Distributed on a PC

Question

From: ESDS01:: "MAIL-11 Daemon" 16-DEC-1996 18:18:02.76
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Subj: forte-users-digest V1 #169
forte-users-digest Monday, 16 December 1996 Volume 01 : Number 169
From: "Russell Francis" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:00:32 -0000
Subject: Interface to Business Objects
Hi all,
We have a client who plans to use Business Objects as their adhoc reporting
tool to accompany their Forte' application. There are a number a subsystems
within their Forte' application that will contain fixed reports.
We are considering doing all their reports in Business Objects. This would
mean that the interface to start the report and provide any parameters
required for the report would be part of the Forte' Application. The actual
printing and previewing would be done by Business Objects using a
predefined report, invisible to the user.
Has anybody tried this before?
Any information would be appreciated,
Regards,
Russell Francis.
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George Nowakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip!>
Can anyone please give me some hints as to how I might get Forte
Distributed to work on a single PC? <snip!>
What you need to do is start your PC as a server. Unfortunately you
can't (according to page 87 of the system management guide) run a
Macintosh or PC/Windows machine as a Forte server. Assuming that by "PC"
you mean a Wintel machine, I see a couple alternatives:
* Run NT. Forte supports NT as a server on an Intel platform, but you'll
want a serious amount of memory (80 meg was enough to serve 4
developers here), and probably a serious CPU as well. Our
experience was on an NT server. I have NOT tried to make NT
client into a Forte server, but given all the heat in
comp.sys.whatever.nt.system about the lack of differences "under
the hood" between NT server and NT client, I suspect it might
work. You'll need to install TCP/IP (which doesn't happen by
default).
* Hack around with the windows kit. Judging by my Macintosh, Forte
provides all the pieces; maybe you can persuate Windows to be a
server.
Tom Wyant The opinions expressed in this document are
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"The first thing we do is, we'll kill
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Henry VI, Part II, Act 4, Scene 2

Answer 1

I have found it possible to do "stand-alone" development without a node
manager or environment manager (under both Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0) by:
1) Creating a shadow repository
2) Detaching the shadow repository
3) Running Forte stand-alone against the shadow (switched using Forte
Control Panel)
All application resources must be installed & running local (ODBC connection
to databases, etc...)
-- Greg
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George,
There are a couple of ways you can do testing on a single PC.
1. If you have NT 3.5.1 or 4.0 on your PC, you can run the
environment manager (nodemgr -e YourEnvName). With an environment
manager running, you can then run Forte Distributed, partition, and
run distributed which will start server partitions on the NT box, etc.
2. If you have Win 3.1 or Win 95, then you cannot run an environment
manager or server partitions, but you can still connect to an ODBC database.
Setting up an ODBC resource manager is very straight-forward. You do some
of the work in the ODBC control panel (ie. mapping a name to a particular
data source such as Access file, flat file, etc.). You then run Forte
Standalone which will automatically use ODBC for any DBSessions or
DBResourceMgr
service objects that need to get created by a run. You don't need to
change your service object to point to an ODBC Resource Mgr, the system
does it automagically.
Hope this helps,
Bobby