Claire,

That CURSOR_SHARING syntax is unusual for the ar.conf file.  I wonder if that's 
supposed to be an environment variable?

Doug


On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Sanford, Claire wrote:

> BMC Software is alerting customers to a serious problem with the 
> documentation that describes how to upgrade to version 7.6.04 Service Pack 
> 001 of BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite (BMC Remedy ITSM suite). This 
> flash corrects the problem.
> 
> BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite
> Version 7.6.04 Service Pack 001
> June 2011
> 
> BMC Software is alerting customers to a serious problem with the documentation
> that describes how to upgrade to version 7.6.04 Service Pack 001 of BMC Remedy
> IT Service Management Suite (BMC Remedy ITSM suite). This flash corrects the
> problem. If you have any questions about the problem, contact BMC Software
> Customer Support at 800 537 1813 (United States or Canada) or call your local
> support center.
> 
> Oracle cursor sharing attributes
> If you are upgrading to BMC Remedy ITSM suite 7.6.04 Service Pack 001 and your
> environment uses an Oracle(r) 10g or 11g database, you must add the following
> lines, or edit their content to appear as follows, in the ar.cfg file 
> (Microsoft
> Windows) or ar.conf file (UNIX(r)):
> 
> Oracle-Cursor-Sharing: FORCE
> CURSOR_SHARING: FORCE
> 
> If you do not set the Oracle-Cursor-Sharing and CURSOR_SHARING attributes to
> FORCE, upgrading to version 7.6.04 Service Pack 001 can take an exceptionally 
> long
> time to complete, or can fail.
> 
> NOTE
> Do not set the value of the Oracle-Cursor-Sharing and CURSOR_SHARING
> attributes to SIMILAR, as directed in the BMC Remedy IT Service Management
> Installation Guide, BMC Remedy Knowledge Management Installation Guide, BMC
> Service Level Management Installation Guide, BMC Service Request Management
> Installation Guide, and BMC Atrium Core Installation Guide.
> 
> BMC also recommends that you review the BMC Remedy AR System Server 7.6
> Performance Tuning for Business Service Management white paper for other
> recommendations about tuning your Oracle database in preparation for
> performing this upgrade.
> 
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