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 INTERNET: [log in to unmask]