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Oracle® Database Gateway for DRDA User's Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1)

Part Number B31046-01
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Preface

The Oracle Database Gateway for DRDA provides users with transparent access to DRDA databases as if they were Oracle databases.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for anyone responsible for installing, configuring, and administering the gateway, and also for application developers.

Read this guide if you are responsible for tasks such as:

You must understand the fundamentals of Oracle Database Gateway and the operating system you are working on before using this guide to install or administer the gateway.

Processors

Refer to the Oracle Database Installation Guide and to the certification matrix on Oracle MetaLink for the most up-to-date list of certified hardware platforms and operating system version requirements to operate the gateway for your Linux, AIX-Based, HP-UX, or Solaris system. The Oracle MetaLink web site can be found at the following URL:

http://metalink.oracle.com/

The gateway processor requirements for your platform are as follows:

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. Accessibility 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 more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

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

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers 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, some screen readers 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.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

The Oracle Database Gateway for DRDA User's Guide is included as part of your product shipment. Also included is:

Oracle Database Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide

This guide contains information common to all heterogeneous gateways, including important information on functions, parameters, and error messages.

Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

Oracle Database Concepts

Oracle Database Error Messages

Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

Oracle Database Security Guide

Oracle Database Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide

Typographic Conventions

The following typographic conventions are used in this guide:

Convention Description
monospace Monospace type indicates commands, directory names, user names, path names, and file names.
italics Italic type indicates variables, including variable portions of file names. It is also used for emphasis and for book titles.
UPPERCASE Uppercase letters indicate Structured Query Language (SQL) reserved words, initialization parameters, and environment variables.
Bold Bold type indicates screen names and fields.
SQL*Plus prompts The SQL*Plus prompt, SQL>, appears in SQL statement and SQL*Plus command examples. Enter your response at the prompt. Do not enter the text of the prompt, "SQL>", in your response.

SQL*Plus Prompts

The SQL*Plus prompt, SQL>, appears in SQL statements and SQL*Plus command examples. Enter your response at the prompt. Do not enter the text of the prompt, "SQL>", in your response.

Storage Measurements

Storage measurements use the following abbreviations: