Re: Oracle Client Conflicts

Eric,

[Quoted] The existing application uses the 7.3.3 Oracle client and the 4.5 forms. According to Oracle, nothing from 7.x is multi-home compliant. To further complicate things, the Oracle Objects for OLE must be in the first Home [Quoted] according to the Oracle Language group. I've seen where people suggest taking the old client off and then putt the new client on first and then re-installing [Quoted] the old client. This is supposed to make the non-multi-home compliant stuff work. We need to deploy to 50 workstations right away - that's what makes it [Quoted] imperative that we get it right the first time. We knew we were dealing with [Quoted] multiple versions, but didn't discover these additional annoyances until recently..

Chuck

Eric Givler wrote:

> What version of the Oracle Client are you referring to?
>
> I have forms 4.5 and 6i running on my machine without a hitch. The second
> one is in it's own home. Oracle makes use of an ORACLE.KEY file in the
> application executable path to find the registry key to use when it's multi
> home compliant.
>
> cgoehring <cgoehring_at_rcisd.com> wrote in message
> news:39FA253C.37951D7F_at_rcisd.com...
> > To all,
> >
> > If you can point me to an archive search site that would help. I've had
> > problems with DejaNews ignoring forum I specify and giving me a bunch of
> > irelevant stuff.
> >
> > We have a pretty serious problem we need to solve very fast (next week).
> > We use the new version of the Oracle client that includes Oracle Objects
> > for OLE as part of the distribution for our applications. The problem
> > is, the customer has existing applications that use the old client that
> > came with Oracle 7.3.3. In one case, there are about 25 workstations
> > that use the old client and the Oracle Developer/2000 (Forms 4.5/Reports
> > x.x) client software that has to be installed in the orawin directory
> > structure imposed by the Oracle client software. The Developer/2000
> > application probably can't be upgraded to the newer version of its
> > runtime without substantial re-writing. Adding to the problem is the
> > fact that we (our company) wrote both these applications. The
> > Developer/2000 based application was originally done over 10 years ago
> > and uses features that won't be supported in current versions according
> > to Oracle. It was upgraded once to run on NT and use Forms 4.5. We
> > attempted to migrate the application to a later version the last time we
> > worked on it, but had too many problems. We tried to get the customer to
> > fund the migration to the later version of Developer/2000 but they
> > wouldn't do it.
> >
> > Dual homes is the solution Oracle Corp recommends, but we are worried
> > about side effects. We are sceptical of what might happen when the user
> > tries to run both apps at the same. If switching homes swaps registry
> > entries around, what are the repercussions of this?
> >
> > Anyway, we are looking for solutions to this problem. I have a list of
> > bad ideas but they all are costly. The workstations are all Windows 98
> > or NT 4.0.
> >
> > Chuck Goehring
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Sun Oct 29 2000 - 02:57:02 CET