3 Known Issues

This chapter discusses issues and workarounds that apply to the entire Oracle Developer Suite product. For component-specific issues and workarounds, please refer to the chapters in Part II, " Component Release Notes ".

This chapter is divided into the following sections:

• Section 3.1, "Preinstallation Issues"

• Section 3.2, "Installation Issues"

• Section 3.3, "Postinstallation Issues"

• Section 3.4, "Deinstallation Issues"

• Section 3.5, "Platform-specific Issues"

• Section 3.6, "Configuration Issues"

• Section 3.7, "Administration Issues"

• Section 3.8, "Documentation Errata"

3.1 Preinstallation Issues

3.1.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Beans

Oracle Business Intelligence Beans (hereinafter referred to as "BI Beans") requires Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 2 (9.2.0.3 or later) with the OLAP Option. For specific patch set numbers, see the matrix of supported patch sets in the BI Beans product area on Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/bib/content.html).

The OLAP Option requires configuration, as follows:

• Basic configuration is described in the Oracle9i OLAP User's Guide. This book is available on OracleMetaLink (http://metalink.oracle.com). On the top-level page on OracleMetaLink, click Top Tech Docs, then scroll to the Business Intelligence (BI) & Warehousing heading and click Oracle OLAP. Next, click Documentation, then Oracle OLAP, then the book title.

• For good performance and to ensure that BI Beans works as expected, you must follow the guidelines in Oracle9i OLAP Best Practices for Tabular Cube Aggregation and Query Operations. This document is available as patch set 2529822 on OracleMetaLink (http://metalink.oracle.com).

3.1.2 Oracle9i Warehouse Builder

Oracle9i Warehouse Builder Release 9.2 is included in the Oracle Developer Suite 10g CD Pack as a separate CD-ROM disk with a separate installation program. All of the documentation for Oracle9i Warehouse Builder is included on its CD-ROM.

3.2 Installation Issues

There are no known suite-level installation issues.

3.3 Postinstallation Issues

3.3.1 Java Versions

The documentation for an individual component of Oracle Developer Suite may list a specific version of the JDK, JRE, J2SE, J2EE or other Java feature that is certified for that component. Nevertheless, the Java version that is supplied with Oracle Developer Suite 10g 9.0.4 is also fully certified for all components.

For example, the Java in Oracle Developer Suite 10g 9.0.4 for Linux is 1.4.2.x, while the Oracle Business Intelligence Beans (BI Beans) documentation says that BI Beans is only certified with 1.4.1. However, BI Beans is also certified with the Java SDK 1.4.2 that is installed with Oracle Developer Suite 10g for Linux.

3.4 Deinstallation Issues

There are no known suite-level deinstallation issues.

3.5 Platform-specific Issues

There are no known suite-level platform-specific issues.

3.6 Configuration Issues

There are no known suite-level configuration issues.

3.7 Administration Issues

There are no known suite-level administration issues.

3.8 Documentation Errata

3.8.1 Oracle Developer Suite 10g Installation Guide

In Table A-1 of the manual Oracle Developer Suite 10g Installation Guide 10g (9.0.4) for Windows and UNIX, footnote 2 states that "Oracle9i Warehouse Builder Release 2 (9.0.4) is now available separately from Oracle Developer Suite." Oracle Developer Suite 10g now includes Oracle9i Warehouse Builder Release 9.2. as a separate CD-ROM. For more information, see Section 3.1.2, "Oracle9i Warehouse Builder".