My team is working to upgrade to Oracle 10g. On the back end, we are moving from an Oracle 9i to an Oracle 10g database. And we are upgrading from the ancient Oracle 8 client to the Oracle 10g client on the workstations. So I am busy modifying our Visual C++ projects to work with the next client. So far I am attending to the easy work, liking compiling our Pro*C code with the next client. But I think we are going to be chasing down a lot of problems when we do run time testing.
Currently one developer on our team is assigned the reports. We are sticking with the Oracle 6 Report Builder. We are also leaving the workstation with the Oracle 6 Report Server. Most of our reports just run with the Oracle 6 run time client. These seems to be working out OK. However a few reports go through the Oracle Report Server on the workstation. These are giving our developer a lot of trouble when run.
Specifically, our reports developer compiles the reports against the 10g database using the Oracle 6 report builder. The reports run fine from Oracle Report Builder. However the Oracle Report Server complains when it tries to run the report. It always states that the report contain uncompiled PL/SQL. This has been driving the reports developer nuts. We have tried looking into patches to the Report Builder. But I think the problem actually is in the Report Server. I am not sure if Oracle is going to be any help, since these are old products.
The development team is hoping that the kinks get worked out. We want to start using more recent products from Oracle. It is no fun being stuck in the past using outdated and unsupported products in our system. I will keep you posted on our progress. We have a big test scheduled with the customer in a month and a half. Good luck to us.
