Completion status for ocm is Fail: Fail [ Unknown ] installing ocm

| Feb 3, 2012 17:15 +0000

When it comes to 11.1.2.X, some times installation of common components fails, Common components includes installing essbaseProductCommonComponents, installing ocm, installing oracle_common, installing productCommonComponents,installing tools…

Nuremberg Sausage???

| Feb 3, 2012 16:48 +0000

I’ll try almost all food wherever I am in the world (except for Scorpios-on-a-Stick, Sheep Penis and such stuff). But I didn’t try this in our hotel in Rio:

No offense – but Nuremberg (or in German: Nürnberg) is my hometown – and Nürnberger B…

Next Gig: JDK 7 Updates in OpenJDK at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday, February 4th

Edvard Wendelin and I will be speaking at the FOSDEM conference’s Java Libre developer room about the JDK 7 Updates Project in OpenJDK in room K.4.401 starting at 11:30 AM.See you there!

Obregado :-)

| Feb 3, 2012 16:34 +0000

Thanks a lot to everybody who did visit our workshops in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the past days. And actually our "Thank You" or Obregado! can't express how Roy and me felt in the past days. I believe I've never felt so we…

Changes to svccfg import and delete

| Feb 3, 2012 13:24 +0000

The behavior of svccfg import and svccfg delete fmri
has changed in S11 if the manifests are in SMF’s standard locations.
The

standard locations
are /lib/svc/manifest and
/var/svc/manifest with /lib/svc/manifest being the preferred
location.
If your …

What is R?

| Feb 3, 2012 12:56 +0000

For many in the Oracle community, the addition of R through Oracle R Enterprise could leave them wondering "What is R?"
R has been receiving a lot of attention recently, although it’s been around for over 15 years. R is an open-source lan…

All about Security – SQL Injection redux

I just wrote about SQL Injection yesterday – after having giving a web seminar on Wednesday the touched on the topic.One of the comments on that post was by David Litchfield, he wrote:Hey Tom,Funnily enough I just published a paper about doing the same…

Standard Locations (why?)

| Feb 3, 2012 12:10 +0000

The manifest-import service manages importing of manifests that are delivered as part of a package for an application.  This instantiates the service and its instances on the system.  The manifest-import service will then manage re-im…

heap monitor update

| Feb 3, 2012 11:54 +0000

I have made some changes to heap monitor. I added the process virtual size and report all metrics in megabytes using a floating point format.

Get Heap Monitor Here

Using prtpicl to get cache sizes

| Feb 3, 2012 11:45 +0000

If you are on a SPARC system you can get cache size information using the command fpversion, which is provided with Studio:

$ fpversion
A SPARC-based CPU is available.
Kernel says main memory’s clock rate is 1012.0 MHz.

Sun-4 floating-point contr…

New PeopleSoft Applications Portal Features Announced

| Feb 3, 2012 10:47 +0000

 In case you missed it, please check out the link here on the PeopleSoft Technology BLOG:
PeopleSoft Technology BLOG

Increase your CRM Knowledge

| Feb 3, 2012 10:47 +0000

Looking for something to watch when you are done with all of the pre-Superbowl hype or seen enough of the shell with shoes on videos? Check out what our friends at Oracle University have been working on: The Oracle Learning Library. Click on the "…

BPM Composer – A Life

| Feb 3, 2012 09:51 +0000

Role Based Development & Deployment
As BPM 11g matures, so does BPM Composer… it is becoming the default UI for BPM development, both for processes and rules, especially from a "Business User" perspective.
This blog explains how t…

World Economic Forum in Davos Addresses Supply Chain Risk

| Feb 3, 2012 09:46 +0000

Much is being written on supply chain risk theses days but the key point to this effort is how organizations are responding. It's the 2 year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and 100 of thousands still live in tent cities. Recovery from disru…

What Free/Open Source software is Solaris 11 still missing

Note this is not a commitment from Oracle to deliver anything as a result of your answers, nor is it an official survey of any kind.
Okay first my dirty little secret… my family home desktop machine runs Windows 7.  Earlier this week I had a need …

ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-03

| Feb 3, 2012 09:00 +0000

Today’s Quote
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
– Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)
Today’s Links

Sound SOA Footprint; Cloud Smart Start; Let the Conference …

Upcoming AutoVue Webcast for Oil & Gas Customers – February 16, 2012

| Feb 3, 2012 07:22 +0000

Click here to register for the webcast.

Oil & Gas companies are challenged with driving higher return on their assets and aging infrastructures, reducing project risks, and improving operational efficiencies all while complying with growing and i…

WEM Best Practices: Page Navigation

| Feb 3, 2012 06:30 +0000

Today’s guest post on WEM Best Practices comes from a
member of our WebCenter Evangelist team, Noël Jaffré, a Principal Technologist based in France.

GlassFish 3.1.2 Release Candidate builds are here!

| Feb 3, 2012 06:29 +0000

GlassFish 3.1.2 has never been so close to a GA/FCS release with promoted build b19 now available as Release Candidate (RC) 1. In fact you might as well go straight to RC2 (build 20), also now available from the promoted builds page.

If …

BI&EPM in Focus – February 2012

| Feb 3, 2012 03:12 +0000

General News

REPLAY the EMEA Oracle BI&EPM Partner Community Video-Cast (originally Jan. 26th 2012): this introduction to the Oracle Partner BI & EPM Community will bring you a wealth of new opportunities.

EPM Blog…