Re: Oracle 8.1.7 32-bit on AIX 5.3 64-bit

I know it sounds a bit simplistic but how about testing the patch in a test environment. Clone production and patch away with no worries.

Good luck,

Eddy Frances

• "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen_at_OneNeck.com> wrote:

> Anyone running this combination? We are considering
> migrating to this and I found on Metalink (notes
> 231901.1 & 222404.1) that patch 2896876 is required
> to support this. I'm hesitant to run anything in
> production that requires a special patch, especially
> for a desupported version. Why do we want to run 8i
> you ask? We have an old application that is only
> compatible with 8i and we aren't ready to upgrade
> the app yet.
>
> The other option is to run the AIX kernel in 32-bit
> mode, and then 32-bit 8i should work w/o the patch,
> but I'm afraid this would restrict us to 1.75GB of
> SGA (not sure about that). We will also be running
> 9i 64-bit on the same server, but supposedly it has
> no problems running on the 32-bit kernel.
>
> Anyway, I'm just curious if anyone else is running
> this configuration and if you have any advice or
> warnings?
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Allen
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