Oracle Rdb7 Installation and Configuration Guide

Oracle Rdb7(tm) for OpenVMS

Installation and Configuration Guide

Release 7.0

Part No. A42342-1

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Preface

The Oracle Rdb software is a general-purpose database management system based on the relational data model. This manual uses the name Oracle Rdb to refer to current and previous versions of the software.

Purpose of This Manual

This manual describes how to install Oracle Rdb Version 7.0 on VAX VMS, OpenVMS for VAX, and OpenVMS for Alpha.

You do not have to install a previous version of Oracle Rdb before installing Oracle Rdb Version 7.0.

Intended Audience

Read this manual if you are responsible for:

Planning the installation of Oracle Rdb and preparing your system (see Chapter 1)
Installing Oracle Rdb (see Chapter 2)
Changing your system by adjusting parameters, startup and shutdown files, and privileges required for running Oracle Rdb (see Chapter 3)
Running multiple versions of Oracle Rdb concurrently on a single system (see Chapter 4)
Configuring your Oracle Rdb system to allow remote database access (see Chapter 5)

To install the software, you must:

Be familiar with VMSINSTAL, the command procedure used to install software products in the OpenVMS environment. For details on VMSINSTAL, see the OpenVMS system management documentation.
Have access to the SYSTEM account on your machine or to an account with the user privilege SETPRV.

Structure

This manual has the following chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1 Explains how to plan the installation and prepare your system.

Chapter 2 Explains how to install the Oracle Rdb software and run the Installation Verification Procedure (IVP).

Chapter 3 Explains procedures to follow after the installation of Oracle Rdb completes successfully.

Chapter 4 Describes how to run multiple versions of Oracle Rdb concurrently.

Chapter 5 Explains how to configure your Oracle Rdb system to allow remote database access.

Appendix A Discusses the correlation between OpenVMS and Oracle Rdb security.

Appendix B Shows a sample installation for the multiversion variant of Oracle Rdb.

Related Manuals

The OpenVMS documentation set contains detailed information and guidelines for installing software on your OpenVMS system and for learning about related system management tasks.

The Oracle Rdb7 Release Notes and Before You Install Oracle Rdb7 might contain information needed to install Oracle Rdb. Read these documents before starting the Oracle Rdb installation.

The Oracle SQL/Services Installation Guide describes how to install the SQL/Services component of Oracle Rdb.

Conventions

In examples, an implied carriage return occurs at the end of each line, unless otherwise noted. You must press the Return key at the end of a line of input.

Often in examples the prompts are not shown. Generally, they are shown where it is important to depict an interactive sequence exactly; otherwise, they are omitted.

In this manual, OpenVMS means the OpenVMS operating system for Alpha and VAX and the VAX VMS operating system. The following conventions are used to identify information specific to OpenVMS Alpha or to OpenVMS VAX:

This icon denotes the beginning of information specific to OpenVMS Alpha.

This icon denotes the beginning of information specific to OpenVMS VAX.

The diamond symbol denotes the end of a section of information specific to OpenVMS Alpha or to OpenVMS VAX.

The following conventions are also used in this manual:

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.
. Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.

... Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted.

e, f, t Index entries in the printed manual may have a lowercase e, f, or t following the page number; the e, f, or t is a reference to the example, figure, or table, respectively, on that page.

< > Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.

[ ] In format descriptions, brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none. In a prompt, brackets indicate that the enclosed item is the default response. For example, [y] means the default response is Yes.

$ The dollar sign represents the operating system prompt.

References to Products

The Oracle Rdb documentation set to which this manual belongs often refers to the following products by their abbreviated names:

In this manual, Oracle Rdb refers to Oracle Rdb for OpenVMS software. Version 7.0 of Oracle Rdb software is often referred to as V7.0.
OpenVMS means both the OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX operating system.
The SQL interface to Oracle Rdb is referred to as SQL. This interface is the Oracle Rdb implementation of the SQL standard ANSI X3.135-1992, ISO 9075:1992, commonly referred to as the ANSI/ISO SQL standard or SQL92.
Oracle CDD/Repository software is referred to as the dictionary, the data dictionary, or the repository.
Oracle Expert for OpenVMS software is referred to as Oracle Expert.
Oracle ODBC Driver for Rdb software is referred to as the ODBC driver.
Oracle Rally for OpenVMS Alpha, Oracle Rally for OpenVMS VAX, and Oracle Rally for :MS--DOS software are referred to as Rally.
Oracle Trace for OpenVMS software is referred to as Oracle Trace.
Distributed Option for Rdb software is referred to as Distributed Option.

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Chapter 1	Explains how to plan the installation and prepare your system.
Chapter 2	Explains how to install the Oracle Rdb software and run the Installation Verification Procedure (IVP).
Chapter 3	Explains procedures to follow after the installation of Oracle Rdb completes successfully.
Chapter 4	Describes how to run multiple versions of Oracle Rdb concurrently.
Chapter 5	Explains how to configure your Oracle Rdb system to allow remote database access.
Appendix A	Discusses the correlation between OpenVMS and Oracle Rdb security.
Appendix B	Shows a sample installation for the multiversion variant of Oracle Rdb.

. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
...	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted.
e, f, t	Index entries in the printed manual may have a lowercase e, f, or t following the page number; the e, f, or t is a reference to the example, figure, or table, respectively, on that page.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	In format descriptions, brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none. In a prompt, brackets indicate that the enclosed item is the default response. For example, [y] means the default response is Yes.
$	The dollar sign represents the operating system prompt.