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Release InformationWhat's New in Stat 5.5The latest release of Stat includes some important new capabilities designed to enhance overall usability and security. New Capabilities | Description | Web Services Support | Stat provides a Web Service inteface that enables external applications to create new and update existing Stat CSRs. - Stat can create CSRs via inbound emails today, but this new enhancement provides users with tighter integration with other ticketing or change request systems
- Stat also provides bi-directional integration so that status changes in Stat can update an external ticketing system
| Point-to-Point Migrations | Stat provides users with the ability to move objects from one environment to another without incurring the overhead of versioning the objects within Stat. Using this capability allows users to use Stat as the coordination and control point for more types of migrations, while still capturing the activity for audit reports. | Pre-Migration Steps | Stat provides pre-migration steps enabling prescribed activities to be performed prior to a migration of objects. This is similar to Stat's ability to perform post migration steps, except that it is just done upfront in the migration process rather than after the fact. This capability is most useful for actions that involve preparing files, running scripts or updating a server prior to moving the objects.
Users can even organize the different steps by object type or environment or other relevant criteria.
Note: SSH would need to be supported just like it is for post-migration steps. | | Database Schema Object Archive and Migration |
Previous releases of Stat supported a “logical” locking of database schema objects. This new enhancement provides support for the archiving and migration of the following objects: Function, Index, Package Spec, Package Body, Procedure, Sequence, Synonym, Table, Trigger, View.
Note: This capability is currently supported on an Oracle database only. SQL Server & DB2 will follow in a later release. | | Security Enhancements | Security concerns are ever-present and while Stat provides some password structure enforcement today, it could be better. This enhancements provides administrators with the ability to: - Specify the length of password their users must enter for use of Stat
- Change the number of failed logins that occur before an intruder alert is triggered
- Define the minimum number of characters allowed for a userid
| | Utility for Oracle E-Business Suite Resource Kit Modifications | Stat provides a Resource Kit that is modifiable so that other standard Oracle objects (with LCT files) can be added, however only development has been able to make these modifications.
In the next release, Stat will provide administrators with a utility that allows the Resource Kit to be modified in a controlled manner, enabling customers to extend Stat’s native Oracle E-Business Suite object support. Other Oracle E-Business Suite Enhancements - Automation of additional ADAdmin activities
- Selection of multiple patches in a single step
- Patches can now be downloaded from within Stat
- Modified migration history and distributed migration reports
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1. Stat Environment
Supported Databases | DBMS | Oracle: 9i version 9.0.1 and higher, 10g version 10.1.0.2 and higher, and 11g (Unicode and non-Unicode support for all Oracle DBMS) MS SQL Server: 2000, 2005, 2008 (Unicode and non-Unicode: ISO Character Set with Unicode collation. Database defined with BINARY collation)
Notes:
- Can reside on same server as PeopleSoft or Oracle E-Business database or separate server.
- If PeopleSoft is configured for Unicode operation, the Stat database must be also.
| | Hardware Requirements | Hardware independent. Must support Oracle. | | Minimum Requirements | Development database: 4 GB
Demo database: 500 Mb
Production database: 20 GB (growth varies dramatically by usage) |
Stat Client | Operating System | Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional (current SP recommended), Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit) | | Database Connectivity | Oracle: Oracle Client 9, 10, and 11 MS SQL Server: 2000 client, 2005 client, 2008 client | | Minimum Requirements | 866 MHz, 256 Mb RAM per user on same machine
Disk: 500 Mb for local install (recommended) or <1 Mb w/network install with 500 Mb on the network | | Web Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer (Windows) Versions 5.5 and 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Apple Safari 4, and Opera Opera 9.6 |
Stat Server | Operating System & JDK/SDK | Standalone configuration (recommended):
Windows 2000 Server SP2, XP Professional, 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 1) and release 5, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10, HPUX 11.11 and 11.23 or 64bit AIX v5.2, 5.3 or 6.1(all English-based) - Windows, Solaris, and RedHat Linux require Sun’s JDK/SDK
- HPUX 11.11, 11.23 requires HP’s JDK/SDK
- 64bit AIX v5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 requires IBM’s JDK/SDK 1.5.x
WebLogic configuration (optional):
WebLogic 10.1 or higher on Windows 2003 Server or Solaris 10 | | Minimum Requirements | 1 GHz (2GHz recommended for 20+ users) Pentium 4 (or equivalent)
RAM: 512 MB (2 GB recommended for 20+ users)
DISK: 1 GB | | E-mail | Supported protocols: Outbound e-mail-SMTP, Secure SMTP, Inbound e-mail- IMAP4, Secure IMAP4, POP3 and Secure POP3 |
2. Oracle E-Business Suite
| Releases | Stat supports all products, including custom products, in the Oracle’s E-Business Suite Release 11i, 12 (R12) and 12.1.1. Some Stat features will depend on the AD product release. | | Technology Stack | All components of the technology stack for the Oracle Applications should be in compliance with Oracle’s certification requirements | | Stat Oracle Agent - Hardware Platforms | All versions of Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Windows certified with Oracle Applications. Stat will be certified with most UNIX and Intel based platforms supported by Oracle. Contact Quest Software for updated platform certification. | | Developer Object Compare | Oracle developer object comparison is an optional feature with its own requirements. To enable object compare support for Oracle developer objects, a compatible version of Oracle Developer and the Forms Applet Jar Files component of the Oracle Forms product must be installed. Additional requirements are needed for the following: - To enable object compare support for Oracle developer objects in patches, the Oracle JVM and the file stat_db.jar must be installed
- To enable object compare support for form library files that have attached libraries, the FORMS60_PATH environment variable must be set to reference a staging directory
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3. FTP, SSH Servers
| Requirements | Must be NT, Unix, MVS or Netware compatible; SSH2 must use standard format listing; OpenSSH (UNIX and Windows), SSH Communications Corp. (UNIX and Windows), bitwise WinSSHD, and wodSSHServer are supported. VanDyke VShell 2.1 is NOT supported. The configuration of your SSH server determines which ciphers are used when connecting to the Stat Server. The Stat Server currently supports the following cipher and MAC configurations: Ciphers: - Blowfish
- Triple DES
- AES128Ctr
- AES192Ctr
- AES256Ctr
Message Authentication Code (MAC): - HMAC-MD5
- HMAC-SHA1
- HMAC-MD5-96
- HMAC-SHA1-96
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