To Connect to Oracle

The Oracle driver of LN is named oracle8; this driver can be used for Oracle 8i and later. The oracle8 driver can be used for all supported Oracle versions.

For an up-to-date list of supported Oracle versions, see the technical notes, release notes, of the porting set.

The –v option of the oracle8 driver also shows this information:

% ora8_srv6.2 -v
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Product ver.: 9.3a
Port no.    : PA.5044.64-bit
Date        : Mon Oct  1 11:09:32 CEST 2018
Uname       : Linux nlbalbld3 3.0.101-71-default #1 SMP
Machine-id  : LINUX_INTEL
OS-release  : LINUX3.0.101
CFLAGS      : 
LOADFLAGS   : 
DBMS ver.   : Oracle 11.2/12.1/12.2/18 (shared library based)
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The Oracle driver can technically handle the listed Oracle versions.

Note that these versions are not always officially supported (anymore) by Infor and Oracle.

See Infor Customer Portal KB 1183466 for the actual support matrix.

The oracle8 driver can distinguish between the listed Oracle versions, and adapts itself to the installed Oracle version.