Oracle Name Server Update?

[Greg Stevenson]

Read older posts from 2000 saying that the login dialog does not support retreiving a list of names from an Oracle Name Server. Is this still the case? I really don't need the dialog to support it just a function call. If this is still not supported is this because there is a technical problem preventing it or just another case of not enough hours in the day? If its the later, could you give me a hint as to what OCI call to use and I'll try updating OracleAliasList and donating the code.
--Greg

 

[Greg Stevenson]

Talked to our database folks and I guess gathering a list of possible databases from an Oracle name server is both probably not possible and more importantly not a good idea. Especially with our customers who frequently have countless databases all over the world and only a handful that would actually be relevent. Instead I'm going to continue using TNSNames to provide a drop down list and add a check to see if ONAMES is in the "path". If so they will be able to type a name as well as pick it from the drop down.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Oracle Names support for the logon dialog is still on our to-do list. It's just a matteer of priorities.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations