Re: 8I Client - Multi Application access

Fred,

I understand your views on the software developer. The good thing is I only have to support it. Thanks for the help. I will try this at my client site this morning.

Thank You Again

J.Christopher

"Fred Puhan" <f_puhan_at_precise.com> wrote in message news:f_puhan-C6C9DE.08272607062002_at_vienna7.his.com...
> In article <Vq1M8.556$a11.355_at_nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
> "J. Christopher" <jchristophergroup_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Fred,
> >
> > Sorry for the vague question. The workstation is Windows 2000 Pro. We
have
> > two separate applications that login to two different 8i db's, on
separate
> > servers. The issue is each application installs its own 8.1.7 client.
When
> > installed, the installation continues to disable the other applications
> > ability to access its database. To me, being a novice, it appears the
> > registry entries are getting changed to work with the installation that
was
> > just completed. I merged tnsnames.ora, but it did not help.
>
> Each application installs its own Oracle client? Isn't that overkill?
> I've never heard of this. Nonetheless, if this is the case, and the
> switch to its "own" version is hard-coded into the application, I think
> the answer is either to use the TNS_ADMIN parameter to always point to
> your merged TNSNAMES.ORA file, or simply copy your merged TNSNAMES.ORA
> file to both versions' $ORACLE_HOME\network\admin (or \Net8\Admin)
> directories.
>
> I don't think I'll ever understand the thinking of software developers
> who consider their products a "closed" system.
>
> --
> The underscore character does not belong in my address. You know the
drill... Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 14:34:43 CEST