Bye-Bye Discoverer 4i - Time to Upgrade

September 14, 2006 on 7:53 am | by Floyd Teter | In Worth Noting | |

This is a reminder that the official desupport date for Oracle Discoverer 4i is October 31, 2006. Discoverer 4i has been obsolete for most Oracle customers for quite some time, but E-Business Suite users have worked with 4i under a special exception. That exception is now coming to an end. The official notice can be found on Metalink Note 337576.1. If you have not already upgraded to Discoverer 10g, you should begin to move out on this effort right away.

For those E-Business Suite users who have yet to upgrade to Discoverer 10g, you’ll be pleased to know that the upgrade from 4i to 10g is a pretty simple process. When you install Discoverer 10g, do so on a physically separate server. During the installation process, 10g will make a copy of your existing 4i End-User Layer (”EUL”) and upgrade the copy to 10g. Because you were smart enough to install 10g on a physically separate server, your users can build their confidence in 10g and complete their acceptance testing by comparing workbooks against the two EULs side-by-side.

If you’re already upgraded, pat yourself on the back for staying on top of this change. If you haven’t upgraded, no need to despair…just get on it right now!

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