Installing Omnidex on HPUX

[Youlette Etienne_2]

Hello Everyone:

We are installing Omnidex 4.0.10 as part of the Amisys Advance (AA) Rel 2 installation, on OS 11i, rp7410 2xpartitioned server. We have already installed Microfocus COBOL, Java 1.4.2.07, Perl 5.8.6, apache, tomcat and suprtool 4.8.10. All of these are installed on partition 0 and the Oracle 9.2.0 database and Omnidex again is installed on partition 1, with communication via a vlan connection.

We are able to get the AA web page running, however, on submitting any query produces a "error: calling Do External: 1" message.

Hopefully, someone can help with the following:
1) does the omnidex server process odxsrvr need to run on the Oracle database server in addition to having the odxaim process running on the AA app server?

2) any help on resolving the above error message? Amisys suggests that it is as a result of COBOL being installed incorrectly, but I am not convinced of this (and neither is Microfocus' tech support) since we can compile and run COBOL programs outside of the AA app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks

--Youlette

[Steven E. Protter]

1) does the omnidex server process odxsrvr need to run on the Oracle database server in addition to having the odxaim process running on the AA app server?

If its accessing oracle data, its helpful torun on the same parition but not required. Oracle can be configured to allow access of data via the NIC card, host to host. To do so, tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora will need to be configured to do it.

2) any help on resolving the above error message? Amisys suggests that it is as a result of COBOL being installed incorrectly, but I am not convinced of this (and neither is Microfocus' tech support) since we can compile and run COBOL programs outside of the AA app.

Microfocus Cobol is infamous around here. If its install, configuration and test procedures were not followed exactly, it will simply return error codes. It does not have a facility for running on a different host than the application that is using it. It can't be on a different vpar, as far as I know.

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[Youlette Etienne_2]

Steven,

The tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files are already configured correctly access the db partition via the vlan.

We already have the odxaim process running on the application partition (per the AA docs). I want to verify whether or not we need odxaim and/or odxsrvr running on the database partition. This is not in the docs.

Microfocus COBOL is installed on the same partition as the Amisys Advance application, along with OMNIDEX (where odxaim is started). ONLY the Oracle database and a second recommended installation of Omnidex are installed on the second partition. I also mentioned that COBOL works without any errors outside of the AA app, thus, I am not convinced that it is a COBOL issue.

I am hoping to get a response from someone who is also migrating AA from hp3000 to HPUX platform and can shed some light on this.

[Steven E. Protter]

Hopefully someone else will respond then.

I agree with the installation problem diagnosis on the Cobol. The product is a PITA and the only way I got it working was a special, complex document from our HR software Vendor.

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