3 Installing DAC on UNIX

This section provides instructions for installing DAC in a UNIX environment.

The Oracle Universal Installer cannot install DAC on UNIX (that is, AIX, Solaris, HP). Therefore, to install a DAC Server on UNIX, you copy the \DAC folder from the Windows machine on which the DAC Client is installed to a UNIX machine, as described below.

To install the DAC on UNIX:

1. On the Windows machine on which the DAC is installed, create a temporary directory (for example, a directory named \OracleBI_UNIX\).

   You will use this temporary directory to create a zip file for the UNIX/Solaris deployment.

2. Copy the \DAC\ directory to the temporary directory (for example, \OracleBI_UNIX\).

3. From the \DAC\ directory in the temporary directory, remove the \export and \icons sub-folders.

4. Zip up the temporary directory (for example, \OracleBI_Solaris\).

5. Copy the ZIP file to the target UNIX machine.

   Note: If you use FTP to copy the zip file, use binary mode.

6. Before using the shell scripts, you may need to use a MS-DOS to UNIX conversion tool to convert the script files to UNIX format (that is, remove the carriage return and line feed characters). Alternatively, you can manually remove the carriage return and line feed characters from the script files.

7. On the UNIX machine copy the appropriate JDBC drivers to the /client/lib directory.

   Note: DAC uses JDBC drivers for connectivity to source, target and repository databases. The JDBC drivers that are used should be for the databases supported. Since JDBC drivers show variations with different database versions, only drivers that are shipped with the database, or downloaded from the database vendor site and known to be certified for the given database version should be used.

8. Edit the config.sh file located in the /client directory to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the directory where the correct version of the Java JDK is installed.

9. Edit the dac_env.sh file to configure the following variables:

   • INFA_HOME

   • INFA_DOMAINS_FILE

   • INFA_CMD_STYLE

10. If required, edit the config.sh or config.csh file located in the /DAC directory to point to the correct version of the Java JDK by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable.