9iAS Release 2 Forms/Reports Servers

With 9iAS Rel1, there was a forms and a reports startup script for the servers. I'm not seeing this with Release 2. Also, we have had problems with Reports with regards to the DISPLAY environment setting. Where do I alter the DISPLAY for the reports server? Is there a dummy variable that we can set for this?
Thanks in advance,
jim

Start Report Server:
rwserver.sh server=<reportserver-name> batch=yes &
Stop Report Server:
rwserver.sh server=<reportserver-name> shutdown=immediate authid=repadmin/reports
DISPLAY:
In $ORACLE_HOME/bin/reports.sh you can add following:
DISPLAY=<a valid ip with X Server:0.0> ; export DISPLAY
Regards,
Martin

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Hi
The "Oracle Fusion Middleware Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services 11g R2 (11.1.2)" manual in Section 2.5 talks about setting up a High Availability environment for Reports.
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I know that this is an old thread, but I've taken the liberty to bump it up, as I have the same question.
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Hi Rade,
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Question 1
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