Feedback on Oracle 9i on AIX 4.3.3 or AIX 5L

[KOG]

Hi Folks

I am in the progress of documenting plans on upgrading our servers to Oracle 9i (Release 2) and I need to decide whether to upgrade AIX 4.3.3 with 64 bits filesets or upgrade it to AIX 5L.

I would really appreciate any feedbacks from you - any good or bad experiences of upgrading oracle 9i on either AIX platforms as I am in mixed minds as to whether to stay on AIX 4.3.3 or move on to AIX 5L, what is the real benefits?

Thanking you all in advance.

Regards

Katherine

 

[alexhu]

4.3.3 is obsolete - I can't get support for it in the UK - so thats good enough reason for me to upgrade. But I'm going to do Oracle to 9.2 first

Alex

 

[Chapter11]

If you're running 4.3.3, you may already be 64-bit enabled. It's hardware dependent, and AIX should have detected whether it could run 64-bit apps during installation.

If you have this line:
[tt]load64bit:2:wait:/etc/methods/cfg64 >/dev/console 2>&1 # Enable 64-bit execs[/tt]
in /etc/inittab, then you are already 64-bit enabled. If that line is not present, chances are your hardware is not 64-bit capable.

 

[Chapter11]

Also check:

smitty -> system environments -> enable 64-bit application environment

 

[KOG]

Hi Folks

The two servers we have have 64 bits processor running so this shouldn't be a problem - I think I will opt for AIX 5L but do not know for certain how oracle 9i works well on 5L as I believe there was some problems with the early release of 9i.