Re: Old Oracle versions

Terry Steyaert wrote:

> We have several old systems running 6.0.3.30 on Interactive Unix.
> Several of the systems are impossible to replace with new systems
> because they communicate to other DOS PC's, and Oracle doesn't have a
> method to communicate with a DOS PC from 8.0 or 8.1. Without a DOS
> interface to SQL*Net, we can't change out the 6.0.3.30 systems from the
> field.

Actually, the problem is easier to fix then you might think. It does require a lot of custom code but I bet I could have it working in a couple weeks if I had a chance.

Just off the top of my head the approach I would write a daemon (this assumes UNIX of course, but similar things could be done in Windows). The daemon would open a socket connection to the other PC and pass requests and receive responses. On the PC side another process would receive the requests and pass back the responses. It does mean bypassing sqlnet, but sqlnet is really only just a communications protocol and isn't a strict requirement for communicating with another system.

I won't claim that it is trivial to write an interface without sqlnet, but it is possible and there are a lot of people who know how to do it - it just depends on how much you have to spend to get the right help. Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 20:06:07 CDT