| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Release Notes 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) for Linux Part Number B19091-07 |
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| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Release Notes 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) for Linux Part Number B19091-07 |
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This chapter summarizes release note issues associated with Oracle Content Services. This chapter contains the following sections:
Section 5.2, "Known Limitations and Workarounds in Oracle Content Services"
Section 5.4, "Globalization Issues in Oracle Content Services"
Section 5.5, "Documentation Issues in Oracle Content Services"
Note:
This document was updated on October 7, 2005.Oracle Content Services is the new name for the product formerly known as Oracle Files. In addition to having a new name, this version of the product ships with many additional key features that support the following benefits to your organization:
Increased productivity by making information throughout the enterprise easier to find, manage, and share
Reduced risk through better control of information and establishment of consistent information policies and processes
Enhanced compliance support for government and industry regulations through records management
The following sections provide an overview of the new features in Oracle Content Services 10g:
Oracle Content Services ships with Web services that:
Support integration, automation, and functional extension
Are J2EE and .Net compatible
Provide support for file management, records management, searching, versioning, workflow, session management, virus scanning, and other functions
The Oracle Content Services Web services provide programmatic access to the following functionality:
See Oracle Content Services Application Developer's Guide for more information about the Oracle Content Services Web services.
Oracle Content Services provides the following new features for file and document management:
Folder and file-level security
Fine-grained permissions
Role-based access control
Group access management
Multiple Sites per Oracle Content Services instance
File check-in/check-out
Policy-based versioning with a folder-by-folder policy, automatic or manual application, maximum version cutoff, and selectable version naming
Policy-based Category management (extended metadata) with a folder-by-folder policy, automatic or manual application, hierarchical categories, and default and/or enforced attributes
Integrated antivirus protection (partner solution required)
Ability to create and store links to files and folders
Oracle Content Services provides features that allow workflows to be associated with specific folders. These workflows:
Can be automatically triggered when events such as document check-in or deletion occur
Can be used to drive review and approval cycles
Can notify someone that a new document version has been checked in
Can prevent the deletion of a document from a folder without a manager's permission
Oracle Content Services also supports custom workflows through Oracle BPEL Process Manager, an Oracle product that provides a framework for easily designing, deploying, monitoring, and administering processes based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standards. These custom workflows:
Can be used to automate a wide range of business processes
Can be registered with Oracle Content Services so that users can define workflow-based folder policies
Can invoke the Oracle Content Services Web services to perform an extensive set of actions
See "Managing Workflows in Oracle Content Services" in Chapter 3 of Oracle Content Services Administrator's Guide for information about workflow features in Oracle Content Services. See Oracle BPEL Process Manager Developer's Guide for information about creating custom BPEL workflows.
Records management features provide the ability to specify that a document is to be retained for a certain period of time, prevent or control changes to the document during the retention period, and dispose of the document in a prescribed way once the retention period has expired. Oracle Content Services ships with an optional product, Oracle Records Management, to support these records management capabilities.
The following features are provided:
File plan-based record organization
Record search
Flexible classification and retention policy management
Records declaration that can be:
Applied manually by users
Policy-based, applied on a per-folder basis
See Oracle Records Management Administrator's Guide for information about how to use the records management features in both Oracle Records Management and Oracle Content Services.
The following new administrative features are provided in Oracle Content Services:
Integration with OPMN
Simplified installation and configuration
Simplified RAC configuration
BFILE aging
Enhanced logging
Multiple Applications tiers on a single host
Option to configure and unconfigure Oracle Content Services from the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control
LYKE index to improve performance on filename searches (such as *minutes*)
Ability to manage SQL metric configuration
Automatic integration with Oracle Workflow
Easier mechanism to change the Oracle Content Services schema password
Additional default formats
For detailed information about changes and improvements to Oracle Content Services administration, see "What's New in Oracle Content Services Administration" in Oracle Content Services Administrator's Guide.
The following sections describe known limitations and workarounds for Oracle Content Services:
Section 5.2.1, "Some Oracle Content Services Features Only Available for Preview"
Section 5.2.2, "Upgrade from Oracle Files 9.0.x to Oracle Content Services 10g Not Supported"
The Oracle Content Services engine is being released as part of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g. This engine provides a comprehensive set of Web services APIs that enable content management functionality in the new Oracle Workspaces application, and that can be used to content-enable a wide range of customer business and knowledge worker applications.
Oracle has also developed a set of applications for Oracle Content Services, including a rich Web client providing a familiar, desktop-like collaborative content management experience, and a Windows integration client (known as Oracle Drive) that offers seamless access to Oracle Content Services from Windows desktop applications. To ensure a high level of quality and ease-of-use, these clients, as well as additional functionality such as WebDAV access for Macintosh clients, are still undergoing additional testing and development and are only available for preview through the Oracle Sales organization.
The full list of Oracle Content Services features that are only available for preview include:
Oracle Content Services Rich Web User Interface
This user interface provides dynamic tree and list views, right-click menus, keyboard shortcuts, Group, Reports, and Search views, and Advanced Properties dialogs for Sharing, Versioning, Categories, Workflow, and Records Management.
Oracle Content Services Accessibility Web UI
This user interface is BLAF-based for ADA compliance and provides full screen reader support and keyboard navigation.
Oracle Drive Windows Desktop Integration Tool
This client is a "file system redirector" for the Windows desktop that provides:
Mounted drive functionality through WebDAV
A cache-based facility for transparent offline file and folder management
Right-click access to Advanced Properties dialogs from Windows Explorer providing viewing and editing of Advanced Properties
Oracle Content Services Records Management Web UI
This user interface provides File Plan, Record Series, Record Category, and Records Management capabilities, as well as dynamic tree and list views, right-click menus, and keyboard shortcuts.
Cookieless WebDAV facility for Macintosh
This feature provides WebDAV access for Macintosh clients.
Contact your Oracle sales representative for information about previewing these features.
For the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g (10.1.1) release, upgrading from Oracle Files 9.0.x to Oracle Content Services 10g (10.1.1) is not supported.
This limitation only applies to Applications tier upgrades for Oracle Collaboration Suite installations that have Oracle Files configured on any Applications tier. Upgrading your Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Database instances is a supported production feature, as long as you do not upgrade any Applications tiers.
See Oracle Collaboration Suite Upgrade Guide for more information.
The following table lists known issues for Oracle Content Services.
Table 5-1 Known Issues in Oracle Content Services
| Description | Action | Bug Number |
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You must meet Oracle Internet Directory user requirements for configuring Oracle Content Services through the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control. An Oracle Internet Directory user must have additional privileges to be able to use the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control to configure Oracle Content Services. |
The Oracle Internet Directory user must have the following privileges:
Use the same Oracle Internet Directory user to configure all Oracle Content Services Applications tiers. |
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File not found errors appear in install log file after silent installation. The log file generated during the silent installation process displays "File not found" errors. |
The error message can be safely ignored. |
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NodeManager throws NumberFormatException during initial deployment of OC4J. After deploying Oracle Content Services, the NodeManager services generates a NumberFormatException. |
None. Oracle Content Services restarts the OC4J instance automatically and corrects the problem. |
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Uninstalling Oracle Content Services does not remove the service registry entries for the product. Because of this, subsequent attempts to configure Oracle Content Services will fail. |
Remove the service registry entry using the following ldap command: ldapdelete -h oid_host_name -p oid_port -D user_name -w user_password -v "cn= domain_display_name,cn=VirtualServices, cn=Files,cn=Services,cn=OracleContext" |
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Users cannot sign on to a new Oracle Content Services instance that is using an upgraded Oracle Internet Directory. This problem occurs because of insufficient access rights set in the upgraded Oracle Internet Directory instance. |
Grant Browse access to Everyone on the user search base and group search base containers for each realm in Oracle Internet Directory. This needs to be done only for Follow these steps to grant Browse access:
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On-demand provisioning through WebDAV/FTP fails for non-default realms. Users should be automatically provisioned into Oracle Content Services when they first sign on. Users who are members of non-default realms, however, are not getting provisioned when they sign on through FTP or WebDAV. |
Because the Oracle Internet Directory Credential Manager Agent provisions new users at pre-specified intervals (the default is every 15 minutes), users who are members of non-default realms should wait until this time period has elapsed before attempting to sign on over FTP or WebDAV. |
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Error occurs when pressing Enter for some fields in the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control. If you are using Internet Explorer, you may encounter an error if you press Enter after entering text in the Search fields for the Formats, Sites, Domain Properties, and Server Configurations pages in the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control. |
Use the Go button with the Search field rather than pressing Enter on these pages. |
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The Oracle Content Services Configuration Assistant fails when running against Oracle 10.2 database server. The Oracle Content Services Configuration Assistant fails when running against Oracle 10.2 database server because of syntax changes from Oracle 9i database server |
Edit the file exec dbms_stats.export_schema_stats
upper('&1'), 'IFS_BACKUP_STATS',
to_char(sysdate, 'DD-MON-YY HH24:
MI.SS'), upper('&1') );
With the following: exec dbms_stats.export_schema_stats(
upper('&1'), 'IFS_BACKUP_STATS',
to_char(sysdate, 'MON_DD_YYHH24_MI_SS'),
upper('&1') );
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The Oracle Internet Directory Credential Manager Agent consumes 100% CPU when more than 10,000 users are first provisioned. This problem occurs because a database query against the [oracle.ifs.management.servers.Oid CredentialManagerAgent] WARNING: IFS-45370: Unable to handle requests |
If you encounter this problem, perform the following steps:
This problem only occurs when large numbers of users are first provisioned. You should not need to perform these steps more than once. |
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Configuration of Oracle Content Services fails when Oracle Internet Directory is in SSL-only mode. This problem occurs because registration of the database fails. |
Ensure that Oracle Internet Directory is in non-SSL mode before configuring Oracle Content Services. You can change Oracle Internet Directory back to SSL mode after Oracle Content Services configuration is complete. |
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Turning on BFILE aging causes the Content Agent to log exceptions. Turning on BFILE aging results in the Content Agent to log the following exception: IFS-21011: Unable to dynamically invoke method DYNMoveContentToBfile on oracle.ifs.server.S_TieMediaBlob. The file is not moved to BFILE, but remains stored as a LOB. |
None |
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Turning on EMC Retention Storage does not move the content of the record to the EMC storage device. Configuring the system to use the EMC storage device for Oracle Records Management leaves the contents of the record stored in the database as a LOB. The content is not moved to EMC. |
None |
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The following table lists Oracle Content Services globalization issues.
Table 5-2 Globalization Issues in Oracle Content Services
| Description | Action | Bug Number |
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Users with multibyte or high-ASCII characters in their user names may not be able to sign on to Oracle Content Services using service-to-service authentication. This affects logins though the Content Searchlet and Web services, both of which use service-to-service authentication. |
Set the default character set on the calling system to UTF-8 or to a character set that can properly encode the characters in the username. This will ensure that the username is properly encoded when being passed from the calling system to the called system for service-to-service authentication. |
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Cannot use FTP or WebDAV with multibyte user names. Users with multibyte user names cannot sign on to Oracle Content Services using FTP or WebDAV. |
Do not create user names that contain multibyte characters. |
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The following sections describe documentation issues for Oracle Content Services:
Section 5.5.1, "Documentation Contains References to Features Available Only for Preview"
Section 5.5.3, "Configuring Oracle Content Services Through the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control"
Section 5.5.4, "Configuring Oracle Workflow After Applications Tier Deinstallation"
Section 5.5.5, "Considerations Related to Applications Tier Deinstallation"
In some cases, Oracle Content Services documentation, including Oracle Content Services manuals, Oracle Content Services online help, and Oracle Content Services information in Oracle Collaboration Suite manuals, contains references to features that are only available for preview through the Oracle Sales organization. For example, Oracle Content Services Administrator's Guide contains references to OC4J_RM, an OC4J instance that supports the Oracle Records Management Web interface, and Oracle Collaboration Suite Concepts Guide contains references to Oracle Drive.
The following additional information has become available and will be added to the Oracle Content Services documentation at the first available opportunity:
If you define a policy on a folder or Library that requires users to enter data associated with uploaded content, users will not be able to place content in that folder or Library using FTP or WebDAV. This limitation is due to the fact that the FTP and WebDAV protocols do not provide a facility to enter metadata.
The following additional information has become available and will be added to the Oracle Content Services documentation at the first available opportunity:
After you configure Oracle Content Services using the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control, you must restart the Oracle HTTP Server in order to access Oracle Content Services through Web services or WebDAV.
The following additional information has become available and will be added to the Oracle Content Services documentation at the first available opportunity:
If you choose to deinstall an Oracle Content Services Applications tier on which Oracle Workflow has been configured, Oracle Workflow is also deinstalled from that Applications tier.
If you had only one Applications tier, and you choose to reinstall and reconfigure Oracle Content Services, Oracle Workflow will be automatically reconfigured.
If you have multiple Oracle Content Services Applications tiers, Oracle Workflow will not be configured automatically, even if you reinstall and reconfigure Oracle Content Services on a new Applications tier. Instead, you must manually configure Oracle Workflow by running the Oracle Workflow Configuration Assistant on one of the Oracle Content Services Applications tiers. Note the following:
Be sure to choose the Mid-tier Only option in the Oracle Workflow Configuration Assistant when you perform this task.
If you were previously using the Oracle Workflow notification mailer, you must reconfigure the notification mailer. See Oracle Content Services Administrator's Guide for more information about how to perform this task.
The following additional information has become available and will be added to the Oracle Content Services documentation at the first available opportunity:
When you first configure Oracle Content Services, the first Applications tier that you configure contains important configuration settings that are not stored in subsequent Applications tiers. Because of this, if you choose to deinstall the first Oracle Content Services Applications tier, you must ensure these configuration settings are restored on another Applications Tier. The following list summarizes these configuration settings:
The Oracle Internet Directory Service Registry may contain Oracle Content Services Web application URLs that point to the Applications tier you deinstalled. If this is the case, you must change these URLs to point to another Oracle Content Services Applications tier. For more information about how to change URLs in the Oracle Internet Directory Service Registry, see Oracle Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide.
The IFS.DOMAIN.APPLICATION.ApplicationHost domain property may point to the Applications tier you deinstalled. If this is the case, you must update this domain property to point to another Oracle Content Services Applications tier.
If you were running some or all of the Oracle Content Services agents on the Applications tier you deinstalled, you must configure these agents to run elsewhere. To do this, modify the node configuration of a node running on another Oracle Content Services Applications tier.
If you collected domain and repository metrics on the Applications tier you deinstalled, you must configure these metrics on another Oracle Content Services Applications tier.
If you were running Oracle Mail on the Applications tier you deinstalled, you must update the IFS.DOMAIN.EMAIL.SmtpHost and IFS.DOMAIN.EMAIL.SmtpPort domain properties to point to another SMTP server.
