Allowing Old Versions of

Oracle forms and Reports to

connect to Oracle 12c

Very important
lesson
Connecting Oracle 12c with Oracle Forms
and Reports 2000 or 6i:
This lesson is to target what needs to be done or perhaps added into the
SQLNET.ORA file in order to enable connectivity between old versions of Developer with
the most recent released database released. Therefore, lets take a look at the steps we
must follow in order to make this happen:
By default, the old versions such as forms and reports 2000 are not allowed to
connect to Oracle 12c, but there is a feature that can be added into the SQLNET file to
enable connectivity.
After installing Oracle 12c, please go to the network folder, choose SQLNET file,
open it up, and add the following code at the end of it:
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSIONS=8
Save the file and exit…. When you go back to your oracle forms and reports, you will try
to logon with your credentials and this time, it will be successful.
Please view the visual aids below to understand more what I am talking about:
1- Before adding your command line in the SQLNET.ORA file, this is the message
you will get:

As you can see, the message displayed says: "No matching authentication
protocol". What that means, old versions are not identified in the SQLNET.ORA
file to connect, which means we must do it manually…..
 2- The following picture shows you where to write the code:

The highlighted line is the one we added to allow old versions of Oracle forms and
reports to connect….

After completing this step and ensuring the proper configuration of your TNSNAME.ORA
file, you will easily be able to connect to Oracle 12c…