Experience porting 4.5 forms directly to 9i ??

We are to port about 1000 4.5 forms and 500 6i forms (client/server) to forms 9i.
Does anybody have any experience with porting 4.5 forms directly to forms 9i or is it necessary to go 4.5 -> 6i -> 9i ?
Is it possible to use tools like 9i Migration Assistant, Forms*Nova, MIGrator or the like to do this in batch mode?
Thanks for any help
Christian

Christian,
the Forms Migration Assitant simply goes through your Forms Module and searches for changed built-ins or obsolete names. The real crux of migration is a change that happened between Forms 4.5 and Forms 5.0 in the Forms internal architecture.
MIGrator is a tool offered by companies like Logis, XRSystems and Kybernon (where the second two licenced the product as far as i know) that performs a complete migration, also checking for the architectural changes.
MIGrator is able to move Forms 3.0 applications to Forms 6i (and possibly higher) and really suited for customers with different versions of Forms.
There are other companies in the same sector that are worth looking. PITTS.CON does do the same Job.
For the sake of being neutral, here's a list of all partners offering migration tools:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/htdocs/partners.html
The recommendation is to go from Forms 4.5 to 6i and then to Forms9i (you don't have to move to Forms9i first to get to Forms10g (9.0.4)).
Frank

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Destroy_parameter_list('tmpdata');
end;
Above code giving following error:
REP-52251: The output of job ID 111 requested on Thu Oct 18 18:37:20 IST 2012 cannot be retrieved.<P>REP-51026: No output is generated for job 111.
Need help..
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I have change the printer name to OKI
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code which i have posted above unable to reach at default printer and gives following error
The report generated successfully but distribution to destinations failed.
Modified above code to take default printer from registry.
Added below code
rtn_Registry := CLIENT_WIN_API_ENVIRONMENT.Read_Registry('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows','Device');
rtn_defaultPrinter := substr(rtn_Registry,1,instr(rtn_Registry,',',1)-1);
Add_Parameter(pl_id,'DESNAME',TEXT_PARAMETER, 'rtn_defaultPrinter') ;
It is giving error
CLIENT_WIN_API_ENVIRONMENT.Read_Registry must be declare.
Edited by: parapr on Oct 20, 2012 10:47 PM

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Does anyone know why this is not working?
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This did it final code is as follows thanks for you help
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Man this is great! and has eliminated half my database requirements! now only if you could pull the results back out!

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BR,
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Hi All,
As per the requirement, the Manager should have a tab in Portal called "Forms and Processess" and on click of that he should see a Page with few hyperlinks . Each hyperlink is the name of a HCM Form.
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Regards
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Edited by: DIPENDRA MOHANTY on Mar 11, 2011 12:05 AM
Edited by: DIPENDRA MOHANTY on Mar 11, 2011 12:06 AM

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I need to read data from a device (weigh bridge) that is attached to PC on comm port.
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Changing port that number Forms services listens on

I currently starts my forms like follows:
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[email protected]

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