Setting Up the User Environment

User accounts should be set up correctly to access the Oracle RDBMS system. This includes environment variables such as ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID. See your Oracle documentation for more details.

In addition to the variables required for Oracle, you must do the following:

• Ensure that your execution path contains the name of the directory in which you placed your Acu4GL run time system executable file
• If you are not using the automatic login procedure, set the ORA_LOGIN, ORA_PASSWD, and possibly A_ORA_DATABASE variables in either your environment or in the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime configuration file. For security reasons, it is best to set the password variable from your COBOL program by asking the user to enter a password and then executing the following:

  SET ENVIRONMENT ORA_PASSWD TO user-entry

• You may want to make and use a personalized copy of the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime configuration file to avoid impacting other users. You might use the A_CONFIG environment variable to identify a personal ACUCOBOL-GT runtime configuration file.
• If accessing files that you do not personally own and that do not have public synonyms, set the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime configuration file USER_PATH.