Oracle Audio Technologies Retail Data Warehouse 13 - Manual (Page 12)

Preinstallation Tasks
4 Oracle Retail Data Warehouse
Other Software Requirements for the Data Warehouse
Please refer to the RDW 13.0 Middle Tier Installation Guide for the full installation
instructions of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition components.
Requirement Version
Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3
Oracle Retail Extract Transform
and Load (RETL) 13.0
Oracle Retail Merchandising
System (RMS)/Oracle Retail
Trade Management
(RTM)/Oracle Retail Sales Audit
(ReSA) 13.0
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching 13.0
Oracle Retail Price Management 13.0
Merchandise Financial Planning
(MFP) 13.0
Check Client System Requirements
General requirements for end-user client workstation software requirements include:
ƒ See specific database platform documentation for client requirements.
ƒ See the Oracle Retail Data Warehouse Middle Tier Installation Guide for other client
requirements.
Create UNIX User Accounts
1. Log in as the root user.
2. Create the following groups:
ƒ dba - admin group which controls RDW access
ƒ dev - development group
3. Create the following user accounts, using ksh as the default shell:
ƒ oretail - dba group
ƒ rdw13dev - dev group
4. Typically the owner of the Oracle RDBMS software owns the RDW database
software. This user is referred to as rdwdba.
Create UNIX Directories
1. Create UNIX directories for the RDW database structure and the code directory
structure.
Note: The database directories are used to provide scripts to
aid in the creation of tablespaces and users. The code
directory structure holds the source code, error and log
directories. Refer to Appendix B: Code Tree for a more
detailed description of the directory structure.