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Known Restrictions, Problems, and Workarounds
1-4 Oracle Database Installation and Administration Guide
1.4.7 Oracle Scheduler
External Jobs are not supported.
1.4.8 INIT.ORA Parameters
A few initialization parameters in the INIT.ORA file, described in the generic
documentation are not supported by Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for BS2000/OSD.
Refer to
Appendix C, "Initialization Parameters and the Parameter File" for more
information.
1.4.9 Archiving to Tape
Archiving to tape is not supported; archive log files must always be created as disk
files. You may, however, use normal BS2000 backup procedures to back up the archive
log files created by the archive process.
1.4.10 Import and Export
This section provides information about Import and Export:
■ Avoid ASCII/EBCDIC conversions by the operating system, FTP, or PERCON.
Import and Export utilities perform their own conversions; additional conversions
render the files unusable.
■ Import and export on tapes are not possible to or from more than one tape.
1.4.11 Oracle Data Pump Import and Oracle Data Pump Export
This section provides information about Oracle Data Pump Import and Oracle Data
Pump Export:
■ Avoid ASCII/EBCDIC conversions by the operating system, FTP, or PERCON.
Oracle Data Pump Import and Oracle Data Pump Export utilities perform their
own conversions; additional conversions render the files unusable.
■ Tapes are not supported with Data Pump Export and Data Pump Import.
1.4.12 Globalization Support
User-defined character sets implemented by Customizing Locale Data (as described in
Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide) are not supported in this release.
1.4.13 Oracle Call Interface
The following features are currently not supported:
■ OCI shared mode functionality
■ OCI publish-subscribe functions
■ OCI Thread package
1.4.14 SQL*Plus
The following remarks relate to SQL*Plus:
■ SQL*Plus truncates and displays a warning message if the input lines exceed 511
characters.