Re: Forms3 and Oracle version 7.3

Forms 3 is only supported up to 7.2. You can do what I did and that is upgrade the database server to 7.3 and keep the client side of things running with Oracle 7.2.

If you use menu 5.0 or store your forms inside the database, you will need to ensure that the supported objects exist (this being found in the admin sub-directories - with unix - for the forms30 and menu50); unless they already exist of course.

If you want to, or are restrict to, then you can also have both version of Oracle on the same platform. Users and developers would treat the 7.2 as the main Oracle product and the 7.3 database would be treated as if it were on a remote machine. This option also allows you to flip between tools for purpose of upgrading to forms 4.5; just be sure to create a simple script to flip the Oracle variables as well. Oh, and make sure you use the Sql*Net from the 7.3 for starting the listener, etc.

Greg...

Lasse Halaas wrote:
>
> Is there anybody out there ?
>
> I'm working as a manager for an "old" system that uses Forms 3 GUI and
> Oracle 7.1.6. We now need/want to upgrade to version 7.3, but we have
> run into some trouble with compatibility. My questions are :
>
> Can one use Forms 3 and Oracle 7.3 ?
>
> What about SQL*Net version 1 versus version 2 ?
>
> And finally, what about tools for "automatic" conversion of Forms 3 to
> Forms 4 ?
>
> Any info, contacts, etc is greatly appreciated !!!
>
> Please respond by e-mail to lasseh_at_online.no (as well as posting answers
> in the news groups for others)
>
> Regards from
> Lasse Halaas, Norway
  Received on Tue Jul 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT