All Data Source History is Empty

Using Crystal Reports 10 for many years and this problem just started happening last week. When I try to create a new Report or Change the data source of an existing one, all History, Favorite even current connection is empty. ODBC data source still exists and tests successfully in control panel. I'm Using Windows XP sp3.
Also, another oddity is that when I have Crystal open for a while and I go to open a new file it doesn't do anything. I have to open crystal reports again to be able to open a new report.
Any Ideas?
Shirley

Hi Shirley,
CR saves the history in your registry. Either you have lost permissions through your Profile, possibly your IT team has pushed out an updated limited Profile, or possibly your anti-virus software is now blocking CR from accessing the registry.
Check your AV history and log files to see if they logged anything.
Or try doing a Repair install of Cr 10 through Add/Remove Programs. I don't recall now but you may need the keycode to re-install/repair it. Run a program called licensemanager.exe in the CR folder, search your PC for it, and it should show you the keycode, save it in a text file just in case.
Don

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use the CF Administrator to verify all data sources and they
usually all report that they are working fine even while some
connections are still reporting problems.
The specific ODBC drivers we are using are Neon Shadow
Drivers (Multi Threaded). I'm thinking about using the Admin API to
hit the Disable Connections and then re-enable it.
Any constructive, tactful input for addressing this problem
would be appreciated.

spikehenning wrote:
> I have several ODBC data sources to a mainframe and want
to use the "Maintain
> Connections" setting as it dramatically improves
performance under heavy load.
> Problem is that we frequently have path problems between
the CF server and the
> mainframe 180 miles away. With the Maintain Connections
checked, the data
> source doesn't consistently start working again after
the path problem clears
> up. The path problem usually only lasts a minute or two,
but SOME queries
> through the affected data sources continue to raise
errors until the ODBC
> Service is cycled. The SOME aspect is really weird
because not every hit
> through that data source reports an error after the path
comes back up. I've
> had side-by-side users hit the same page using that DS
and one consistently
> get's an error and the other works fine. Restarting the
ODBC service clears the
> problem so it works fine for everybody. Of course that
breaks all the
> connections that were still working so I just affected a
bunch more users.
> Silver lining there is that at least nobody can claim
preferential treatment
> right. It's also kind of bizzare that I can use the CF
Administrator to verify
> all data sources and they usually all report that they
are working fine even
> while some connections are still reporting problems.
>
> The specific ODBC drivers we are using are Neon Shadow
Drivers (Multi
> Threaded). I'm thinking about using the Admin API to hit
the Disable
> Connections and then re-enable it.
Do you have a JDBC Type 4 alternative for these drivers? I
got rid of
all my datasource problems long ago when I got rid of ODBC
altogether.
Jochem
Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

SPM: Using "refresh data sources" in Data Source Administrator

Hi All,
When making changes to a query, that I want to be reflected in the flex front end, I carry out the following steps:
1) save the query in query designer
2) load up the SPM user interface, navigate to Administration -> Data Source Administration
3) Click on "Refresh All Data Sources"
4) Wait for the "wait" cursor to finish (only takes a few seconds)
5)log out of the portal
6) clear the browsers cache
7) reload the web page
8) Repeat Steps 2-7 again
9) the query's changes are not reflected in the UI
Does anyone know what I should be doing differently so that the query changes are reflected in the Data Source?
Kind regards,
Neil

Hi Neil,
You are almost right on the steps, just a few changes.
1. Modify your query and save the query changes.
2. Close the query designer so you are not locking the query (optional step, but recommended).
3. Go to transaction RSRT and generate the query (optional step, but recommended).
4. Login to portal and launch SPM user interface, navigate to Administration -> Data Source Administration
5. Click on "Refresh All Data Sources"
6. Check the UI logs (Settings > View logs), to confirm that datasource refresh has finished successfully (your should receive messages saying 'Metadata Loaded'. The cursor will turn into a clock multiple times, this is the UI checking to see if the metadata refresh has finished. You should see the message 'Metadata Loaded' as many times as there are registered BW queries. This could take a few minutes depending on the number of queries registered in SPM UI.
You need not clear your browser cache or logout of the application. At most you may need to relaunch the application.
These steps should be sufficient to reflect any query changes to the SPM UI.
Regards,
Rohit

903/902/BC4J can't get OC4J data-sources.xml conn pooling to work in production: help

[cross posted to the j2ee forum]
I have several BC4J ears deployed to a 903 instance of OC4J being configured as a standalone
instance. I've had this problem since I started deploying in development on 902. So it's
some basic problem that I've not mastered.
I can't get data-sources.xml managed connection pooling to actually pool conn's. I'm wanting
to declare my jndi jdbc source connection pool in j2ee/home/config/data-sources.xml and
have all BC4J apps get conns from this JNDI JDBC pool. I've removed all data-sources.xml from
my BC4J ears, and published the jndi jdbc source in my oc4j common data-sources.xml.
I've tested that this is the place controlling the conn URL/login passwd by commenting it
out of config/data-sources.xml and my BC4J apps then throw exceptions, can't get conn.
I've set the oc4j startup cmd line with the BC4J property to enabled connection pooling:
-Djbo.doconnectionpooling=true
symptom
Connections are created and closed. Instead of being put back into the pool managed by oc4j,
what ever BC4J is doing or my data-sources.xml is doing, the connections are just being created and
closed.
I can verify this via (solaris) lsof and netstat, where I see my oc4j instance under test load
with only 1 or 2 conns to the db box, and the ephemeral port is tumbling, meaning a new socket is
being opened for each conn. ;( grrrrrrr
Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening?
Thanks, curt
my data-sources.xml
<data-sources>
     <data-source
        class="com.evermind.sql.DriverManagerDataSource"
        connection-driver="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
        ejb-location="jdbc/DEVDS"
        location="jdbc/DEVCoreDS"
        name="DEVDS"
        password="j2train"
        pooled-location="jdbc/DEVPooledDS"
        url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@10.2.1.30:1521:GDOC"
        username="jscribe"
        xa-location="jdbc/xa/DEVXADS"
        inactivity-timeout="300"
        max-connections="50"
        min-connections="40"
    />
</data-sources>

Thanks Leif,
Yes, set it to the location jndi path.
A piece of info is that the 903 oc4j release notes states that global conn pooling doesn't
work. Infering that the j2ee/home/config/data-sources.xml data sources aren't pooled or ??
I just tested so called local connection pooling, where I edited the data-sources.xml that
gets packaged in the ear, to include the min/max params and re-ran my test.
Still, the AM creates a new conn, it's to a new socket, and closes the conn when done. Causing
each conn to not be pooled, rather opened then closed to the DB box. As verified with lsof and
netstat, checking the ephemeral port # on the DB box side, always changes, meaning it's a
new socket and not an old pooled conn socket.
???? What the heck??
Surely if the AM conn check out / return code works properly, OC4J's pooling JDBC driver would
pool and not close the socket??
Has anywone gotten JDBC Datasource connections in BC4J to actually be pooled under OC4J??
Since I couldn't get this to work in my early 902 oc4j testing, and now can't get it to work
still under 903 OC4J, either it's my config or BC4J AM's code or OC4J?
Any thoughts on how to figure out what's not configed correctly or has a bug?
Thanks, curt

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