SharePlex® 9.4
Release Notes
Revision: 05/18/2020
| New Features |
| Resolved Issues and Enhancements |
| Basic System Requirements |
| System Requirements for Oracle |
| Known Issues |
| Product Licensing |
| Third Party Contributions |
SharePlex provides high-speed replication from Oracle database to different target databases and messaging containers on major Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems— both on-premises and in the cloud. SharePlex supports a wide variety of configurations to meet different and complex data availability needs.
SharePlex supports reliable Oracle high availability configurations where replication maintains a duplicate database in a different location that is ready for fast, seamless failover and failback in planned or unplanned mode.
You can also use SharePlex to replicate data from Oracle source to maintain a change history database in an Oracle target. Rather than updating or deleting target rows based on the source change, SharePlex inserts a new row on the target for every source change. The result is an archive that reflects the chronological history of every change made to the source database.
SharePlex also includes, at no extra charge, the compare and repair tools that you need to verify the accuracy of a target maintained by replication. These tools not only detect hidden out-of-sync conditions, but they also repair the target to restore parity of your source and target data.
SharePlex value and versatility continues to grow with the requirements and requests of our customers. Although SharePlex is a reliable, relatively low-maintenance solution, our top-rated support team is ready around the clock to help with any trouble you may have. To get you started with your deployment, our professional services team is highly experienced and readily available.
For expert advice and the latest news about SharePlex, join the SharePlex Community at https://www.quest.com/community/products/shareplex. Take advantage of our forums, blogs, videos, and more from our own experts, as well as input from our customers and partners.
This is a minor release and includes new features and enhanced functionality.
Database Support. This release of SharePlex includes support for the following database versions:
NOTE: 9.4.0 is a Linux only release. To properly replicate from SharePlex 9.4.0 capture (source) to a non-9.4.0 target, set the SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBLITY. See Interoperability between versions for how to use and set this parameter.
NOTE: OLTP compression is not supported by SharePlex for replication of objects using DML operations in Oracle 18c and 19c. This limitation applies to objects in the source database.
SharePlex has put bug fixes into a cumulative update rollup (denoted by third digit in the version number)—starting with the 9.2.3 release. Customers that require bug fixes which are already available in a patch update rollup will be required to apply that patch release to get the bug fix.
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of SharePlex.
NOTE: All Resolved Issues and Enhancement from SharePlex 9.2.7 and older are included in this release.
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SPO-19998 | Fixed overflow processing DLOADs from OLTP table |
| SPO-19920 | Fixed Capture error using ASM disk with udev |
| SPO-19919 | Fixed Capture error using ASM partition with AFD |
| SPO-19910 | Fixed Post issues replicating compressed LOB data |
| SPO-19882 | Fixed Post exits due after executing reconcile |
| SPO-18858 | Fixed columns ignored when positioned after UDT column |
| SPO-18529 | Fixed CLOB data not replication to XML & JSON |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SPO-19907 | Fixed ignored DDL when source and target database endianness are different |
| SPO-19834 | Fixed Post stopping when object cache missing from previous activation |
| SPO-19734 | Fixed Chinese NCHAR & NVARCHAR2 characters not showing up correctly in Kafka |
| SPO-19722 | Fixed Capture core when processing DLOAD from OLTP tables |
| SPO-19563 | Fixed Capture core when issuing DDL alter table modify on XML type column |
| SPO-19494 | Fixed Chinese NVARCHAR2 characters no showing up in Kafka |
| SPO-19468 | Fixed commits not routing to Post due to bad bitmaps in Read |
| SPO-19458 | Fixed compare ignoring nolocksource and nolocktarget parameters |
| SPO-19448 | Fixed Reader redundant processing rollback updates when using horizontal partition |
| SPO-19070 | Fixed VARRAY corrupting XML in Kafka |
| SPO-19003 | Fixed extra data appearing in XML from bad VARRAY parsing in Kafka.NOTE: VARRAY element in XML is fixed to now correctly be a child element of the parent column. VARRAY will no longer appear as a sibling to the column. |
| SPO-18985 | Fixed out-of-sync when operations are related using distributed transactions |
| SPO-18931 | Fixed Post DDL error creating table using materialized views |
| SPO-18875 | Fixed Post stopping when JMS not responding. Post will now retry automatically. |
| SPO-18800 | Fixed Linux endianness posting to Kafka causing invalid characters |
| SPO-18405 | Fixed posting bad records when using OLTP |
| SPO-18157 | Fixed Capture to correctly skip filtered out DDL |
| SPO-18154 | Fixed invalid numeric data by setting the value to zero when condition met in Capture |
| SPO-18146 | Fixed Open Post stopping when DDL messages are only updating object cache |
| SPO-18138 | Fixed CTAS issues when using non-qualified schema |
| SPO-17856 | Fixed Post error ORA-29877 on update table containing SDO_GEOMETRY column but not part of the update |
| SPO-17693 | Fixed upgrade issues from 9.2.1 when processing older DDL cache version |
| SPO-16944 | Fixed Post to properly update LOBs when using CDC |
| SPO-15820 | Fixed errors using Oracle Filter Driver with ASM disks in native mode |
| SPO-5032 | Fixed Poster error ORA-1805 using time zone |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
|
SPO-19151 |
Resolved capture performance issues when data not ready in log |
|
SPO-18872 |
Fixed post issues with delete-n where some columns contains NULL |
|
SPO-18866 |
Resolved corruption using alter table DDL on long name table |
|
SPO-18850 |
Resolved offset calculation on SecureFiles CLOB with Japanese CharSet |
|
SPO-18838 |
Resolved issue with alter table DDL using dbms_job package |
|
SPO-18798 |
Fixed SP_OPX_REDUCED_KEY=2 using update containing keys and non-keys |
|
SPO-18628 |
Fixed issue with create public synonym |
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SPO-18625 |
Fixed conversion issues with SJIS Ⅱ symbol |
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SPO-18615 |
Fixed SQL Server ODBC driver issues using float |
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SPO-18501 |
Fixed post inserting CLOB with ORA-64204 error |
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SPO-18402 |
Fixed corruption issues in object cache on tables with UDT |
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SPO-18169 |
Compare now properly supports configurations that use compound routes |
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SPO-18029 |
Fixed issue with converting exponential number with some SQL Server ODBC drivers |
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SPO-17592 |
Fixed conversion issues with UTF16 Chinese |
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SPO-17318 |
Fixed installation issues as root on Red Hat |
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SPO-17005 |
Fixed issue replicating insert operation on compressed tables |
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SPO-10528 |
Resolved issue with parsing SecureFiles LOB where data object ID not extracted |
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SPO-10282 |
Fixed capture to better handle alter table shrink table |
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SPO-3828 |
Changed read update of SharePlex marker to once per second |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SPO-10592 | Fixed post failure when executing 'alter index' with a fully-qualified index name for table replicating to a different schema on target. |
| SPO-15132 | Fixed messages not getting sent when using DML filtering. |
| SPO-16402 | Fixed XML/JSON document types to format null & empty data as attributes. |
| SPO-17528 | Fixed XML document emitting extra tags for CDC. |
| SPO-17863 | Fixed network issue when using SSL. |
| SPO-17991 | Fixed sp_utils not properly showing port numbers. |
| SPO-18202 | Fixed post error recovery accessing row of a record after insert error. |
| SPO-18224 | Fixed read error when using DML filtering |
| SPO-18259 | Fixed better recovery handling after encountering SSL error. |
| SPO-18321 | Fixed export using SP_SYS_HOSTNAME IP when set |
| SPO-18419 | Enhanced capture performance. |
| SPO-18487 | Fixed post shutdown due to ORA-01458 after upgrade and SQL cache is enabled. |
| SPO-18501 | Fixed automatic detection of UTF16 CLOB data. |
| SPO-18527 | Fixed internal routing data to better handle non-UTF8 characters. |
| SPO-18617 | Fixed parsing of DLOAD record with OLTP. |
| SPO-18794/4506554 | ON CASCADE DELETE constraints are now supported. |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SPO-16402 | Corrected XML messages not properly tagging NULL or EMPTY columns |
| SPO-17528 | Resolved XML messages including extraneous metadata |
| SPO-17991 | Fix Windows 'SharePlex Utilities' not showing correct port number for associated processes |
| SPO-18321 | Fix export not using SP_SYS_HOST_NAME parameter value |
| SPO-18419 | Resolved capture performance issues |
| SPO-18487 | Fix post stopping due to ORA-1458 after upgrading when SQL cache is enabled |
| SPO-18501 | Fix post stopping due to ORA-600 or ORA-64204 when using CLOB caused by incorrect character set parsing |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SPO-17377 | Corrected an issue that caused the Post process to stop with the following error: "ORA-01741: illegal zero-length identifier." |
| SPO-17384 | Corrected an issue in which a DDL transaction (alter table to add partition) was not processed successfully after a database upgrade. |
| SPO-17507 | Resolved an issue which caused the Repair process to fail because the SQLite marker table used in the Compare process was not successfully created. |
| SPO-17668 | Resolved an issue that caused remote Capture to stall when reading online logs and disk_asynch_io was enabled on the remote database. |
| SPO-17681 | Corrected an issue which caused the following error when replicating to JMS: "No such file or directory - bridge.ini." |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SPO-10567 | Improved error-handling and advice for the following errors: SP-OCT01004 and SP-OCT01005. |
| SPO-10836 | Corrected an issue in which having a schema/object DDL filter causes all DDL that has no schema/object name to be filtered. |
| SPO-11221 | Oracle Poster core dumping in Breaklines |
| SPO-11443 | Post Enhanced Performance (PEP) improvement. |
| SPO-11501 | PEP (dependency checking) should skip objects that are disabled |
| SPO-13894 | A description of the copy cache command is now included in the SharePlex 9.2 Reference Guide. |
| SPO-14638 | Allow Comment on Table to pass through as non-recursive DDL |
| SPO-15088 | Corrected an issue in which Capture generated the incorrect Update operation that updates a non-NULL column with NULL value. |
| SPO-15449 | Corrected an issue in which detecting Kafka supported versions fails for SUSE Linux. |
| SPO-15452 | Corrected an issue which caused a core dump when Capture processed autoadd on a table with complex/nested UDT columns. |
| SPO-15455 | Corrected an issue that caused an error in SQL Server to SQL Server replication when the source database uses BIN or BIN2 binary collations. |
| SPO-15519 | When DDL greater than 319K is encountered, discard it and log an error instead of dumping the core. |
| SPO-15523 | Corrected an issue which caused a failure when posting the DDL for a interval-partitioned table created with an unnamed partitioned in create table statement. |
| SPO-15553 | Corrected an issue in which upgrading Oracle from 11.2 to 12.2 caused Capture to erratically drop the replicated tables. |
| SPO-15685 | Corrected an issue in which issuing a non-replicated create sequence with SP_OCT_AUTOADD_SEQ=1 and SP_OCT_REPLICATE_ALL_DDL=0 (default) caused a defunct entry in 9iDDLcache file. |
| SPO-15856 | Improved Processing of CLOBS. |
| SPO-15937 | Corrected an issue involving OCI calls being called on non-ASM RAC is setup without enabling OCI parameter. |
| SPO-15952 | Corrected an issue that caused Poster core dumping in keycache. |
| SPO-15959 | Corrected an issue in which compare SQL statement missing user-provided Oracle partition for the SP hz partition table. |
| SPO-16076 | Corrected an issue that caused an activation error upon reactivating the same configuration after a rename. |
| SPO-16114 | Certain redo-record with compressed data caused Capture to core. |
| SPO-16161 | Capture failed to parse certain redo-records generated from Oracle 12cR2. |
| SPO-16257 | When changing the SharePlex User password using the ora_chpwd utility, the "alter user" privilege is required instead of the DBA role. |
| SPO-16264 | During SharePlex installation on Windows, if the MKS installation fails, the SharePlex installation does not proceed. |
| SPO-16474 | Renaming sets of tables on peer-to-peer setting could cause ODR message to loopback causing failure in Post process. |
| SPO-16486 | Open Target logs invalid WHERE clause column_name = null in sqlerror.log |
| SPO-16700 | Removed the limitation of 8192 bytes for SQL text. The limitation caused a "SQL too large" error message during Capture. |
This chapter contains the basic system requirements for SharePlex. See also:
System Requirements for Oracle Capture
Before installing SharePlex, ensure that your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements.
Per process memory of greater than or equal to 256 MB is required. Depending on how you configure SharePlex, there can be one or more of the following processes on a system:
Capture
Read
Export
Import
Post
For TLS connections, SharePlex supports TLS 1.2 (or later) only.
SharePlex supports IPv4 and IPv6 internet protocols. The following table shows the operating systems for which SharePlex was tested with IPv6.
Note: If the SP_SYS_HOST_NAME environment variable is set to an IPV6 address on the source system, SharePlex on the target system must be version 9.0 or later.
|
Operating System |
Source |
Target |
SharePlex Source |
On-premises/Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Linux RHEL |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
Linux RHEL |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
8.6.5 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
Linux RHEL |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 8.6 |
On-premises |
|
Linux Suse |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
Windows |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
Windows |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 8.6.4 |
On-premises |
|
HP UA |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
HP IA |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
SUN Sparc |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
SUN Solaris |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
AIX |
Link-Local IPV6 |
Link-Local IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
On-premises |
|
Linux RHEL |
Public IPV6 |
Public IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
Cloud |
|
Windows |
Public IPV6 |
Public IPV6 |
9.0 - 9.0 |
Cloud |
Refer to the following guidelines if the system where you are installing SharePlex is in a configuration where one or more other systems will continue to use an older version of SharePlex. An example is when installing or upgrading SharePlex on a target, but the source will continue to use SharePlex 8.6.x.
Versions with full interoperability
The following SharePlex versions are fully interoperable, including the Compare/Repair feature:
8.6.x
9.0.x
9.1.x
9.2.x
9.4.x
To support replication from a higher to a lower version, set the SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY parameter on the source system to the lower SharePlex version. If Capture is running, restart it.
Important: Downgrading from a higher to a lower version of SharePlex is not supported.
Notes:
If you upgrade the target to the current release at a future time, issue a reset for SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY on the source system to remove it from the SharePlex environment. Going forward, SharePlex will use the setting of the new SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY parameter, which defaults to the current version.
To reset SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY
Stop Capture.
sp_ctrl> stop capture
In sp_ctrl on the source system, issue the following command:
sp_ctrl>reset param SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY
Restart Capture.
sp_ctrl>start capture
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