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Appendix C. Installing the Oracle Client

In this appendix, we describe the steps we followed using the Oracle Universal

Installer (OUI) to install the Oracle 10g Client on z/OS. This method would

primarily be used if you want to set up a gateway product, or you if want to

access an Oracle database on another platform from zOS.

Installing Oracle Client code

First we restarted the OUI, as we had done in “Running the Universal Installer”

on page 32, by issuing the ./runInstaller command. This brought us to the

Welcome screen; see Figure C-1 on page 148.

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Figure C-1 The Welcome screen

After pressing Next, we were asked to specify our file locations for the source and

target. We used the same paths in our zFS as we did for the Oracle libraries.

Because this was a first-time installation, we were asked where to put the

inventory file. The default is /u/userid, but it is recommended that you change this

and put it somewhere in your directory for Oracle (such as /oracle/inventory).

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Figure C-2 Directory not found screen

You can use the browse button to search for the location. If a directory does not

already exist, the program will create it for you; refer to Figure C-2.

On the next window, shown in Figure C-3 on page 150, we had to verify that the

program had found the source files. We also had to enter the directories where it

would install the USS files.

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Figure C-3 Specifying file locations

Pressing Next brought us to the window shown in Figure C-4, where we chose to

install the Oracle Client code (the second item in the option list).

Figure C-4 Selecting a product for installation

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Figure C-5 Selecting the type of installation

As shown in Figure C-5, we chose to install the complete version of the client

code. Next we entered the HLQ and Secondary qualifiers for our z/OS files

(IBM1.V10GCL), as shown in Figure C-6.

Figure C-6 Entering the HLQ