SharePlex 11.4 - Installation and Setup guide

About this Guide

This manual provides instructions for installing and setting up SharePlex on an Oracle and PostgreSQL database(s) as a source and all the supported target types.

This manual also contains some demonstration tutorials that show how certain features of SharePlex work.

Other SharePlex documentation

For the complete SharePlex documentation set, go to https://support.quest.com/shareplex/technical-documents.

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Conventions used in this guide

Conventions used in this manual

The following typographic conventions are used in this guide:

• Bold represents required components of a command or option that must be typed as shown.
• Italics represent variables defined, named or entered by the user.
• {Braces} enclose required arguments.

• [Brackets] represent optional command components and may also be used in example command strings to emphasize required user defined variables in long strings.

  Example:

  reconcile queue {queuename} for {datasource-datadest} [on host]

• A vertical bar, or “pipe” character, ( | ) within brackets or braces indicates that you can use only one of the enclosed components.

  Example:

  abort service {service | all}

Names of commands, programs, directories and files are expressed in Bold.

Other names are expressed in capital letters using the default font.

Examples:

The sp_ctrl program is located in the bin directory.

Open the oramsglst file.

Find the value for ORACLE_HOME.

Click Apply.

System displays, such as prompts and command output, are expressed in a monofaced (fixed-space) font.

Examples:

sp_ctrl(sysA)>

User is a viewer (level=3)

Windows menu items, dialog boxes, and options within dialog boxes are expressed in Bold.

Example:

From the File menu, select Print.

System names are expressed generically or fictitiously. When necessary, the source system (or primary system) is referred to as SysA. Target systems (or secondary systems) are referred to as SysB, SysC, SysD, and so forth.

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Installing and Setting up SharePlex on an Oracle Source

The following installation and setup configurations apply to the Oracle source database.

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