Release Notes
12c Release 2 (12.2) for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)
E50719-04
September 2017
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In addition to the list of unavailable products or features in section, ”Features Not Available or Restricted in This Release of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1),” in Oracle Database Readme, the following product and feature is not supported:
The list of supported products or features for Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1) are as follows:
Database Smart Flash Cache is supported only on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux.
Although Oracle ADVM supports raw disks in Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk groups, Oracle ADVM device special files created through raw(8) are not supported; Oracle ADVM only supports block device special files.
For the latest information about supported platforms and releases, see the Note 1369107.1 on My Oracle Support at
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is supported only on Linux x86-64.
Refer to the installation guides for the preinstallation requirements.
There are no installation, configuration, and upgrade issues at the time of this release.
The following section contains information about an issue related to Oracle Database 12c and associated products:
The Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) tool shows the CPU usage based on the actual CPU usage x number of CPUs which is different from the common utilities such as the TOPAS tool.
Workaround:
None
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 14654261.
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E50719-04
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