Error execute report in R12

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Hi all,
I think I better change this question into a sharing because I'd solved my problem :p.
Below is my first post in this thread before I found the solution :
I hoped I put this in the right forum. Before I ask the question, here are my environment:
Operating system : Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 update 6
RDBMS : 10.2.0.3.0
Oracle Applications : 12.0.4
Report Builder : 10.1.2.0.2
I created a report using Oracle Report Developer then I upload it to my Apps machine. After set all the executable and validation set I tested the report. At first the request completed with status Warning. Viewed the log I got warning like this :
REP-0004: Warning: Unable to open user preference file
After browse metalink and OTN (such as in Reports Compilation Errors: REP-25200 / REP-0004 / REP-1430 and in Re: REP-0004 Error... it seems that the problem was because prefs.ora was not present in $HOME so I copied the prefs.ora file from /apps/tech_st/10.1.2/tools/admin to $HOME then I requested the reports again. This time that error didn't show up and the request completed normal but there's no output at all. The same report did show output when tested in Oracle Report Developer.
I opened the report file in Report Developer and tried to compile it (Tools > File Conversion) from rdf to rdf using different name then I copied the report and tested again. This time the request completed normal but still no output. When I viewed the log I got this error message:
Oracle error -6502: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: associative array shape is not consistent with session parameters has been detected in fnd_global.put(PERMISSION_CODE, FND_PERMIT_0000).
APP-FND-01564: Oracle error 6502 in FDXNC
Cause: FDXNC failed due to ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: associative array shape is not consistent with session parameters
ORA-06512: at "APPS.FND_GLOBAL", line 1233
ORA-06512: at "APPS.FND_GLOBAL", line 1432
ORA-06512: at line 1.
The SQL statement being executed at the time of the error was: begin fnd_global.set_nls_context( p_nls_numeric_characters => :nc ); end; and was executed from the file &ERRFILE.
The routine FDPREP was unable to set the numeric character to .,.
So I tried another way, I recreate the report but try to display only some fields. The fields must be put in a repeating frame because if I tried to put in a normal frame caused reports developer displayed error message that I put the field below it's frequency. After put some fields in the repeating frame I tested the report again in Oracle Apps. this time the result was Completed Normal but still no data (0 byte) though in Reports Developer it showed some data. After some test I got conclusion that the data can only be put in a repeating frame if all the data were put in the same level (e.g.: all the field put in the same repeating frame) and can't be break down where there exist repeating frame in a repeating frame (nested repeating frame) as if you want to create grouping while want I want is to create grouping. Using Reports Developer wizard to create the report gave me the same result, no data displayed.
Now, anyone know how to solve that problem? thanks.
and now for the solution :
For REP-0004: Warning: Unable to open user preference file error message
Just copy the prefs.ora file from /apps/tech_st/10.1.2/tools/admin to $HOME then the error message wouldn't show up anymore. Though based on my experience this error message can be omitted further analyze would be good to know if there's any impact to the system or performance or anything else.
For no data displayed error
Make sure the setup was right especially the token field as that was my problem. The token field was not the same as the bind variable in the report query, that's why the request completed normal and no data displayed :P it's very foolish of me to miss that simple thing.
thank you all
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Answer 1

mdtaylor wrote:
Since you are on 10.2.0.3, you may want to also look at database patch 5890966 INTERMITTENT ORA-06502 DURING PEAK LOADING
Associative Array Shape Is Not Consistent With Session Parameter at Peak Load     
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=467688.1
Hi Michael,
Yes, that patch is exactly I got from oracle support, however I'm having a problem to apply it :P
Here are what I usually did to apply patch in E-Biz :
1. Source the application environment using the environment file in APPL_TOP
2. Enable maintenance mode using adadmin
3. Apply patch using adpatch
4. Disable maintenance mode using adadmin
5. Start all the services
How to apply patch just for database only? Reading the readme file it said that to apply patch was only using command :
$ opatch apply
However we need to ensure that the directory containing the opatch script appears in $PATH. I found that opatch.pl exist in $ORACLE_HOME/Opatch but I can't use opatch though I had sourcing application enviroment or database environment.
I echoed $PATH and $ORACLE_HOME/Opatch (which either ../db/tech_st/10.2.0 for database or ../apps/tech_st/10.1.2/Opatch) and found was not in the $PATH.
I assumed that I shouldn't change the application environment or database environment file recklessly so that $ORACLE_HOME/Opatch appears in $PATH.
However if I tried to run opatch directly from it's folder then I got this following error :
OPatch cannot find a valid oraInst.loc file to locate Central Inventory
So my questions are :
1. Do I need to source environment before running opatch? If yes, which one, application environment or database environment?
2. How to set the Central Inventory location so that opatch recognized it? Is it by sourcing the environment in question 1?
3. Which opatch must I run? The one in application tier or in database tier?
4. How to run it? Type all the path directly (as /db/tech_st/10.2.0/OPatch/opatch)?
Thx