Desupported Features

The following features are desupported in this release:

• Oracle Multimedia DICOM protocol, DICOM mid-tier support, and DICOM and UCM integration

  There is no replacement for Oracle Multimedia DICOM. Oracle recommends that you replace Oracle Multimedia DICOM by using Oracle SecureFiles with third-party products for DICOM functionality. For example: Use third-party DICOM features to carry out metadata management, DICOM image conversion, and so on.

• Oracle Multimedia Java client proxy classes, including DICOM proxy classes

  To develop Java applications that manage multimedia content within Oracle Databases, Oracle recommends that you embed PL/SQL blocks in Java.

Deprecated Features

The following feature is deprecated in this release, and may be desupported in a future release:

• Oracle Multimedia

  There is no replacement for Oracle Multimedia. Oracle recommends that you replace Oracle Multimedia by using Oracle SecureFiles with third-party products for metadata extraction and image processing and conversion.

The Oracle Multimedia support for DICOM was deprecated in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2).

These Oracle Multimedia DICOM features remain deprecated in this release:

• Oracle Multimedia DICOM objects and packages

• The Oracle Multimedia DICOM support in Oracle Multimedia ORDImage objects that was introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2)

New Features

The following feature was new in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2):

• Oracle Multimedia PL/SQL API

  This API allows metadata extraction and image processing operations to be more intuitively included in SQL and PL/SQL applications.

  See Oracle Multimedia Reference for more information about the Oracle Multimedia PL/SQL API.