webLink.getDescription() %></a><br>
                    <% } %>
                     </td>
              </tr>
          <%}%>
</table>
</div>
<%@ include file="FuncPageLinks.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="FuncPageEnd.jsp" %>
</form>
</body>
</html>i hope someone could help me to understand this,
thank you for your help

You've probably already seen these, but here are a couple of links that may help.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform//reference/actionscript/3/operators.html#array_a ccess
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html
What's basically happening is that the "for" loop goes through each item in the array. Don't be confused by the fact that two of the items in the array are Strings and one is an Integer - variable i being a String has nothing to do with the data type of the elements in the array.
The following code:
private function createLabels():void
     var myArray:Array = ['one', 'two', 3];
     for(var i:String in myArray)
          trace("i = " + i);
          trace(myArray[i]);
gives the following results:
i = 0
one
i = 1
two
i = 2
3
From that we can see that the "for" loop is assigning the index number of each array element, not the actual array element ('one', 'two', or 3) to the variable i. So calling myArray[i] is the same as calling myArray[0] the first time through the loop. This type of "for" loop is just a shorter way of doing the following, which produces exactly the same results:
private function createLabels():void
     var myArray:Array = ['one', 'two', 3];
     for(var i:int = 0; n < myArray.length; i++)
          trace("i = " + i);
          trace(myArray[i]);
Hope that helps.
Cheers!

Embedding mp4 into FM 12 file

I am attempting to import an mp4 video file into a FM document. It imports ok, but when I go to set the graphic name, the option is grayed out. And when I attempt to create a link to the graphic (i.e. a play and pause feature for PDF purposes), it says that the document does not have a multimedia object in it. I can double click on the imported file in FM, and it play in Windows Media Player. Not sure what I'm missing here...

Hi,
Pls verify the following:
1. You should save as pdf and not use print to pdf for this functionality to work i.e. for the video to be active in pdf
2. Pls check that all checkboxes under Edit->Preferences->General->Embed in PDF are turned on
3. Creating links to graphics work for flv, swf and 3d files only.
Thanks,
Anchal Arora
Framemaker Engineering

How the media files are stored in Oracle 10g database

I guess they have introduced new datatypes to handle multimedia objects( audio file, video file, images, etc etc). Can anyone tell which is the data type which is used to handle the media files in Oracle 10g database.
thanks,
shekar.

Check this out.
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/appdev.101/b10840/mm_uses.htm#sthref433

Bulk loading BLOBs using PL/SQL - is it possible?

Hi -
Does anyone have a good reference article or example of how I can bulk load BLOBs (videos, images, audio, office docs/pdf) into the database using PL/SQL?
Every example I've ever seen in PL/SQL for loading BLOBs does a commit; after each file loaded ... which doesn't seem very scalable.
Can we pass in an array of BLOBs from the application, into PL/SQL and loop through that array and then issue a commit after the loop terminates?
Any advice or help is appreciated. Thanks
LJ

It is easy enough to modify the example to commit every N files. If you are loading large amounts of media, I think that you will find that the time to load the media is far greater than the time spent in SQL statements doing inserts or retrieves. Thus, I would not expect to see any significant benefit to changing the example to use PL/SQL collection types in order to do bulk row operations.
If your goal is high performance bulk load of binary content then I would suggest that you look to use Sqlldr. A PL/SQL program loading from BFILEs is limited to loading files that are accessible from the database server file system. Sqlldr can do this but it can also load data from a remote client. Sqlldr has parameters to control batching of operations.
See section 7.3 of the Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide for the example Loading DICOM Content Using the SQL*Loader Utility. You will need to adapt this example to the other Multimedia objects (ORDImage, ORDAudio .. etc) but the basic concepts are the same.
Once the binary content is loaded into the database, you will need a to write a program to loop over the new content and initialize the Multimedia objects (extract attributes). The example in 7.3 contains a sample program that does this for the ORDDicom object.

Link to an external .js from PDF?

Using Acrobat 9 Pro, I have a PDF document that I want to link to an external .js file (for SCORM and LMS purposes). I have imported a multimedia object (swf) into the PDF and it needs to call several Javascript functions. Instead of copy/pasting each function of Javascript code into each PDF (menu path: Advanced > Document Processing > Document Javascripts), is it possible to write a line of code that links to an external .js file?
In HTML, it would be someting like <HEAD><SCRIPT type="text/javascript" language="Javascript" SRC="pdf.js"></SCRIPT> </HEAD>.
Possible?

Try67, thanks. You answered my question precisely.
Of course, I now realize that I asked the wrong question. Since the PDFs will be accessed via an LMS on a server, I cannot (at least, I don't think I can...need to verify...) use a folder-level script. I'm pretty sure I need a document-level script. Now, if that means I have to copy/paste all the functions I need into a document-level script, it would work, but I suspect that becomes a maintenance nightmare down the road if I ever have to update/replace code on each PDF.
It would be much easier to have a document-level "link" to an external .js file, but I suspect that is impossible based on what I've read in the Acrobat Javascript reference. Am I wrong?

How to attach PDF file to product catalog in e-Commerce ERP

Hello Experts,
We are implementing SAP E-Commerce for ERP (ECC 6.0 version)
On the product catalog, I need to attach a PDF file to the products.
I have created a document as
Document Type: DMO
In this I have created 1 original as:
Applic: PDF
Original: "abc.pdf" (the PDF file has been uploaded to the correct Web Server folder)
This document has been assigned to the product as u2018Documentsu2019 in the product catalog.
I replicated the catalog on TREX. However now I am not sure how to acess this document on the e-Commerce Products JSP.
When I access the product index on TREX, I do not see any attribute that contains this document Type containing the PDF.
(The standard LIM / SIM documents are getting attached correctly to the products, I see the relevant images on the JSP)
I am not sure if I am missing something in attaching the document?. Please let me know what else is required to be done for this?
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Roopali

Hey Roopali,
Following is the procedure to Attach a multimedia object .
Hope you are following this especially point number 16.
1.     Access the activity using one of the following navigation options:
Transaction code     COMM_PCAT_ADM
SAP CRM menu     Master Data à Product Catalog à Maintain Product Catalog
You will have Material Master rather than Product catalog as it is ECC version.
2.     In the Product Catalog field, enter PRODUCT CATALOG
3.     In the Catalog Type field, enter Manual and automatic assignment.
4.     Choose Change.
5.     Expand Header Data by choosing the Expand data area Button labeled Header Data
6.     Check that the status is Inactive.
A yellow light bulb indicates that the status is Active. To set the status to Inactive, click the light bulb and a gray light bulb appears.
To add new products to your product catalog, you must first deactivate the status on all levels.
7.     In the Object Name screen area, select your product catalog.
8.     Choose Expand all.
9.     Double-click the catalog area to which you want to manually assign your objects.
10.     Check that all products are set to inactive.
11.     In the Item list, double-click the product.
12.     The selected product is shown below in the screen area Item Details.
13.     Choose the Item Documents tab.
The tab page Product Documents provides information about which objects are already assigned to a product in the product master. This means that these objects cannot be changed in the product catalog. They can only be changed in the product master.
14.     Choose the folder YCRM_IMAGE or YCRM_THUMB and choose Import document. Browse for the multimedia object that you want to assign to the product.
15.     Select the object (picture) and choose Save.
16.     Choose the tab page Properties to set this multimedia object as language-independent, set the field Language-Independent(Prod) = Yes.
This field controls the publication of documents in catalog variants depending on the language. This means that the document is valid for all languages in which the catalog is published.
17.     Choose Save.
Regards,
Sumit

Performance impact in Oracle 8i - BLOB vs BFILE

Hi Guys,
We are evaluting intermedia to store multimedia objects.
Does any know if storing and retreiving documents in Oracle database has impact on standard data stored in the database?
Is it worth having a seperate database instance for storing tables with intermedia objects?
Pal

Part 2:
Example 1: Let us estimate the storage requirements for a data set consisting of 500 video clips comprising a total size of 250MB (average size 512K bytes). Assume a LOB chunk size of 32768 bytes. Our model estimates that we need (8000 * 32) bytes or 250 k bytes for the index and 266 MB to hold the media data. Since the original media size is 250 MB, this represents about a 6.5% storage overhead for storing the media data in the database. The following table definition could be used to store this amount of data.
create table video_items
video_id number ,
video_clip ordsys.ordvideo
-- storage parameters for table in general
tablespace video1 storage (initial 1M next 10M )
-- special storage parameters for the video content
lob (video_clip.source.localdata) store as
(tablespace video2 storage (initial 260k next 270M )
disable storage in row nocache nologging chunk 32768);
Example 2: Let us estimate the storage requirements for a data set consisting of 5000 images with an average size of 56K bytes. The total amount of media data is 274 MB. Since the average image size is smaller, it is more space efficient to choose a smaller chunk size, say 8K, to store the data in the lob. Our model estimates that we will need about 313 MB to store the data and a little over 1 MB to store the index. In this case the 40 MB of storage required beyond the raw media content size represents a 15% overhead.
Estimating retrieval costs
Performance testing has shown that Oracle can achieve equivalent and even higher throughput performance for media content retrieval than a file system. The test was configured to retrieve media data from a server system to a requesting client system. In the database case, simple C client programs used OCI with LOB read callbacks to retrieve the data from the database. For the file system case, the client program used the standard C library functions to read data from the file system. Note that in this client server configuration, files are served remotely by the file server system. In essence, we are comparing distributed file system performance with Oracle database and SQLNet performance. These tests were performed on Windows NT 4 SP5.
Although Oracle achieved higher absolute performance, the relative CPU cost per unit of throughput ranged from 1.7 to 3 times the file system cost. (For these tests, database performance ranged from 3.4 million to 9 million bytes/sec while file system performance ranged from 2.6 million bytes/sec to 7 million bytes/sec as the number of clients ranged from 1 to 5) One reason for the very high relative CPU cost at the higher end of performance is that as the 100 Mbs network approaches saturation, the system used more CPU to achieve the next increment of throughput. If we restrict ourselves to not exceeding 70% of network utilization, then the database can use up to 2.5 times as much CPU as the file system per unit of throughput.
NOTE WELL: The extra CPU cost factors pertain only to media retrieval aspect of the workload. They do not apply to the entire system workload. See example.
Example: A file based media asset system uses 10% of a single CPU simply to serve media data to requesting clients. If we were to store the media in an Oracle database and retrieve content from the database then we could expect to need 20-25% of a single CPU to serve content at the same throughput rate.

InterMedia Web Agent

I have found documentation on InterMedia Web Agent for 8.1.5 and 8.1.7, but not for 8.1.6.
We are running RDBMS 8.1.6, OAS 4.0.8.2 on Solaris 2.6. I have configured one of our databases with the InterMedia Text option, and plan to configure our OAS for it. Where can I get related InterMedia Web Agent documentation and download for this environment? Metalink couldn't give me an answer.
Thanks.

Hi,
Your posting references both interMedia Web Agent and interMedia Text option:
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I have configured one of our
databases with the InterMedia Text option,
and plan to configure our OAS for it. Where
can I get related InterMedia Web Agent
documentation and download for this
environment?
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There is no relationship between interMedia Web Agent and interMedia Text option. interMedia Web Agent is designed to facilitate the web-based upload and retrieval of multimedia image, audio, and video data stored using the corresponding interMedia multimedia object types in an Oracle8i database. interMedia Text option is a powerful text-based indexing and search tool with support for a range of [text-based] content formats.
You do NOT need interMedia Web Agent to use interMedia Text option. However, if you need interMedia Web Agent to upload and retrieve multimedia data using HTML forms and pages, you can download release 8.1.5.4.1, which includes support for OAS 4.0.8.2, from the interMedia software download page on OTN.
Hope this clarifies the situation.
In order to better understand the variety of ways in which our customers are using interMedia, we'd be very interested in knowing a little more about your application, the interMedia functionality that you are using, and how you are developing and deploying your application. If you are able to help us, please send a short email message with some information about your application, together with any comments you may have, to the Oracle interMedia Product Manager, Joe Mauro, at [email protected] Thank you!
Regards,
Simon
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How to create a product catalog in crm(by the end user of the system)?

how can we an end user create a product catalog?
what is the diff b/n prod cat and prod?
we download the prod from r/3.
how we get the prod cat done in crm for the customers and consumers and how it is done?
thank you,

hi
first of all we need to look at what is catalog management before proceding with product and product catalog.
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product descriptions, multimedia objects, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information, structured in such a way that most meets your customers needs.
Product catalogs are implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting your products in the Web shop.
difference between the product and product catalog
this is not the thing that product and product catalog are completely different entity.
Product catalog :   A grouping together of products from your product master data, in a structured hierarchy.
You use product catalogs to group together products to present them in the Web shop, Interaction Center, or in other forms of media, for example printed format or CD-ROM.
You can create various catalogs for your products in the product master and use them according to a validity date. For example, you could use certain products for the summer season, and other products for the winter season.
You can also tailor your product catalog to meet other needs by creating catalog variants. For example, you can create a catalog in English with the prices displayed in US Dollars.
so by above definition it is very much clear that products are actually assign to the catalog,i will give you an analogy that museum is a kind of catalog and you add different pictures to the museum,in the same way you add product to the product catalog according to the acatlog variant.
Now how you assign product to product catalog
Product Assignment
You assign products manually or automatically to a catalog area, depending on the catalog type. The product ID, product description, and status of all products is displayed, as is the information as to whether the item contains accessories or if it is a configurable product.
Prerequisites
You have created products in your product master in SAP CRM under Accounts and Products
Process
You select a catalog area in your product catalog, and edit the item list by assigning products to the area.
Manual Assignment
You can assign products manually on an individual basis or by copying a catalog area. You tend to choose manual product assignment for marketing-oriented catalogs that are subjected to editorial controls.
      Individual assignment
      In this case you select the catalog area in which the product should be assigned, manually search for the product in the product master, and assign it to the area.
      Copying items from catalog areas
      You select an area or subarea from another catalog and copy it to your new catalog. The system copies all products from the copied area to the new catalog, as long as they belong to the distribution chain assigned to the target catalog variant. From these products, you can then manually determine which products from the copied area you want to keep and which items you wish to delete.
The following is true for manually assigned products:
      You can activate or deactivate items on an individual basis.
      You can edit the list of accessories for manually assigned products. The system determines which accessories are maintained for the product in the product master and displays them in the item area of the catalog. You select which accessories should be displayed for the product in the catalog and activate them.
      Manually assigned products can be included or removed from catalog views on an individual basis.
Automatic Assignment
You can assign products automatically to a catalog by transferring product hierarchies from your product master to the catalog areas. The categories, items, attributes, and documents contained in the product hierarchy are copied to the new catalog.
You use automatic product assignment mainly for functional catalogs, where products can be copied with very few changes, from the product categories of the product master. It enables a standardized characterization of your products in the catalog.
The following is true for products assigned to the catalog using product hierarchy transfer:
      Product categories which make up the hierarchies become catalog areas in the catalog.
      Product categories in the product hierarchy must be assigned to the distribution chain to which the target catalog variant is assigned. Otherwise the category is not transferred. The same applies to the items, texts, and documents assigned to the category.
      Items are always active and cannot be individually activated or deactivated.
      Accessories maintained for transferred product in the product master are automatically included and displayed in the catalog.
      Transferred items cannot be individually included in catalog views or removed from them. Instead all items of the hierarchy are always contained in the view.
      Lists of characteristics for transferred categories and items can be automatically created when transferring product hierarchies. The transferred values are included in the item overview of the product catalog.
how to create a product catalog
just have a look at this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm
your query regarding the products you have uploaded from the R3,now as above i said how you maintain and create the product catalog ,you just assign the products uploaded from the R3 to the product cataloag created in CRM.
more detail info you can see in these links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/91/be9642e5ef0731e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/27f09d25da5a68e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/037716cfc604a9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
if you read carefuly what i have said,it is pretty easy to implement ,you will see it yourself
guess it will help you
do revert back in case of any doubt
best regards
ashish

Creation of product in standalone system 5.0

Hi guys,
Can anyone tell me steps involved in creation of products in crm 5.0.I have done all the settings an when i go to maintain products iam not able to get the data for the category id which i created for the base hierarchy....
Can any one send me some config document
thanks
ajay

hi
first of all we need to look at what is catalog management before proceding with product and product catalog.
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product descriptions, multimedia objects, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information, structured in such a way that most meets your customers needs.
Product catalogs are implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting your products in the Web shop.
difference between the product and product catalogthis is not the thing that product and product catalog are completely different entity.
Product catalog : A grouping together of products from your product master data, in a structured hierarchy.
You use product catalogs to group together products to present them in the Web shop, Interaction Center, or in other forms of media, for example printed format or CD-ROM.
You can create various catalogs for your products in the product master and use them according to a validity date. For example, you could use certain products for the summer season, and other products for the winter season.
You can also tailor your product catalog to meet other needs by creating catalog variants. For example, you can create a catalog in English with the prices displayed in US Dollars.
so by above definition it is very much clear that products are actually assign to the catalog,i will give you an analogy that museum is a kind of catalog and you add different pictures to the museum,in the same way you add product to the product catalog according to the acatlog variant.
Now how you assign product to product catalog
Product Assignment
You assign products manually or automatically to a catalog area, depending on the catalog type. The product ID, product description, and status of all products is displayed, as is the information as to whether the item contains accessories or if it is a configurable product.
Prerequisites
You have created products in your product master in SAP CRM under Accounts and Products
Process
You select a catalog area in your product catalog, and edit the item list by assigning products to the area.
Manual Assignment
You can assign products manually on an individual basis or by copying a catalog area. You tend to choose manual product assignment for marketing-oriented catalogs that are subjected to editorial controls.
Individual assignment
In this case you select the catalog area in which the product should be assigned, manually search for the product in the product master, and assign it to the area.
Copying items from catalog areas
You select an area or subarea from another catalog and copy it to your new catalog. The system copies all products from the copied area to the new catalog, as long as they belong to the distribution chain assigned to the target catalog variant. From these products, you can then manually determine which products from the copied area you want to keep and which items you wish to delete.
The following is true for manually assigned products:
You can activate or deactivate items on an individual basis.
You can edit the list of accessories for manually assigned products. The system determines which accessories are maintained for the product in the product master and displays them in the item area of the catalog. You select which accessories should be displayed for the product in the catalog and activate them.
Manually assigned products can be included or removed from catalog views on an individual basis.
Automatic Assignment
You can assign products automatically to a catalog by transferring product hierarchies from your product master to the catalog areas. The categories, items, attributes, and documents contained in the product hierarchy are copied to the new catalog.
You use automatic product assignment mainly for functional catalogs, where products can be copied with very few changes, from the product categories of the product master. It enables a standardized characterization of your products in the catalog.
The following is true for products assigned to the catalog using product hierarchy transfer:
Product categories which make up the hierarchies become catalog areas in the catalog.
Product categories in the product hierarchy must be assigned to the distribution chain to which the target catalog variant is assigned. Otherwise the category is not transferred. The same applies to the items, texts, and documents assigned to the category.
Items are always active and cannot be individually activated or deactivated.
Accessories maintained for transferred product in the product master are automatically included and displayed in the catalog.
Transferred items cannot be individually included in catalog views or removed from them. Instead all items of the hierarchy are always contained in the view.
Lists of characteristics for transferred categories and items can be automatically created when transferring product hierarchies. The transferred values are included in the item overview of the product catalog.
how to create a product catalog
just have a look at this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm
your query regarding the products you have uploaded from the R3,now as above i said how you maintain and create the product catalog ,you just assign the products uploaded from the R3 to the product cataloag created in CRM.
more detail info you can see in these links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/91/be9642e5ef0731e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/27f09d25da5a68e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/037716cfc604a9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
if you read carefuly what i have said,it is pretty easy to implement ,you will see it yourself
always remember that you need to maintain the catalog,products can be transaported but not catalog
best regards
ashish

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