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[Q] EDA for Oracle 19c or above


shin tanaka
Hello,

Oracle client version that is supported by UniData EDA is Oracle client version 11 (read it in UniData EDA doc for 7.x and 8.x).  

OS: HP-UX Itanium 11.  
Currently, we are using Oracle instant client 11.2 with UniData 7.3.   I was checking $UDTBIN/edasetup.sh script.  It seems like EDA uses following libraries
/usr/lib/hpux64/libclntsh.so.11.1@ -> /usr/local/instantclient/libclntsh.so.11.1
/usr/lib/hpux64/libnnz11.so@ -> /usr/local/instantclient/libnnz11.so
/usr/lib/hpux64/libocci.so.11.1@ -> /usr/local/instantclient/libocci.so.11.1
/usr/lib/hpux64/libociei.so@ -> /usr/local/instantclient/libociei.so

We need to upgrade Oracle client to be at least 12.2.  I am wondering if I can force EDA to use higher version of oracle client by changing the above symbolic links.  For example, I want to use 19c client.. maybe change sym link to be like below manually?

/usr/lib/hpux64/libclntsh.so.11.1  ->  /blahblah/libclntsh.so.19.1
/usr/lib/hpux64/libocci.so.11.1 -> /blahblah/libnnz19.so
/usr/lib/hpux64/libociei.so -> /blahblah/libocci.so.19.1
/usr/lib/hpux64/libociei.so -> /blahblah/libociei.so

Has anybody tried this?




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Shin Tanaka
SAP Basis Administrator
Ferguson Enterprises
Newport News Va US
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