ENDIAN_FORMAT - little or big of Solaris 8/9 (32/64 bit) & IBM AIX OS?

On my Oracle 8.1.7 & 9.2 databases:-

SQL> SELECT * FROM V$TRANSPORTABLE_PLATFORM; Failing with the Error:-

SELECT * FROM V$TRANSPORTABLE_PLATFORM
              *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

How can the respective view be created / enabled?

Is there any Other way to know the ENDIAN_FORMAT i.e. little or big for machines running Solaris 8/9 (32/64 bit) & IBM AIX OS?

Need to know the same to check use of Transportable tablespace movement across heterogeneous O.S. with Oracle 9.2

Also assuming the ENDIAN_FORMAT is the same, does Oracle officially support the usage of Transportable tablespace to move DB from SUN to AIX using Oracle 9.2?

Thanks

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