SharePlex 10.1.3 - Upgrade Guide for Oracle Source

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.

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

10.0.x

10.1.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