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Requirements

This chapter describes the generic OP requirements and prerequisites.

Additional requirements and recommendations may be specified during installation of each component.

Note: Platform-specific system requirements are described in the README.htm file for each platform.

User Prerequisites

The person installing OP is expected to be familiar with:

• Oracle database administration; some database operations require DBA privileges

• Web server installation and configuration

and is expected have the following permissions:

• an operating system user account within the DBA group

• root access

Database and Application Server Requirements

OP requires both Oracle9i and Oracle9i Application Server. The default configuration is to install Oracle9i and Oracle9iAS on different systems. When OP is installed, the components that require Oracle9iAS are installed on the system where Oracle9iAS is installed; all other OP components, including documentation, are installed on the system where Oracle9i is installed.

Performance Recommendation

If you plan to use OP in an application that has a large amount of data relative to the available temporary space on your system, you will not get satisfactory performance without partitioning. Suppose that

• P is the average profile size

• C is the number of customers

• T is the available temporary space on your system in bytes

If 54*P2*C>6*T, then we recommend that you purchase Oracle9i partitioning.

Workflow Requirements

Oracle Workflow 2.6.1 (Oracle9i Management and Integration 9.0.1) is required.

Java 1.2.2 Requirements

To be able to run Java 1.2.2 properly on your system, install the patches recommended for your platform.

Environment Variables

Ensure that the environment variables in the table below are set appropriately in the environment of the Oracle database administrator login account. The table shows the name of each environment variable, its function and syntax, its definition, and an example showing what it looks like with real values substituted where appropriate. Oracle9iAS requires a somewhat different list of variables; for details, see "Before Installing Oracle9iAS" in Chapter 3.

Variable	Detail	Definition
ORACLE_HOME	Function	Specifies the directory containing the Oracle software.
	Syntax	directory_path
	Example	$ORACLE_BASE/product/9.0.0
ORACLE_SID	Function	Specifies the Oracle system identifier.
	Syntax	A string of numbers and characters that begins with a letter. Oracle Corporation recommends a maximum of eight characters. For more information, see the Oracle 9i Installation Guide for Sun SPARC Solaris Release 9.0.0 Beta.
	Example	SAL1
ORACLE_BASE	Function	Specifies the base of the Oracle directory structure for Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) compliant databases.
	Syntax	directory_path
	Example	/u01/app/oracle
PATH	Function	Used by the shell to locate executable programs; must include $ORACLE_HOME/bin.
	Syntax	Colon-separated list of directories: directory1:directory2:directory3
	Example	/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin: /usr/bin/X11:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$HOME/bin:. Note: The period adds the current working directory to the search path.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH	Function	Used by the shared library loader (ld.so.1) at runtime to find shared object libraries. See the ld.so.1 man pages for details.
	Syntax	Colon-separated list of directories: directory1:directory2:directory3
	Example	/usr/dt/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib