HST60: Unix deployment

Question

We are planning to change our production platform from Windows NT to Compay Tru64 Unix. Designer have a couple of prefs to generate lowercase files. But due to bug 1363330 attached libraries are used in uppercase. On this topic I made an iTar (193555.996) on Metalink. Further I noticed when using HST60, the implementation name is not used in the menu calls or module callings. So forms are generated lowercase but calling them from a menu or other form is done uppercase. Only thing I can imagine is the HST60 procedure qms$call_form(<'MODULE'>) uses the module name and not the implementation name when generating.
As we don't wan to change these 'lowercase things' each time a module is generated, I thought of using UPPERCASE files. Then no problem will occur.
Could you confirm this above workaround or tell me how Oracle projects make a Unix deployment.

Answer 1

Hi,
Using uppercase files will not solve all of your problems (unfortunately).
There are some differences depending on the Oracle Designer version you are using, but you
might also have the situation that also the extension of the OFG files are attached in uppercase.
The best (and easiest) way to overcome all these problems is to use unix links, and in that way make a link to the
lowercase name of the library (if you decide to use lowercase), e.g.
ln ofgmes.pll OFGMES.pll
This creates a kind of synonym called OFGMES.pll which points to the actual ofgmes.pll
Also - if you decide to use uppercase files you should set the LWCFLN preference to MIXED and not UPPERCASE
to ensure that the extension is generated lowercase in most situations.
Regards,
Sigrid.