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SharePlex 10.2 - Release Notes

System Requirements for Oracle Capture

This chapter contains the requirements when capturing from an Oracle source database and replicating to a supported target database.

Prerequisite:

At least the minimum level of supplemental logging must be enabled. Some SharePlex features may require PK/UK supplemental logging to be enabled.

Supported Operating Systems for Oracle

The following operating systems are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to an Oracle target database. For a list of supported source and target databases for Oracle capture, see Supported Oracle to Oracle Replication.

SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Note:  SharePlex supports the following operating systems and only where the version matches the Oracle certified platforms. For example, Oracle 19c supports Linux 7 and later, therefore installation of SharePlex on a system with Oracle 19c is supported only on Linux 7 and later.

  • AIX 7.1 and 7.2
  • CentOS Linux 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, and 8.x
  • Oracle Linux (RHCK and UEK) 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, and 8.x
  • RHEL 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, and 8.x
  • SuSE SLES 11.x, 12.x, and 15.x
  • Oracle Solaris (SPARC and x86) 10, 11, and 11.4
  • Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016, and 2019
  • HP-UX 11.31 Itanium*
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) support - Azure and AWS

*SharePlex does NOT support Oracle 19c on HP-UX 11.31 Itanium.

Supported Operating Systems for Open Targets

SQL Server support:

The following operating systems are supported for SQL Server database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Native SharePlex installation is supported on the below platforms:

  • RHEL 7.x
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) support - Azure and AWS

Replication can be supported on the below platforms using Remote Post from Linux:

  • Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016, and 2019

MySQL Server support:

The following operating systems are supported for MySQL Server database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Native SharePlex installation is supported on the below platforms:

  • RHEL 7.x
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) support - Azure and AWS

Replication can be supported on the below platforms using Remote Post from Linux:

  • Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016, and 2019

PostgreSQL Server support:

The following operating systems are supported for PostgreSQL Server database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Native SharePlex installation is supported on the below platforms:

  • RHEL 7.x and 8.x*

  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) support - Azure and AWS

Replication can be supported on the below platforms using Remote Post from Linux:

  • Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016, and 2019

* SharePlex does not support RHEL 8.x for MySQL and SQL server databases.

Supported Oracle to Oracle Replication

When capturing from an Oracle database and replicating to an Oracle database the following database types and versions are supported for source and target.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported Oracle Targets

Supported versions:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c EE & SE2

Note: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later), and 19c Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2, default:oracle-ee-12-1, default:oracle-ee-19 & default:oracle-se2-19.
  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine or Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported database types and versions:

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c EE & SE2Note: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.
  • Databases listed above are also supported when they are deployed on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine, Microsoft Azure IaaS, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Compute Virtual Machine
  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c are also supported on Amazon RDS for Oracle

Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle

SharePlex supports the following Oracle data types for replication to Oracle targets. See the Conditions of support for additional information.

  • ANYDATA 1
  • B-FILE
  • BINARY DOUBLE 7
  • BINARY FLOAT 7
  • BLOB 2
  • CHAR
  • CLOB 2
  • DATE
  • INTERVAL
  • LONG RAW2
  • LONG 2
  • NCHAR
  • NCLOB 3
  • NUMBER
  • NVARCHAR2 8
  • RAW 8
  • ROWID
  • SDO_GEOMETRY
  • TIMESTAMP
  • TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
  • TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
  • UDT (User Defined Type)5
  • UROWID
  • VARCHAR
  • VARCHAR2 8
  • VARRAY collectors
  • XMLTYPE 4

Note: SharePlex supports columns that are defined as INVISIBLE.

Conditions of support

1. Conditions of support - ANYDATA

  • Replication of ANYDATA is supported, except when it contains a UDT or the storage is defined as SecureFile LOB with compression. SecureFile LOB without compression is supported. Only the following data types within ANYDATA are supported by SharePlex:

    • CHAR
    • DATE
    • NUMBER
    • RAW
    • VARCHAR
    • VARCHAR2
    • TIMESTAMP
  • A data type within an ANYDATA type must be in-row (inside the column data). Oracle encapsulates the ANYDATA type as an in-row secure file LOB. If the encapsulated data is longer than the length allowed for an in-row LOB, that data appears as out-of-row LOB data. SharePlex assumes that the encapsulated data always appears as in-row LOB.

2. Conditions of support - LONG and LOB (BLOB, CLOB)

  • Any table that contains a LOB or LONG should have a primary key or unique key defined on it. If a table does not have a key, SharePlex builds its own key from all of the columns except LONGs or LOBs. If a LOB or LONG is the only difference between two rows that otherwise satisfy the Post WHERE clause, SharePlex cannot guarantee that the correct row will be updated.

  • SharePlex supports SecureFiles LOBs as follows:

    • Logging must be enabled.
    • SharePlex supports uncompressed SecureFiles LOBS and SecureFiles LOBS with high or medium compression
    • SecureFiles LOBS are not supported when the storage specification includes encryption and/or deduplication.
  • SharePlex does not support LONG and LONG_RAW data types in a configuration where transformation or conflict resolution are performed.

3. Conditions of support - NCLOB

NCLOBs are not supported by Compare/Repair if the source and target have different character sets.

4. Conditions of support - XMLTYPE

SharePlex supports the replication of XMLTYPE stored as CLOB and BINARY. SharePlex does not support XMLTYPE stored as OBJECT RELATIONAL. Additionally, the following applies:

  • XMLTYPE stored as BINARY is not supported when the storage is defined as SecureFile LOB with compression. SecureFile LOB without compression is supported.
  • Binary XMLTypes are not supported by Compare/Repair when the source and target character sets are different and require character set conversion.
  • Compare/Repair does not support comparison of XMLTYPE when the source and target have different storage clauses. Compare/Repair only supports compare/repair when source and target are both stored as BINARY or both are stored as CLOB.

5. User-defined types

SharePlex does not support abstract data types and VARRAYs in a configuration where the SharePlex conflict resolution feature is performed.

NOTE: SharePlex replicates tables with the UDT fields in the base type ONLY. In case of columns containing multiple subtypes, replication is applicable only for base type fields.

6. Conditions of support - general

If the precision or size of the target data type is not large enough for the data being replicated, the data may be truncated or rounded by the database when applied.

7. BINARY DOUBLE and the BINARY FLOAT

The BINARY DOUBLE and the BINARY FLOAT data types are not supported for the copy command.

8. Conditions of support - Extended Data Types

  • Extended Data Types are not supported for the copy command.
  • Extended Data Types are not supported on a key column. The keys that do not support the Extended Data Types include:
    • Primary key on the Oracle table
    • Unique key on the Oracle table

Supported Data Types: Oracle to Open Targets

This section contains a grid that can be read vertically and horizontally to understand how SharePlex supports replication between an Oracle source and the various Open Target targets (non-Oracle targets) that SharePlex supports.

  • Column 1: Shows the Oracle data types that SharePlex can replicate to an Open Target target type (non-Oracle target).
  • Column 2: Shows the native data types that SharePlex supports for each target type.

  • Rows spanning Column 1 and Column 2: Shows the default data type mapping (native Oracle data type to native target data type) that SharePlex uses when replicating Oracle ALTER TABLE...ADD COLUMN DDL operations. Post uses the specified native target data type in the column definition of the command on the target. The default mapping is what was tested and is supported.

Notes about Open Target data type support: 
  • Replication of SecureFile LOBS to non-Oracle databases is supported except if the storage specification includes any level of compression, encryption, and/or deduplication.

  • Replication of LOB operations generated by dbms_lob are not supported when replicating to non-Oracle targets.

  • SharePlex applies replicated Oracle data to the target according to the data type of the target column, rather than mapping to a default data type. Corresponding source and target columns must contain compatible datatypes to ensure successful DML operations.
  • If the precision or size of the target datatype is not large enough for the data being replicated, the target database may truncate or round the data when SharePlex applies it.

Supported Oracle to Kafka Replication

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported Kafka Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later) , and 19c

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2, default:oracle-ee-12-1, default:oracle-ee-19 & default:oracle-se2-19.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine or Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported message queues:

Apache Kafka 0.8.x, 0.9.x, 0.10.x, 0.11.x, 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.0, 2.3.1, 2.5.0, and 3.0

Supported file types:

XML and JSON files

Supported Oracle to Azure Event Hubs Replication

The following platforms are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to Azure Event Hubs.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported Azure Event Hubs Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , 19c EE & SE2

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later) , and 19c

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2, default:oracle-ee-12-1, default:oracle-ee-19 & default:oracle-se2-19.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported message queues:

Azure Event Hubs

Supported file types:

XML and JSON files

Supported Oracle to SharePlex for JMS Message Queues Replication

The following platforms are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to JMS Message Queues.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported JMS Message Queues Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , and 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later)

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2 and default:oracle-ee-12-1.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, and 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported JMS Message Queues:

  • JMS - Apache ActiveMQ 5.8
  • JMS - IBM MQ 8

Supported Oracle to File Output Replication

The following platforms are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to File Output.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported File Types Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , and 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later)

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2 and default:oracle-ee-12-1.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, and 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported File Types:

XML, SQL, and JSON files

 

Supported Oracle to HANA Replication

SharePlex for Hana is in limited support effective February 1, 2022. The following platforms are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to HANA.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported HANA Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , and 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later)

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2 and default:oracle-ee-12-1.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, and 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported data types and versions:

SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 11

 

Oracle to HANA supported data types

Oracle HANA
BINARY_DOUBLE DOUBLE
BINARY_FLOAT DOUBLE
BLOB BLOB
CHAR (n) CHAR (n)
CLOB CLOB
DATE TIMESTAMP
LONG CLOB
LONGRAW BLOB
NCHAR (n) NCHAR (n)
NCLOB NCLOB
NUMBER DECIMAL
NUMBER (p,0:) DECIMAL (p,s)
NUMBER (p,s) DECIMAL
NVARCHAR2 (n) NVARCHAR (n)
RAW (n) VARBINARY (n)
TIMESTAMP (p) TIMESTAMP
VARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)
Conditions of support

See Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle for additional conditions of support for Oracle source data types.

Supported Oracle to MySQL Replication

The following platforms are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to MySQL.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported MySQL Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , and 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later)

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2 and default:oracle-ee-12-1.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, and 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported database types and versions:

MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8

Note: MySQL ODBC 5 Drivers (5.3.14) is required.

Supported versions for a cloud-based target:

Cloud support for Azure, Amazon RDS and Aurora database.

 

Oracle to MySQL supported data types

See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.

Oracle MySQL
BINARY_DOUBLE 1 DOUBLE
BINARY_FLOAT DOUBLE
BLOB LONGBLOB
CHAR (n) CHAR (n)
CLOB LONGTEXT
DATE DATETIME (0)
LONG LONGTEXT
LONGRAW LONGBLOB
NUMBER DOUBLE
NUMBER (p,0:) NUMERIC (p,s)
NUMBER (p,s) DOUBLE
RAW (n) VARBINARY (n)
TIMESTAMP (7:9) 2 DATETIME (6)
TIMESTAMP (p) 2 DATETIME (p)
VARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)

Conditions of support

  1. Because Oracle and MySQL handle this data type differently, there may be a very small difference in precision between the value of the source and the value of the target row. You may see the difference when viewing the data from SQL*Plus or other utility, but SharePlex will not report this difference as an out-of-sync condition.
  2. If the MySQL target database is earlier than version 5.6.4, the fractional seconds will be truncated. Earlier versions did not support fractional seconds.

See Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle for additional conditions of support for Oracle source data types.

Supported Oracle to PostgreSQL Replication

The following platforms are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to PostgreSQL.

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported PostgreSQL Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c , and 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later)

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-11-2 and default:oracle-ee-12-1.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, and 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported database types and versions:

PostgreSQL 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10, 13.4, and 14.0

Supported versions for a cloud-based target:

Cloud support for Azure, Amazon RDS and Aurora database.

Oracle to PostgreSQL Supported Data Types

Oracle PostgreSQL
BINARY_DOUBLE DOUBLE PRECISION
BINARY_FLOAT REAL
CHAR (n) CHAR (n)
CHAR (n CHAR) CHAR (n)
CLOB TEXT
DATE DATE
LONG TEXT
NCHAR (n) CHAR (n)
NCLOB TEXT
NUMBER NUMERIC
NUMBER (p,0:) NUMERIC (p,s)
NUMBER (p,s) NUMERIC
NVARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)
TIMESTAMP (7:9) TIMESTAMP (6)
TIMESTAMP (p) TIMESTAMP (p)
TIMESTAMP (7:9) WITH TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP (6) WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP (p) WITH TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP (p) WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP (7:9) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP (6)
TIMESTAMP (p) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP (p)
VARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)
VARCHAR2 (n CHAR) VARCHAR (n)
Conditions of support

See Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle for additional conditions of support for Oracle source data types.

Supported Oracle to SQL Server Replication

NoteS:

  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same version.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database.
Supported Oracle Sources Supported SQL Server Targets

Supported Oracle Sources:

Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, and 19c

NOTE: These Oracle versions are also supported when running on Oracle Exadata Database machine.

Supported versions for a cloud-based source:

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 11gR2 (supported 11gR2 versions are 11.2.0.4.v11 or later), 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later) and 19c.

    Note: Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups:default:oracle-ee-11-2, default:oracle-ee-12-1, default:oracle-ee-19, and default:oracle-se2-19.

  • Oracle 11gR2, 12cR1, 12cR2, and 19c on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine and Microsoft Azure IaaS

Supported database types and versions:

  • Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019.

    The Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver is required.

  • Databases listed above are also supported when they are deployed on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine, Microsoft Azure (IaaS or SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines)

NOTEs:

  • The SQL Server database is supported on the RHEL and Windows Server operating systems.
  • Azure SQL Database and SQL Server database are supported on RHEL 7.x and Windows Server 2016 & 2019 as a remote post.

Oracle to SQL Server supported data types

Oracle SQL Server
ANYDATA VARIENT
BINARY_DOUBLE FLOAT (53)
BINARY_FLOAT FLOAT (24)
BLOB VARBINARY (MAX)
CHAR (n) CHAR (n)
CHAR (n CHAR) CHAR (n)
CLOB VARCHAR (MAX)
DATE DATETIME2 (7)
LONG VARCHAR (MAX)
LONGRAW VARBINARY (MAX)
NCHAR (n) NCHAR (n)
NCLOB NVARCHAR (MAX)
NUMBER FLOAT (53)
NUMBER (p,0:) NUMERIC (p,s)
NUMBER (p,s) FLOAT (53)
NVARCHAR2 (n) NVARCHAR (n)
RAW (n) VARBINARY (n)
TIMESTAMP (8:9) DATETIME2 (7)
TIMESTAMP (p) DATETIME2 (p)
TIMESTAMP (8:9) WITH TIME ZONE DATETIMEOFFSET (7)
TIMESTAMP (p) WITH TIME ZONE DATETIMEOFFSET (p)
VARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)
VARCHAR2 (n CHAR) VARCHAR (n)
Conditions of support

See Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle for additional conditions of support for Oracle source data types.

Oracle to XML Supported Data Types

This mapping applies to all targets that receive messages as XML:

  • File in XML format
  • JMS
  • Kafka

See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.

Oracle XML
BINARY_DOUBLE decimal
BINARY_FLOAT decimal
BLOB base64Binary
CHAR string
CLOB string
DATE dateTime
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND dayTimeDuration
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH yearMonthDuration
LONG string
NCHAR string
NCLOB string
NUMBER decimal
NVARCHAR2 string
RAW base64Binary
ROWID string
TIMESTAMP dateTime
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE dateTimeStamp
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE dateTimeStamp
VARCHAR2 string
VARRAY 1 Post maps the data types in the source VARRAY to the appropriate XML data types. Only certain data types in a VARRAY are supported. See the conditions of support.

Conditions of support

  2. Only the following data types in a VARRAY are supported by SharePlex when replicating to XML output:
    • BINARY_FLOAT
    • VARCHAR2
    • BINARY_DOUBLE
    • NUMBER
    • TIMESTAMP (This is converted to a DATE data type without microseconds in XML output)
    • DATE
    • UDT (only if it contains one of the data types in this list)

See Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle for additional conditions of support for Oracle source data types.

Oracle to JSON Supported Data Types

This mapping applies to all targets that receive messages as JSON:

  • Kafka

See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.

Oracle JSON
BINARY_DOUBLE Number
BINARY_FLOAT Number
BLOB String containing base64 encoded data
CHAR String
CLOB String
DATE String containing date
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND String containing interval
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH String containing interval
LONG String
NCHAR String
NCLOB String
NUMBER Number
NVARCHAR2 String
RAW String containing hex encoded data
ROWID String
TIMESTAMP String containing timestamp
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE String containing timestamp
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE String containing timestamp
VARCHAR2 String
Conditions of support

See Supported Data Types: Oracle to Oracle for additional conditions of support for Oracle source data types.

Supported Objects and Operations for DML Replication

SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to an Oracle target or an Open Target target.

Note: Replication to targets with a different character set is supported, with limitations. When posting to Open Target databases, XML files and JMS, SharePlex supports only UNICODE and US7ASCII on the target, but conversion can be performed by an Oracle client installed on the target system. For full details, see the Preinstallation Checklist in the SharePlex Installation and Setup Guide for an Oracle Source.

Tables

SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:

  • INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, COMMIT, ROLLBACK

  • Direct-path loads (SQL*Loader) (INSERT AND FULL ROLLBACK).

    Note: Replication of partial rollbacks of DLOADs is not supported.

The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source Oracle table.

SharePlex supports the following table types for DML operations:

Supported table type*

Conditions of Support

Regular Oracle tables

 None

Index-organized tables

SharePlex does not support:

  • Replication to/from index-organized tables that contain LOB or VARRAY columns
  • Replication from a non-index-organized table to an index-organized table
  • SharePlex hash-based horizontal partitioning of index-organized tables

Partitioned tables

None

Views

None

Materialized views

SharePlex does not support replication from a materialized view to a materialized view. SharePlex can replicate the underlying table of a materialized view to a regular target table.

SharePlex does not support the following table types:

  • Replication to/from nested tables
  • Replication to/from clustered tables

*SharePlex does not support the following for any table type:

  • Replication to/from Identity columns.
  • Replication of rows changed by 'UPDATE WITH CASE' syntax.
  • Replication of rows in which data exceeds 319 KB in size, excluding LOB and LONG columns
  • Replication of external tables or tables with external partitions

Sequences

  • Transactional changes to Oracle sequences can be replicated only from Oracle to Oracle.
  • To replicate transactional changes to sequences, the supplemental logging of primary and unique keys must be enabled at the database level, or you must enable supplemental logging for primary keys on the sys.seq$ table.

Secured and Compressed Objects

SharePlex supports DML operations on secured or compressed objects as described in the following table. See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.

Secured/Compressed Object Can be replicated to:  
DML on tables encrypted by Oracle Obfuscation Toolkit All target types  

DML on tables with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)1

 All target types  

DML on Oracle Label Security (OLS)2

All target types  

DML on compressed objects: Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, HCC3

 All target types  

Direct Load (DLOAD) on compressed objects: Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, HCC3

 All target types  

Conditions of Support

1. Conditions of support - TDE

SharePlex supports Tablespace Encryption and Column Encryption, both source and target.

The SharePlex  copy/append command does not support TDE.

TDE is not supported for sources on RDS.

SharePlex only supports the AES and DES encryption algorithms.

2. Conditions of support - OLS

By default, SharePlex cannot process rows that are protected by OLS (Oracle Label Security) because users granted DBA privileges (like SharePlex) do not have enough privileges to access those rows. However, if privilege is granted from the OLSSYS user, SharePlex can support OLS. SharePlex was tested under the following OLS configuration:

  • The SharePlex user was granted full privilege to the objects in replication.
  • Test tables with OLS security were created.
  • Data was replicated using INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ROLLBACK, and TRUNCATE operations, and ALTER TABLE to add and drop columns.

Note: If the OLS policy data label column is defined as hidden, the data in that column cannot be replicated by SharePlex.

3. Conditions of support - compression

For HCC compression: SharePlex does not support query low compression. Supported types of compression are query high, archive low and archive high.

For Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression: Under certain conditions, Oracle does not provide enough information in the redo log for SharePlex to replicate a DML operation on a OLTP compressed object. Testing of OLTP compressed objects is advised.

Supported Operations and Objects for DDL replication

SharePlex provides default and optional DDL support.

Note: Support for DDL on compressed Oracle objects is limited to the following:

  • SharePlex supports DDL on compressed objects only for Oracle 11gR2 and later source Oracle databases.
  • ALTER TABLE to ADD COLUMN and ALTER TABLE to DROP COLUMN are supported on Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, and HCC compressed Oracle objects for replication to all Oracle and Open Targets.

SharePlex does not support:

  • ANALYZE TABLE and ANALYZE INDEX
  • DDL to ALTER TABLE ADD OVERFLOW to an IOT in replication
  • DDL operations issued by the SharePlex database user
  • DDL to ALTER INDEX to an IOT in replication

Oracle-to-Oracle DDL Support

This section outlines both default and optional DDL support.

DDL on objects listed in the active configuration file

SharePlex supplies default and optional DDL replication for objects whose names are listed in the configuration file explicitly or by wildcard. See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.

For details about the controlling parameter, see the SharePlex Reference Guide.

Supported object Supported DDL Operation

Enabled by default?

Controlling parameter

Table and IOT

(when they exist in the source at the time of configuration activation)

Truncate

Alter to add, drop, modify columns

Alter to add, modify, drop, split, coalesce, move, truncate, exchange partition or subpartition1

Drop Table

Yes

SP_OCT_REPLICATE_DDL=3

Table and IOT
(when they are added to the source after configuration activation)

Create

Create as Select2

Yes

SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1

Index

Create

Alter

Drop

Yes

SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1

Materialized View3

Create

Drop

No

SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1 and

SP_OCT_AUTOADD_MVIEW=1 and

SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY=8.6.2 or higher

Sequences4

Create, Drop

No

SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1 and

SP_OCT_AUTOADD_SEQ=1 and

SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY=8.6.3 or higher

Trigger

Create, Drop

No

 SP_OCT_REPLICATE_TRIGGER=1

Synonym

Create, Drop

No

 SP_OCT_REPLICATE_SYNONYM=1
Grant5 Create, Drop

No

 SP_OCT_REPLICATE_GRANT=1
Conditions of support
  2. ALTER TABLE has the following conditions of support:
    • ALTER TABLE DDL that involves multiple tables, such as EXCHANGE PARTITION between tables, requires all tables involved to be in replication.
    • Default DDL support for ALTER TABLE on partitions/subpartitions applies to user-named interval partitions/subpartitions. For system-named (system generated) interval partitions/subpartitions, SharePlex supports only ALTER TABLE to DROP and TRUNCATE the system-named partitions. To enable support for DROP and TRUNCATE of system-named partitions, set the SP_OCT_TRUNC_PARTITION_BY_ID parameter to 1, and ensure that both source and target are updated to SharePlex version 8.6.4 or later. NOTE: This requirement has changed from previous SharePlex releases in that the parameter must now be set regardless of the Oracle version, including for Oracle 12.2 and later.
    • SharePlex does not support TRUNCATE of a system-generated sub-partition if the sub-partition is empty. In such cases, Post stops with error SP-OPO01002. To configure Post to ignore this error, stop Post, set the SP_OPO_CONT_ON_ERR parameter to 1, and add error number SP-OPO01002 to the top of the oramsglist file. See the SharePlex Reference Guide for more information about this parameter.
  3. For CREATE TABLE AS SELECT, SharePlex supports the following datatypes: LONG, DATE, RAW, LONG RAW, ROWID, LONG VARCHAR, CHAR, CLOB, BLOB, CFILE, BFILE, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH, INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND and ANYDATA.

  4. For CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW the following applies:

    • SharePlex supports the following datatypes for CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW: LONG, DATE, RAW, LONG RAW, ROWID, UROWID, LONG VARCHAR, CHAR, CLOB, BLOB, CFILE, BFILE, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH, INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND and ANYDATA. SharePlex does not support ALTER MATERIALIZE VIEW.
    • SharePlex converts a CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW to a CREATE TABLE, applies the CREATE TABLE to the target, and then replicates the DML that populates the view. SharePlex does not replicate materialized views to materialized views.

  5. To replicate sequences, the supplemental logging of primary and unique keys must be enabled at the database level, or you must enable supplemental logging for primary keys on the sys.seq$ table.

  6. Amazon RDS restricts DBA users from issuing the GRANT command. Because SharePlex runs as the DBA user, SharePlex cannot replicate GRANT to or from an RDS database.

DDL on objects not listed in the active configuration file

SharePlex provides expanded DDL support for Oracle objects that are not listed in the configuration file. SharePlex replicates the DDL statements for these objects, but does not maintain synchronization of the objects through DML replication. Expanded DDL replication is optional and is enabled with the following parameter setting:

SP_OCT_REPLICATE_ALL_DDL=1

Note: Expanded DDL replication supports not only tables and sequences but also a wide range of other objects such as procedures, functions, users, and views, which are not part of replication. Some of these objects may have underlying objects that are in replication. In those cases, Expanded DDL replication applies to the underlying objects in replication, as well as to the object that is not in replication.

See "Table Notes" following this table for additional information.

Supported object Supported Operation
Table and IOT Create table
Create table as select
Alter table add column
Alter table drop column
Drop table
Truncate
Comment on table
Comment on columns
Associate Statistics
Disassociate Statistics
Cluster Create cluster
Crop cluster
Sequence Create
Drop
Alter

Partition/

Subpartition

 Add
Split
Merge
Drop
Modify
Coalesce
Exchange
Move
Truncate
Rename
Set
Index Create
Alter
Drop
View Create
Alter
Drop
Comment on view
Synonym Create
Drop
Directory1 Create
Drop
User-defined type Create type
Alter type
Drop type
Create type body
Drop type body
Stored procedure Create
Alter
Drop
Stored function Create
Alter
Drop
Package Create package
Create package body
Alter package
Alter package body
Drop package
Drop package body
User Create user
Alter user
Drop user
Grant1
Revoke
Role Create role
Alter role
Drop role
Grant1
Revoke

Table Notes:

  1. Amazon RDS restricts DBA users from issuing certain commands on an Amazon RDS database instance. Because SharePlex runs as the DBA user, SharePlex cannot replicate the following commands to or from an RDS database:

    • CREATE or DROP DIRECTORY
    • GRANT

Oracle to Open Target DDL support

SharePlex provides limited DDL support for replication from Oracle to Open Target. The involved objects must be listed in the active configuration file explicitly or with a wildcard. There is no optional DDL support for replication from Oracle to Open Target.

The default Oracle to Open Target configuration is represented by the following parameter setting:

SP_OCT_REPLICATE_DDL=3

See "Table Notes" following this table for additional information.

Supported object Supported Operation
Table and IOT Truncate1
Alter table add column2
Alter table drop column

Table Notes:

  1. TRUNCATE TABLE is not supported from Oracle compressed objects to Open Target targets.

  2. The default mappings of Oracle data types to their Open Target counterpart for replicated ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN DDL is shown in Supported Data Types: Oracle to Open Targets. When SharePlex adds the column, it defines it with the default data type. This mapping applies to the entire configuration (not per table).

Non-supported Oracle Features

This is a list of commonly used Oracle features which SharePlex does not replicate and are not listed elsewhere in this document. Since both Oracle and SharePlex continually change and improve, this list of exclusions cannot be considered complete. Unless an item is stated here as being supported, assume that SharePlex does not replicate it.

Object/operation/feature Not supported
Oracle operations Operations that do not appear in the redo logs. This includes any DML or DDL not in the redo logs, and also PL/SQL packages which do not write results to the redo logs, for example, dbms_shared_pool.keep and related packages.

dbms_scheduler.create_job

This object is not supported.

Flashback

SharePlex does not support the Oracle Flashback Table feature. If the SP_REPLICATE_ALL_DDL parameter is enabled (value of 1), SharePlex may try to replicate the flashback DDL, which will return an error. To perform Flashback Table on a table that is in replication, use the following procedures in the SharePlex Administrator Guide to work around this issue:

  1. Remove source objects from replication
  2. Perform the flashback
  3. Add or change objects in an active configuration

Supported / non-supported SharePlex Features for Open Targets

The following table shows whether specific SharePlex features are supported for replication from Oracle to Open Target targets.

SharePlex feature Supported for Open Target Not Supported for Open Target
reconcile command (target instantiation) X  
compare/compare using and repair/repair using commands   X
copy/copy using and append/append using commands   X
Hash horizontally partitioned replication   X
Column-based horizontally partitioned replication X  
Vertically partitioned replication X  
Column mapping X  
Key definition X  
Build configuration with scripts   X
Named queues X  
Commit Reduction (feature of Post Enhanced Performance) X  
Dependency Checking (feature of Post Enhanced Performance)   X
Transformation   X
Conflict resolution   X
Peer-to-peer replication (bi-directional)   X
Consolidated replication (many to one) X  
Broadcast replication (one to many) X  
High availability replication (active/passive bi-directional)   X
Change tracking target (CDC)   X
Data encryption X  
Data compression X  
SSH X  
auth_hosts file X  
Monitoring scripts X  
SNMP monitoring X  
Continue posting on error (SP_OPX_CONT_ON_ERR) X  
Suspend on out of sync errors (SP_OPX_OUT_OF_SYNC_SUSPEND) X  
Reduced key (SP_OPX_REDUCED_KEY) X  
Logical Transaction Rollback on out-of-sync transactions   X

System Requirements for Replication of OLTP Compressed Data

This chapter contains the requirements when capturing OLTP compressed data from an Oracle source database and replicating it to a supported target database.

Supported Operating Systems

The following operating systems are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to a supported target database.

SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

NOTE: For OLTP, SharePlex supports the following operating systems only.

  • AIX 7.1 and 7.2
  • Oracle Linux (RHCK and UEK) 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x
  • RHEL Linux 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x
  • CentOS Linux 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x
  • Oracle Solaris SPARC 11

Non-supported Operating Systems

  • Windows operating system

    Note: OLTP patch for the Windows operating system is not available from Oracle. Oracle has planned to release it in July 2021.

Supported Oracle database version/s:

SharePlex supports Oracle 19c database version for replicating the OLTP compressed data.

Supported data types: Oracle to Oracle

SharePlex supports the following Oracle data types for replication to Oracle targets. See the Conditions of support for additional information.

  • ANYDATA
  • B-FILE
  • BINARY DOUBLE
  • BINARY FLOAT
  • BLOB
  • CHAR
  • CLOB
  • DATE
  • INTERVAL
  • LONG RAW
  • LONG
  • NCHAR
  • NCLOB
  • NUMBER
  • NVARCHAR
  • RAW
  • ROWID
  • SDO_GEOMETRY
  • TIMESTAMP
  • TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
  • TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
  • UDT (User Defined Type)
  • UROWID
  • VARCHAR
  • VARCHAR 2
  • VARRAY collectors
  • XMLTYPE

Conditions of support

  • Conditions of support - NCLOB
NCLOBs are not supported by Compare/Repair if the source and target have different character sets.
  • Conditions of support - XMLTYPE

    SharePlex supports the replication of XMLTYPE stored as CLOB and BINARY. SharePlex does not support XMLTYPE stored as OBJECT RELATIONAL. Additionally, the following applies:

    • XMLTYPE stored as BINARY is not supported when the storage is defined as SecureFile LOB with compression. SecureFile LOB without compression is supported.
    • Binary XMLTypes are not supported by Compare/Repair when the source and target character sets are different and require character set conversion.
    • Compare/Repair does not support comparison of XMLTYPE when the source and target have different storage clauses. Compare/Repair only supports compare/repair when source and target are both stored as BINARY or both are stored as CLOB.

Limitation

To replicate the Oracle Compression/Advanced compression data/table using SharePlex, you need to apply the Oracle patch (32522300), as the Poster stops the replication with the below error:

"Poster: Oracle error: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kdt_bseg_srch_cbk ncols]".

With Oracle OLTP patch 32522300 on source and target, the above issue gets resolved.

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