4 Preinstallation

This chapter guides you through the basic concepts and preinstallation steps for Oracle Procedural Gateway Visual Workbench for WebSphere MQ 10g release 2(10.2). The following topics provide information about Oracle Procedural Gateway Visual Workbench for WebSphere MQ, environment variables settings, and starting Oracle Universal Installer:

Preinstallation Tasks
About Oracle Universal Installer

4.1 Preinstallation Tasks

Perform the following tasks before installing the current release of PG4MQ Visual Workbench:

Start your operating system.
Log on as a member of the Administrators group to the computer on which to install the current release of PG4MQ Visual Workbench.

Note:
Do not manually set ORACLE_HOME in the environment path. This is done automatically in the registry.
Stop all Oracle services (if any are running) for the Oracle home into which you want to install PG4MQ Visual Workbench:
1. Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel > Services
2. If any Oracle services (their names begin with Oracle) exist and have the status Started, then select the service and click Stop. In particular, ensure that the Oracle listener service is stopped.
3. Click Close to exit the Services window.

4.2 About Oracle Universal Installer

Oracle Universal Installer is a Java-based graphical user interface (GUI) tool that enables you to install Oracle components from the installation media.