Recently, I wrote about deleting a GoldenGate deployment with the REST API, and when investigating this issue, I remembered a limitation of the configuration assistant, which I wanted to talk about. For more information about deployment removal with the configuration assistant, you can read a blog I wrote on the topic (for 23ai, but nothing changed in that regard in…
Among all the automation I was doing around a GoldenGate installation for DB2, I recently ended up with an INS-85037 error when running the configuration assistant oggca.sh. And because this error is quite common and has many different possible root causes, I wanted to write about it. Differences in GoldenGate setup between Oracle and DB2 If you’re wondering how to…
Is it possible to create a new GoldenGate deployment with the REST API ? This is the question I will try to answer in this blog, based on my experience with the REST API. I will dive in what is done by the oggca.sh script when adding a new deployment and see if we can replicate this with the REST…
You might have an existing unsecure GoldenGate installation that you would like to secure, whether it’s for security reasons or because you would like to dissociate the installation and its securing process. After searching everywhere in the Oracle documentation for how to proceed, I decided to try, investigate and eventually even asked Oracle directly. Here is the answer. For a…
26ai update: This article was originally written for 23ai. But not much changes when setting up GoldenGate 26ai. Just adapt the responseFileVersion when doing the silent installation, and that’s it ! As instructed in this other blog, use oracle.install.responseFileVersion=/oracle/install/rspfmt_ogginstall_response_schema_v26_1_0 Automating Oracle installations can sometimes be daunting, given the long list of parameters available. We’ll compare both graphic and silent installations…
