Oracle® Database Gateway

Release Notes

11g Release 1 (11.1) for AIX 5L Based Systems (64-Bit), HP-UX PA-RISC (64-Bit), HP-UX Itanium, Solaris Operating System (SPARC 64-Bit), Linux x86, and Linux x86-64

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November 2007

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- Oracle Database Patch Requirements

- Documentation Accessibility

1 Oracle Database Patch Requirements

If you are using any of the 11g Release 1 (11.1) gateways listed below with Oracle Database 10g Release (10.2) or earlier, you need to download database Patch 5965763 from the OracleMetalink Web site.

- Oracle Database Gateway for Sybase 11g Release 1 (11.1)

- Oracle Database Gateway for SQL Server 11g Release 1 (11.1)

- Oracle Database Gateway for Informix 11g Release 1 (11.1)

- Oracle Database Gateway for Teradata 11g Release 1 (11.1)

- Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC 11g Release 1 (11.1)

2 Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC

Before configuring the gateway you must link the Database Gateway for ODBC using the steps below:

1. Set the environment variable $ORACLE_HOME to the directory in which the gateway is installed

2. Issue the following command:

make -f  $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk idg4odbc

This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 6412911.

3 Documentation Accessibility

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Oracle Database Gateway Release Notes, 11g Release 1 (11.1) for AIX 5L Based Systems (64-Bit), HP-UX PA-RISC (64-Bit), HP-UX Itanium, Solaris Operating System (SPARC 64-Bit), Linux x86, and Linux x86-64

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