Adapter for Teradata Installation Guide

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This documentation describes how to install the Adapter for Teradata in FOCUS Version 7.7 in the z/OS operating environment.

How This Manual Is Organized

This manual includes the following chapters:

Chapter/Appendix

Contents

1

Before You Begin

Describes pre-installation requirements.

2

Installing the Adapter for Teradata

Describes how to install and configure the adapter.

Documentation Conventions

The following table describes the documentation conventions that are used in this manual.

Convention

Description

THIS TYPEFACE

or

this typeface

Denotes syntax that you must enter exactly as shown.

this typeface

Represents a placeholder (or variable) in syntax for a value that you or the system must supply.

underscore

Indicates a default setting.

this typeface

Represents a placeholder (or variable), a cross-reference, or an important term. It may also indicate a button, menu item, or dialog box option that you can click or select.

Key + Key

Indicates keys that you must press simultaneously.

{  }

Indicates two or three choices. Type one of them, not the braces.

[  ]

Indicates a group of optional parameters. None are required, but you may select one of them. Type only the parameter in the brackets, not the brackets.

|

Separates mutually exclusive choices in syntax. Type one of them, not the symbol.

...

Indicates that you can enter a parameter multiple times. Type only the parameter, not the ellipsis (...).

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.

Indicates that there are (or could be) intervening or additional commands.

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