ROWID problems with OCI 7 app and Oracle 8 server

Can anyone please help us with this one?

We have an OCI version 7 application that, among other things, must insert new records. After the insert, we construct the ROWID from the information available in the cursor structure, and use that value for subsequent fetch/update operations.

This works fine until we connect to an Oracle 8 server. Now, the ROWIDs we construct are the wrong format, and we can find no way to create the ROWIDs in the proper format.

Oracle Support says that what we're trying to do is not possible! I find that pretty hard to believe.

Does anyone have an OCI version 7 application that must construct the ROWID for a newly inserted row against an Oracle 8 database server? can you please help us?

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