Adding report server on Sun Unix.

My Company is using a canned package on our Sun Box that includes the Oracle Database. The package uses Oracle forms 6I (character mode) and all reports are produced using PL/SQL. The vendor doesn't want to support Oracle Reports. We would like to load Oracle Reports onto the server and invoke a report by shelling out using the host command and command line parameters to invoke the report. Do you think that this is do-able? The database version is 8.1.7
We are paying for the Oracle license through the vendor and can't even contact metalink to ask the question. We have an Oracle DBA, Sun-Admin, Application Developer on site and could load any software without the vendors assistance. The server is OUR property.

Never mind, I am resubmitting this under my new account (another email address change...Sigh!!)

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Note:204538.1
Subject: Common Reasons & Troubleshooting: "Unable to communicate with the Reports Server"
Type: BULLETIN
Status: PUBLISHED
Content Type: TEXT/X-HTML
Creation Date: 22-JUL-2002
Last Revision Date: 08-MAR-2005
PURPOSE
========
The main purpose of this document is to list the known causes of the "Unable to
communicate with the Reports Server" error. The terms Reports Server, CGI,
Reports Servlet are also described briefly for a better explanation of this error scenario.
This document includes the following sections :
I. Brief summary on the architecture of Reports Server, CGI and Reports
Servlet
II. Sources of errors encountered when running a report with Reports Server
III. How the CGI (or the Reports Servlet) communicates with the Reports
Server
IV. Possible reasons which lead to "Unable to communicate with the Reports
Server" error.
1) Reports Server is up and running
2) tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora problems
3) Effect of parameter "ORACLE_HOME"
4) Effect of parameter "maxconnect"
5) Passing very large parameters to reports server
6) A case specific to OAS 4.0.8.2
7) A case specific to WEBDB version 2.1.0.9.3
V. References
I. Brief summary on the architecture of Reports Server, CGI and Reports Servlet
=================================================================================
In order to understand the causes of the error "Unable to communicate with the
Reports Server", let's first briefly review the Reports Runtime Engines, Reports
Server, the Reports CGI, and Reports Servlet architecture.
There are 4 important layers in Reports Server architecture which should be
understood in order to clearly understand the error "Unable to communicate with
the Reports Server" :
1) The Runtime Engines : This is the main layer where the reports are actually
executed. On unix systems there are "rwrun60" and on NT systems there are
"rwrun60.exe" processes.
2) The Reports Server : The Reports Server recieves the job request and queues
it. When one of its runtime engines becomes available, it sends the
command line to that runtime engine for execution. On Unix systems it is
the "rwmts60" executable and on NT systems it is "rwmts60.exe".
3) The Reports CGI : The Reports Web CGI passes the request to the Reports Server.
The Reports CGI or Servlet converts the request to a command line that can be executed by the Reports Server and
submits it to the specified Reports Server. On Unix platforms this executable
is "rwcgi60" and on NTs it is "rwcgi60.exe.
4) The Reports Servlet : Its functionality and function is just the same as "Reports CGI", but it is
a program written in Java as difference to the CGI program (which is
written in C programming language).
The Reports Server may be running on the same server with the CGI program (or
servlet) OR may reside totally on another machine which does not necessarily have
the same Operating System. For instance CGI may reside in a Windows NT machine
while the Reports server may reside on a Unix box, or any other combination with
Unix-Linux-NT-2000, etc.
The reports are called with a URL similar to below with the CGI :
http://fully.qualified.server.name:PORT/dev60cgi/rwcgi60.exe?server=<REPSERVER>&other_parameters=...........
where fully.qualified.server.name is the name of the server where the Reports CGI
reside, and <REPSERVER> is the name of the server.
II. Sources of errors encountered when running a report with Reports Server
============================================================================
The Reports Web CGI (or the Reports Servlet) makes a call to the Reports Server
and asks it to place the output into some destination (defined by DESTYPE and
DESNAME parameters), then gives back the necessary response to the calling
program. For example if the DESTYPE is "cache", then the Reports server generates
the report to a file in a temporary place and gives it back to CGI and the CGI gives
it back to the calling program. Otherwise, if the DESTYPE is "file", the Reports Server
generates the report output to the requested file and the CGI replies back the
following message : "Report output was successfully written to requested
destination.".
If there is any error in this process, the related error message is returned. The
possible sources of errors can be categorized as follows :
1) The errors that are returned from Reports Server; like the Reports Server can
not find the requested RDF file or the report may be run to file and the
directory where the reports output is asked to be placed does not occur or
similar errors. (Usually the REP-XXXX errors)
2) Another possible cause of error is the errors returned by the RDBMS to the
Reports Server, for example a table not found error or things like that. Of
course from the CGI point of view these errors are again transmitted from the
Reports Server but in fact the error originates from the RDBMS. (Usually the
ORA-XXXX errors)
3) Another possible cause of errors is the CGI itself, for example when the CGI
executable can not connect to the requested Reports Server, then we get the
famous "Unable to communicate with the Reports Server". In this document we will
diagnose the common reasons of this last error.
III. How the CGI (or the Reports Servlet) communicates with the Reports Server
===============================================================================
Having said that "Oracle Reports Server CGI - Unable to communicate with the
Reports Server." error is returned back from the CGI itself, let's discuss the
issue of how the Reports CGI connect to the Reports Server. The name of the
Reports Server given in the URL with "server=....." parameter is, in fact, just
a special tnsnames alias, similar to aliases for database connect strings. As it is
important for the CGI to resolve the alias, the CGI needs to know the HOST name (or the
IP) of the machine where the Reports Server is running and the port on which the
Reports Server is listening. So a typical Reports Server alias is defined as follows :
REP60_<MACHINE>=(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = tcp)(HOST = <MACHINE>)(PORT = <PORT>))
This is defined in tnsnames.ora file, and the sqlnet.ora file is also used in
the name resolving operation.
IV. Possible reasons which lead to "Unable to communicate with the Reports Server" error.
==========================================================================================
The possible reasons for the "Unable to communicate with the Reports Server" error :
1) Reports Server is up and running :
Make sure that the Reports Server is really running on the specified server
and listening on the specified port. For details have a look at above
explanations for tnsnames alias of the reports server. And because of this the
CGI could not establish a connection to the Reports Server.
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a) There is no alias in the tnsnames.ora file for this Reports Server
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in the "sqlnet.ora" then the alias in "tnsnames.ora" should not have the
domain extension.
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defined by TNS_ADMIN is searched, if the "tnsnames.ora" file is not found in
this directory then $ORACLE_HOME/net80/admin is checked. (And on unix systems
/var/opt/oracle is also checked). These directories are only checked if the file
is not present, so if the "tnsnames.ora" file is present in TNS_ADMIN directory
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$ORACLE_HOME/net80/admin directory, which could cause the same problem if the
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from the metalink.oracle.com knowledge-base (Note:1085568.6) :
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1 Server SUN Server 250 Running Unix with Oracle 7.3 (App
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25 PC 95/98 users Using forms and report 6i, connecting via Net8
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OAS Server that will be runing Forms &
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I can use OAS Form Service to connect to the same database?
5) Is mandatory make a migration to 8.x on the
Sun Server (my app database server)?.
6) Is there a detail guide to install form server service and
make configuration to client and servers components?
Thanks
Mauricio

whats different between form and report server in developer whit OAShttp://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25016_08//doc/dl/web/B14361_02/config.htm#sthref10
OC4J Standalone is for use by development and small-medium scale production deployments. Specifically, OC4J Standalone supports HTTP and HTTPS natively without the use of Oracle HTTP Server. It does not have support for load balancing, clustering, or management through Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g. To use those features, customers must install one of the Oracle Application Server installation types, such as J2EE + WebCache. The standalone version is supported in a single instance, single JVM, and single machine configuration.

Unable to find Reports server running on another host

hi.
i have two physical unix servers running reports service Server A - oracle reports service 9i R2
server_in_process=no
service name=rep_9iR2
Server B - oracle reprots service 10g R2.
server_in_process=yes
service name=rep_10gR2
i am getting REP-51002 error when i try to run reports through forms from Server-A to Server-B and vice versa.
I checked osfind on 9i and rwdiag.sh -findAll on 10g but not getting other server.
i checked rwnetwork.conf and activated namingService cos on 10g but still not getting.
can anybody give solution to this.
thanks in adv.
regd

Hello,
It is possible for 9.0.4 / 10.1.2.0.2
8.1.1 Enabling Backward Compatibility with 9.0.4
Oracle Reports 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) replaces the use of Borland VisiBroker with Sun Microsystems industry-standard Java Developer's Kit Object Request Broker (JDK ORB), providing support for Reports Server requests from clients across subnets, and using the broadcast mechanism for dynamic Reports Server discovery, both within a subnet and across subnets. For information about the changes related to JDK ORB, refer to the Oracle Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web manual.
For releases prior to 9.0.4.3, you must apply the patch issued for 9.0.4.2 to achieve ORB backward compatibility between Oracle Reports (9.0.4) client and 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) server, or vice versa. Beginning with 9.0.4.3, the patch is included in the installation.
Platform-specific details for this patch are provided in bug 4092150.
...but does not seem to be possible for 9.0.2 / 10.1.2.0.2
regards

2 applications sharing 1 reports server

I am running an application on OAS 10g version 9.0.4 presently on a unix AIX
box, and i want to deploy another application on it do i need to install another report server or can i specify different source and cache directories for both in one report server config file.

You might be able to find something useful here
luck, db
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Edited by: Darryl.Burke

Adding report server on Sun Unix.

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