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showoci - Remove OCE (Oracle Content Management) - Control plane permanently shut down by Oracle post March 1, 2026 #858

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@alexmocciaoci

Summary

Since March 2026, showoci generates repeated 503 ServiceUnavailable errors
for the oce_instance service on every compartment scan.

The root cause is that Oracle permanently shut down the Oracle Content
Management (OCE) control plane post March 1, 2026 following the official
End of Life declaration. The entire OCE section should be removed from showoci.


Root Cause

Oracle officially declared End of Life for Oracle Content Management Cloud
Services in December 2023. The last date of service was December 31, 2025.
Post March 1, 2026, Oracle force-terminated all OCM instances and purged
all data across all OCI tenancies and all regions globally.

From the official Oracle document:

"Oracle will force terminate all such OCM instances post March 1, 2026."
"Oracle will purge all the content and data across all OCM OCI Tenancies
post March 1, 2026."

Official References

# Description Link
1 Oracle Content Management — Statement of Direction and End of Service FAQ https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle%20Cloud/2981930_1.html
2 OCI API — ListOceInstances operation https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/api/#/en/oce/20190912/OceInstanceSummary/ListOceInstances
3 OCI API Errors — 503 ServiceUnavailable https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/References/apierrors.htm#apierrors_503__503_serviceunavailable

Error in showoci log

The following error repeats for every compartment in the tenancy at
every run, adding significant noise to the logs with no actionable outcome:
Error in ShowOCIService:__load_paas_oce:
{
'target_service': 'oce_instance',
'status': 503,
'code': 'ServiceUnavailable',
'operation_name': 'list_oce_instances',
'request_endpoint':
'GET https://cp.oce/..ocp.oraclecloud.com/20190912/oceInstances',
'troubleshooting_tips':
'See https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/References/apierrors.htm
#apierrors_503__503_serviceunavailable',
'message': 'Service Unavailable'
}
in compartment <compartment_name>


Verification

OCI Console → Developer Services → Content Management:

  • EOL banner visible: "End of Life status, last date of service December 31, 2025"
  • Instance list: infinite loading, 0 Items

OCI CLI:

oci oce oce-instance list --compartment-id <tenancy_ocid> --region <region>
# Result: TransientServiceError 503 ServiceUnavailable

Code to Remove

The OCE section spans 3 files. All references are safe to remove —
no other section depends on OCE data.

showoci_service.py

Line Code
23 Header comment — update to remove OCE reference
230 C_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE = "oce"
302 EXCLUDE_OCE = 'OCE'
16334 oce_client = self.__create_client(oci.oce.OceInstanceClient, key=self.EXCLUDE_OCE)
16355 self.__initialize_data_key(self.C_PAAS_NATIVE, self.C_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE)
16379 paas[self.C_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE] += self.__load_paas_oce(oce_client, compartments) (serial execution)
16403 future_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE = executor.submit(self.__load_paas_oce, oce_client, compartments) (parallel execution)
16422 paas[self.C_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE] += next(as_completed([future_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE])).result() (parallel result)
18046–18140 Entire __load_paas_oce() function

showoci_data.py

Line Code
4564–4568 oce = self.service.search_multi_items(... C_PAAS_NATIVE_OCE ...) and paas_services['oce'] = oce

showoci_output.py

Line Code
2603–2612 Screen output block if 'oce' in paas_services: print_header("OCE Native"...)
3512–3515 Summary block if 'oce' in paas_services: array = [x for x in paas_services['oce']...]
4541 csv_paas_oce = []
4750 self.__export_to_csv_file("paas_oce", self.csv_paas_oce)
10235–10269 Entire __csv_paas_oce() function
10516–10517 if 'oce' in data: self.__csv_paas_oce(...)

Would you prefer to handle the fix directly, or shall I provide a Pull Request
covering all 3 files? @adizohar

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