Preface

The complete name for the product described in this book is Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) for IBM z/OS (OS/390). To maintain readability and conciseness in this document, the product is also referred to as Oracle Database for z/OS and the platform as z/OS.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for those who are responsible for performing tasks such as:

Running Oracle Database tools or utilities, such as SQL*Plus, Export, Import, or SQL*Loader on z/OS
Designing or developing Oracle Database applications using Oracle Precompilers or the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) on z/OS
Running Oracle Database application programs on z/OS

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

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.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Conventions

The following typographic conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Meaning
italics	Indicates a variable, including variable portions of file names. It is also used for emphasis and book titles
UPPERCASE	Indicates batch and TSO commands and file names, SQL commands, reserved words, keywords, initialization parameters, and environment variables
`monospace`	Indicates z/OS UNIX System Services shell commands and file names, code examples, directory names, and user names
`oracle_hlq`	Is the standard example for a high-level data set name qualifier. Substitute your system's actual high-level qualifier, for example, ORACLE.V10G. These qualifiers may appear in lowercase or 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 the 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

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

Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documents

Conventions

Storage Measurements