JOX

Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure?

From time to time, when I discuss OJVM patching with customers, I hear the following question: Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure? I’m carrying around this topic since months actually.

Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure?

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A quick MOS check

Well, you’d assume this is something MOS does give you an answer within fractions of a second. But nope. I found a lot but unfortunately not what I was looking for. What I found instead where community discussions where applying OJVM patches to a 12.1.0.2 GI installation corrupted the inventory. Hence, there seems to be some …

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What or who is JOX? And what happens if …

Are you worried because of the title of this blog post? Don’t worry … it will be about the Oracle database and not about miraculous additives.

Months back I wrote about how to remove options from the Oracle database’s kernel by either using chopt or linking options off:

Recently a very interesting case was logged in relation to a bug:
A customer had linked off the JOX option from the database kernel.
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What is JOX? 

Well, do a quick search for “JOX” in the Oracle Documentation and …

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