Re: Oracle 8.1.5 Client with Oraclie 9i Lite (Mobile Sever)

I was following the vendor's recommendations. The Cognos tools are to facilitate reporting requirements for the Tecsys EliteSeries suite of products.

I guess the real question is, is Oracle 9i Lite compatible with an older version of the client?

I did look at the webtogo.ora file and it updated correctly... none of the logs indicate any errors to do with the database connectivity.

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3D924597.51D52F84_at_exesolutions.com...
> Saira wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've had some puzzling events last week. I'll break it down if it makes
it
> > easier.
> >
> > On this particular W2K Server, we have the Cognos Reporting tools which
> > require Oracle 8.1.5 Client and also Oracle 9i Lite (Oracle Mobile
Server)
> > for our PDAs.
> >
> > Now, my question is --> Can 9i Lite use Oracle 8.1.5 Client to resolve
the
> > net service name, etc... or does it have to be a higher version of the
> > Client software? We have noticed some strange behaviours when we sync
the
> > PDAs... Data being lost, corrupted, etc. To put this into perspective,
there
> > were some modifications done on the application and at the same time,
> > previously, we were running a higher version of the Oracle Client
software.
> > I'm trying to eliminate the possibilities.
> >
> > Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Saira
> >
> > saira_somani_at_yahoo.com
>
> It is not true that Cognos requires the tools you indicate above. I really
don't
> know about the compatibility of Cognos with this "interesting"
combination. But
> I do know for a fact the combination is not either a Cognos nor an Oracle
> requirement.
>
> Please validate why, and from where, this statement originated.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 01:12:24 CDT