Hi,
Mark is right. You need to do the Unicode conversion through the API and
through importing def-files.
If you have no Unicode-characters in your system whatsoever, it might work
with a straight database conversion.
The problem is that the AR System in most cases counts Bytes and not
Characters, which really makes things confusing.
My RRR|DefDiff utility actually do compare a non-unicode-def-file with a
unicode-def-file, but I had to do some changes in the byte-counts of
character-strings to get it working...
Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se
> Well, and that's because we put the new 11g database right on the linux
> server and the dba did the 10g to 11g conversion at that time. Maybe he
> needed to that unicode conversion in a separate place first.
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Susan Palmer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> The unicode conversion happened separately from our steps. In our steps
>> we were using the unicode database.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Susan
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Walters, Mark
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> You can’t convert a non-Unicode ARS database to a Unicode one – which
>>> is
>>> what I think you’re suggesting using the steps below. You’ll need a
>>> clean
>>> install of 8.1/Unicode and some sort of migration of data. If you check
>>> back through the archives there are various threads which go into the
>>> details of why the conversion is not likely to work.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Mark****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Susan Palmer
>>> *Sent:* 25 June 2013 15:04
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* Moving from Solaris to Linux****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** ****
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone,****
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> Our current environment is Solaris 10 with Oracle 10g non-unicode and ARS
>>> 7.5P4. We are trying to move to a Linux CentOS release 6.4 Final (Red Hat
>>> Linus 6.4) with Oracle 11g unicode and ARS 8.1. These are VM instances.*
>>> ***
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> We are finding the Linux box does want Oracle 10g. Since we are moving
>>> to a new server we wanted to do fresh installs at the 10g level and do an
>>> import of our database, then proceed with the oracle upgrade and ARS
>>> upgrade.****
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> So we thought we would start with an 11g db on the linux box and go from
>>> there but when we tried the 7.5 install it said it wouldn't work on 11g.
>>> When I check the compatibility chart it indicated 10g or higher for 7.5.*
>>> ***
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> So the basic steps we'd like to do:****
>>>
>>> Install 11g on the linux server.****
>>>
>>> Export 10g from current server and import it into 11g.****
>>>
>>> Install ARS 7.5 (we received an error at this point saying it wouldn't
>>> work on 11g ???)****
>>>
>>> Install ARS 8.1****
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> Has anyone done something similar? Is there something wrong with our
>>> approach?****
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> Appreciate any feedback you can provide.****
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> Thanks,****
>>>
>>> Susan****
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
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