Setting Up the User Environment

User accounts should be set up correctly to access the Oracle RDBMS system. This includes environment variables such as ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID. See your Oracle documentation for more details.

In addition to the variables required for Oracle, you must do the following:

• Ensure that your execution path contains the name of the directory in which you placed your Database Connectors run time system executable file
• If you are not using the automatic login procedure, set the ORA_LOGIN, ORA_PASSWD, and possibly A_ORA_DATABASE variables in either your environment or in the ACUFH configuration file. For security reasons, it is best to set the password variable from your COBOL program by asking the user to enter a password and then executing the following:

  SET ENVIRONMENT ORA_PASSWD TO user-entry

• You may want to make and use a personalized copy of the ACUFH configuration file to avoid impacting other users. You might use the A_CONFIG environment variable to identify a personal ACUFH configuration file.
• If accessing files that you do not personally own and that do not have public synonyms, set the ACUFH configuration file USER_PATH.