Re: forms40 question about the HOST function

David Hersh wrote:
>
> I'm developing a application in forms 4.0. My boss wants to migrate
> more to the client sever windows versions of the tools however here is
> my problem. I have a trigger in the current version of the application
> that uses the HOST function to call a awk script that creates another
> script to run a reporting tool we have called QUIZ. QUIZ is a cognos
> product that was used heavily in the HP3000 MPE world with applications
> like MANMAN. As far as I know there isn't a client server version of
> QUIZ, so if I use the same trigger using the same HOST function, I'm
> pretty sure It won't work. Is there anyway to specify wich specific
> machine/operating system to execute the host command from?
>
> my email address is dhersh_at_micom.com
>
> Thanks in advance
There are two solutions,
1) upgrade your Oracle Server to 7.3.3, which support external call on the server side.
2) use database pipe, you have a setup a daemon server to listen the request through database pipe.
Regards...George_Xu_at_nt.com Received on Tue Jun 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST