Re: Oracle Glue -

> I'm trying to access an Oracle V7 Netware SPX database, via oracle
> Glue.
>
> I've no problems with the administrator, or Objects for OLE, or ODBC.
>
> The Oracle glue DDE session appears to start OK. However when I send
> the connect sting "CONNECT user identified as password using
> "X:server-spx", I get a series of errors. The Windows graphical
> display is overwritten by text (only visible in VGA mode) saying
> something along the lines of:
>
> substitution variable value is too long
> value is too long
> token is too long
> corruption detected.
>
> It's difficult to say exactly what the errors are, as they overwrite
> each other and aren't "true" Windows errors i.e. they overwrite the
> Windows screen in text mode. Finally there is a Windows error "NETSPX
> : Unknown Server".
>
> I've had this problem both in Lotus 1-2-3 and in the supplied Visual
> Basic programs using Glue.
>
> I'm new to Oracle, and it was all going so well.....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave.
>
>
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>

There was a bug regarding connect (ORA-6460) with SPX 1.1.8 and Glue. Should be fixed in SPX 1.1.8.1 should fix this.

Hope this helps,

Finn

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