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What’s the latest with Oracle DB 23ai and Power/AIX?

By Doug Bloom posted Wed May 29, 2024 02:07 PM

  

On May 2nd Oracle announced Database 23ai general availability in their cloud offerings and as a natural extension you might be wondering what about AIX.

In the same announcement blog, https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-23ai-now-generally-available, Oracle indicated they will be rolling out 23ai in what we at IBM have observed is their normal release pattern: Oracle Cloud first, followed by on-premises on Linux (x86) and then Windows, and then will be followed by “other platforms rolling out over the coming months.” 

Even clearer is the MOS note they updated in May, https://ibm.biz/Oracle-DB-Support-on-IBM-Power-LinuxONE, which clearly states they intend to deliver 23ai in 2024 for our 80,000 joint customers.  

Oracle DB 23ai is coming to Power/AIX! While you wait, you can rest assured knowing that our Oracle and IBM teams are working together as always to ensure that 23ai is current on our platform (leveraging our latest compilers and other underpinning technology) and is optimized for execution on Power including the new 23ai vector capability. 

In the meantime, since the path to Oracle DB 23ai requires upgrading via 19c, I encourage all Oracle DB/AIX users to move to 19c as soon as your business needs will allow.  For new DB workloads you will be able to start directly on 23ai. 

I’ll update the community when Oracle provides a public date for general availability on AIX. 

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Jochen Ziegler
13 days ago

I'd like to add info about a major Oracle DB workload: SAP applications:

SAP Note 2799958 - Version: 8, Released On: 20.06.2024

Link: https://me.sap.com/notes/2799958/E
Oracle Database 23ai: Preliminary Information about the next Oracle Database Release

Oracle Database 23ai - SAP Roadmap

Oracle Database 23ai is the next long-term support release. It will be supported for SAP NetWeaver based SAP products and SAP solutions.

For more information, see SAP Note 2606828.

Oracle Database 23ai - Operating System Requirements

Oracle Database 23ai operating system requirements will be documented in the corresponding platform specific Oracle Database 23ai installation guides.

Oracle Database 23ai - Planning the Upgrade

To upgrade to 23ai, you must be on 19c (or later).
You cannot upgrade to 23ai from Oracle versions < 19c.

Oracle Database 23ai - SAP NetWeaver / SAP ECC Requirements

For 19c, SAP products and SAP NetWeaver based SAP solutions are supported according to SAP Note 2817074.

For 23ai and SAP ERP 6.0, EHP6 or higher will be needed (SAP ECC EHP(6) or higher).

Oracle Database 23ai - Major Changes

The classic non-CDB Oracle Database architecture is desupported.

  • With 23ai, the only supported Oracle database architecture is the multitenant architecture.

Oracle Fail Safe is desupported.

  • On Windows (Microsoft Cluster), Oracle Fail Safe is not supported any more. For more information, see SAP Note 2660053.

For more information, see
Oracle Database Changes, Desupports, and Deprecations.

Oracle Database 23ai - Major Changes for SAP NetWeaver Installations

SAP User Concept 'SAP Classic' is desupported.

  • On Unix platforms, SAP user concept 'Oracle Standard' (software owner 'oracle') is mandatory for SAP NetWeaver on Oracle Multitenant (see SAP notes 2336881).
  • The old user concept 'SAP Classic' (software owner 'ora<dbsid>') can only be used for the classic non-CDB Oracle architecture (until 19c).
  • For more information about the user concepts and user concept migration, see SAP Note 1915323 and SAP Note 1915317.

Oracle Database 23ai - Documentation

See Oracle Database 23ai - Get Started.