To make a connection to an Oracle database, as a minimum, an Oracle runtime client needs to be installed on your machine. |
If no database server or runtime environment is installed on your machine, the following options are suggested for installation.
To set up the database connection tool with the Hydra Connect tool, follow these instructions:
To make a connection to an Oracle database, as a minimum, an Oracle runtime client needs to be installed on your machine. |
Oracle 8 and 9i will not run on all of the latest Linux operating systems, for example, Red Hat 9. This will become apparent when you attempt to install the database, or runtime client on your machine. The installation will not be successful. If no database server or runtime environment is installed on your machine, the following options are advised for installation.
In the directory in which ‘Hydra4GL’ is installed, create or edit the file: /etc/dbtrans
Add a line of code in the following format:
Informix_database_name * * Oracle_connection_string
For example: stores * * scott/tiger@ora1