Installation and Setup

The Oracle RDBMS must be installed and configured prior to the installation of Acu4GL for Oracle.

The following are not required, but recommended:

• Oracle's SQL*Plus® interactive query tool. SQL*Plus allows you to do database work outside of COBOL, including interactive queries, table creation, table modification, and creation of views, constraints, and relationships between tables.
• Oracle's "scott/tiger" test schema, which can be used for testing.

Micro Focus does not provide these products.

Make sure all environment variables Oracle requires, such as ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent, if necessary), are set up in the environment of each user accessing Acu4GL (see Oracle documentation for the list of variables required). Verify Oracle's setup and configuration using an Oracle tool, such as SQL*Plus. Also verify that the PATH references the necessary Oracle subdirectories.

The following topics describe the steps you must take before you begin using Oracle on a new system.