Dataserver for Oracle 8i De-supported.

According to Progress the “Next Major Release after OpenEdge 10.1A” will not have support for Dataserver for Oracle 8i. Progress Software lists Dataserver for Oracle 10g as the Replacement Feature. Extended Support ends December 2007.

Progress defines “De-supported” usage as: “De-support is used where changes in technology or standards have made a feature obsolete and it is removed from the OpenEdge product. De-supported features have replacement equivalents and have zero impact on backwards compatibility.”

If you are stuck with an older embedded version of Oracle and need to move beyond OpenEdge 10.1A it may be time to explore available alternatives.

Most Dataserver users are not affected by the decision to De-Support Oracle 8i as they are able to upgrade Oracle.

lkrela - What OpenEdge 10.1B users need to know and why it matters.

Progress users have come to expect extreme reliability from the Progress DB. This is no accident and has taken much consistent work over many years by the Progress Engine Crew. It is amazing how the Progress DB keeps ticking given what’s thrown at it in the field.

If you aren’t already aware, you should know that something bad has slipped through Progress’ regression tests.

If you are a 10.1B user, especially if you aren’t yet on Service Pack 3, your transactions may be exposed to data corruption. Tom Harris, OpenEdge RDBMS Development, calls it “a bad bug”. In an e-mail to the PEG DBA Forum, Tom has asked for users to “please” use the lkrela startup parameter “if you are running 10.1B prior to service pack 3″.

On OpenEdge versions 10.1B through Service Pack 2 inclusive there are critical bugs in locking that affect how locks are released, which in turn affect transaction consistency.

For your reference, the link to Solution ID is P126982.

While there is a fix in Service Pack 3, until Progress updates its regression tests for this and possibly related conditions, we are recommending to our clients that they keep using the lkrela startup parameter on 10.1B.

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