Oracle BI Advice Request

Is the OBISE1 installable in a dual or qual core processor, I am planning to run it on Windows 2003 server?

Yes. The limit imposed by the BISE1 licence is a maximum of 2 sockets. So you can use a server with 2 quad core processors.
+"Business Intelligence Standard Edition One may only be used on servers that have the ability to run a maximum of 2 sockets. The minimums for this product are 5 named user plus licenses and the maximum is 50 named user plus licenses. The data sources for BI Server and Business Intelligence Publisher are limited to the included Oracle Standard Edition One, one other database, and any number of flat file sources such as CSV, and XLS. You may use Oracle Warehouse Builder Core ETL to pull data from any number of data sources but you must use only the included Oracle Standard Edition One as the target database. "+
BISE1 is only available for platform Microsoft Windows 32 bit (You have no chioce!).
See Certify - Platform Selection: Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One
http://www.oracle.com/technology/support/metalink/index.html
Oracle® Business Intelligence
Standard Edition One Installation Guide
3.2 Operating system requirements
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10352_01/doc/bi.1013/e10270.pdf
+"The base operating system required for Oracle BI Standard Edition One is Win32.
Oracle BI Standard Edition One is supported on the following Windows operating systems:
- Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server Service Pack 4 (5.0.2.195) or higher.
- Windows Server 2003"+

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I know Oracle eAM Work order has sequential approval process, but i want to know the same funcionality available for Oracle eAM work request as well. If Oracle has the functionality please provide the details.
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Hi;
I suggest close your issue here as answered than move your issue Oracle Discussion Forums » E-Business Suite Archived Forums » SCM - Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) which you can get more quick response
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Oracle EAM Work Request Sequential Approval process

Can anyone confirm Oracle has standard functionality of sequentinal apprvoal process for eAM Work request.
Our current Oracle eAM project has requirement of multiple approver for Work request. Multiple approver means sequential approval process. After first approver approves it should go to second approval and continues.
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Edited by: user13591749 on May 20, 2013 11:08 AM

Hello,
Work Requests do NOT use AME. Only 1-level approval is possible with Standard Functionality; NOT multi-level
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hope it helps...
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Oracle.jbo.RowNotAvailableException: Requested row not available

Hello all,
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[Oracle 9i Lite] Request for Windows CE 3.0 PowerPC 821 release

After 10 days, we have unfortunately received no answer to our request mails.
We try an ultimate post in this forum, hoping that Oracle representatives are watching AND answering.
Laurent PICARD
<[email protected]>
Dear Oracle Development Team,
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<[email protected]>

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following;
at (or about) line 155;
Inside For Loop, before
'if(::SQLGetData' statement.
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This will reset the memory for the data column after it has been
read.
Oracle would have to implement this fix and then recompile mSQL
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Cheers,
Allen.
>
Actually the problem is not (only) in mSQL as we are using the
API to view the data and are seeing the same result. We suspect
the problem is in the API which mSQL is probably also using to
access the data.
Allen.

Oracle R12 Advice needed

I am implementing project on oracle R12 the implementation for six company's five working company and the sixth is a holding company
I have two approach one is to use one set of book for six operating unit! Which I will lose the security that notice from my humble experience on R 11.5i
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[email protected]
00962795614430

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          >
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Advice Requested - High Availability WITHOUT Failover Clustering

We're creating an entirely new Hyper-V virtualized environment on Server 2012 R2. My question is: Can we accomplish high availability WITHOUT using failover clustering?
So, I don't really have anything AGAINST failover clustering, and we will happily use it if it's the right solution for us, but to be honest, we really don't want ANYTHING to happen automatically when it comes to failover. Here's what I mean:
In this new environment, we have architected 2 identical, very capable Hyper-V physical hosts, each of which will run several VMs comprising the equivalent of a scaled-back version of our entire environment. In other words, there is at least a domain
controller, multiple web servers, and a (mirrored/HA/AlwaysOn) SQL Server 2012 VM running on each host, along with a few other miscellaneous one-off worker-bee VMs doing things like system monitoring. The SQL Server VM on each host has about 75% of the
physical memory resources dedicated to it (for performance reasons). We need pretty much the full horsepower of both machines up and going at all times under normal conditions.
So now, to high availability. The standard approach is to use failover clustering, but I am concerned that if these hosts are clustered, we'll have the equivalent of just 50% hardware capacity going at all times, with full failover in place of course
(we are using an iSCSI SAN for storage).
BUT, if these hosts are NOT clustered, and one of them is suddenly switched off, experiences some kind of catastrophic failure, or simply needs to be rebooted while applying WSUS patches, the SQL Server HA will fail over (so all databases will remain up
and going on the surviving VM), and the environment would continue functioning at somewhat reduced capacity until the failed host is restarted. With this approach, it seems to me that we would be running at 100% for the most part, and running at 50%
or so only in the event of a major failure, rather than running at 50% ALL the time.
Of course, in the event of a catastrophic failure, I'm also thinking that the one-off worker-bee VMs could be replicated to the alternate host so they could be started on the surviving host if needed during a long-term outage.
So basically, I am very interested in the thoughts of others with experience regarding taking this approach to Hyper-V architecture, as it seems as if failover clustering is almost a given when it comes to best practices and high availability. I guess
I'm looking for validation on my thinking.
So what do you think? What am I missing or forgetting? What will we LOSE if we go with a NON-clustered high-availability environment as I've described it?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Udo -
Yes your responses are very helpful.
Can we use the built-in Server 2012 iSCSI Target Server role to convert the local RAID disks into an iSCSI LUN that the VMs could access? Or can that not run on the same physical box as the Hyper-V host? I guess if the physical box goes down
the LUN would go down anyway, huh? Or can I cluster that role (iSCSI target) as well? If not, do you have any other specific product suggestions I can research, or do I just end up wasting this 12TB of local disk storage?
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That's a bad idea. First of all Microsoft iSCSI target is slow (it's non-cached @ server side). So if you really decided to use dedicated hardware for storage (maybe you do have a reason I don't know...) and if you're fine with your storage being a single
point of failure (OK, maybe your RTOs and RPOs are fair enough) then at least use SMB share. SMB at least does cache I/O on both client and server sides and also you can use Storage Spaces as a back end of it (non-clustered) so read "write back flash cache
for cheap". See:
What's new in iSCSI target with Windows Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn305893.aspx
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Updated
iSCSI Target Server now sets the disk cache bypass flag on a hosting disk I/O, through Force Unit Access (FUA), only when the issuing initiator explicitly requests it. This change can potentially improve performance.
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Yes you can cluster iSCSI target from Microsoft but a) it would be SLOW as there would be only active-passive I/O model (no real use from MPIO between multiple hosts) and b) that would require a shared storage for Windows Cluster. What for? Scenario was
usable with a) there was no virtual FC so guest VM cluster could not use FC LUs and b) there was no shared VHDX so SAS could not be used for guest VM cluster as well. Now both are present so scenario is useless: just export your existing shared storage without
any Microsoft iSCSI target and you'll be happy. For references see:
MSFT iSCSI Target in HA mode
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg232621(v=ws.10).aspx
Cluster MSFT iSCSI Target with SAS back end
http://techontip.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/microsoft-iscsi-target-cluster-building-walkthrough/
Guest
VM Cluster Storage Options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn440540.aspx
Storage options
The following tables lists the storage types that you can use to provide shared storage for a guest cluster.
Storage Type
Description
Shared virtual hard disk
New in Windows Server 2012 R2, you can configure multiple virtual machines to connect to and use a single virtual hard disk (.vhdx) file. Each virtual machine can access the virtual hard disk just like servers
would connect to the same LUN in a storage area network (SAN). For more information, see Deploy a Guest Cluster Using a Shared Virtual Hard Disk.
Virtual Fibre Channel
Introduced in Windows Server 2012, virtual Fibre Channel enables you to connect virtual machines to LUNs on a Fibre Channel SAN. For more information, see Hyper-V
Virtual Fibre Channel Overview.
iSCSI
The iSCSI initiator inside a virtual machine enables you to connect over the network to an iSCSI target. For more information, see iSCSI
Target Block Storage Overviewand the blog post Introduction of iSCSI Target in Windows
Server 2012.
Storage requirements depend on the clustered roles that run on the cluster. Most clustered roles use clustered storage, where the storage is available on any cluster node that runs a clustered
role. Examples of clustered storage include Physical Disk resources and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). Some roles do not require storage that is managed by the cluster. For example, you can configure Microsoft SQL Server to use availability groups that replicate
the data between nodes. Other clustered roles may use Server Message Block (SMB) shares or Network File System (NFS) shares as data stores that any cluster node can access.
Sure you can use third-party software to replicate 12TB of your storage between just a pair of nodes to create a fully fault-tolerant cluster. See (there's also a free offering):
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] for Hyper-V
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/native-san-for-hyper-v-free-edition
Product is similar to what VMware had just released for ESXi except it's selling for ~2 years so is mature :)
There are other guys doing this say DataCore (more playing for Windows-based FC) and SteelEye (more about geo-cluster & replication). But you may want to give them a try.
Hope this helped a bit :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

Audio output advice request

Hello,
Hoping someone can help guide me on the most efficent way to deal with the following scenario. I have a late 2008 alum macbook that I am using as my primary home computer. I have a toslink optical out to my DTS decoder stereo receiver so that I can enjoy 5.1 dts sound from itunes and other sources. However, I also have Bose companion 2 desktop speakers that I would like to easily be able to toggle between for sound output from my Mac (for example, when my stereo reciever is otherwise occupied with television or other sound, I'd like to be able to use the desktop speakers simultaneously without having to unplug the mini-toslink from my headphone jack and switching it with the bose headphone jack. I'm looking for a way to have both the toslink and the bose sperakers hooked up to my mac at the same time. Any recommendations on how best to accomplish this??
Is there a better or easier scenario than the following? Will this scenario even work?
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Message was edited by: mattmck73

you can give it a quick test by making sure "auto Normalize" is enabled in GB's prefs and export, but my guess is that you're going to have to use a volume curve to increase his parts if it's all on one track.
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Hi.
I am a Linux System Administrator who has been assigned the task of maximizing the performance of my company's Oracle datamining.
I have little experience in SQL, little experience in Java coding, and most of my Oracle experience is from 1998. But apparently I am the most qualified person in the company for this, so I'll give it my best shot.
Previously, the company had analysts running the datamining queries on their own desktops. This would effectively monopolize their PC's for several hours while the queries ran. The company now intends to have the analysts send 'analysis packages' to a batch server which would process the queries and pass the results back when each query is finished. Currently they have assigned a Windows XP PC with a q6600 CPU and 4GB of RAM as the batch server. Eventually they plan to buy a new server for this, which should run Redhat AS4 x86_64. I have also been asked to provide a hardware spec for this new server.
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Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
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+ Ncomping ...
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OJVMJAVA
--type "help" at the command line for help message
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It deployed a jar SMOracleFuncs_depl.jar which included:
oracle/aurora/deploy/orajox10_11dc86c0b10_XXXXX_com_YYYYY_oracle_util.dll(in = 41472) (out= 41472)(stored 0%)
oracle/aurora/deploy/orajox10_11dc86c0b10_XXXXX_com_YYYYY_oracle.dll(in = 3114496) (out= 3114496)(stored 0%)
However, when I run the benchmark query after the NCOMP, it appears to take about 40% longer to complete the query.
Much of the time during the 80 minute execution, the CPU utilization is only 25%. Since this is on a quad-core CPU, I thought perhaps it was running only in a single thread, but when I look at the taskmgr, I see all the cores getting used, but not well.
Why would this happen? What am I doing wrong?
Perhaps there are compilation options that I need to use to get full multithreaded support.
from the compile output:
package com.XXXXX.oracle
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Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Creating library
Also, I'm trying to come up with a good hardware spec for the Linux 64bit batch server.
I'm thinking of a Core i7 965 CPU with 12GB of RAM. The database is small enough to run in a tempfs, for ramdisk speeds.
Frequent backups should be enough, because we don't require 24x7 uptime.
Does anyone know if 1600MHz DDR3 would be worthwhile instead of 1066Mhz ?
Any point in storing the Oracle application on a SSD?
Thanks in advance for any help.
--Charles

I see some strange results when I try to check if JAccellerator is installed correctly.
C:\>sqlplus system/XXXX as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Dec 2 04:15:55 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> select dbms_java.full_ncomp_enabled from dual;
select dbms_java.full_ncomp_enabled from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29558: JAccelerator (NCOMP) not installed. Refer to Install Guide for
instructions.
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_JAVA", line 236
SQL> select NCOMP.STATUS from dual;
select NCOMP.STATUS from dual
ERROR at line 1:
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Advice request - which external HDD for Adobe Lightroom?

Hi,
I'm going to buy myself an external hdd this week, and I would be very grateful for your advice.
1) I'm shooting with Nikon D70, Canon A520, and my mobile(;]).
2) After over 1 year of shooting I have ~130GB of photos taken with these cameras + I have some negative from analog times, which I'm going to scan (I estimate them to be next ~20GB)
3) I would like to keep all of above photos on external hdd and import them into Abobe Lightroom (tagging + developing), and and of course apply retouching to some of them in PS CS2.
4) My computers are : old PC desktop with XP, on which I will be only viewing these pictures, and IBM T43 with Vista on which I'm going to do all the developing. [Yes, I know that Apple is better, and I love Apple, but I can'tafford one yet].
Given above assumptions, which external hdd from the ones I've preselected should I choose ? I'm on the budget here, and the ones that I can afford are :
WD My Book Pro 250GB USB 2.0/FireWire400/FireWire800 16MB Cache
WD My Book Premium 320GB USB 2.0/FireWire400 8MB Cache
WD My Book Essential 500GB USB2.0 8MB Cache
LaCie Porsche 500GB USB 2.0 8MB Cache
I'm asking mainly because I don't have any idea about how fast should a drive be to work with Lightroom with decent speed.
Also : should I buy FireWire controller for my T43 laptop, or will USB 2.0 be enough for my purposes ?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience.
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>Yes, I know that Apple is better, and I love Apple, but I can't afford one yet
Either a PC or MAC is fine, but you've entered a field where affordability is proportional to the number of photos you manage, the type of processing you perform and the level of security you are comfortable with. This is entirely separate of your budget.
USB2 and/or Firewire Drives work fine. From your list, I've owned both the LaCie Porsche and a WD MyBook. They both failed for different reasons. All hard drives will eventually fail. If you can't afford to lose your photo library you need some sort of redundency. The reliability of that redundency (RAID) and or speed of retrieval determines what technology is the minimum you need to afford. Or, if you have more time than budget, you can archive on DVDs. Keep in mind that even DVD's will fail over time.
The faster the drive, the faster the backup (redundency), the faster the throughput, and the faster you have access to managing and processing your image library.
Did I answer your question: No. However, whatever you get, and assuming you value your photos, make sure you get two of them so you can build some redundency into your budget. If you're feeling lucky, get the largest drive you can afford and make sure you leave yourself a lot of time for those backups.
Welcome to "photo shoebox management" of the new millenium! It ain't cheap ... :-)

Feed back needed about the Oracle support service request

Dear Oracle professional,
When you have an issues in the Oracle softwares while doing the installations or working funcnalities.
Is it good to get it touch with Oracle support services to get supports or Self efforts is good.
Some company's are feeling get supports is not good way of approach from the Oracle supports services.
Rather they would keep thier business on hold till they get the supports by themself.the daly will causes in to the business losses because of the time.
And their business production will be less.
By getting Oracle supports you get the solutions faster this helps to increase the productivities high.
Some IT Manages will like to play this role always find a solutions by themself and eaten up the time.
Why this is happending with them?
Any issues or eagostics with them?
Feel free to express it to me, i would be happy to hear this please.
Thanks
Riyas
email [email protected]

Clearly it is a trade of between high productivity vs time & money.
So now a days companies which i have seen that they will have internal team of SMEs which will try to look into issues and there are certain escalation points from where in you will get some support from Oracle support.
and again this changes from organization to organization not a thumb rule.
Regards
Prashant Pathak

Color Adjustment Advice Request

Good Evening
I am requesting help with correcting some color issues with this image of one of my acrylic on canvas paintings. I am NOT having color issues with any of the other photos I have taken of my other paintings, just this one. (I calibrated my monitors with ColorMunki Display the other day.)
The image below was saved as a web version for posting here. It was originally a .NEF that I converted to a .TIF and I even tried saving it as a .JPG and viewing it outside of PSE. I have not yet tried to correct the black portion or anything else yet in this particular copy of the image below.
This particular image is one of probably 100 I have taken. I have tried various light sources and three different cameras. The third camera is a Canon D3200 and I have tried many, many different settings, this image was taken with this camera. The strange thing to me is not even this "good" camera shows the greenish color even in the camera view window or on the camera LCD screen. Again, this is the only subject so far I am having this difficulty with.
The bluer areas are possibly the best I can do as far as being representative of the original painting. THE ISSUE IS THE "GREEN" AREAS.
I can not get them to be a good/acceptable representation of the color of the original painting.
I have tried many various tools and adjustments and still can not attain a result I am satisfied with. I am still learning the PSE program and perhaps I just have not hit upon the tool or combination of tools I need.
I'd like to select ONLY the areas that are supposed to be the green color/tone/hue? and adjust them to make them more vivid/bright? Especially the area to the left of the eye which in this image appears almost blackish. In the original those areas are not blackish, they are the greenish like the other areas that are supposed to be greenish. These green areas here appear too dull and washed out.
I have tried the MAGIC WAND but I don't think I'm adjusting it correctly. I either get too much area or too little. I have tried contiguious and not contiguous. Is this indeed the best tool for this job? Also, which tool should I be using or adjustment should I be making to obtain what I am looking for? The ADJUST HUE SATURATION? THE BRIGHTNESS CONTRAST? Which one?
If more clarification is needed I'll be here all night to provide it.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for any assistance.
P.

Good morning everyone
Have you ever been asleep and then have an idea pop into your mind as you are waking up? I did, this morning. But I don't know what to do with it or if I should bother. Maybe someone has some input for me?
(I did speak with a technical support person at Nikon yesterday who tried to help me. He gave me guidance on various settings for my camera that should have helped me get better results. I was to take multiple pictures with different settings and email them to him. I did take the photos, approximately 40 of them at all conceivable settings, including the settings he specifically suggested. I did this OUTDOORS and INDOORS. The outdoor lighting was supposed to be, according to everything I have read, ideal...cloudy day. None of the images are acceptable to me. Not in the camera LCD screen, which I KNOW is not where one should make ultimate decisions about their images, nor on my computer monitor. The images appear on my computer monitor as they do in the camera LCD screen by the way.
I also decided to PRINT a number of the images hoping that this would isolate the issue. The images printed out pretty much exactly like the images in the LCD monitor and the computer monitor. I KNOW I SHOULD GIVE UP AND JUST BUY THE DEVICES AND SOFTWARE THAT ARE OUT THERE TO FIX THIS ENTIRE ISSUE, I JUST DIDN'T REALIZE I PROBABLY NEEDED THEM. I INITIALLY THOUGHT PROPERLY CALIBRATING THE MONITOR WAS ALL THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. I HAVE LEARNED AS I HAVE GONE ALONG THAT THERE ARE OTHER CALIBRATIONS THAT SHOULD BE DONE AND I WILL PURCHASE THE NECESSARY ITEMS. I JUST WANT TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO IN THE MEANTIME WITH WHAT I HAVE AVAILABLE. AND I STILL WONDER WHY THE CAMERA IS DOING SUCH A POOR JOB WITH THE COLORS AS WELL, AT LEAST I'M THINKING THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH THE CAMERA TOO?)
SOOO, back to my idea. When I woke up I thought to myself, I wonder how the images would look if I SCANNED the painting with my extra printer's scanner bed? The painting is small enough, this will help me figure out what is happening. Hmmmm.
I scanned in millions of colors, billions of colors, various adaptive light settings, color correction on, color correction off, etc. etc. The results were just as bad as what I am getting from the camera(?). I put this in BOLD because now I'm not so sure that is an issue with the camera. Read on if you so desire
Then another idea popped into my head. My mother, who is an artist/architect as it happens, had sent me as a present a while back a box of 100 PANTONE Postcards (I don't snail mail anymore and I wonder if this was a hint, they are all pre-addressed). Most of the postcard is the color and a name of the color and its appropriate number/code?
I scanned five color cards, chosen to represent as much as possible the colors in the painting. I scanned them to my monitor. I am viewing as .tif which is the setting I used to scan them. They are off slightly? from their actual colors
I wondered if the issue is just with my monitor, so I then PRINTED the image file out on the Pixma using the proper media choice for Canon Pro Platinum paper so that the correct ICC profile would be utilized.
The colors are still off. Especially the GREEN, Pantone 3278, which on the post card is a pretty, cheerful, lively green. On the monitor and in the print it appears as a yucky, duller, muddier, darker green. (I just don't know how to describe color, sorry.)
The BLUES aren't so great either. The Pantone colors listed on the cards for the blues are Pantone 18-4525 Caribbean Sea, Pantone 291,Pantone 18-4530 Celestial, and Pantone 18-4330 Swedish Blue.
This whole situation indicates to me that ALL the other colors in all my other work that I THOUGHT were as accurate as they should be, are not.
WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE ME AT THIS POINT?
1) Should I have posted this in another forum? Printers and Monitors I suppose. But just thought this would be a continuation of the thread I started.
2) Should I try to find the appropriate HEX code conversions for the colors and use them to tweak the color settings menu that I saw somewhere and was too afraid to use?
3) NOT in anyway spend any more time on this at all until I purchase the other devices and software?
4) Give up entirely because this is as good at is going to get?
5) Still wondering about the accuracy of my camera in capturing the colors the way they are in life?
Sigh...what do you all have to say...be gentle
Regards,
P.
PS. I hope it is okay to post this in the other couple of forums I am a member of because they have been helpful too

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