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Resolved Powerbuilder 5 connecting to Oracle 8i and migrating to PB 12.5
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  1. CJ Lai
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  3. Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:30 PM UTC

Hi all,

I have two tasks at hand for which I need your input and/or advice:

1 - I have an application that was built in Powerbuilder 5/32 bit. (Yes, PB 5) with a back-end of Oracle 8i/32bit database. In the PB IDE database DB painter, I got drivers for Oracle 7.1 / 7.2 and 7.3 in the dropdown list in the profile setup, which are not working. Those options got 

ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error

Please keep in mind, this is all in PB5 IDE.

I have the Oracle Client installed, the Home path set, verified the home entry in the registry (it is under WOW6432Node under Software instead of Oracle under Software)

After re/searching online, I believe a PBO8xxxx.DLL would work for me. 
But, for the life of me, I can not find any on the internet. I understand it's a very, VERY old software and it was from Powersoft.

Am I missing something or is there any solution or hope for this application to connect to Oracle 8i in its current setup?


2 - Should all hopes fail, we are migrating the PB5 app to PB 12.5.  (I know you will ask why this is the second option. I was told we should give option 1 a fair shot)

I would utilize the migration tool that comes with PB 12 and I understand there will be output of some obsolete function and event calls as well as some data type changes (string vs char and Ansi vs Unicode).

Also, I expect some changes in the PFC class.

Are there any other concerns or places where I should pay closer attention to or should watch out for?

Thank you all for your input

CJ



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