PowerHouse and Oracle/Linux compatibility

[Deskin, Bob]

There should be no difference to PowerHouse as long as you can identify where Oracle is on the network. We have tested PowerHouse on OpenVMS against Oracle on UNIX as well as Oracle on OpenVMS.

The current PowerHouse version on OpenVMS is 8.40D1. There's no need to move to 8.30 first with the exception of the dictionary. The dictionary (PHD) must be upgraded first to the 8.30 level and then to 8.40D1. The 8.40D1 package comes with the routines needed to do the upgrade so installing 8.30 is not necessary.

If your client is a supported customer, they can download the 8.30 Upgrade Guide and the 8.4 New Features which will show them all of the differences and new features between 7.10 and 8.40.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Manager, Application Development Tools
Cognos Inc. 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA
bob.deskin at cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268


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Behalf Of heaslips at ozemail.com.au
Sent: March 27, 2006 9:06 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: PowerHouse and Oracle/Linux compatibility


Hi all.

We have a client with a legacy PowerHouse 7.10.G / RDB 7.0 system on OpenVMS -
and they are considering upgrading the database to Oracle on Linux (first step
in a total migration).

Anyone know if Oracle being on Linux (as opposed to Unix) makes a difference to
the PowerHouse side of things?
If there's no difference to PowerHouse, what version of PowerHouse is necessary
to get it talking to Oracle - is it necessary to upgrade to PowerHouse 8.30?
If there IS a difference to PowerHouse, can anyone elaborate on the differences?



Thanks and regards

Steve Heaslip
Email:  heaslips at ozemail.com.au



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