Re: iAS installation update

Patrice,
I've installed 9iAS successfully, what I've done is just run the installer from the CD and on a new machine (virgin OS install) I selected all the defaults, and guess what everything work. In turn 9iAS created an ORACLE home in which there is a 806 and an iSuites directory, apparently when they say the 806 home what they refer to is that directory, the 806 directory seems to be where the tool set (Forms/ Reports) are housed and the iSuites where the Apache server and that stuff is.

On a machine with a whole bunch of other ORACLE products, such as DEV 1.6 (FORMS 4.5 / Reports2.5), Designer 2000, Developer 6i and Personal Oracle 8.1.7, I've chosen a different home for each product and everything works fine. Of course a bunch of stuff is duplicated, but who cares Hard drive is cheap, the main thing is that everything works as advertised. When I tried installing everything on default Oracle homes nothing worked and it was a nightmare.

My experience from the installs.

Good luck

Tavo

"Boivin, Patrice J" wrote:

> FYI,
>
> I logged a TAR with Oracle last week or so because one Metalink tech had
> said in passing that Forms and Reports had to go into its own, separate
> oracle_home. This follows from a previous TAR I had logged with them,
> simply asking which products work best together.
>
> I had read the installation manual for iAS and had earlier found this:
>
> Note: Be sure not to install Oracle9i Application Server in an Oracle_home
> containing other Oracle products, including the database. Such an
> installation could overwrite shared components, causing the products to
> malfunction. (on p. 3-5, 4-5, 5-5).
>
> Now, in Oracle Reports Developer Getting Started - Release 6i for Windows,
> it says:
>
> Reports Developer 6i must reside in the default oracle_home.
> Reports Developer 6i and the Oracle8 or Oracle8i server must reside in
> separate oracle_Homes, although they can reside on the same physical
> machine.
> Similarly, in a web application deployment, Report Server and Oracle
> Application Server must reside in separate oracle_homes, although they can
> reside on the same physical machine. (p.1-16)
>
> Forms and Reports 6i happen to require an Oracle 8.0.6. oracle_home.
>
> This posed a dilemma: how can I install iAS in the default home, when many
> of its components require access to an "origin" database. I do not plan to
> use iAS with 8.0.6., I plan to use it with 8.1.7..
>
> I thought I would have to install Forms and Reports 6i first, remove the
> tidbits that the Oracle Universal Installer installs by default, then
> install 8.1.7., and then install the iSuite components. Of course by the
> end of this tortuous process there were errors.
>
> I had a different Metalink technician this time, who told me to ignore what
> the first technician had said, and to just install iAS based on the
> installation manual, never mind the other worries that I had.
>
> So, I am ignoring the Oracle Reports Developer Getting Started manual, and I
> am installing based on the iAS installation manual.
>
> Hopefully that will work.
>
> /begin rant
> I still wish the Oracle techs could have told me which versions of the
> various products are concurrent, they just keep insisting that all their
> products are certified to work together. All I wanted to know was which
> oracle_home type do the various products use? Forms and Reports 6i requires
> an 8.0.6. home, Developer6 used an 8.0.5 home, etc. the Metalink techs do
> not appear to have a list, they didn't understand my question. When I
> logged a TAR on this I received three e-mails telling me that my TAR had
> been passed to different people, in the end the last tech told me that
> products sometimes are released together, but that it is not all that
> important, because everything is certified to work together.
>
> I can't shake the feeling that iAS is a bundle of things that were just
> slapped together. Seeing the old installer pop up during the installation
> doesn't help remove that impression. Hopefully when the next release comes
> out it will install in something other than an (old) Oracle 8.0.6.
> oracle_home. Since it's called Oracle9i iAS, maybe the Forms and Reports
> Servers will go into a 9i oracle_home (?).
> /end rant
>
> (this is my impression, not my employer's etc. etc.)
>
> Sorry if this comes across as a little harsh.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
> Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
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