Preparing the database wizard for Oracle
Before you can use the wizard to create databases for your IBM® Connections deployment, prepare the database server.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have given the necessary permissions to the user IDs that need to log in to the database system and access the IBM Connections Wizards directory.
- If you are planning to create multiple database instances, prepare and run the database wizard once for each instance.
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Ensure that the Statement cache size for the data sources on WebSphere Application Server is no larger than 50. A higher value could lead to Out Of Memory errors on the application server instance.
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(AIX® only) If you are downloading the wizard, the TAR program available by default with AIX does not handle path lengths longer than 100 characters. To overcome this restriction, use the GNU file archiving program instead. This program is an open source package that IBM distributes through the AIX Toolbox for Linux™ Applications at the IBM AIX Toolbox web site. Download and install the GNU-compatible TAR package. You do not need to install the RPM Package Manager because it is provided with AIX.
After you have installed the GNU-compatible TAR program, change to the directory where you downloaded the IBM Connections TAR file, and enter the following command to extract the files from it:
gtar -xvf Lotus_Connections_wizards_lin_aix.tar
This command creates a directory named after the wizard.
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(AIX only) Download and install the following packages from the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications webpage:
gtk2-2.10.6, pango-1.14.5, fontconfig-2.4.2, pkg-config-0.19, libjpeg-6b, freetype2-2.3.9, expat-2.0.1, zlib-1.2.3, xft-2.1.6, xcursor-1.1.7, glib-1.2.10, glib2-2.12.4, atk-1.12.3, gettext-0.10.40, libpng-1.2.32, and libtiff-3.8.2
Note: Some of these packages have dependencies on other packages. The AIX package installer alerts you to any additional packages that might be required. - IBM Connections does not support Pluggable Databases (PDB).
About this task
To prepare the database wizard, complete the following steps: