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SharePlex 9.2.8 - Release Notes

Release Notes

SharePlex® 9.2.8

Release Notes

Revision: 7/6/2020

 

About SharePlex

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.

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New Features

New Features in this Release

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.

SharePlex 9.2.8

SharePlex 9.2.8 is a patch release and includes resolved issues. See Resolved Issues and Enhancements for a complete list.

SharePlex 9.2.7

SharePlex 9.2.7 is a patch release and includes resolved issues. See Resolved Issues and Enhancements for a complete list.

SharePlex 9.2.6

SharePlex 9.2.6 is a patch release and includes resolved issues. See Resolved Issues and Enhancements for a complete list.

SharePlex 9.2.5

SharePlex 9.2.5 is a patch release and includes resolved issues. See Resolved Issues and Enhancements for a complete list.

SharePlex 9.2.4

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Compute Virtual Machine is now supported as a target.

SharePlex 9.2.4 is a patch release and includes resolved issues. See Resolved Issues and Enhancements for a complete list.

SharePlex 9.2.3

SharePlex 9.2.3 is a minor release and includes resolved issues. See Resolved Issues and Enhancements for a complete list.

SharePlex 9.2.1

SharePlex 9.2.1 is a minor release and includes the following new features and enhanced functionality.

Other New Features

  • Oracle 18c. This release includes support for capture from and replication to Oracle 18c.

Note: SharePlex does not support replication of DML operations on objects compressed using OLTP Compression in Oracle 18c. This limitation applies to objects in the source database.

  • Kafka 1.1.x. This release includes support for replication to a Kafka 1.1.x target.

Operating System Support. This release includes support for SuSE SLES 15.

Installation

SharePlex installer packages for Linux/Unix. SharePlex installer packages for Linux/Unix are now database independent. You are no longer required to select an installer package based on the database for which SharePlex will be used (i.e., Oracle or Open Target). To install SharePlex for Oracle or Open Target, simply select the installer package for your operating system.

The SharePlex installer packages now have a slightly different naming convention:

SharePlex-release#-build#-platform-chipset.tpm

For Oracle Solaris (Sun), the operating system version is included:

SharePlex-release#-build#-platform-version-chipset.tpm

SharePlex 9.2

SharePlex 9.2 is a minor release and includes the following new features and enhanced functionality.

New Features for Oracle Source

Oracle UROWID data type. Support has been added for the Oracle UROWID data type. This support applies to Oracle-to-Oracle configurations only.

Support for SCN metadata for HANA target. This release of SharePlex supports posting the Oracle SCN to a column in a HANA target table.

Oracle replication to MySQL 5.7. SharePlex supports replication from an Oracle source to a MySQL 5.7 target on-premises.

Oracle 12c R2 Support

Support for 128-byte table and column names. In Oracle capture, SharePlex now supports table and column names that are up to 128 bytes in length. Please note the following limitations applicable to this release.

  • UDT column names more than 30-bytes in length are not supported.
  • Type names for UDTs and VARRAYS with names more than 30-bytes in length are not supported.
  • IOT names more than 30-bytes in length are not supported.

Other New Features

Support for Windows Server 2016. Support for capture from and replication to databases on Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

Improved Performance in the Post Process.

The following enhancements were made to improve performance of the Post process.

  • Implemented multi-threading for SQL Server and PostgreSQL targets: The Transaction Concurrency component of Post Enhanced Performance has been extended to support SQL Server and PostgreSQL targets. A new parameter, SP_OPX_THREADS, controls this feature. When set to a value of 2 or greater, Post runs with the specified number of threads (concurrent operations).
  • Batch similar operations: To maximize its performance when applying SQL operations to the target, the Post process groups smaller replicated operations into one larger batched operation. Post groups replicated operations when the operations are identical and the SQL is similar. A new parameter, SP_OPX_BATCH_ENABLE, controls this feature and is enabled by default. Another new parameter, SP_OPX_MAX_BATCH_MBYTES, controls the maximum size of the batched DML operation that Post applies to the target. This supports databases, such as Teradata, that have a maximum transaction size and can be used for other purposes where batch size must be changed.

New jobs status database

  • This release includes a new jobs status database. This database resides in the data sub-directory of the SharePlex variable-data directory. The parameter SP_SYS_JOB_HISTORY_SIZE allows you to control the size of this database. Use this parameter to specify the maximum size (in kB) allowed for the database.

Simplified SharePlex Installation Process on Windows

  • When installing on Windows, you are no longer required to specify the Oracle database version or specify whether or not you are installing in a non-Oracle environment.
  • You no longer need to manually change the default setting for Global Resources memory in the MKS Toolkit after you install SharePlex on a Windows system. The setting is now modified automatically during installation.

Data Type Mapping

This release of SharePlex includes a new typemap command, as well as changes to the default data type mappings. Review the following details.

  • Use the typemap show command to display all default data type mappings. Use typemap show source-target to display the mapping for the specified source-target combination, for example oracle-sqlserver. See the SharePlex 9.2 Reference Guide for more information about using the typemap command.
  • Use the typemap command instead of the data type option of the target command. (The data type option of the target command has been discontinued in this release.)
  • For a list of supported data types, see Supported data types: Oracle to Open Targets or .

Other Changes in SharePlex

TLS 1.2 (or later) required for TLS connections. If you intend to use TLS connections in SharePlex, TLS 1.2 or later is required.

Resolved Issues and Enhancements

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.

SharePlex 9.2.8

Issue ID Description
SPO-20426 Fixed Capture DDL replication of grant on commit refresh
SPO-20139 Fixed Capture DDL processing of chained row in system table
SPO-20125 Fixed Post XML missing trailing null columns
SPO-20033 Fixed Windows issue with stopping SharePlex processes from Services
SPO-20024 Fixed Post memory leak due to rollbacks
SPO-19633 Fixed Compare/Repair issue where invalid duplicate checksums reports OOS
SPO-17868 Fixed Post conflict resolution existing win log message output for most and least recent

SharePlex 9.2.7

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

SharePlex 9.2.6

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

SPO-18625

Fixed conversion issues with SJIS Ⅱ symbol

SPO-18615

Fixed SQL Server ODBC driver issues using float

SPO-18501

Fixed post inserting CLOB with ORA-64204 error

SPO-18402

Fixed corruption issues in object cache on tables with UDT

SPO-18169

Compare now properly supports configurations that use compound routes

SPO-18029

Fixed issue with converting exponential number with some SQL Server ODBC drivers

SPO-17592

Fixed conversion issues with UTF16 Chinese

SPO-17318

Fixed installation issues as root on Red Hat

SPO-17005

Fixed issue replicating insert operation on compressed tables

SPO-10528

Resolved issue with parsing SecureFiles LOB where data object ID not extracted

SPO-10282

Fixed capture to better handle alter table shrink table

SPO-3828

Changed read update of SharePlex marker to once per second

SharePlex 9.2.5

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.

SharePlex 9.2.4

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

SharePlex 9.2.3

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."

SharePlex 9.2.1

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.

Basic system requirements

This chapter contains the basic system requirements for SharePlex. See also:

System Requirements for Oracle Capture

 

System

Before installing SharePlex, ensure that your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements.

  • SharePlex processes are all 64-bit and can exceed 4 GB.
  • 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

  • See the Preinstallation Checklist in the SharePlex Installation Guide for additional system and/or database requirements.

Communications Protocols

SSL/TLS

For TLS connections, SharePlex supports TLS 1.2 (or later) only.

Internet Protocol

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
and Target versions

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

 

Interoperability between versions

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:

  • The older version of the SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY parameter, SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY, was deprecated in version 9.0. If your source SharePlex is currently replicating to a lower SharePlex version on the target and you have SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY set to the lower version, SharePlex will continue to use that value after you upgrade to the current version.
  • 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

    1. Stop Capture.

      sp_ctrl> stop capture

    2. In sp_ctrl on the source system, issue the following command:

      sp_ctrl>reset param SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY

    3. Restart Capture.

      sp_ctrl>start capture

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