Re: Forms3 and Oracle 7.3

John N Page wrote:
>
> My boss informed me this week that we are going to upgrade from VMS 6.1
> VMS 7.1 on a VAX cluster), in two weeks time. ho said I, Will Oracle
> v70160 work under that. I'll check said he. Answer came back no you've
> got to upgrade your version of oracle to 7.3???
>
> Omygod (under my breath) said I, this sounds a bit half cocked. (I've
> just got back from annual leave it seems they had a small prob with VMS
> 6.1 and discovered it was not officialy supported, although Digital came
> through with a fix, just increasing two parameters.)
>
> Anyway to cut a long argument short while I have many questions, one
> that occurs to me at the moment is, will forms30 still work with oracle
> v7.3.
>
> Also what other problems are about to hit an overworked Senior
> Programmer and part time DBA.
>
> Most of our (mission critical) applications are written using Forms30,
> SQLPlus, ProCOBOL, RPT with some client server stuff written in Paradox
> or ACCESS2 connecting via SQLNet v1.
>
> I've had 24 hrs to think about it, I think it's going to be "not good"
>
> HELP!!
>
> --
> John N Page

Not sure if Forms 3 runs as is but the character mode stuff can be upgraded to Forms 4.5, non gui, character mode and run pretty much just as it did before. We hade the ugly task of convering hundreds of forms and they did so pretty well.

Cheers,
Terry Received on Mon Jul 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT