Setting Up Variables for the Taxware Database Location

This section discusses how to:

  • Set up Taxware on a Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 2000 platform.

  • Set up Taxware on a UNIX platform.

Taxware provides three INI files that you need to set up to point to the location of the Taxware database directories:

  • AVPTAX.INI

  • AVPSTEP.INI

  • AVPZIP.INI

Place all three files in the WINNT directory. Each file contains a set of pointer variables that you should point to the location where the Taxware database files were placed during Taxware software installation.

Note: Taxware opens the database files in read/write mode, even when only reading from them. You may encounter problems with permissions.

You must set up several environment variables with the location of the Taxware database files. Taxware provides a script called ENVARS that contains all the variables that need to be defined. In ENVARS, provide values for these variables, and then run the ENVARS script when starting the application server and PeopleSoft Process Scheduler. A typical place to run the ENVARS script is in psconfig.sh.

Note: Taxware opens the database files in read/write mode. Consequently, you may encounter problems with permissions.