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Space Manager with LiveReorg 9.1 - Release Notes

Resolved Issues

The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Space Manager.

Space Manager 9.1

Feature Enhancement / Resolved Issue Defect ID
Double Database Instance Issue An issue with double database entry appearing at the left side of the Windows Explorer has been resolved. SPC-1022

Space Manager 9.0

Feature Enhancement / Resolved Issue Defect ID
Renci Upgrade The Renci SSH.NET library is upgraded from version 2012.3.9 to 2020.0.1 in Space Manager to help resolve connectivity issues with the oracle servers running on the latest AIX operating systems. SPC-906
Partitioning Wizard An issue with the "Move to Tablespace" functionality in Space Manager is resolved. SPC-908

 

Space Manager 8.6

Feature Enhancement / Resolved Issue Defect ID
Reorg Manager Reorg Manager now includes the parameters ACCESS_METHOD and COMPRESSION for DataPump and allows the user to modify these settings. SPC-499

Space Manager 8.5

Feature Enhancement / Resolved Issue Defect ID
Advanced Search Enhancement: The Advanced Search window now includes an "Add to Results" button in addition to the menu item. SPC-410
General This release includes support for maximum object name length of 128 bytes in Oracle 12c Release 2. SPC-308
General This release includes support for Windows 10. SPC-379
Reorg Manager (Oracle 12c) You can now specify the DataPump method for objects individually. SPC-323
Reorg Manager (Oracle 12c) Corrected an issue that in some cases prevented a successful cleanup if a script was cancelled or failed during the datapump procedure. SPC-393
Reorg Manager Corrected an issue that caused a "Value was either too large or too small for an Int32" error when running a reorganization on objects that include large integer values. SPC-381
Reorg Manager Corrected an issue that prevented the Index partition attributes from being scripted correctly when creating a partition-level reorg script for a partitioned table with a local index. SPC-431

Space Manager 8.4.1

Feature Enhancement / Resolved Issue Defect ID
LiveReorg Corrected an issue that caused an ORA-04067 error during a LiveReorg of a table containing a LOB data type column when other processes attempted to access the table. SPC-392
LiveReorg Corrected an issue that caused an ORA-04067 error during LiveReorg Cleanup of a table containing a LOB data type column when other processes attempted to access the table. This issue is related to SPC-392. SPC-398
LiveReorg The DataPump data movement method (available for Oracle 12c) can now use the overflow directory/directories specified in the OVERFLOW_DIR_nn parameter/parameters. SPC-363
LiveReorg When connected to Oracle 12c, the Reorg Manager now allows you to specify the following options for the DataPump data movement method: a maximum file size and the number of parallel processes to use. See New Feature in this release for more information. SPC-321
Object Properties (Oracle 12c) Corrected an issue that caused an "Unable to cast object of type" error when attempting to view Object Properties of a table. This issue occurred when connected to an Oracle 12c database. SPC-388

Space Manager 8.3

Feature Enhancement / Resolved Issue Defect ID
Reorg Manager Improved performance when the analysis option "Restore original statistics in data dictionary for the CBO" is selected on the Scripting Options page of the Reorg Manager. SPC-241
Scripts/Job Monitor When deleting a script group, if the Detail pane is open, the list of scripts no longer persists in the Details pane after the group is deleted. SPC-122
SQL Editor Corrected an issue that caused an "access violation" error when attempting to edit a very large script or enter characters very quickly. SPC-243
SQL Editor Corrected an issue that caused Space Manager to become unresponsive when attempting to run a SELECT statement containing duplicate column names. SPC-244

Known Issues

The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.

Feature Known Issue and Workaround (if applicable) Defect ID
General

Some wizard screens do not display correctly on Windows 7 if your text size setting is greater than 100%.

Workaround: Set text size to 100%.

  1. Select Start | Control Panel | Appearance and Personalization.
  2. Select Make text and other items larger or smaller in the Display section.
  3. Select Smaller - 100% (default).
  4. Click Apply.
N/A
General When running the Space Manager client (64-bit) in a 64-bit environment, some users might encounter the following error when attempting to submit a standard or live reorg script: “Error creating script group: Could not load file or assembly ManagedQP5.dll or one of its dependencies. is not a valid Win32 application.” SPC-409
Domain Indexes

Reorganizing tables with Domain indexes. Space Manager provides limited support for Domain indexes when performing reorganizations and warns that you might encounter a problem because of the Domain index. Space Manager scripts the reorganization of the domain index correctly. However, the underlying implementation of the index type may be very complex, and some unforeseen dependencies may cause runtime errors.

Important: It is recommended that you test the reorganization of a table with a Domain index on a non-production version of the table to make sure Space Manager reorganizes both the table and index correctly before you reorganize your production table. 

N/A

Installation

Error when installing QSA on Windows for Oracle Database 12cR2. Some users might encounter an "Error running setup" error after attempting to install the QSA Server Agent on Windows for Oracle Database 12c R2. Workaround: If you encounter this issue, contact Quest Support for assistance.

SPC-491
Live Reorg

Error when running Live Reorg on Oracle Database 12cR2 in Windows. Some users might encounter the following error when attempting to run a Live Reorg script on Oracle 12c R2 in a Windows environment: "350: Aborted QSA - 20391 ORA - 01403 during internal SQL." Workaround: If you encounter this issue, contact Quest Support for assistance.

SPC-493
Object Properties Attempting to open the Object Properties dialog for a recently-created partitioned table using a Direct connection type resulted in an error.

SPC-482

Partitioning Wizard After creating a table partitioned by range with a global index, using the Partitioning Wizard to change the partitioning method from range to hash unexpectedly changed to the index's locality to local.

SPC-483


System Requirements

Before installing Space Manager and Capacity Manager, ensure that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements.

Requirements for the Client Computer

The Space Manager client must be installed on the same computer, and their requirements are the same unless otherwise specified. The computer must meet the following requirements:

Item Requirement
Oracle® Client

Oracle Net version 11g, 12c , and 19c

Note: The bitness (architecture) of the Oracle client must match the bitness of the Space Manager application.

Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2022

Note: The Space Manager client is tested on Windows Server 2022 with the QSA Agent and Oracle 19c hosted on AIX 7.2, and AIX 7.3.

Processor 1 GHz Processor (recommended minimum)
Memory 2 GB of RAM
Display Settings A resolution of 1024 x 768; true color or high color; small fonts
Disk Space

Space Manager: Approximately 800 MB

.NET Framework

Microsoft® .NET Framework 4 (including update 4.0.3)

Note: The .NET Framework 4 Full Profile is required. The Client Profile is not sufficient.

Requirements for Databases

Each database being managed with Space Manager must meet the following requirements:

Item Requirement
Oracle Database
  • Oracle 12c Release 2

    Additional Requirements for Oracle 12c Release 2: To be supported by Space Manager, an Oracle 12c Release 2 database is required to have the following sqlnet.ora profile parameter values specified:

    SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT = 8

    SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

    See "Additional Requirements for Oracle 12c Release 2" below for more information.

  • Oracle 19c

Notes:

  • Space Manager supports Oracle Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition databases.
  • Space Manager does not support Oracle databases which use Oracle Database Vault.
Database Server Operating System

Space Manager supports the following operating systems:

  • Oracle Solaris 11 and 11.1
  • IBM® AIX 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
  • Red Hat® Linux Advanced Server 7.4 (64 bit)
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8.4 and 8.6 (64 bit)

  • Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (64 bit)

Disk Space

Disk-space requirements are:

  • 80 MB for statistics tables
  • 20 MB for scripts tables
  • 20 MB contiguous free space for LiveReorg objects in the LiveReorg tablespace (set with QSA’s LW_TABLESPACE parameter)
  • 40 MB in the filesystem for QSA executables and logs
Oracle Packages

Space Manager: DBMS_SQL, DBMS_PIPE, DBMS_LOCK, DBMS_SPACE_ADMIN

QSA: DBMS_SQL, DBMS_PIPE, DBMS_OUTPUT, DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO

Find Long LONGs feature: UTL_RAW

Email notifications: UTL_SMTP

Oracle's Partitioning Option

Required for the Online Switch (a feature available for live reorganizations) and the Partitioning Wizard; Partitioning Option must be installed and licensed.

XDB Schema

Required for XMLType datatypes.

Additional Requirements for Oracle 12c Release 2 and Oracle 19c

Before installing the server components (and QSA), specify a password version for the database by performing the following procedure.

  1. First, to verify that this procedure is necessary for the target database, run the following query:

    select username, password_versions

    from dba_users

    where username = 'SPACER'

    Note: Username is the installation DBA.

  2. If results returned include "10G, 11G, 12c" in the PASSWORD VERSIONS column, then this procedure is not necessary for this database.
  3. If results do not include 10G, you must perform this procedure for the target database.
  4. Open the SQLNET.ORA file for the target database.
  5. Enter the following:

    SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER=8

    SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT=8

    BEQUEATH_DETACH=YES

  6. Save the SQLNET.ORA file.
  7. Add the below command in the listener.ora file.

    USE_SID_AS_SERVICE_<oracle-sid>=on

  8. Stop and restart the listener. Use the following commands:

    lsnrctl stop

    lsnrctl start

    The listener may take a few minutes to fully restart.

  9. Alter the password for the installation DBA to a temporary password and then back again to reset it, for example:

    alter user spacer identified by X;

    alter user spacer identified by spacer;

  10. Reset the sys password using alter, for example:

    alter user sys identified by syspassword;

  11. Now run the query again to verify the change.

    select username, password_versions

    from dba_users

    where username = 'SPACER'

    Note: Username is the installation DBA.

  12. You can also verify the change for the sys user.

    select username, password_versions

    from dba_users

    where username = 'SYS'

  13. If results returned from the queries include "10G, 11G, 12c" in the PASSWORD VERSIONS column, the password version was successfully set.

For additional information, see the Oracle documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NETRF/sqlnet.htm#NETRF2010.

Requirements for the Capacity Manager Repository

Note: Capacity Manager is not available in a 64-bit version at this time and is not included in the 64-bit installer.

The database used for the Capacity Manager repository must meet the following requirements:

Item Requirement
Oracle Database

Supported for the repository: Oracle 12c

Disk Space

8 MB recommended per monitored database assigned to a repository (accommodates one year of growth in repository objects)

Job Scheduler

One of the following schedules is needed for snapshot jobs, report scheduling, and Windows scheduling:

  • Oracle DBMS_SCHEDULER is used for scheduling snapshot jobs.
  • A third-party job scheduler can be used instead of an Oracle DBMS package.
Oracle Initialization Parameters

Oracle initialization parameters should be set as follows:

  • OPEN_LINKS—The value for OPEN_LINKS initialization parameter should be equal to or greater than the number of monitored databases assigned to a repository. The default value for this parameter is 4; the maximum is 255.
  • JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES—For optimal performance of snapshot jobs, the value for the JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES initialization parameter should be equal to or greater than the number of monitored databases assigned to a repository. The maximum is 1,000.
Character Set

Must be a superset of the character sets for all monitored databases. A UTF8 character set is recommended.

Activity Level

Light activity level.


Product Licensing

To activate a trial license

  1. In the License Key dialog, enter your Authorization Key.

  2. Enter the Site Message included with your Authorization Key.

To activate a purchased commercial license

  1. In the License Key dialog, enter your Authorization Key.

  2. Enter the Site Message included with your Authorization Key.

Note: License validation will happen in Space Manager, QSA independently will not authorize the license key.

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