BACKGROUND Report option

We're running 10gAS. We use web.show_document to run our reports from Forms. We have some reports that need to be ran asynchronously. We set the background=yes parameter in the URL when we run the report, but we get an error message stating that the "background" parameter has been deprecated.
The documentation for 9iAS states that the "BACKGROUND" command-line parameter has been deprecated, but it doesn't mention the new preferred method of running reports asynchronously. Also, the Reports Statement of Direction document for 10g lists "yes" and "no" as valid values for the "background" parameter using rwservlet.
So is "background" deprecated or not? If so, what is the new method of running reports asynchronously?
Thanks.

Hi,
The BACKGROUND command line keyword is NOT deprecated. It is fully supported. Here is what Publishing Reports says about the keyword:
Description BACKGROUND specifies whether a report on the server should be run synchronously (NO) or asynchronously (YES).
Syntax BACKGROUND=YES
Note: The BACKGROUND system parameter is deprecated in Oracle Reports. BACKGROUND is used only on the command line.
So only the system parameter is deprecated. What this is means is: if you open the report in the Report Builder, and in the Object Navigator, click Data model > System parameters, you will see the BACKGROUND parameter.
If you specify the parameter=yes here, it is ignored (deprecated since Oracle Reports9i).
It is still very much supported on the "command line" as written in Publishing Reports.
Similarly, the Reports Statement of Direction document says that the BACKGROUND keyword can be used on the command line with rwservlet, rwcgi and rwclient. It is deprecated only for rwrun.
Here is the reason for deprecating it: in 6i, if you specify BACKGROUND=yes with rwrun, it would not launch a UI, and thus run in the background. However, since 9i, there is no UI associated with rwrun, so there is no use for this parameter.
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