Oracle 10g rel2 Forms on windows Vista (Patches7047034 and Opatch 6880880).

Question

Hello All,
I have been trying to apply patch 7047034 by using Opatch Universal Installer (Opatch 6880880). But I have not been able to do this. The main reason of applying this patch is to enable my forms 10.1.2.0.2 to be upgraded to 10.1.2.3., so that it can run on windows vista with Internet explorer 7.
At the momment it does not run the forms it just show a grey page after trying to run the Test.fmx form.
If I try to run any other form it comes up with an ORA-12560 :TNS: Protocol Adapter Error.
When I click on the ok button, it comes up with the login page. When I try to re-login without entring the connect identifier it comes up with thesame error message ORA-12560 :TNS: Protocol Adapter Error.
But when i try relogin using a connect identifier it comes up with ORA-12154: TNS: Could not resolve connect identifier specified. Then a grey page is all i see on the screen. I found that a bit strange since am already logged on, on forms 10g. Why is is it still asking me for further credentials.
Having read several literature from the forum i thought the patch was what i needed. And this is what i did to apply the patch.
After setting environment variable ORACLE_HOME
C:\DevSuiteHome_1>set ORACLE_HOME=c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
C:\DevSuiteHome_1>cd opatch
C:\DevSuiteHome_1\OPatch>set ACTIVE_STATE__PERL=TRUE
C:\DevSuiteHome_1\OPatch>opatch apply c:\DevSuiteHome_1\OPatch\p7047034_10105_WI
NNT
"OPatch could not detect Perl. Please set PERL5LIB appropriately and invoke Perl
"OPatch is certified with Perl Version 5.6.1."
"Invoke OPatch manually using the following command format:"
" <path to Perl>/perl <path to OPatch>/opatch.pl <patch command> [options]"
"You can use the following command format to view help information:"
" <path to Perl>/perl <path to OPatch>/opatch.pl [<patch command>] -help"
OPatch returns with error code = 0
I also noticed that the PERL directory has version 5.8.3 instead of the 5.6.1
I had gone on the perl website to download perl 5.6.1, but i found the following
Latest stable version of ActivePerl 5.6: 5.6.1 build 638
Gzipped tarball (Unix)
Zip file (Windows)
Patch against Perl 5.6.1 sources
I do not know which one to download. Is it the zip file for windows or the Patch against perl 5.6.1
Please does anybody have any idea what i need to do.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Aj

Answer 1

Hello Hsawwan,
Thanks for your reply. It is not part of Oracle E-Business. But this is Oracle Forms Application server release 10.1.2.0.2, and oracle Database 10g. rel2, installed seperatelly. I can connect ok to the database from forms 10g. But when it comes to running the forms, the browser comes up and i can see the java sign on the browser, after that it prompts me for username, password and connect identifier. As mentioned earlier, when i supply 2 criteria ie, the username scott, and password tiger I get ORA-12560: TNS: Protocol Adapter error. However, when i supply all 3 questions, ie username, password and connect identifier- ORCL, I get error message
ORA- 12154: TNS: Could not resolve the connect identifier specified.
Also i need to download Perl 5.6.1, does any body knows where i can download this?
Because the I currently have perl 5.8.3 and opatch is pointing to perl 5.6.1.
The site i found has error cannot display page.
Also where is the application env file located, and what should i be setting in this file.
Sorry for the long explanation. I hope I am making some sense.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Aj