Preface

Intended Audience

Read this guide if you are responsible for performing tasks such as:

Administering Oracle9i Enterprise Edition for OS/390
Maintaining OS/390 data sets and Oracle system files
Managing backups, recovery, memory, and storage on OS/390
Diagnosing and reporting errors
Issuing OSDI subsystem commands

This guide provides information only for Oracle products and their interactions with OS/390. A thorough understanding of the fundamentals of OS/390 is necessary before attempting to use this software.

Product Name

The complete name for the product described in this book is Oracle9i Enterprise Edition for OS/390. To maintain readability and conciseness in this document, the product is also referred to as Oracle9i for OS/390.

Conventions

Examples of input and output to the system are shown in a special font:

//SYSIN   DSN=oran.orav.INSTJCL(member)

All output is shown as it actually appears. For input, the following conventions apply:

Convention	Meaning
`italic font`	indicates that a word or phrase of your choice must be substituted for the term in italic font, such as the actual member name. For example: `member`
oran.orav	is the standard example for high-level and second-level data set name qualifiers. Substitute your system's actual high-level and second-level qualifiers. These qualifiers may appear in lowercase or in UPPERCASE typeface.
`<>` Angle brackets	indicate that the enclosed arguments are required and at least one of the arguments must be entered. Do not enter the brackets themselves.
`[]` Square brackets	indicate that the enclosed arguments are optional. Do not enter the brackets themselves.
`{}` Braces	indicate that one of the enclosed arguments is required. Do not enter the braces themselves.
`\|` Vertical lines	separate choices.
`...` Ellipses	indicate that the preceding item can be repeated. You can enter an arbitrary number of similar items.
Other punctuation	must be entered as shown unless otherwise specified. For example, commas and quotes.

Commands, reserved words, and keywords appear in uppercase in both examples and text. A fileid can appear with both uppercase and lowercase text. When portions of a fileid appear in italics, the use of italic characters indicates that those portions can vary. Reserved words and keywords must always be entered as is, because they have reserved meanings within Oracle.

Storage Measurements

Storage measurements use the following abbreviations:

K, for kilobyte, which equals 1,024 bytes
M, for megabyte, which equals 1,048,576 bytes
G, for gigabyte, which equals 1,073,741,824 bytes

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Documents Referenced in this Guide

Oracle OS/390 Books

Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Installation Guide for OS/390

Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Messages Guide for OS/390

Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release Notes for OS/390

Oracle9i Enterprise Edition User's Guide for OS/390

Other Oracle Books

Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide

Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Advanced Queuing

Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects

Oracle9i Data Guard Concepts and Administration

Oracle9i Database Administrator's Guide

Oracle9i Database Concepts

Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide

Oracle9i Database Migration: Release 2 (9.2)

Oracle9i Database Performance Book Set

Oracle9i Database Reference

Oracle9i Database Utilities

Oracle9i Net Services Book Set

Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Book Set

Oracle9i Recovery Manager User's Guide

Oracle9i SQL Reference

Oracle9i User-Managed Backup and Recovery Guide

IBM Books

DFSMS/MVS Access Method Services for ICF

IMS/ESA System Definition Reference

OS/390 Initialization and Tuning Reference

OS/390 MVS Planning: Workload Management

Setting Up a Sysplex

USS Planning Guide