The apps tech stack is 8.0.6

Well unfortunately, I have not been able to get the suggested solution in the metalink article to work. I followed the note and installed the examples CD, which includes the cr9idata.pl script which allows you to populate the $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/9idata. I then restarted the db with the ORA_NLS10 parameter set.

Still sqlplus fails to connect. One thing to consider is that the note is talking about forms/developer 6i but this application is using forms/reports 6.0 NOT 6i. So the patchset 18 is not applicable. But it’s not a forms/reports issue anyway as sqlplus version 8.0.5.0 itself fails to connect to the 11g database, though has no problem with connecting to a 10.2.0.3 instance.

I cannot find a patchset for 8.0.5 client.

Thanks for pointing out the metalink Note, I will certainly examine that and log any findings here. My first thought was to attempt a patch the 8.0.5.0 client that forms/reports seems to use, though no patchset seemed available on metalink.

Again, thanks for the tip!

I imagine that this can be made to work, albeit you’ll want to consider support carefully. Note 452783.1 is all about the recent certification of E-Business Suite 11.5.10 with Oracle Database 11g. The point being that that release of EBS uses the same, legacy, technology stack. It’s possible that all you’ll need to do is run the cr9idata.pl script in $OH/nls/data/old and set the $ORA_NLS10 environment variable as per the EBS note. That would seem like a nice potential workaround. It’s possible as well of course that there is some other ‘magic’ in the tech stack patches for oracle apps that means this isn’t viable for you.

One part of my in-house app has been converted to Forms 10g and over all..lots of work. I am still working on the “reports” .

Again, thanks for the info!

Thanks for commenting.

I suppose it’s a common theme that companies have to wait for the 3rd party app to be certified on the latest release before upgrading, but these clients will never be certified.

In my environment, I have ran the 8.0.5 client with forms and been exceedingly happy with this. There have been no issues caused by this combination.

I have had no dispute with oracle support about running this, as any SR’s have involved database issues completely unrelated to forms.

We have of the order of 100 users, with around 50 forms.