Re: Forms 3.0 and Oracle 8i (8.1.7)

I believe that Oracle Applications 10.7 [which is still supported] runs Forms 2.4 in Character-mode [2.4 was a "special release" of 2.3 for Oracle Apps, otherwise the Forms Releases were 2.0, 2.3, 3.0, 4.0 etc]. Applications 10.7 was initially released against 7.3.3 and has been certified all the way to 8.1.7
[10.7 uses Forms 2.4 for Character-Mode, Forms 4.5.10 [Developer 1.6.1] for the NCA version and Forms 4.5.8 [Developer 1.3.2 / 1.3.3] for the Smartclient version]. The 10.7 and corresponding Forms releases do *not* run in the 8.1.7 ORACLE_HOME, they still run in the 7.3.3/7.3.4 ORACLE_HOME and run "server-partitioned", using SQLNet to connect database running 8.1.7].

ergo, Forms 2.4 and surely, 3.0, work against 8.1.7

Hemant
"xyz" <zyx_at_qzmcb.com> wrote in message news:aeu2dq$kkd$1_at_mail.cn99.com...
> > I don't think anyone will have an experience.
> > It doesn't work, as the format of the rowid has changed in Oracle 8.0
> > and Forms 3.0 simply doesn't understand the new format.
> > Apart from that Forms 3.0 has been desupported not even in the
> > previous century, but in the Stone Age, in 1994. How about your 20
> > year old vacuum cleaner for which no vendor has spare parts? Do you
> > continue to use it?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
> >
> > To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address
> I quite agree with you. But we do use Forms 3.0 on our Application server
> and Oracle 7.3.4.4 on our DB Server. Would you tell me if I migrate our DB
> Server to Oracle 8.1.7,
> then what's the appropriate software to use on our Application server.(We
> use many character terminal machines and they have no GUI)
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 21 2002 - 21:56:44 CDT