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Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python

By : Aivars Kalvans
Book Image

Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python

By: Aivars Kalvans

Overview of this book

Despite being developed in the 1980s, Oracle Tuxedo still runs a significant part of critical infrastructure and is not going away any time soon. Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python will help you get to grips with the most important Tuxedo concepts by writing Python code. The book starts with an introduction to Oracle Tuxedo and guides you in installing its latest version and Python bindings for Tuxedo on Linux. You'll then learn how to build your first server and client, configure Tuxedo, and start running an application. As you advance, you'll understand load balancing and work with the BBL server, which is at the heart of a Tuxedo application. This Tuxedo book will also cover Boolean expressions and different ways to export Tuxedo buffers for storage and transmission, before showing you how to implement servers and clients and use the management information base to change the configuration dynamically. Once you've learned how to configure Tuxedo for transactions and control them in application code, you'll discover how to use the store-and-forward functionality to reach destinations and use an Oracle database from a Tuxedo application. By the end of this Oracle Tuxedo book, you'll be able to perform common Tuxedo programming tasks with Python and integrate Tuxedo applications with other parts of modern infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
6
Section 2: The Good Bits
12
Section 3: Integrations

Using global transactions with Oracle Database

To participate in global transactions, we need a transaction management server that we can specify in the ubbconfig GROUP configuration. So far, we have used the TMS dummy server and TMS_QM for Tuxedo queues. These servers come bundled with Tuxedo. For the Oracle Database, we have to build one ourselves. Tuxedo provides the buildtms tool for this purpose:

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/19.9/client64
buildtms -v -r Oracle_XA -o TMS_ORA

This command will create a new server named TMS_ORA. The -v command-line parameter will show you what this command does under the hood by using configuration from the $TUXDIR/udataobj/RM file.

The transaction management server we just created needs additional privileges for the database user. We have to connect as an administration once again, as follows:

sqlplus sys/Oradoc_db1@//host.docker.internal:32769/ORCLPDB1.localdomain as sysdba

Then we grant the SELECT privilege on the dba_pending_transactions...