Yes, I have tried that so many times I that I can do it with my eyes closed. I does not work. It will act like it is but it quits running when it hits the "Running dbca command:
09/16/10 07:28:38 exec D:/APPS/PTC/oracle/product/9204/bin/dbca.bat -silent -passwordDialog false -createDatabase -templateName UTF8_DBDataTempl.dbc -datafileJarLocation D:/APPS/PTC/dataserver/intralink/dbs/Tcl/proidbcahelper1.0/templates/windows/UTF8_DBDataTempl.dfj -sid ilnk -gdbname ilnk -characterSet UTF8 -nationalCharacterSet UTF8 -variablesFile {D:\APPS\PTC\dataserver\intralink\dbs\Tcl\proidbcahelper1.0\logs\ilnk_dbca_vars.txt}" at this point it just sits there. I have to task out to get the setup to close. No meaningful error logs are generated. except the line "The migration was terminated," I have also attempted a fresh install without the migration of my db.dump and it will not work either. It fails when it attempts to configure the database. so both seem to fail at the same point. I have even commented out the bad code in some of the TCL files just to see if the installer would move past the error, and it does. However, the application fails to work properly. I would assume that something was left out by commenting out the bad code.
As for getting help, Hah! It takes forever. The last time I asked for help I just got a regurgitation of what I told them. The 3.3 dataserver has a bundled version of Oracle (embedded) and it crashes every night at 11:30PM. (for years now) The log file shows "failure, unable to read from file
O/S-Error: (OS 33) The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file." So, "The Process" is the problem. The other problem is that "The Programmers did not think it was important to identify "the process." I would assume the oracle programmers did that. I am not a fan of oracle at all. So, PTC support told me that there are two processes attempting to write to the db. Really?!! I was hoping they would help me get a more verbose error log so I could stop one of the two offenders. they pinned it on Oracle eve though they embedded it in the app.
I have no doubt that others have made the leap from 3.x. Not easy? Why not? It should be. A clear concise set of instructions accompanied by software that actually works is all that is needed. One of my computer science instructors said that computers to not make mistakes. It is always user or programmer error. Given the fact that I followed all the steps to the T and the installation fails 100% of the time I would rule out user error.
