Reports Builder and rwrun.exe hang on pdf creation

Question

Hi, I'm having a problem with creating a pdf version of one of our reports. We have a HUGE report that gets generated once a month. I'm talking 50,000+ pages. That single document is not intended for human viewing; rather, it goes to a gigantic printer, and every few pages goes into an envelope to be snail-mailed to one of our clients. This is state government, so we can't require the recipients to receive the notices via email.
That probably is not a typical usage, but the old version, which was slightly more compact at 35,000 pages, has always worked properly. It's only this expanded version that has given us problems. When running from both Reports Builder (generate to file) and from the command line, the report never seems to complete. When running from Reports Builder, it completes the query and the counter for number of pages climbs rapidly, but somewhere close to the end, it just stops. From the command line, I never get a prompt back. (I should add that running the report from Reports Builder via the "Run Paper Layout" button works properly, and we're able to skip to the end to see all the data; it's just the pdf part that's failing.) The pdf report is partially created in the cache directory each time, but it isn't complete, and acrobat won't open it.
This occurred with Report Builder 9.0.2.0.3. I then downloaded the newest 10g version (10.1.2.0.2) and received similar results. The only difference is that the report in the 10g cache directory actually appears to be complete. However, the app still never returns back and must be killed.
Subsequent to all this, I learned of the existence of the trace file in the logs dir, so I re-ran both versions of rwrun.exe from the command line. Here are the results from the trace file:
9i:
"java.lang.StackOverflowError
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.getJob(JobManager.java:172)
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.updateJobStatus(JobManager.java:1388)
     at oracle.reports.server.EngineCommImpl.updateEngineJobStatus(EngineCommImpl.java:97)
     at oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl.updateJobStatus(EngineImpl.java:601)
     at oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl.CRunReport(Native Method)
     at oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl.run(EngineImpl.java:289)
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.runJobInEngine(JobManager.java:623)
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.runJobLocal(JobManager.java:1209)
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.runCurrentJob(JobManager.java:560)
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.runCurrentJobs(JobManager.java:522)
     at oracle.reports.server.JobManager.manage(JobManager.java:131)
     at oracle.reports.server.IdleThread.run(IdleThread.java:71)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)"
10g:
"org.omg.CORBA.OBJ_ADAPTER: vmcid: SUN minor code: 202 completed: Maybe
     at com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.ORB.disconnect(ORB.java:2085)
     at oracle.reports.server.ConnectionManager.release(ConnectionManager.java:183)
     at oracle.reports.server.ConnectionManager.manage(ConnectionManager.java:117)
     at oracle.reports.server.IdleThread.run(IdleThread.java:134)
REP-50125: Caught exception: org.omg.CORBA.OBJ_ADAPTER: vmcid: SUN minor code: 202 completed: Maybe"
Can anyone help? An alternative would be to split up the report into multiple files so that there are less pages, but we would prefer to avoid that, if possible. I'll post something to metalink shortly.
Thanks,
Dan

Answer 1

Hi,
I had the same problem to generate it for 10000 employes salary slip but i got the solution.Try out the foolowing method.
1) Create a folder in the D or c drive called "TEMP"
2) change the settings in the regedit (reports_tmp=<drive>:/temp string)
3) similarly in the environment varaibles (go to mycomputer->proerpties->advanced tab->environmentvariables) change the variable temp and temp to <drive>:/temp
because normaly temp folders exist in the c:\document\settings so create it outside
also pass the parameter pdfcomp=0.
4) If u r using server then go to <oraclehome>/reports/<server>.conf file
edit the following properties
<property name="cacheSize" value="500"/>
<!--property name="cacheDir" value="your cache directory"/-->
<property name="maxCacheFileNumber" value="10000"/>
here in my case it will hold 500 mb or 10000 files.
here u can set it for 50000 files or more.
regards
vishwa