RE: Difficulty compiling forms ported from NT to UNIX

I'm reading that version 9i forms can be manipulated as XML. From OTN:

Use XML to Access your Forms Files
In Oracle9i Forms, you can save your Forms module files (.fmb, .mmb, and .olb files) to XML, which provides a "human-readable" version of your Forms application, and lets you manipulate the application in XML. XML representation combined with the use of JDAPI lets you manipulate your Forms applications in any almost any way to suit your needs and skills.

(From http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/htdocs/forms9inewfeatures.html).

If that's your version, maybe you've got a dev who can figure out how to programmatically make those changes?

HTH, -Roy

Roy Pardee
Programmer/Analyst
SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT
Extension 8487

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Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 7:24 AM
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Th error we got prior to editing the .fmt files was:

PDE-PLI018: Could not find library<library name>

after we edited the .fmt and modified the case of the files names withing double quotes to exactly what the file names were on the box, it compiled successfully.

EC.
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Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 3:18 AM
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We did this recently and for the same reason! We have around a thousand forms which were referring to the libraries in different cases, thus failing on the Unix system. We generated FMTs in batch, changed the cases appropriately, and reconverted to FMB. We have tested it out and we have not encountered any errors as such. Yes you need to be cautious in what you are trying to update in the FMT.
What kind of errors are you coming across? rgds
amar
http://amzone.netfirms.com

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Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:54 PM
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Please forgive the post (and cross-post) to DBA forums, but due to firewall upgrades, I am no longer able to access the newsgroups. If anyone has had similar experiences to the one described below, I would appreciate any guidance in finding a utility work-around. TIA. Designer generated Forms (FMBs) are moved to UNIX platform along with the
attached libraries (llbs). FMBs are not compiling successfully on UNIX.
(Note:

They all work fine on windows platform). This is to serve the Designer generated Forms using Forms Server 6i installed on UNIX. The UNIX machine is
Compaq Alpha Server running Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (Rev. 1885). The Developer
software on UNIX is Developer 6i patchset 10.

One of the attached library OFGTEL.llb is referencing OFGMES.llb in an Initcap
case format. After making OFGMES.llb to Ofgmes.llb, OFGTEL.llb compiled alright. At this point all attached libraries are moved to UNIX and compiled
successfully. But, the FMB is not compiling successfully as it is not attaching the libraries properly no matter what case we use for libraries and
its compiled versions. All upper case and all lower case filenames did not
work. We noticed that an error message did refre to the refreenced filename
as Initcap format, so we changed all attached filename to Initcap format. Then
we have to convert .fmb file to .fmt and edit it to convert external filename
references to Initcap. Then convert the fmt back to .fmb format. This version
of .fmb compiled successfully with all attached library files being Initcap.
Editing Designer generated .fmb by converting to .fmt (text format) is tedious
and error prone. We are trying to find if Oracle has a patch/utility for this
bug. Has anyone had a similar experience?

Erik Cohen
SAIC
Falls Church, VA

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