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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You may be right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You made me go look/check. Thought my dev environments had been upgraded to 12C as part<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Of a machine move/change awhile back, but turns out they are actually still on 11.2.0.4.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Application here is a relatively simple (but large) “text based” app. (No BLOBS/CLOBS etal, just numbers, dates, char/varchar fields).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Remember doing some dancing with dates on the migration to oracle (stored as nulls, with the zero’s being used as a runtime replacement within the app, but nothing else “fancy”).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Doubt we will ever go to 12c at this point, application is scheduled to replace by a commercial package within the next year, will probably rest “as is” until then…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> powerh-l-bounces+herald.kaffka=westfraser.com@lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+herald.kaffka=westfraser.com@lists.sowder.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Langendock<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 15, 2016 8:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Peter Hofstaetter' <Peter.Hofstaetter@fujixerox.com>; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Oracle 12c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Do NOT upgrade to Oracle 12C. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">PH does not work with that version. It does not even talk to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">We spent weeks trying to get it to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Until Unicom gets off their collective butts (excessive fee collection) and releases a new version of PH, stay on Oracle 11G.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
<a href="mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com">powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com</a> [<a href="mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com">mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Hofstaetter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> November 14, 2016 7:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:powerh-l@lists.sowder.com">powerh-l@lists.sowder.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Oracle 12c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">We are running PowerHouse 8.43.D1 on Solaris 10 using the 9.2 client and have upgraded to Oracle 11g and all seems to be OK for almost a year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">We are now looking at migrating to Oracle 12c but found that we need to upgrade client as 9.2 will not talk to 12c database which also means that we need to upgrade to Solaris 11 to use the newer clients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-AU">What we have found is that we cannot find any combination of client that will talk to 12c database without causing errors – mostly
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">ORA-01024: invalid datatype in OCI call, but have had other errors also.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Has anyone migrated to 12c and if so what client are you using and how do you have it configured?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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