Greetings,
    I'm in the process of trying to bring up DBMS support with Listserv
1.8d running on an RS/6000, running AIX 4.3.  The oracle database I need
to access is on a sun box running Solaris.  When I look at the developers
guide, it seems to say that I need to install the AIX-OCI package for
listserv, and then to get the Oracle 8 client files, such as SQLNet on my
AIX box.  I came across a document that also said the following:

"Kits with the designation "-OCI" require that Oracle be installed and
running on the machine you intend to install LISTSERV on.  If you install
an -OCI kit on a machine that does not have Oracle installed, LISTSERV
will not start."

I don't want to have to install all of Oracle on my AIX box, especially
since the database I need to access is on the Sun box.  I'm hoping that
someone might have the answers to these questions:

1) can I just install the client files on the AIX box and be able to
access the Oracle database on the Sun box?

2) If I don't need everything in Oracle, is there a specific list of
client files and things that need to be installed, and maybe a procedure
for their installation?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.



                                 Joe DeBattista
                                 UCSF, ITS
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