OWB 10.2.0.4 is out
July 18th, 2008 by Peter Scott
I noticed on Greg Partenach’s blog that the 10.2.0.4 patchset had been released.
Taking a quick look on Metalink I see that patch 7005587 is out for Linux and Windows - no doubt the other platforms will follow quite soon.
I have not had chance to test the patch yet, but if it does what is says in the readme then it looks worthy of test.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Hi Mark
Not entirely tested but I already ran into some issues with the new patchset. The upgrade table functionality(a very important and basic requirement of any tool) is not behaving consistently, works for some tables but not for others.It throws the same RTC-5270 error.
I will not be upgrading our production to the new patchset until I see some more positive comments about it.
For more details http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=681468&tstart=0
birdy
July 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
@Birdy
Thanks for the comment.
It is always wise to thoroughly test a patch before implementation; to make sure it fixes the issues that caused problems in the past and to ensure that old functionality does not break! Sometimes a patch might introduce new bugs, and sometimes legacy mappings should not have worked except that some now fixed bug let you get away with it!
Pete
August 25th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
@Bharadwaj
The upgrade functionality has allways been buggy. It didn’t work in the windows versions of 10.2.0.2 and 10.2.0.3 either.
You learn to live without it.
Gr.R.