I'm sure many have noticed it by now:

------------------------
03-Aug-04, 4:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time - The TARs button may not be
visible on MetaLink due to an internal TAR server problem. This issue
is being worked as a top priority and the TARs button will be enabled
once again as soon as possible.
------------------------

I'm glad someone has sev 1 support :-)

I noticed glitches all day, but thought it was because I've been
tracking down some network weirdness in OAS10g and futzing with my
proxy/TCP settings (it seems possible to ignore timeout settings in
web.xml under some conditions). Then when I tried to access an
unrelated tar I entered a few hours ago and never got an email
notification (hey, sometimes the analysts forget to hit "send email"),
I got no access to see tars. After logging in again, my tar button
had disappeared. Horrors! When does my contract expire! Why does it
show "Open, update and close TARs No " on my profile! I AM the
#$%#$%#$ Administrator! :-O

We have an amazingly thin thread attaching us to information. I admit
it, I'm a metalink addict. I hope someone 'fesses up to what really
happened.

jg
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@home.com is bogus.
What to do if your tar button disappears:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/...d= 817789.994
(Expiry date must be less than the current date?) That is just crying
out for parody.

Joel Garry wrote:

> I'm sure many have noticed it by now:
>
> ------------------------
> 03-Aug-04, 4:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time - The TARs button may not be
> visible on MetaLink due to an internal TAR server problem. This issue
> is being worked as a top priority and the TARs button will be enabled
> once again as soon as possible.
> ------------------------
>
> I'm glad someone has sev 1 support :-)
>
> I noticed glitches all day, but thought it was because I've been
> tracking down some network weirdness in OAS10g and futzing with my
> proxy/TCP settings (it seems possible to ignore timeout settings in
> web.xml under some conditions). Then when I tried to access an
> unrelated tar I entered a few hours ago and never got an email
> notification (hey, sometimes the analysts forget to hit "send email"),
> I got no access to see tars. After logging in again, my tar button
> had disappeared. Horrors! When does my contract expire! Why does it
> show "Open, update and close TARs No " on my profile! I AM the
> #$%#$%#$ Administrator! :-O
>
> We have an amazingly thin thread attaching us to information. I admit
> it, I'm a metalink addict. I hope someone 'fesses up to what really
> happened.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> What to do if your tar button disappears:
> http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/...d= 817789.994
> (Expiry date must be less than the current date?) That is just crying
> out for parody.

The "tahiti.oracle.com" documentation site (or at least, the 9i version
documentation in my part of the world) was down on July 16th for a while
too (several posts in OTN forums confirm this). Makes me remember what
a pain it is to try to keep locally-accessible, up-to-date documentation
at your fingertips at all times. In other words, 99.999 <> 100.

I only open 3-4 TAR's a year, typically, but that's because many times I
find the bug (or whatever) first via a Metalink search. If I could have
Metalink access without TAR support I'd be almost as happy.

--Mark Bole

Mark Bole <makbo@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:<ZhfQc.6647$AY5.4251@newssvr21.news.prodigy.c om>...
> The "tahiti.oracle.com" documentation site (or at least, the 9i version
> documentation in my part of the world) was down on July 16th for a while
> too (several posts in OTN forums confirm this). Makes me remember what
> a pain it is to try to keep locally-accessible, up-to-date documentation
> at your fingertips at all times. In other words, 99.999 <> 100.

I'm using downloaded PDF files from tahiti stored on my local PC. It
is much quicker (especially for searching) and available even without
internet access. I wouldn't trust an external server for keeping such
an important piece of information as are Oracle docs for me.

> I only open 3-4 TAR's a year, typically, but that's because many times I
> find the bug (or whatever) first via a Metalink search. If I could have
> Metalink access without TAR support I'd be almost as happy.

Lucky guy! I have opened four TARs in just last week. Plus two
escalations (one to severity 1) and numerous calls with both local and
abroad support.
Oracle is such a great computer game, it kept me occupied for last two
weeks all days and sometimes even during night. :-)

--
Dusan Bolek
http://www.db-support.com

Email: spambin@seznam.cz
Pls add "Not Guilty" to the subject, otherwise your email will face an
unpleasant end as SPAM.

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:36:09 GMT, Mark Bole <makbo@pacbell.net> wrote:
>Joel Garry wrote:
>
>> I'm sure many have noticed it by now:
>>
>> ------------------------
>> 03-Aug-04, 4:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time - The TARs button may not be
>> visible on MetaLink due to an internal TAR server problem. This issue
>> is being worked as a top priority and the TARs button will be enabled
>> once again as soon as possible.
>> ------------------------
>>
>> I'm glad someone has sev 1 support :-)
>>
>> I noticed glitches all day, but thought it was because I've been
>> tracking down some network weirdness in OAS10g and futzing with my
>> proxy/TCP settings (it seems possible to ignore timeout settings in
>> web.xml under some conditions). Then when I tried to access an
>> unrelated tar I entered a few hours ago and never got an email
>> notification (hey, sometimes the analysts forget to hit "send email"),
>> I got no access to see tars. After logging in again, my tar button
>> had disappeared. Horrors! When does my contract expire! Why does it
>> show "Open, update and close TARs No " on my profile! I AM the
>> #$%#$%#$ Administrator! :-O
>>
>> We have an amazingly thin thread attaching us to information. I admit
>> it, I'm a metalink addict. I hope someone 'fesses up to what really
>> happened.
>>
>> jg
>> --
>> @home.com is bogus.
>> What to do if your tar button disappears:
>> http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/...d= 817789.994
>> (Expiry date must be less than the current date?) That is just crying
>> out for parody.
>
>The "tahiti.oracle.com" documentation site (or at least, the 9i version
>documentation in my part of the world) was down on July 16th for a while
>too (several posts in OTN forums confirm this). Makes me remember what
>a pain it is to try to keep locally-accessible, up-to-date documentation
>at your fingertips at all times. In other words, 99.999 <> 100.

Yeah, I tend to download stuff I know I will need to the computer I'm working
on, and keep a list of what I've downloaded on a device that gets backed up.
All bookmark options imply net access. I guess if the network is the computer,
the computer breaks a lot.

>
>I only open 3-4 TAR's a year, typically, but that's because many times I
>find the bug (or whatever) first via a Metalink search. If I could have
>Metalink access without TAR support I'd be almost as happy.

There are some patch downloads that require a password generated by a TAR.
My TAR that happened to be during the outage was one of them, of course.

jg
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