Re: OERR on VMS

In article <13AUG199310102016_at_author.gsfc.nasa.gov>, chamblej_at_author.gsfc.nasa.gov (JEFF CHAMBLEE (512)) writes:
|> Howdie,
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|> Someone just mentioned the use of an OERR program to look up error
|> messages. Does it exist on VMS? How do you get it to work? I just
|> tried searching the oracle directory and subs for all files with
|> *ERR* in the filename and nothing looked promising.
|>
|> I'm using VMS 5.5-2 and Oracle 7.0.12.
|>
|> Thanks.
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|> Jeff Chamblee I'm very distrustful of predictions-- particularly
|> Computer Sciences Corp. those which concern the future.
|> Laurel, MD USA --Wilde
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Jeff,
I'm not familiar with Oracle in the VMS environment but in UNIX, OERR is just a nice utility for looking through the .msg test files. These *.msg files should be in a subdirectory like $ORACLE_HOME:[rdbms.mesg] (there are surely other mesg subdirectories in the Oracle environment). An example of how the files are named is:

oraus.msg - ora = message type (i.e ORA-6105)
             us = United States
           .msg = message file

If someone else doesn't come up with the equivilent of OERR for VMS you can use the VMS "SEARCH" command or an editor to peruse the contents of them (or even write your own quickie DCL script or C program, etc to do the same thing). You will find many other files with other names for other errors/messages.

Hope this helps.

Mike Mitchell
Bull Hn Information Systems
Phoenix, AZ
mmitchel_at_elm.trees.az05.bull.com Received on Fri Aug 13 1993 - 18:50:51 CEST