Closing Reports Background Engine from VB

I have a Visual Basic 6 application that runs Reports 6 reports with the ActiveX control Rwsxa60.ocx. When you close the application, the Reports background engine is still open. Is there a way to close the engine through VB? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

you can not close the RBE from reports as it would require a report to be executed ... i guess you get the problem.
the only way to close the RBE is from forms.
thanks,
ph.

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Close Reports Background Engine from reports

Hi,
I have a report that calls another report via SRW.run_report. Qhen the other report is called, Reports Background Engine opens and stays open, even after closing the called report.
How to programmatically close Reports Background Engine when closing the report. I have read on the forum some procedure to close it from "Forms", but not from report.
Thank you,
J

you can not close the RBE from reports as it would require a report to be executed ... i guess you get the problem.
the only way to close the RBE is from forms.
thanks,
ph.

Problem in closing report background engine

iam working with forms6i,i have invoked a report using
run_product.report background is not closing even when i
close the forms.Could anyone say me how to shutdown the
reportbackground engine automatically.

Hi,
Just add the parameter
add_parameter(plid, 'ORACLE_SHUTDOWN', TEXT_PARAMETER, 'YES');
HTH,
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Reports Background Engine caused error and had to be closed

"Reports Background Engine caused error and had to be closed"
we are encountering this error when trying to run any report on some machines.with windows 2000.
we tried to login (on the machines having problems) using another windows user,
sometimes it works and sometimes not.
we also tried to reinstall the reports runtime and it never worked.
we have developer 6i, Oracle database 10g express edition.
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dear all
you can pass parameter from form to report to close report server after close report
add_parameter(pl_id, 'oracle_shutdown',text_parameter, 'Yes');
then it will be ok
good luck
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How to close the report background engine programatically in developer 6.0?

Friends,
We have developed our application using Oracle Developer 6.0 as front end and Oracle 9iR2 as a back end.
whenever the user is opening the application one session is creating after that if he runs any report the report background engine is started and that engine also creating one session. So, unnecessarily two sessions are opening for a single application.
So, how can we close the report background engine programatically after the report displays all the records?
Moreover, when the user close the application, the report background engine is still open. the user has to close the report background engine manually.
so how can we solve this issue?
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i got this while searching but its not working.....
Problem Description
Starting reports using a RUN_PRODUCT on Windows platforms starts a
Reports Background Engine (RBE). After leaving the forms application the
background engine is still running and must be terminated by the user.
Solution Description
This is intendet behaviour.
To close the Background Engine programmatically use the Reports Runtime parameter
ORACLE_SHUTDOWN. E.g.
Perform the following actions to stop the RBE when closing the Forms
application:
1) Create a dummy report which only does e.g. a SELECT * FROM DUAL
This report has a DESTYPE=FILE and a DESNAME to e.g. C:\TEMP\DUMMY.OUT
2) In the POST-FORMS trigger add the following code:
DECLARE
pl_id ParamList;
BEGIN
pl_id := Create_Parameter_List('dummy');
Add_Parameter(pl_id,'ORACLE_SHUTDOWN',TEXT_PARAMETER,'Yes');
Add_Parameter(pl_id,'PARAMFORM',TEXT_PARAMETER,'NO');
Run_product(REPORTS,'<<name dummy rapport>>',SYNCHRONOUS, RUNTIME,
FILESYSTEM,pl_id,NULL);
END;
Explanation
The Report Background Engine runs separately from the Forms application and
there is no direct relation between these processes. The Forms should signal
the RBE that is being closed.
When the Form is closed the POST-FORM triggers sends a dummy report to
the RBE. Since the ORACLE_SHUTDOWN=Yes parameter is used after running the
report the RBE is terminated.
A small side-effect of the solution is that a small file (5Kb) is created on
the file-system contaning the output of the dummy report.

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null

Hi,
The answer is to use HOST calls:
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This should do.

Report background engine

hi
i am using reports6i. every time i run a report, the report background engine appears in my task bar. By closing the report, it still persists in the task bar, and i have to close it manually.
Is there any way that by closing the report, the report background engine shuts down automatically.
tofa Mustafa Ghulam
Lahore, Pakistan.

You can try to add this parameter to the call of report
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Sorry, but i am not sure of the name of the parameter and i cannot find the reference anywhere. If i find it i will post an update.

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I wanna close "Report Background Engine" automatically after closing the report.
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Waitting for Help!

Hi,
I think the problem might be with oracle_shutdown being in small case letters or you are using a version of forms6 or 6i that this line doesn't work due to a bug via Oracle in the engine ..
Here is my line to shut down the report background engine.
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SELECT statement in "dynamic" ref cursor must have the same number and type of columns as "static" ref cursor type.
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but "dynamic" ref cursor is a new feature of PL/SQL v.8.1.
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Report Background Engine Crashes

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hello,
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regards,
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Hi There!
Is there any command to automatically close the Reports Background Engine when Reports are run from Forms....
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Vidu

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