Re: RPT/RPF and Y2k? Any issues?

Not quite what you asked - but is this of interest to you?

http://www.emis.co.uk/specials/erc.htm

RPT to PL/SQL Conversion

Following development for in-house use at Emis we are now in a position to provide a low cost convertor tool set to convert from Oracle's RPT to PL/SQL. We have found the tool set quite invaluable in converting RPTs for our customer base and have cut the conversion resources to a very small percentage of that required to rewrite the reports. As Oracle no longer support RPT this has proved invaluable to Emis and our customer base.

The convertor can take any RPT and with little or no intervention create a PL/SQL derived report that can be run on any version of Oracle that supports PL/SQL. A fully formatted report is produced. The reports may be run within an SQL program with the PL/SQL stored on the server; resulting in improved performance over the previous RPT. The report, in PL/SQL, may easily be edited for future changes by those familiar with RPT style programming. Reports may also be run from client server tools - we run them from Visual Basic applications.

Visit our web site (http://www.emis.co.uk/specials/erc.htm ) for more details of Emis and our ERC ( Emis Report Convertor ) product.

Chris Yearsley wrote in message <353f0c48.7330030_at_news.geccs.gecm.com>...
>What's the status of RPT and RPF regarding the year-2000 issues? I
>checked the Oracle site and couldn't find anything, although they often
>seem to 'hide' things so maybe I missed it!
>
>I don't have a manual handy and it's been a while, but doesn't RPT use
>the database for most of its calculations? That would mean that RPT
>scripts can be made compliant.
>
>Obviously I know that an individual RPT script is likely to be
>noncompliant regardless of the status of the tool itself, and I assume
>the 'RR' datatype is not supported.
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>--
>Chris Yearsley
>chris.yearsley_at_gecm.com
>EASAMS Stafford
Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 18:30:38 CEST