Disable JRE Auto-Update For All Primavera P6 And Contract Management End Users Due To Compatibility Issues With JRE 7 Update Push [ID 1471957.1]

Published on Monday, 09 July 2012 10:16

Applies to:

Primavera Contract Management - Version 13.1 to 14.0 SP1 [Release 13 to 14]
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management - Version 6.2.1 to 8.2 [Release 6.2 to 8.2]
Primavera P6 Professional Project Management - Version 6.2.1 to 8.2 [Release 6.2 to 8.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Description

All Primavera administrators must disable JRE Auto-Update for their end users immediately since JRE 7 (1.0.7) is not yet certified with Primavera applications.

Occurrence

If end users have Java Auto-Update enabled, their installed Java JRE 1.6 version will be automatically updated to JRE 7 as early as July 3, 2012, at the latest by Sept. 7, 2012 after the release of 1.6.0_35 (6u35).

Symptoms

It is important to disable the JRE Auto-Update on end user workstations now.

Primavera P6 EPPM is not compatible with JRE 7 yet and fixes are required to make P6 compatible with JRE 7
JRE 7 has not yet been certified with Oracle Primavera Contract Management

Workaround

For reference on disabling Java auto-updates, see also Doc ID 905051.1 “How to disable Java automatic updates.”

Patches

The Primavera Development team is working to certify JRE 7 with all supported versions of Primavera P6 and Contract Management releases. An update will be provided when the fixes and certifications are completed. The current JRE 7 certification release plan for Primavera products is as follows and will consist of a consolidated Hot Fix release which includes all previous Hot Fixes on that particular branch along with JRE 7 specific bug fixes:

Within Q1 of Fiscal Year 2013, certifications will be released for:

P6 EPPM R8.2 (8.2.0.13)
R8.1 (8.1.3.5)
R8.0 (8.0.0.1)
v7.0 (7.0.4.7)
CM 14.0 (14.0.1.4)
CM 13.1 (13.1.1.2)

Within Q1 of Fiscal Year 2013, certifications will be released for:

P6 EPPM v6.21 (6.21.4.7)

Updated tested configuration documents for all releases will be posted to OTN by Q1 of Fiscal Year 2013.

Source: Oracle Primavera