Dear Oracle on OpenVMS Customers,
This is a product news update for the Oracle Rdb product family. In this Newsletter, we have information on Oracle Rdb 7.3, the latest Oracle Rdb Developer Tools for Visual Studio release, news on updated product documentation and information on upcoming Oracle Rdb speaking events.
Oracle Rdb 7.3 Entering Sustaining Support
At the end of September, Extended Support for Oracle Rdb 7.3 will come to an end and support will transition to Sustaining Support. This means that there will be no further patches or new features for 7.3 past the end of September. Oracle Support, however, will continue to assist customers with product questions and to find work arounds to any problems encountered under the Sustaining phase. To continue to receive patch support for Oracle Rdb, customers will need to upgrade to Oracle Rdb 7.4 which is in Premier Support. Oracle Rdb 7.4 first shipped in August of 2020. The latest version is 7.4.1.2 and there is a 7.4.1.3 release under development.
In preparation for the end of patch support for Oracle Rdb 7.3 we shipped version 7.3.4.0 in July. This brought the 7.3 stream up to date with nearly 3 years of bug fixes since the previous Oracle Rdb 7.3 release (7.3.3.2) that shipped back in November 2019.
Oracle Rdb 7.3.4.0
Oracle Rdb 7.3.4.0 shipped on July 19, 2023. You can download the kit from My Oracle Support (MOS) under patch numbers 35586554 for Itanium and 35586577 for Alpha.
Oracle Rdb 7.3.4.0 is the terminal Oracle Rdb 7.3 release which was first released in 2011. Oracle highly recommends that all customers still running Oracle Rdb 7.3 upgrade to this version to get the final set of enhancements and bug fixes that will be available in the 7.3 stream. If you require a bug fix not available in this release after the end of September, Oracle Support will ask you to first upgrade to Oracle Rdb 7.4.
A partial list of the enhancements in this release includes:
• New Summary_Only Qualifier to RMU Dump Audit Command
• New Option=GENERATED Added to RMU Extract Command
A partial list of bugs fixed includes:
• Long Running Delete Does Not Advance After-Image Journal Checkpoint
• Long Running Query Blocks Other Queries
• Unexpected Bugcheck When Using DROP STORAGE AREA . . . CASCADE
• Unexpected NULL Returned From MOD and SQRT Functions
• Unexpected Bugcheck When Query Contained Multiple COUNT(*) Aggregate Functions
• Unexpected SQL-F-BUGCHK When Using EXEC SQL SAVEPOINT Statement
• Unexpected SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO When Using RMU Dump Audit for DACCESS
• RMU Recover Fails With RMU-F-CANTSYNCTSNS Using Correct Journal
• RMU Verify Validate FLOAT Did Not Correctly Scan The Target Tables
A full description of the enhancements and problems fixed can be found in the release notes.
Other Product Releases:
Oracle Rdb Developer Tools for Visual Studio 7.4.1.0
Oracle Rdb Developer Tools for Visual Studio (ORDT) is used by developers who are developing applications within Microsoft Visual Studio to access an Oracle Rdb database using the Oracle Rdb Data Provider for .NET. The new feature for this release is Visual Studio 2019 integration. This release shipped on February 7, 2023 and is available on My Oracle Support under Patch set number 35058891. More details can be found in the ORDT 7.4.1.0 Release Notes.
Product Documentation:
Updated product documentation was made available with the release of Oracle Rdb 7.3.4.0. In addition to the Rdb 7.3.4.0 Release Notes, two updated manuals are now available. They are:
• Oracle Rdb Installation and Configuration Guide, Release 7.3.4.0
• Oracle Rdb New Features, Release 7.3.4.0
The Installation Guide has been updated for Oracle Rdb version 7.3.4.0. All new features in Oracle Rdb 7.3.4.0 are described in the updated 7.3 New Features Manual as well as in the Oracle Rdb 7.3.4.0 Release Notes. You can follow links to these documents and the release notes at https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html in the Documentation section at the bottom of the page.
We will continue making updates to these manuals and other product documentation for future Oracle Rdb 7.4 releases. We welcome your comments and suggestions on their quality and usefulness. Your input is an important part of the information used for new revisions. Please direct all comments, and corrections to this email address: InfoRdb_US@oracle.com.
Upcoming Oracle Rdb Speaking Events:
We will be giving Oracle Rdb product update presentations at the next Connect Deutschland conference (see https://www.connect-community.de/Events/symposium2023?language=en ) on September 27th and at the next VMSGenerations meeting in France on October 17th (see https://www.vmsgenerations.fr).
Topics to be covered will include Support Dates, recent product family releases, an update on the port of the Oracle Rdb family of products to the x86 version of OpenVMS and an update on Oracle Rdb in the Oracle Cloud. The presentation at the Connect Deutschland event will be in English and the VMSGenerations talk will be in French. Both presentations will be given virtually.
Sincerely,
Oracle on OpenVMS Engineering |
