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Installation Reference

This appendix documents additional installation information that is referenced in the installation sections. The following topics are included:

• Choosing Data Set Name Qualifiers

• Data Set Name Qualifier Rules

• OR@INST Panel Options

Choosing Data Set Name Qualifiers

Step 1 of the primary Oracle9i for OS/390 installation setup and initialization process creates the first of several OS/390 data sets. Later in the installation, you can specify the high-level and second-level data set name qualifiers that are used for subsequently created data sets. Refer to Appendix A, "Data Set Names and Space Allocations", for a list of the data sets and their default space allocations.

Oracle Corporation recommends that you use the same qualifiers for all of the installation-related data sets. At this time, you need to choose and use the qualifiers that were selected in "Installation Setup and Initialization" in Chapter 3.

While choosing qualifiers, remember the following requirements:

• You must choose unique qualifiers.

  Using different qualifiers ensures that the products in the product set are maintained in separate libraries as required.

  Attention: 1. Do not use the same qualifiers that you have used for any other Oracle for OS/390 product set that you have previously installed. If you do, the installation procedures will delete and reallocate your current Oracle libraries. 2. Do not concatenate these libraries with any existing libraries that you are running for previously installed product sets.

• In most OS/390 systems, some preparation is required before creating data sets with a new high-level data set name qualifier.

  If you intend to use a new high-level qualifier for your Oracle data sets, then you must define an ALIAS before running the job that loads the installation JCL. If in doubt, ask your OS/390 systems programmer for assistance.

Data Set Name Qualifier Rules

The following two rules concern the value that was entered for Target Data Set Name Qualifiers on panel OR@PRIM during the installation process:

• The high-level qualifier can be up to nine characters, including a period.

  Once entered, the first 8 characters become the initial value for the High Level Qualifier on panel ORINIP00, described in "Step 1:  Modify Tape Unit and Library Index (Panel ORINIP00)".

• The second-level qualifier can be up to 17 characters, including periods.

  Once entered, the 17 characters become the initial value for the Second Level Qualifier for item 2 on panel ORINIP00.

These two rules allow for Oracle data sets with high-level and second-level qualifiers, as in the following examples:

aaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaa.bbbbbbbb.cccccccc

aaaa.bbbbbbbb.cccccccc

aaaaaaaa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff.gg

where the initial values on panel ORINIP00 are seen in these examples as:

aaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaa	bbbbbbbb.cccccccc
aaaa	bbbbbbbb.cccccccc
aaaaaaaa	bb.cc.dd.ee.ff.gg

OR@INST Panel Options

Options 1 through 5 on installation panel OR@INST are:

Option 1	starts the Oracle product installation process by bringing up panel ORPRIM0.
Option 2	generates an INSTLIB member based on the options that were chosen from the installation panels available through option 1. This INSTLIB member contains a batch job stream that is used to populate the INSTLIB with a series of Oracle product installation jobs.
Option 3	starts the Oracle database customization process by bringing up panel ORNEWDB. This option is only valid for the Oracle9i for OS/390 product set and must not be selected for any other product set.
Option 4	generates an INSTLIB member based on the options that were chosen from the customization panels available through Option 3. This INSTLIB member contains a batch job stream that is used to populate the INSTLIB with a series of customization jobs for the new Oracle database that is being defined. This option is valid only for the Oracle9i for OS/390 product set and must not be selected for any other product set.
Option 5	relates only to option 1. Option 5 can be used to nullify all of the product and language selections that were made by the user on panels ORPRODS and ORLANG. These panels are available only through option 1. Option 5 nullifies the selections, and a message appears in the upper-right corner of the OR@INST panel screen when the reset is complete. Option 5 is not the only method available to change the selections. The following method also exists:While completing the option 1 panels, you can individually reset (change to blank) any selections on the ORPRODS panel by returning to the panel and making the necessary changes line-by-line. Regardless of the method that is chosen to accomplish the reset, once a reset of any or all selections is done, the user must proceed again through all the panels of option 1 before choosing option 2. Otherwise, the generate fails and gives an error message stating that no products or languages were selected.