Preface

This manual and Oracle Database User's Guide for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD, form a system-specific set of manuals that provide installation, maintenance, and usage information about Oracle Database and related products. This manual provides information for those responsible for installing and administering Oracle Database for BS2000/OSD and describes:

How Oracle Database operates under BS2000/OSD
How to install or upgrade Oracle Database
How to create an Oracle Database

Oracle Database User's Guide for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD provides information for BS2000/OSD end-users of Oracle products. Certain topics are applicable both to users and database administrators.

This section contains the following topics:

Audience
Using Oracle Database Documentation
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions Used in this Manual

Audience

This manual is written for people who are responsible for installing and maintaining Oracle Database, and for assuring its smooth operation. These people are usually system programmers who may have Database Administrator (DBA) responsibilities.

The reader is assumed to have a fundamental knowledge of BS2000/OSD. No attempt is made to document features of BS2000/OSD, except as they affect or are affected by Oracle Database.

Using Oracle Database Documentation

Oracle Database products that run under BS2000/OSD are identical, in the way in which they are supported, to Oracle Database products that run under any other operating system. However, because of the diversity of operating systems, the use of applications may differ slightly between different operating systems. As a result of this, Oracle provides two types of documentation:

Type	Meaning/Usage
Generic	This is the primary Oracle Database documentation, which describes how the product works and how it is used. Use this type of documentation to learn about product functions and how to use any Oracle Database product or utility.
System Specific	This documentation provides the information required to use the product under a specific operating system. Use this type of documentation to determine whether there are any system-specific deviations from the generic documentation.

This manual is written for users of Oracle Database for BS2000/OSD, providing them with BS2000/OSD-specific information about using Oracle Database products. It does not describe how to use a product unless its use is different than that described in the generic documentation. System programmers and database administrators responsible for installing the Oracle Database, or administering the Oracle Database, or both, should read this manual as well as Oracle Database User's Guide for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD. There are places where the information in these manuals overlap and is presented differently depending on the target audience.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Conventions Used in this Manual

The following conventions are observed in this manual.

Typographic Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace`	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Command Syntax

Item	Syntax
Commands	This font identifies text which must be entered exactly as shown: set echo off
Variables	Variables appear in italics. Substitute an appropriate value, for example: arg1
Required Items	Required items are enclosed in braces { }. You must choose one of the alternatives. DEFINE { macro1 \| macro2 }
Optional Items	Optional items are enclosed in square brackets []. [options] formname [userid/password]
Repetitive Items	An ellipsis, ... represents an arbitrary number of similar items. CHKVAL fieldname value1 value2... valueN

Punctuation

The following symbols should always be entered as they appear in the command format:

Name	Symbol
ampersand	&
backslash	\
colon	:
comma	,
double quotation mark	"
equal sign	=
hyphen	-
number sign	#
parentheses	()
period	.
semicolon	;
single quotation mark	'

Preface

Audience

Using Oracle Database Documentation

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documents

Conventions Used in this Manual