Oracle Collaboration Suite Release Notes Addendum
Release 1, Version 9.0.3
Part Number B10556-01

Oracle® Collaboration Suite

Release Notes Addendum

Version 9.0.3

December 2002

Part No. B10556-01

This document summarizes the differences between Oracle Collaboration Suite and its documented functionality.

This document contains the following sections:

1 Purpose of this Document

This release notes addendum provides information that is missing from the Oracle Collaboration Suite Release Notes for Version 9.0.3, and is intended to be used in conjunction with the release notes.

Oracle Corporation periodically updates these notes as new information becomes available. The latest version can be found at Oracle Technology Network at http://otn.oracle.com

2 Accessibility Information

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to the disabled community. Oracle Collaboration Suite for Version 9.0.3, supports accessibility features. To make best use of these accessibility features, Oracle Corporation recommends the following software configuration:

Additional accessibility information for Oracle products can be found at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility.

For the latest configuration information, and for information on addressing accessibility and assistive technology issues, see the Oracle Accessibility FAQ at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/faq.html.

3 Certification Information

You can access the most recent certification information for Oracle Collaboration Suite on OracleMetalink at the following URL:

http://metalink.oracle.com

4 Component Issues

This section contains component issues and workarounds.

4.1 Oracle Calendar Server

4.1.1 Failure when installing the Oracle Calendar Server

If your Oracle Calendar server installation fails, check for the existence of a /users/unison directory. Delete this directory and all its contents, then try installing the calendar server again.

4.2 Oracle Calendar Web Client

4.2.1 Required Patch for Solaris 8

The Solaris patch 1008827-12 must be installed before installing the Oracle Calendar Web client.

The following Solaris patches must be installed before installing 1008827-12:

4.2.2 Uploading Attachments

You cannot upload an attachment with a title longer than 41 characters.

4.2.3 Suggest Time feature

Entering 24 in the Time between fields of the Suggest Date & Time page results in an Internal Server error. This only occurs when using the 24-hour time format.

4.2.4 Multiple Installations of the Oracle Calendar Web Client

Each Web client installation only supports calendar sever nodes with common settings. To support a calendar server node with different settings, you must install another instance of the Web client.

4.2.5 Restarting the OHS

Whenever the Oracle Calendar server is restarted the midtier OHS must be restarted as well. If you do not restart the OHS, the Web client will not be able to connect to the Calendar server.

4.3 Oracle Email

4.3.1 OESUCR Command

The oesucr filename -change command does not not work if user has server side rules.

To enable the command, delete server side rules through the Thin Client, before running the oesucr command to change user's e-mail id. Once the e-mail id has been changed, the server side rules recreate through the Thin Client.

4.3.2 Over Quota in the Thin Client

In the Thin Client, if a user is over quota and they have enabled the preference to move deleted messages into the trash folder, they cannot delete the messages to lower their quota.

The workaround is to disable the trash folder through the Preferences tab. This enables the user to delete messages by marking them as deleted and compacting folder.

4.4 Oracle Outlook Connector

4.4.1 Logon Issues

If you successfully log on with your user name and try to log on at another time with your user ID, you may get a "User not found on this server" error message.

Workaround: Try logging on a second time with your user ID. You should not encounter any problems logging on with your user ID the second time or any time after that.

4.5 Oracle Wireless & Voice

4.5.1 Additional and Updated Information

You can find additional and updated documentation and other information on Oracle Wireless & Voice through the Oracle Technology Network. Oracle Technology Network provides developers with the latest information on Oracle's products and technologies. To access Oracle Technology Network, visit:

http://otn.oracle.com/products

4.5.2 Mail Module Encoding

The mail module was set to a specific encoding when shipped (UTF-8). This encoding does not properly save .wav recordings to files. ISO-8859-1 encoding is required to accomplish this. Change the encoding in the input parameters for the mail module (INPUT_ENCODING parameter).

4.5.3 Mail Module Configuration

There are two parameters in the mail module which must be set correctly in order for the voice gateway to work with audio attachments. They are:

4.5.4 Set Default Language Before Oracle Voice and Wireless Setup

Ensure that you set a user's default language before that user completes the Oracle Wireless & Voice setup. If a user's default language is changed after the user has completed the Oracle Voice and Wireless setup, then that user may not be able to change their Oracle Voice and Wireless preferences.

4.5.5 Creating Master Alerts and Master Services

This version of Oracle Wireless & Voice (included in Oracle Collaboration Suite) does not support creation of Master Alerts and Master Services using the Oracle Wireless & Voice webtool.

4.5.6 Oracle Wireless & Voice Access Number

The telephone number for voice access to Oracle Collaboration Suite is contained in the welcome.uix file, and is displayed on the right-hand side of the interface. Administrators must change the placeholder number (1-800-###-####) to the real telephone number appropriate for their installation, or comment out that section of the file if their instance of Oracle Collaboration Suite is not configured for voice access.

4.5.7 Oracle Files Online Wireless Application

Oracle Files Online wireless application works with a Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning-compliant file server. Because the Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol is extended from the HTTP protocol, and HTTP 1.1 RFC does not have a specification for authenticating users with multibyte usernames, access from the wireless application for such users on the file server is not supported. If you want wireless access, use single byte file server usernames.

4.5.8 Oracle Wireless & Voice Status Displayed as Down

Oracle Enterprise Manager displays all of the processes that can be managed for a middle tier machine. When accessing the Oracle Enterprise Manager page and clicking on a middle tier machine, Oracle Wireless & Voice will show a red down arrow. The reason for this is that the Oracle Wireless & Voice server has not been started. To start the Oracle Wireless & Voice server, from your browser, point to:

@ http://machine_name:port/ptg/rm

This automatically starts the Oracle Wireless & Voice server. Once the Wireless Server starts, you must also start the Messaging Server, Performance Monitor, and PIM Dispatcher.

4.5.9 Creating New Calendar Entries through Voice

In this release, users cannot create new Calendar entries through the voice interface.

4.5.10 Return-to-Portal URL Configuration

If you plan to have your users access the Oracle Wireless & Voice setup wizard directly (that is, without going through the Oracle Collaboration Suite Portal home page first), then you must explicitly specify where users should navigate once they have completed the Oracle Wireless & Voice wizard. By default, if users access the wizard from the portal, they will be returned to the portal home page. If users do not access the wizard from the portal, you must specify the return-to URL of your choice in the marconi.config file. For example:

portal=http://my.company.com/homepage

Note that the default behavior is equivalent to:

portal=http://<portal_host>:<portal_port>/pls/portal/portal.home

4.5.11 Disabling the Async Server Kernal Feature

The Async Server Kernal feature is not available for Business Directory and Driving Directions. The feature should be disabled for users. To it for Business Directory and Driving Directions:

  1. Launch the webtool and log in as the administrator.
  2. Click the Service Designer tab.
  3. Click on Modules link.
  4. Click location.
  5. Select Business Directory.
  6. Click Edit.
  7. Click the Async Agent link to go to the Edit Master Service: Async Agent page.
  8. Deselect Async Agent Enabled by clicking the checkbox.
  9. Click Apply.
  10. Repeat steps 5 through 9 for Driving Directions.

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4.5.12 Accessing Oracle Files through ASK

To access Oracle Files through Async Server Kernal, users must have their display name attribute set in Oracle Internet Directory. If a user does not have this attribute set, the application will display a service error when one attempts to access Oracle Files.

5 Documentation Errata

This section describes documentation issues in Oracle Collaboration Suite.

5.1 Oracle Collaboration Suite Patch Set Release Notes

5.1.1 Oracle Ultra Search Japanese File Not Found Error

Users of the complete sample search application viewing the help screen in Japanese may get a File Not Found error.

To resolve this, redeploy Ultra Search OC4J applications:

5.2 Oracle Collaboration Suite Installation Guide

5.2.1 Incorrect Store Name

Oracle Collaboration Suite Installation Guide incorrectly refers to the Unified Messaging Store as the Oracle Email Store.

5.2.2 Incorrect Database Version

Oracle Collaboration Suite Installation Guide incorrectly states that Oracle Files supports an Oracle9i release 1 (9.0.1.1.1) database.

In order to integrate Oracle Files with Oracle Workflow you must use an Oracle9i release 2 (9.2.0.1.0) database or the Files Store available on the Oracle Collaboration Suite Information Storage CD-ROM.

5.2.3 Setting and Unsetting Environment Variables

Table 2-14 on page 2-17 of Oracle Collaboration Suite Installation Guide is incorrect. The correct information is as follows:

Table 1

To... C shell  Bourne/Korn shell

Set an environment variable 

prompt> setenv VARIABLE value

prompt> VARIABLE= value;export VARIABLE

Unset an environment variable 

prompt> unsetenv VARIABLE

prompt> unset VARIABLE

5.3 Oracle Calendar Server Administrator's Guide

5.3.1 Incorrect Name for Solaris Kernel Parameter

The "System Configuration" appendix of the Oracle Calendar Server Administrator's Guide incorrectly refers to the Solaris kernel parameter max_nprocs as max_nproc.

5.4 Oracle Outlook Connector Release Notes

Issue #01715 should be replaced by the following:

Outlook 2002 only: The pop-up menu displayed after right-clicking a meeting in the Inbox or Calendar folder may contain duplicated entries. Suggested workaround: right-click the meeting again. (#01290)

5.5 Oracle Calendar Web Client Online Help

5.5.1 Toolbars

The Oracle Calendar Web client includes two Toolbars. The one that appears at the top is referred to as the Global Toolbar. The one that appears just below the Global Toolbar is referred to as the Calendar Toolbar.

The Global Toolbar contains the Return to Portal, Preferences, Logout and Online Help icons. The Calendar Toolbar contains all other Calendar icons.

5.5.2 Agenda Views

References to Day View, Week View and Month View should be replaced by Daily View, Weekly View and Monthly View.

5.5.3 Date Control Bar

The Date Control Bar does not appear between the date and the Agenda's user name. It appears in the center of the top section of the Agenda to the right of the date.

5.5.4 Entries Including Hyperlinks (Standard Agenda only)

The hyperlinks sent with Entries are only displayed in the Daily List, Weekly List and Monthly View. The Planner Views do not display hyperlinks.

5.5.5 E-mail Section of the Preferences Page

You are not requested to enter your e-mail address on the Preferences page. The Web client uses the e-mail address associated with your user account.

5.5.6 Editing Access Rights

On the Edit Access Rights page, you must click Customize before you can modify a user's access rights.

You must click Customize before you can select or deselect the Can invite me to Entries checkbox.

5.5.7 Accessing the Manage Groups Page

To access the Manage Groups page, click the Manage Groups icon on the Calendar Toolbar.

5.5.8 Preferences Page

References of Edit Preferences icon should be replaced by Preferences icon.

To access the Preferences page, click the Preferences icon on the Global Toolbar.

5.5.9 Printing Your Agenda (Printer-Friendly Format)

The information describing how the number of cells, rows and columns are displayed in the Printing your Daily View, Printing your Weekly View and Printing your Monthly View sections can vary depending on your selected preferences.

5.5.10 My Agenda icon

References to the Home icon should be replaced by My Agenda icon.

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