Re: Upgrading Oracle Forms and Reports

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:24:30 -0800
Message-ID: <1166635470.51510_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Cris wrote:
> J.R. Giardine wrote:
>

[Quoted] [Quoted] >> I need some advice on upgrading Oracle forms and reports.  We are back
>> in the stone age, running Forms 5.0 and Report Builder 3.0 with Oracle
>> 8i.  We are finally going to upgrade to 10g.  Is is possible to migrate
>> our forms and reports without rewriting them?  If anyone has been
>> through this, please drop me a line.

>
> I don't know if this could be of some help, but in Forms 9i (9.0.2) for
> linux I noticed that the tool for compiling forms (f90genm) allows you
> to convert old forms to current version, appartently even 3.0 forms.
>
> Perhaps this tool is still there in Forms 10g.
>
> HTH. Kind regards,

Fascinating. Thanks for the pointer. I've got to check this out.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Wed Dec 20 2006 - 18:24:30 CET

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