Calling report from forms while running the application from thin clients

Question

I am using thin client technology with 64MB RAM for running developer 6i application.
The server has windows 2000 advanced server with 256 MB RAM.
When I run the apllication from a single client, it works fine even for multiple windows.
But the moment I switch on more thin clients, the client which fired the printing job first works fine, while the others allow data entry using forms but any call to report for direct printing throws an illegal condition error. I have tried both run_product and host option for running reports. The error returned is the same.
Howver if the report is run from command prompt simultaneously from both the clients it works fine.
Immediate help required in this case
chandandeep

Answer 1

Hi,
you better off using Run_Report_Object() instead of Run_Product(). There is a Whitepaper available on otn.oracle.com/products/forms that details this. The problem that you run into is that Forms Services(thin clients) are multi user environments while Reports called via Run_Product() is a single user environment. This means that the Reports Runtime does not handle Reports requests in parallel but sequential one at a time. The first user blocks the runtime engines and all other hang for this time.
Fran