Well, we all looked forward to a new support portal starting at Dec. 7th, enabling us to use AI and to work better and faster than before. What really happend? Links are broken, all bookmarks gone (in my case roundabout 100 sorted for different technical products and problems, patches, white papers), the patch search does not work like it did before, and so on, and so on... At the end, it is not better than before - it is a lot more worse.
At least for all the links in my blog I hope I have found a solution. Typically, all blogs do not tell you the document title, but you can see the DocID.
As the DocID has changed into a "KB" with a number, they still seem to be used in the background. If you do know the DocID which consists of a number, followed by a "Dot" and a second number, you may get access by using the following procedure.
First is, login to your support.oracle.com environment. Then, put the old DocID without the "Dot" and everything following into this URL, replacing <SHORT_DOC_ID> with the value you have.
https://support.oracle.com/support/?anchorId=&kmContentId=<SHORT_DOC_ID>&page=sptemplate&sptemplate=km-article
One of my favorite notes is 888.1, the title is something with "Oracle Database", but if you search for "Oracle Database primary note", well, you don't find it in the search results.
E.g. to get the DocID 888.1 you can use
https://support.oracle.com/support/?anchorId=&kmContentId=888&page=sptemplate&sptemplate=km-article
The title by the way is now "(KB106822) Primary Note for Database Quarterly Release Updates". If you look at the first lines, you can see the following text
"This was MOS Document ID: 888.1 in Legacy MOS. Post migration, we will be moving to KB888 (Date TBA)"
What the f*...
Ok, back to another note I really need a lot - the last version of OPatch was at DocID 293369.1. Again, changing the link to
https://support.oracle.com/support/?anchorId=&kmContentId=293369&page=sptemplate&sptemplate=km-article
leads to the Primary Note for OPatch.
I'm still mourning the lost bookmarks, but at least for the most documents I find at the internet, I may have found a solution to bring them back without struggling with the new search functionality. Unfortunately it seems to not work with all DocIDs, some do show a "404" error, but most do work.
Please comment if this works for the things you need or if you still struggle.
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