Converting Reports 9i from RDF to JSP

Hi,
I'm going to migrate an existing very complex report from 6i to 9i. (matrix report and using ref-cursors)
The customer wants to run a paper and a web-layout.
If I open the RDF-file from 6i everything is fine. Even if I reopen this file after saving and closing it in the 9i environment I have no problem. But just when I save the RDF as a JSP-file the Report builder is not able to re-open it anymore.
After a while the rwbuilder tells me:
REP-0002: Unable to retrieve a string from the Report Builder message file.
After this the Report Builder just disappears.
If I use the Converter via menu "Tools/File Conversion" the Report Builder can load the new JSP-File but the entire Paper Layout and the
Data sources are missing. The whole code is in the Web-Layout.
I need the paper layout to create PDF-files. The web-layout is needed to create Excel-Sheets.
Can anybody help me? - Is really urgent.
Thanks in advance.
Detlef Kuhfahl

Hello Detlef,
Some issues involving ref cursor reports stored in the XML/JSP/HTML report format have been addressed in the latest 9.0.2.3 Reports Patch (Patch number 3129219). You can download this patchset from http://metalink.oracle.com. Please verify whether it addresses your problem.
Thanks,
The Oracle Reports Team.

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