Before you begin setting up the replication system, you should be familiar with Oracle data servers and have an understanding of Sybase replication. In addition, these conditions must be met:
You must have a valid license for Replication Server and Mirror Activator.
Oracle Enterprise Edition 9.2 or 10.2, is installed and configured, to serve as the source (primary) database and as the target (standby) database from which Mirror Replication Agent replicates transactions.
Oracle JDBC thin driver for Oracle 10.2 and for JDK 1.4 and 1.5 is installed.
TCP/IP connectivity is available.
Any OS patches required for Java 5.0 have been installed.
Mirror Replication Agent must have direct access to the Oracle online redo logs or a mirrored copy of those logs. Mirror Replication Agent must also have direct access to a copy of the Oracle archived redo logs or a mirrored copy of those logs.
During this procedure:
Because some directories, files, executable commands, and examples are shown only for Sun Solaris, you must adjust accordingly for Windows and for other UNIX platforms.
Sybase recommends that you do not use Replication Server reserved words for object names and connection names. A complete list of reserved words are documented in Chapter 2 of the Replication Server Reference Manual.
