Re: VMS Oracle8 upgrade and moving forms to a Web server

David,

About 2 years ago I did something similar. We went from Oracle 7.3.3.6 and Forms 3.0 on OpenVms to Oracle 7.3.4 on VMS and Developer 6 on a Sun Solaris. In our forms we had a lot of HOST() command's for calling com-file which were run in the batch. I converted the com-file to shell scripts and they run on the Sun. The shell-scripts run as crontabs. If you want more details I can send you a document explaining how I did it.

kind regards,

Ivan

David Ball wrote:
>
> Hi,
> We are currently running Oracle Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5 on VMS.
> The Oracle server 7.3.3 is on VMS too. We plan to upgrade the Oracle
> server on VMS to 8i and move delivery of the Forms and Reports to 9iAS
> on an NT box. Developer 6i is not available for VMS.
> The problem is that our Forms interact with the VMS operating system
> through reading and writing files and submitting batch jobs via COM
> files. Now the Forms will be running on an NT machine. Has anyone
> dealt with how to do file passing and batch job submission between NT
> and VMS? I suppose NFS could run on VMS to make files available on NT.
> To save on conversion efforts, we would like to use the COM files if
> they can be submitted from NT.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Dave Ball
> Oak Ridge, TN
Received on Thu May 17 2001 - 07:39:32 CEST