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Forms and Reports Migration
We have an Oracle 9i database. Our application is on Forms6i/ Reports 6i and runs on client-server mode. Now we want to make the application web-enabled.
Can anyone tell us what we need to do ? Pointers to reference material for this will be most welcome.
Can anyone tell us what we need to do ? Pointers to reference material for this will be most welcome.
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You can deploy your 6i Forms/reports applications itself on web by using Oracle Forms Server deployed on a Oracle App server along with Jinit.
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Henka,
You said you had done Oracle forms migration from 6i to 10g.I am not an Oracle Forms expert.Let me clear one thing.I found a lot of oboslete features in Oracle 10g which doesn't have any replacement or migration path.In these case i suppose we have to write code explicitly/manually.
So can you say whats the percentage of manual work you had done as a part of your migration like 10 per 100 lines of code like that.This information is for an R&D purpose,the pre-stage of migration.
Your help is appreciated
With Regards
Dileep Pattayath
You said you had done Oracle forms migration from 6i to 10g.I am not an Oracle Forms expert.Let me clear one thing.I found a lot of oboslete features in Oracle 10g which doesn't have any replacement or migration path.In these case i suppose we have to write code explicitly/manually.
So can you say whats the percentage of manual work you had done as a part of your migration like 10 per 100 lines of code like that.This information is for an R&D purpose,the pre-stage of migration.
Your help is appreciated
With Regards
Dileep Pattayath
Forms Migration Assistant replaces some obsolete functions like RUN_PRODUCT with code and objects so there is nothing to do.
If there are some text outputs (text_io) then it has to be replaced manually with WEBUTIL components (e.g. text_io. with CLIENT_TEXT_IO. ...).
In my case the manual work was at about 20%.
If there are some text outputs (text_io) then it has to be replaced manually with WEBUTIL components (e.g. text_io. with CLIENT_TEXT_IO. ...).
In my case the manual work was at about 20%.
If you are using Oracle Reports and the Reports parameter form to gather information, you will have additional issues. PITSS.con has a solution for this (www.pitssamerica.com). For the most part the tool will take care of the 20% that was missing in this specific situation. Usually it's more like 50% is uncharted.
For instance, Migration Assistant just comments out statements like DISABLE_ITEM and ENABLE_ITEM or the MOUSE events that are no longer supported. Check out this document http://www.pitssamerica.com/contentmedia/collateral/PITSSCONVSMigAsstMatrix.pdf for a larger lists of things that Migration Assistant is lacking on.
PITSSCONVSMigAsstMatrix.pdf
For instance, Migration Assistant just comments out statements like DISABLE_ITEM and ENABLE_ITEM or the MOUSE events that are no longer supported. Check out this document http://www.pitssamerica.com/contentmedia/collateral/PITSSCONVSMigAsstMatrix.pdf for a larger lists of things that Migration Assistant is lacking on.
PITSSCONVSMigAsstMatrix.pdf