Oracle Audio Technologies ORACLE9I B10508-01 User Manual

Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA)

Oracle9i Installation Guide Release 2 (9.2.0.2) for HP Alpha OpenVMS

To invoke DBCA (Database Configuration Assistant) in the interactive mode, 
perform the following:

Set up the X-Windows environment by using the following DCL command:

SET DISPLAY/CREATE/TRANSPORT=TCPIP/NODE=< 

 or 

>

Invoke 

@<ORACLE_HOME>orauser.com

Invoke 

dbca.com

The DBCA GUI appears.

Silent mode does not have any user interface (other than what you provide in an 
argument or response file) or user interaction.  It displays all messages (including 
information, errors, and warnings) into a log file.

From the command line, enter the following command to see all of the DBCA 
options that are available when using silent mode:

dbca -help

Because of the DCL limit of eight command line parameters on 

OpenVMS, it is not possible to specify directly on the command line 
all of the required parameters to create a database.  Therefore, as a 
workaround, DBCA command line arguments may be placed into a 
file called SYS$SCRATCH:DBCA.ARGS.  The DBCA.COM script looks 
for this file and, if present, passes the specified arguments to the 
DBCA Java application.  DBCA.COM will ignore all arguments that 
are passed on the command line except:  

–silent, 

-responseFile <

>,

 and

 -help

.   In  order  to 

avoid inadvertently applying the same arguments to the next 
invocation of DBCA when DBCA.ARGS exits, if an arguments file was 
used, then it is renamed to SYS$SCRATCH:DBCA.ARGS_OLD.