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Re: When to go for ORACLE NAMES Server

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:02:10 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00301C6F.20010511195021@fatcity.com>

Ross,

What I was referring to was using Oracle Forms directly on Unix, *not* through iAS. iAS takes care of that stuff for you.

Lesse, I tried using forms 5.x on Solaris a couple of years ago, and much to my dismay found that tnsnames.ora was *required* in order to connect to a database. This was on a box that worked just fine with ORANAMES when connecting via sqlplus or Perl.

Reports had the same problem.

I was troubleshooting some forms of the 6i variety on Solaris a few months ago, and since I still had the tnsnames.ora setup on that box from the previous go round with forms, I honestly don't know if Forms 6i required it or not.

The trouble shooting was in native forms mode on Solaris 2.6, though the forms were moved to another box and run in iAS, which functioned just fine with ORANAMES.

I don't have ORANAMES setup here at home or I would try and test this here.

Jared

On Friday 11 May 2001 10:45, Mohan, Ross wrote:
> Jared,
>
> You may have just earned yourself a dinner. (And I
> promise you will not receive it the way you did my
> $0.02 recently ;-)
>
> Can you tell me more...alot more would be grand...about
> how Forms needs tnsnames?
>
> *thanks*
>
> Ross
>
> || -----Original Message-----
> || From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_cybcon.com]
> || Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:43 PM
> || To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com; Mohan, Ross
> || Subject: Re: When to go for ORACLE NAMES Server
> ||
> ||
> ||
> || Somewhat of a pain to setup for the first time, for sure.
> ||
> || But after you get it implemented, you will never want to
> || go back.
> ||
> || One caveat: There is a fair amount of software around
> || that *requires* tnsnames.ora or it won't work. Oracle
> || Forms on unix comes to mind. Yes, Oracle's own software
> || does not fully utilize names.
> ||
> || This is a minor problem when compared to the benefits though.
> ||
> || Jared
> ||
> || On Friday 11 May 2001 10:50, Mohan, Ross wrote:
> || > if the "tedious"ness exceeds your perception of the
> ||
> || difficulty, do Names.
> ||
> || > if not, not.
> || >
> || > In my very limited experience, a truly robust,
> ||
> || well-managed Names service
> ||
> || > is great, but takes some work to set up, test, and document.
> || >
> || > YMMV
> || >
> || > || -----Original Message-----
> || > || From: Johnson Poovathummoottil [mailto:joni_65_at_yahoo.com]
> || > || Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:15 PM
> || > || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> || > || Subject: When to go for ORACLE NAMES Server
> || > ||
> || > ||
> || > || There is another thread going on about no database on
> || > || a single server, I have another question to ask.
> || > ||
> || > || We have nearly 30 databases across Sun and Win 2000
> || > || Platforms. We are finding it tedious to keep track of
> || > || tnsnames.ora. While looking out for a solution we hit
> || > || at ORACLE Names server. I hear it is going to give way
> || > || to ORACLE Internet directory. But after reading a
> || > || little I think using either would be too much of a
> || > || kill for the problem.
> || > ||
> || > || Any opinions?
> || > ||
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