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Dev 2000 Vs Designer 2000

From: D. Patel
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 4:34 PM
Subject: Difference between developer2000 & designer2000

Hi all,
Does anyone know the major difference between developer2000 & designer2000 ?
Thanks in advance. D. patel


Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:33:36 -0700
From: "Frank Dodgers"
Subject: Re: Difference between developer2000 & designer2000

Designer 2000 has a ton of functionality. At a high level it allows one to build and evolve a series of models (e.g., Process, Data, Relationship, Functional Hierarchy) that reflect the way the resultant application must function for the client. It can also generate executable code. Web Forms (used in the NCA) can only be generated by Designer 2000, today. Some at Oracle believe that Designer will some day obviate the need for Developer 2000, dream on. This is not a commentary on the capabilities of Oracle Corp. since their capabilities are immense. It is only based upon my belief that no GENERIC software will ever (yes I said ever) be able to predict the combinations and permutations of requirements that a normal human mind can dream up let alone the abnormal ones. And, if I'm wrong on that note then I'm confident in believing that SUN could not build enough E10000s to run the software.

Oh ya, Developer 2000 also has a ton of functionality. Again, at a high level, it is a 4GL that can be used stand-alone or in concert with Designer 2000. Often, Designer 2000 is used in the ANALYSIS and DESIGN phase, and then the code it generates is modified using Developer 2000 in the BUILD phase. Analysts have reported varying degrees of success in pushing changes made in Developer back to the Designer CASE Repository. Oracle says it works, I think it just takes a great deal of training, experience, and tenacity.

Good Luck! Frank Dodgers, IT Consultant mailto:dodgers.eis@worldnet.att.net http://home.att.net/~dodgers.eis


Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:52:48 -0500
From: "McElhinny, Steve A."
Subject: RE: Difference between developer2000 & designer2000

Frank - Question about your statement:
Web Forms (used in the NCA) can only be generated by Designer 2000, today. As we prepare to move to the NCA architecture, I was under the impression that the Forms 4.5 app within Developer/2000 could generate the Web-based forms. Am I wrong?

Steve McElhinny Steve.McElhinny@alcoa.com


Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:28:10 +0530
From: GopalaKrishna_Surapaneni
Subject: RE: Difference between developer2000 & designer2000

As far as I understand Oracle Applications with the Network Computing Architecture are built using Developer/2000 and Designer 2000 is not used neither in the middle tier of application servers nor in the database servers.

GopalaKrishna Gopalakrishna_Surapaneni@hts.satyam.com


Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:23:55 -0700
From: "Frank Dodgers"
Subject: Re: Difference between developer2000 & designer2000

Steve, You are correct, and my statement was incorrect. The point that I should have made is that there are "architectural" caveats when using Web Forms (surprise, surprise). We (my client) must use Designer generated Web Forms because of our architecture (double fire wall, HTTP, Port 80, mumbo-jumbo). Although you are correct that Developer can generate Web Forms as well. It has more to do with SQL*Net and TCP/IP than it does with Designer and Developer. I will write this up in more detail later.

Thanks for keeping me honest. Frank



Designer 2000 - compilation error

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 12:26:00 +0200
From: Sanjay Das
Subject: urgent

Hi, I have got this major problem with Designer 2000 Rel 2.1. Actually I had a module which was created on Rel 1.2. Then we converted that module for Rel 2.1. Now I am unable to compile it. I keep getting the internal cache error all the time except when I include a certain combination of 18 columns (out of 48) in the base table usage. This combination I discovered it accidentally. If I remove any column or add any column to these 18 columns of the base table in Designer then I promptly get an internal cache error. Otherwise the module compiles fine and even creates the .fmx. What could be the cause? sanjay


Developer2000 and Excel

From: Marissa Henning [SMTP:MarissaH2@langeberg.co.za]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: Developer2000 and Excel

I am currently working in Developer2000, I would like to know if it is possible to create a report in Developer2000 and generate an output in Excel. And if so how do one do that?


Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:03:10 +0530
From: amareesh amareesha@sohm.soft.net
Subject: RE: Developer2000 and Excel

Hi, You can generate the output from Reports2.5 to Excel using DDE. You need to use the DDE.Execute to generate the output to Excel. For more information you can check the Reports Help on DDE and DDE.Execute.

Hope it helps -Amar


Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:18:54 -0800
From: Lewis R Cunningham lcunning@popmail.lmu.edu
Subject: Re: Developer2000 and Excel

The easiest way is to generate a csv file and open that with excel. Lewis


Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:41:17 -0600
From: "Magnuson, Todd" magnusont@FairbanksMorse.com
Subject: RE: Developer2000 and Excel

Hi, The best solution I have found is to create the query in Browser (discoverer) or Query Builder (developer) and paste the SQL into Microsoft Query. The query runs under excel via ODBC and returns the results to the spreadsheet.
Todd Magnuson Fairbanks Morse Engine Magnusont@fairbanksmorse.com mailto:Magnusont@fairbanksmorse.com



D2K Version

--- Ed junior_peon@yahoo.com wrote:

Hello all,
Can someone tell me which version of Developer/2K (Windows 95/NT) that is compatible with Apps Release 11? No help from the Oracle Product Sales Group - apparently the whole group is on training. Thanks very much.

Ed


Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:15:15 -0400
From: "McElhinny, Steve A." Steve.McElhinny@alcoa.com
Subject: RE: Version of Developer 2K

Asked this question at OAUG-San Diego. D2K 1.6.1 works for 10.7 NCA and 11 NCA. Developer 6 will be the new version for Apps Rel 11i, and will include Forms 6, Reports 6, etc.

Steve


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From: Erik Ritters [SMTP:eritters@prg.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 20:43
Subject: Version of Developer/2000 to support rel 11 NCA

Does anyone know what version of Developer/2000 (forms/reports designer/runtime) are needed to support form & report development in Oracle Applications Rel 11 NCA?

Thanks Erik Ritters


Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:11:00 +0530
From: Gopalakrishnan K gopalak@wiproge.med.ge.com
Subject: RE: Version of Developer/2000 to support rel 11 NCA

Developer 1.6.1
forms 4.5
rep 2.5

gopal


Converting Develope Form to WebDb

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:47:08 +0800
From: "Jason Ekamper" Jasek@bigpond.com
Subject: Converting Developer Forms to WebDB

Hi all
I am currently involved with a university project developing and upgrading an existing Form 5 program to web. As the development platform, we have decided to use WebDB. One of the primary problems that we are currently having is the conversion of Form 5 forms to we forms. Do you have any knowledge of such a procedure. We are currently converting each form by hand (creating the basic form - master/detail etc, and then hand coding each aspect of the form). Is there a procedure for a easier method of conversion.

Any information, or ideas of where to go for information, would be greatly appreciated. The university is a Western Australian based uni (Edith Cowan University).

Thanks in advance
Jason Ekamper
Jasek@bigpond.com


Session gets locked

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:00:40 +0530
From: Susan susan_jackson@mail.usa.com
Subject: *SESSION GETS LOCKED*

Hi All

we have successfully implemented a project on developer2000 on web, and has been running for about six months, there is a problem that we face here is that when a user logs in and for some reason logs out and again logs in he finds the session for his terminal locked may be at the database end.

How can this problem be eradicated?

One way is we find out the pending processes and kill them by checking at some intervals, we are on NT and do not know how is done in it, is there any automatic script running procedure, we can take help from the system admin department but we do it, great.

I remember somebody had script of analyzing the pending session / processes and killing them on the list / net if somebody can share it with me, it will be a great help.

Also, how can we find out an IP ADDRESS of the machine running the application, eiither through forms or SQL, any pointers will be a great help.

Waiting for a solution....
Susan


Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:12:12 +0800
From: "Elpi Concubierta" Elpi.Concubierta@tip.toshiba.co.jp
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: *SESSION GETS LOCKED*

Hi,

If you have a server manager that is easy, using the disconnect session menu. But to do it manually.

You connect using a DBA User/System and check out V$SESSION view and look for sid, serial#, machine ( IP Address) ......

After determining the sid, serial# you can issue the command

ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION '8,19' where 8 is SID , 19 serial#.

Elpi



On running a query gets ORA-03123 error

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:57:31 -0400
From: "Reddy, Rajasekhar" Rajasekhar.Reddy@fmr.com
Subject: Discoverer Error Message

Hi,

When I am running the query some times I get Oracle Error. ORA-03123: operation would block Does anybody know what the problem could be???

Appreciate if some one could help me out.
Thanks...Raj


Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:20:12 -0400
From: "Mohammed, Wahed" Wahed.Mohammed@cognos.com
Cc: "Mohammed, Wahed" Wahed.Mohammed@cognos.com
Subject: RE: Discoverer Error Message

03123, 00000, "operation would block"
// *Cause: This is a status code that indicates that the operation
// cannot complete now.
// *Action: None; this is not an error. The operation should be retried
// again for completion.


Developer 1.6.1 Installation

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:24:54 -0400
From: "Bartoletti, Michael" BartolMi@rf.suny.edu
Subject: GEN: Developer 1.6.1 Installation

I am trying to find an installation manual for Developer 2000 1.6.1 and cannot find it on Metalink. Does anyone have an idea of what it is called and where to find it?

Michael Bartoletti
Applications Development
Research Foundation of SUNY
ph:(518)434-7204
fx:(518)434-7211
mailto:bartolmi@rf.suny.edu


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:59:12 +0930
From: Hilary Soloff Hilary.Soloff@santos.com.au
Subject: Re: GEN: Developer 1.6.1 Installation

Michael,

I recently looked for the same thing and found the following Metalink.
Developer/2000
Installation Guide for the Web
Release 1.6 for Sun SPARC Solaris 2.x

I couldn't find one specifically for 1.6.1.

If that's the one you want (assuming you are on Solaris), I had to do a search on Install and Developer/2000 to find it - I didn't find under the Tools/Developer icon.

Regards, Hilary


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:16:07 -0400
From: ddicondina@SUNGARDRS.COM
Subject: Re: GEN: Developer 1.6.1 Installation

Part # A57504-01 - Developer 2000 Installation Guide Client/Server Release 1.6 for Sun SPARC Solaris 2.x
Part # A57514-01 - Developer 2000 Deploying Applications on the Web Release 1.6

Dominic DiCondina
SunGard Recovery Services Inc


Implementation of Discoverer 3.1 with OraApps

Please refer 'Third Party s/w' module (on Noetix Views) also

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:17:03 -0400
From: "Michael Porter" MPorter@pgahq.com
Subject: Discoverer 3.1 with Oracle Financials

Can somebody point me to a document or white paper, etc on implementing Oracle Discoverer with the Oracle Financial apps? I would like to know what the best way (or at least a good start) to set up reporting business units would be.

TIA, Mike


Drill Down Query

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:23:01 -0400
From: "Reddy, Rajasekhar" Rajasekhar.Reddy@fmr.com
Subject: Discoverer 3.1 : Drill Down Query

Hi,

1. How do I display the totals (grand total at the bottom) in the drill down report. For ex from Project I drill down to PO details and I want to see the total for all the POs.

2. I have defined an item class on PO folder -- Invoice folder when I drill down from PO if more than one project has same PO how do I display the invoice details only for the project that I have selected?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks...Raj