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Help Needed For Oracle Forms On Mainframes

 
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:21 am    Post subject: Help Needed For Oracle Forms On Mainframes Reply with quote

We are currently handling an application for Oracle Forms on Mainframes - Version of the Forms being 2.3.32.. We have been handed over the source code for the Forms and we are not able to make any sense of it for it is outdated and had been generated by a tool on our assumption..

NEED HELP / REFERENCES for Oracle Forms on Mainframes in general in order to help us understand the application in hand..

There are issues such as that the business knowledge currently does not exist with the people that are currently maintaining it and also there is no tool available to reverse engineer the code..

We need to perform a conversion from Forms on Oracle to a J2EE Application..

Any help would be highly appreciated ..

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sangeetha,

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We need to perform a conversion from Forms on Oracle to a J2EE Application..


This board mainly deals with questions related to Mainframes. Even though you can run oracle on mainframes it is very tiny segment of users that do that. If you are not aware Oracle stopped supporting both SQL*Forms V2.3 and V3.0 for MVS effective from 1 January 1998. SQL*Forms V4 and above will never be ported to MVS. All current SQL*Forms users MUST convert to CICS/COBOL or migrate their Forms to a different platform like Unix or MS-Windows.

Oracle 9iAS and IBM's Web Sphere can run 9i Forms Servlet under IBM z/os Linux. And better then ever if you include mod_plsql functionality, etc.

Google is a wonderful search engine and you will find the information you are looking within secs. A simple search for "oracle+forms+conversion+to+j2ee" gave the following links

Check these links

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/htdocs/FormsJavaSOD.html

http://www.javalobby.org/thread.jspa?threadID=12215&tstart=120

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci894857,00.html

http://www.ciphersoftinc.com/Solutions/Conversion.htm

Hope this helps...

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If anyone is interested to know about oracle on mainframes can check this link

http://www.orafaq.com/faqmvs.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:19 pm    Post subject: Thanks for all the information Reply with quote

kolusu:

Thanks for all the information.. It was really of great help to understand what should all be the know-how of going about this conversion.
If you could, although I do understand that this site may not be catering to such questions, please do forward any other link that might talk about how these forms should have been coded in SQL on Mainframes. We desperately need references to understand the SQL Forms source code that had once been deployed in Mainframes.. This is our only lead to understand the functionality of the application..

Please help !

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