Do I need Reports Server ?

Hello folks!
We are developing in Reports 6i and they'll be called
through ASP pages. My questions is: do we need to install
Reports Server (9iAS) in the Web Server to simulate this in
development environment?
Thanks,
Anderson.

Hello,
CR must have the Oracle client installed. Unless you use a Wired Driver, which has the client engine built in, CR requires a client to be installed. It never has worked without the client installed.
Also, I've found that if you have more than one Oracle client installed it causes problems. Make sure the first one in the PATH statement points to the latest version of the client.
And yes you are correct, ODBC is a layer on top of the native client so it will be slower obviously because it has to go through one more layer of dll's to get to the server.
Thanks again
Don

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Hello,
We recently installed Crystal Reports Server 2008 and began migrating reports off the CR Enterprise 9 platform and things were going pretty well.
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Oracle connectivity issues
If you are installing Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1 on a 64-bit Windows
platform, Oracle database connectivity issues may occur. If Crystal Reports
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to an Oracle database. Certain Oracle database clients such as version
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has brackets in its folder path. When installing Crystal Reports Server 2008
V1, select an installation path that does not contain brackets, such as
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client.
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Hello,
CR must have the Oracle client installed. Unless you use a Wired Driver, which has the client engine built in, CR requires a client to be installed. It never has worked without the client installed.
Also, I've found that if you have more than one Oracle client installed it causes problems. Make sure the first one in the PATH statement points to the latest version of the client.
And yes you are correct, ODBC is a layer on top of the native client so it will be slower obviously because it has to go through one more layer of dll's to get to the server.
Thanks again
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I plan to upgrade the SSRS 2005 SP2 enterprise edition in our internal web server to 2005 SP4, the Reporting server database is hosted in another sql server in sql server 2005 SP4. Do I need to do anything on the reporting server database side?

My question is what the steps do I need to take to upgrade SSRS from 2005 SP2 to SP4. The web server that host the SSRS is in 2005 SP2, and the OS is in window 2003.
Our SSRS report server and report server database are in different servers. The SSRS in the web server is in 2005 SP2 enterprise edition, the report server database is in sql server 2005 SP4 enterprise edition.
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Hi Lihui Chen,
According to your description, you want to install the Services Pack 4 for SQL Server. Right?
In SQL Server, Services Packs are used for fixing issues of current version product. It's not an Upgrade, you don't have to backup/restore your encryption key. You just need to download the Service Pack 4 on:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 RTM . Please make sure you have administrative rights on the computer to install SQL Server 2005 SP4. For more information, see links below:
How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2005
List of the issues that are fixed in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4
SQL Server 2005 SP4, KBA 2463332, Installation Issues
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Best Regards,
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VCM installation help needed on SQL DB and Reporting server

Hi All,
I'm new to VCM and now i got stuck at the SQL DB and Report server portion.
I'm running the vcm server on VM and the SQL is a physical server, both are sitting on the same LAN.
I have create the SQL DB but VCM just fail to validate the DB and report server.
I login to VCM using a Domain account for installation, and i tried to testing the DB using ODBC from the window, result fail.
Error message as attach.
I'm now totally lost on SQL portion.
My Question:
Is there any configuration needed on SQL DB?
How to get the reporting server to working?
What port is needed to it all working??
VCM server Ms Win2012.
SQL version 2012.
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Hi Simonhoo79,
For SSRS, first check whether the report server link is accessible from your browser : "http://s01-fes-vcm1:80/ReportServer" . If you continue to get 404 error there also, then you need to reconfigure you report server first before proceeding to vcm installation. Follow the steps on below link on how to reconfigure report server using report services configuration Manager for 404 error.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/75910bcb-a879-4eb7-9757-acc45201fa3a/can-not-connect-to-reportserver-http-404-file-not-found?forum=sqlexpress
For SQL server ODBC connection,
Dont create ODBC connection for SQL Native Client. Create ODBC connection for SQL Server.
1. Open ODBC Data Source Administrator
2. Click User DSN tab and Click Add button.
3. Select SQL server and click finish
4. Give name and description and Give the SQL server name (with instance name if your using named instance) or IP in the Server text box.
5. Click Next and select either Windows authentication or sql authentication based on your SQL server authentication mode and click next.
6. If the details given are correct then it will proceed further and check "Change the dafault database to" to your VCM database
7. Click next and finish and try test data source.
VCM 5.7.2 and below will support installation only on windows server 2008 R2 and it doesn't support windows server 2012 but it support both 2008 and 2012 sql servers.

Need info. on multiple report server

I need to have two 9i report server on the same machine and they should serve two different language applications and hence should have two different NLS_LANG JA16SJIS and WEISO8859P1. The applications are forms6i and the report servers should be 9i.
My question is:
1. Is it possible to have two 9i report servers on the same machine with different NLS_LANG?
2. If possible, can they be accessed from forms6i?
3. If this is feasible, pls. give me guidance or the doc where I can find the info. to set up this config.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Venkatesan
If you are going to run several Reports 9i server with different NLS parameters, you may want to explore Dynamic Environment switching feature. Apply the latest Reports 9i patch and go through the Release Notes that comes along on how to use it.
Briefly, Dynamic Environment feature allows you to have a single Reports Server serving report request of multiple languages. All you need to do is a minor modification in the Server configuration file. Next when sending a request to Reports Server you need to specify which language this reports is.
Regards
Sripathy

Need To Trace Reports Server Connection to Database

Hi,
A customer is getting intermittent "Unable to connect to database" errors when running Oracle Reports.
We have tried teaking the Reports server's configuration, but the errors are still occuring.
I know how to set up a trace on the Reports server, but wonder how best to trace the server's connection/attempted connection to the database.
Is it possible to trace attempted connections?
Database is 9i 9.2.0.6, Reports server is OracleAS 10g 9.0.4.2.
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Jim

There is a parameter SQL_TRACE which you can turn on and it will start tracing all the sessions at database level which is not preferred way. You need to enable the trace for only report server sessions for troubleshooting and you can do this by enabling the trace in specific sessions. You can do something like this:
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I NEED HELP IN REPORT SERVER

HOW CAN I START ORACLE REPORT SERVER BY USING ORACLE DEVELOPER 10G R2

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I need help on how to install, then run Oracle 9i Reports Server ?

where do i get Oracle 9i Reports ? how do i used it ?

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Need information about Oracle Forms & Reports server installation

Hello Friends,
First of all I am very new user for oracle forums, So please ignore if I posted wrong place.
We are using Oracle Database 10g and Oracle forms & Reports server 6i version.
We just purchased oracle forms & reports (currently known as a Oracle Fusion middleware) license. As per my knowledge latest version doesn't support Oracle 10g database.
My question is can somebody give me Oracle Database 10g supported Forms & Reports version?
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I get my answer from your certification matrix. I appreciate your response.
Now second question arise that We are using currently Database version of 10.2.0.1.0.
And in a certification matrix shows supported version Oracle 10.2.0.4+.
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Report server setup best practice info needed -SOLVED-

Hello, I'm looking for some best practice info on how to set up the report server to handle multiple reports from multiple apps (hopefully in separate directories).
We are converting forms 5 apps to 10g. Currently reports live in the same dir as the form files, each in their own application directory. Moving to 10g, the report.conf file specifies a reports dir. It does not seem that there can be multiple directories listed in the sourceDir parameter, in order to handle mutiple directories where reports can live. Is it possible to set it up so it can find reports in any of our 20 application directories? Do we have to have only one directory where all reports are served from (if so we'll have an issue, as reports from different apps could be named the same)?
How have you folks solved this situation?
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Gary

Got it working! Thanks to all for your input! I found a reference on Metalink to a known issue with running on Sun Solaris, which was causing me problems.
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<environment id="prs">
<envVariable name="REPORTS_PATH" value="(path to dir where reports live for this app)"/>
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run_report_object():
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Blue Skies,
Gary

Crystal Report Server XI - Need support

Post Author: sankallada
CA Forum: General
Iu2019m very new to crystal report. We have a critical requrement to integrate Crystal Report Server XI with one of our J2EE Application, and currently in the process of evaluating the same. And we are using the evaluation version (30 day trial) for eval purpose
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San

Thanks for the information...I'm new to this process with SAP.
Can you provide me an additional information on exactly how you go about requesting the keys from SAP Market Place and do you know if there is a cost associated with the XI R3 version?
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How to find out the user from the Jobs queue in Report server

Hello All!
I have a doubt about finding out the user from the scheduled jobs queue. Say I go ahead and schedule a report on Reports Server how can I find out the user name. When I view the jobs using showjobs I could see that the DBMS_JOBS table has a column under "Job Owner". But it invariantly shows it is "rwuser". So is there a way to find out which user has scheduled which job?
Regards
Shobha

hi,
The below tables will give only the name .
USER_ADDRS
USER_ADDR
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USR02
i think you need email address .
you can use this Tcode : su01d
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Ram
Edited by: Ram velanati on Jun 30, 2008 6:57 PM

Drop down boxes ok in Crystal Reports but not ok in Crystal Reports Server

I have the following problem with "dynamic dropdowns"
Initially, I have a Crystal Report (.rpt). It has two dynamic drop downs. They work
in both Crystal Reports Designer (preview) and Crystal Reports Server (right-click-View).
The first drop down is the result of a rather complex sql query. The second drop down
is a child of the first.
I make a small change to the sql "WHERE" clause using the Crystal Reports Designer. It works fine in preview.
I save (Enterprise mode) to Crystal Server. I use Business View Manager to configure
the _DC_n object. (I did notice that the .._DC_n gets incremented by one.)
The _DF object seems to know about the updated sql so I do not have change it.
However, when I go to back to Crystal Reports Server, and right-click-View, the
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...thank you, Stan

When you publish a report to Crystal Server, the dynamic prompts are no longer handled in the report itself. Instead depending on how they're published, they either go away or they're published to the "repository" and managed through the "Business View Manager" (BVM), which is available as part of the Client Tools install.
To get the dynamic prompt into the repository, you have to check the "Enable Repository Refresh" checkbox at the bottom of the "Save As" screen after you log in to CRS. However, doing it this way is NOT best practice, especially if you're using the query from the report to provide the data for the prompt. If you do this for all of your reports, you get a LOT of bloat in the repository objects and it makes the job of migrating from one version of CRS to another MUCH more difficult!
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I then run the BVM and look for the following objects (default location is under "Cascading Dynamic Prompts":
<prompt name>_DC - This is the Data Connection for the prompt. Edit this, enter the password, and set it to "Never Prompt" for the password. NOTE: This DC can be reused by multiple prompts. If you continue to add prompts through publishing Crystal Reports with prompts, you will get MANY of these that all point to the same database!
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<prompt name>_ BV - This is the Business View. When you create one, you have to select the Business Element. I'm not sure of the exact purpose of this, but you have to have one in order to set up the "List of Values".
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You can create folders to organize these objects so that its easier to maintain.
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1. Connect to CRS from Crystal.
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3. Set the prompt to be dynamic.
4. Under "Choose a Data Source", select "Existing" and select the LOV from the drop-down list.
5. Update the properties in the parameter.
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-Dell

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null

Hi,
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Thanks,
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there is an example of this on dev2dev, see sample code, "redirect" example
(dev2dev.bea.com)
"Lancy Mendonca" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
All
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