Thursday, April 30, 2009

Discoverer 10.1.2.3 CP4 is available again

Last updated: May 5, 2009
I am delighted to be able to let you know that CP4 (patch number 7595032) is no longer password protected and the issue with the non-English language versions (see below) has been resolved. You are therefore free and encouraged to apply this patch.

By the way, this patch has all of the updates from 10.1.2.2 CP8 and many more.

Important Note:
Please note that if you are planning on installing CP4 that you will also need to install a patch for JDBC. I have made a comment on this in this posting and will post more information shortly.

Last updated: May 4, 2009
The latest information I have on this is as follows:

It was initially communicated that it only affected a small subset of customers as it was thought to only affect Japanese customers using Discoverer Plus. It was later discovered that some other locales were also affected.

Customer's were later updated with: Note: CP4 has temporarily been withdrawn due to a late breaking regression tracked in Bug 8477401 NLS: Discoverer Plus Always Runs In English Even If Japanese Locale Is Set'.

This can potentially affect all non-English locales. Oracle Support cannot provide a password or give access to the patch until the regression is corrected and the patch is re-uploaded to MetaLink. If you have have already downloaded the patch and use the English locale, then you should not be affected and can continue using the patch. This note will be updated when the updated patch is released.

Original Posting made: April 30, 2009
If you are vigilant and keep up with Oracle's cumulative patches and this blog (see here) you will be aware that CP4 (patch number 7595032) came out a couple of days ago.

Earlier today I noticed that it has now been password protected so I contacted Oracle. Here is what they told me:

CP4 has temporarily been password protected due to a late breaking regression tracked as bug number 8477401: Discoverer Plus Always Runs In English Even If Japanese Locale Is Set. This should only affect a small subset of customers. We are trying to get this password protection removed asap since it only affects a narrow band of customers.

Oracle plans to have this password protection removed quickly so it could even be removed before the information filters out too far. I will let you know when the password requirement has been lifted. If you are using English then you should go ahead and request the password as you won't be affected.

Please note that if you are planning on installing CP4 that you will also need to install a patch for JDBC. I have made a comment on this in this posting and will post more information shortly.

2 comments:

U2Jacob said...

Thanks Michael

I have made a post about this on the Discoverer forum, since this apparently affects ALL non-English locales. Saying that this affects only "a small fragment of users" is a great understatement in my opinion from Oracle. People DO use Discoverer, where English is not the native language, you know...

We will have to wait for a version of CP4, where this bug is fixed, this is really a showstopper issue for us - luckily I discovered this before putting CP4 in production.

I wish, that Oracle could just release ONE !!! properly tested patch for Discoverer. These regressions should have been found by QA before release... First the password issues with CP3 and now this...

In any case, thanks for publishing this on your blog. Keep up the good work.

Thanks,
Jacob

U2Jacob said...

I can now also confirm, that the NLS issue is fixed. Please go ahead and test and test this patch. So far it looks good :-)

Jacob

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