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Installing multiple cobol versions with oracle
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| eyal.rif@gmail.com 2005-10-27, 7:55 am |
| Hi all,
I would like to install 2 separate versions of Cobol (4.5 and express
2.2) with oracle 9i.
can it be done with a single installation environment of oracle or do I
need to install multiple copies of oracle ?
any help/suggestion would be appreciated.
Regards,
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| James J. Gavan 2005-10-27, 9:55 pm |
| eyal.rif@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to install 2 separate versions of Cobol (4.5 and express
> 2.2) with oracle 9i.
>
> can it be done with a single installation environment of oracle or do I
> need to install multiple copies of oracle ?
>
> any help/suggestion would be appreciated.
>
Don't recognize your version numbers - 4.5., from memory suggests
MICROSOFT and presumably express 2.2 is M/F Mainframe or Server Express
? If we are talking specifically MICRO FOCUS, then I would suggest
joining the Miicro Focus Forum and ask your question there. This is one
of those product specific questions.
If we are talking M/F, I use Net Express 3.1 with MS Access and the
"linkage" occurs in the ODBC Driver. Now if I purchased the University
Edition of N/E V 4.0, I can have the two compilers sitting alongside one
another and with the one entry in the ODBC I can access the same DB (I
think ??? - although see below. I'm currently using 'Merant Microsoft
Access', whereas N/E 4.0 probably generates "Micro Focus Microsoft
Access") - without the necessity of two copies of MS Access. That is, my
initial SQL CONNECT from either compiler, is registered to the DB listed
in the ODBC.
--->Start---->Control panel---->Administrative Tools -----> Data Sources
(ODBC) :-
User DSN : Name 'MyDataBase' : Driver : 'Merant Microsoft Access' (
'Merant' would now read 'Micro Focus' from V 4.0 onwards)
Not knowing Oracle I would quiz M/F. Better throw in some other
specifics as well. E.g., is it you intent to run both compilers at the
same time, trying to get at a common DBMS at the same time - that might
be fun :-). Confirm with M/F about any 'gotchas'.
Jimmy, Calgary AB
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| The short answer to this question is that you can in fact have a single
Oracle database supporting multiple COBOL installations. I currently
have a single installation supporting both MF OCDS 4.1.40 and Server
Express 4.0 SP2.
Unfortunately, a lot of the specifics on how to accomplish this this
has to do with your setup.
For me, the first step was to simply build an rtsora that was specific
to the particular version of COBL in use, by running the following
command with the appropriate COBOL environment variables set:
make -f $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk LOC_RTSORA=myrts myrts
Then you can put myrts in the path appropriately.
After that we actually began using shared libraries.
Hope this helps.
Chris
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