Oracle 8, Forms 3, again....

Having got through y2k etc we are now thinking about (finally) dumping Oracle 7.3 and moving to Oracle 8, big stumbling block of course being the 400+ Forms 3.0 modules including thousands of lines of user exits not written in-house, rendering an immediate conversion to Forms 6 somewhat unattractive.

I have been following the saga of the Forms 3.0/Oracle 8 rowid bug for some time, but wondered if there was a good site/forum or other resource that had a compendium of workarounds, problem summaries or whatever. I've had a good rummage around Metalink, but only come up with the helpful info that Forms 3 is unsupported.

There seems to be a view here that I can wave a magic wand, do something clever with database links (that somehow won't be incredibly slow, crash every time you query more than five records over them etc) and that Forms 3 (and Reportwriter 2.1, Menu 5 and RPT!) will soldier on happily into the 21st century running against Oracle 8i. If so, great, but if not, I need more info to make the case that this is going to a BIG project requiring major input of developer and/or contractor resources and not some 2 week fix.

TIA.
Martin.

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Martin Rapier
Database Administrator
The University of Sheffield
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