Forms Services for 6i

Hi,
I m using Oracle Forms 6i. The Forms services stops automatically without throwing any error. The no. of connections are also not very high. The CPU usage is not more than 26%. The event viewer says the following:
'The Oracle Forms Server [Forms60Server] service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 0 milliseconds: No action.' or
'The Oracle Forms Server service terminated with service specific error 2'
On the application end I get the following error:
'FRM-92050: Failed to connect to the server: frmappint.us.ul.com:9000'
Please advise what can I do to resolve this issue.

Hi,
the best advice I can give is to upgrade to anything newer that supports the Forms Servlet listener architecture (since Forms 6i patch 4 and Oracle Application Server 9.0.1)
Frank

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Forms Services for the public?

Has anyone seen or heard of a successful project using Forms Services for the public? Any links, white papers, etc... would be appreciated. My searches mostly turn up install and bug information.

Chris,
if you look at the otn.oracle.com/products/forms you find reference customers and their stories. There are not so many customers running Forms on the Internet but many running it via dial ups and even more using Forms Services in the Internet.
Frank

Detailed info on tuning params for Forms Services for 6i/9iAS

Hi Folks,
I have searched the Oracle site and documentations high and low
for detailed information on tuning of params for Forms Services
on AIX under 9iAS 1.0.2.0. There seems to be non except for
pool=..., record=performance, etc and I have notbeen able to
obtain info on how to tune these params.
I have a goal as follows:
a. To have 4000 Web Forms users connected to the Database thru
the 9iAS/Fomrs Services (this is apart from response time)
b. I have a 4way SP node with 8GB RAM
Initial tests of 100 simultaneous users have indicated that CPU
consumption is between 70% & 90% and the memory consumption is
800MB. Pool was changed from 1 to 10 and 12. There is no change
in CPU usage but memory usage increase to 950MB with increase in
PAGE Faults. Performance collector shows garbage (-ve time count
and -ve %age for certain activities).
Any direction/tips on bettering the thru-put or achieving the
goal is very helpful and greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Giri

There are loads of paper on OTN that talk about tuning the Forms
middle tier. Check out:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/techlisting.html#internet
"How To Tune Your Oracle9iAS Forms Services Applications" as a
start.
The important thing to note is that unlike the database, you
tune the application and not the Forms Services themselves.
Also, it does not really matter what platform you are in terms
of the techniques you use to tune the application.
This should help you and if you have any more specific problems
then please post again.
Regards
Grant Ronald
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Configuring Forms Services...

Hi There
Actually I have installed Oracle Application Server 10g Rel 2 on Windows2000 Professionally sccessfully and also I have checked the following URLs wihch are working fine:
http://hostname:port - for welcome screen
http://hostname:port/em - for AS Enterprise Manager Control
Now, I would like to confirgure the Forms Services for which I have to edit the files formsweb.cfg and default.env, which should be in "ORACLE_HOME/forms90/server" folder as per the installation. But what is see is there is no such directory called ".../forms90/server" in my machine. So, can you tell me where I find thise one or what could be wrong in my installation?
Regards,
Aqueel.

hi,
the forms directory is no longer called forms90 in 10.1.2 but forms. Also, the forms directory is shown in the middle tier installation, not the infrastructure install. Make sure you have installed the Enterprise Edition, or the Forms and Reports only edition of Oracle Application Server.
Frank

F4 help not working in custom backend service for PD form

Dear All,
Iam working with the Create position HCM PD form and i have a requirement to add two fields, one for the company code and the other is for the cost center and then create the relationship betwee the position and the cost center when the form is submitted.
I have defined a generic service and created an enhancement implementation and linked this generic service to the imppementaion. I have written the logic for the F4 help for the fields in the method GET_HELP_VALUES, i have written the scripting for the drop down field in the form to trigger the F4 help in the form.
When the cost center is being passed to the screen, i would then read the value of the cost center in the form workflow and create the relationship between S and K in the workflow as i am unable to achiev this in the design time of the PD form.
But my current problem in that he values are not getting passed from the method to the field on the screen. I have worked on quite a few scenarios for F4 help and doing validations in the implementation in the PA form and i have seen this functionality working fine.
My problem here is that i am unable to understand why the F4 value help is not working in my form. The standard PD service SAP_PD is also being used in the form to have the dropdown values for the account assignment feature.
Could you please suggest me with some clues to fix my issue? i can share more details for further analysis.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Sridharan

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your inputs. please see my reply to your questions
First....are you sure you have "marked" that field as possible for F4 help?
Reply: Yes
Second...are you populating the help values strictly from that method...ie. not also using do_operations method to do it. If you refer to the documenation, it points out that trying to use both can cause issues.
Reply: i am using only the GET_HELP_VALUES method and nothing written in do_operations.
Third...when you debug your method, do you "see" the help values actually populating and as you say "not coming back to the screen"? I would check this first to make sure that there are actually values being found (ie. the logic within your service is correct).
Reply: i have put the external break-point in this method and when the form in opened for processing by the HR admininstrator,the form openes up and the control is not being sent to the debugger. I have written the scripting in the exit event of the events and scripts as suggested in the SAP help document. SO when i click on the dropdown field in the form, the debugger starts and executes the method and the code executes, then no values are populated on the screen.
Fourth...are you using any generic services for populating help values as well. HCM P&F has a nasty habit of "if one GS fails, they all fail" so often, your service might work fine but an error in another makes yours appear to fail as well....hard to debug and find those kind.
Reply: Yes i am using the generic service mainly for the purpose of F4 help. I do not see any issue with other gneric services as i have implemented a few generic services for PA forms and they are working fine.
Fifth...oops...forgot the obvious one...make sure it isn't a security issue...ie. make sure you have access to read the cost centers you want.
Reply: I dont get any auth error in SU53 while i test the process in R3
Lastly, you said:
"When the cost center is being passed to the screen, i would then read the value of the cost center in the form workflow and create the relationship between S and K in the workflow as i am unable to achiev this in the design time of the PD form."
You actually should be able to do this using an Advanced/Enhanced Generic Service (if this is in fact the step at which you want a true update to occur). Just a thought.
Reply: Could you please give some more information about this, how can i achieve it in advanced generic service.
Appreciate more thougts from you Chris!
Thanks,
Sridharan

What is the recommended approach to create XML input for forms service

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Solution we have tried:
We have created Java classes from XSD (for a particular template) using JAXB complier. Using these Java classes we instantiated all the parameters using data from different modules and got XML after marshalling. We send this XML as a byte array to forms service to get PDF. No issues in this context.
After displaying the PDF, under writer will modify some of the data and submit back to the application. Application again uses forms service to retrieve XML back as a byte array. This is where we had issues. We tried un-marshalling using same JAXB classes but we are loosing data for all the rich text fields.
Can you please guide us to handle this issue ASAP, because we are completely stuck in the development stage. We really appreciate if some one can respond to this issue.
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As part of our development project, we need to retrieve data (eg. Policy details) from different modules and using this data we need to generate PDF document using a particular template (what we have uploaded to live cycle)
Solution we have tried:
We have created Java classes from XSD (for a particular template) using JAXB complier. Using these Java classes we instantiated all the parameters using data from different modules and got XML after marshalling. We send this XML as a byte array to forms service to get PDF. No issues in this context.
After displaying the PDF, under writer will modify some of the data and submit back to the application. Application again uses forms service to retrieve XML back as a byte array. This is where we had issues. We tried un-marshalling using same JAXB classes but we are loosing data for all the rich text fields.
Can you please guide us to handle this issue ASAP, because we are completely stuck in the development stage. We really appreciate if some one can respond to this issue.
Thank you
Srini P

Installing and Configuring Adobe Document Services For Print Forms

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I want to use Adobe Document Services,for Print Forms Scenario,on ABAP side.
I installed the Adobe document Services following the steps in the Installation Guide.I obtained the Credentials file and supplied it during installation.
Then i followed the steps in the configuration Guide,except for the SSL connection part, as i have chosen Basic Authentication .
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Image not displayed in pdf generated using Java API for Forms service

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I am creating a pdf document using Java API for Forms Service.
I am able to generate the pdf but the images are not visible in the generated pdf.
The image relative path is coming in the xml as defined below. The images are stored dynamically in the Livecycle repository each time a request is fired with unique name before the xml is generated.
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The same thing is working when I generate pdf document using Java API for Output Service.
As, I need to generate interactive form, I have to use Forms service to generate pdfs.
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Create a Web Service for Exchange with form based authentication ?

I want to create a Web Service in Apex that can create appointments in my exchange calendar. Exchange is offering web services for that.
When i try to create the web service reference in Apex i provide the URL and my Exchange login, but it is failing.
The exchange guys told me, that there is a ISA Server running where i need to authenticate through a form.
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Exchange 2007 provides out of the box web services, see
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Well SR followed up and it looks like the only course of action is to use the standard HTTP check: http://server:port/forms/frmservlet?ifcmd=status ...
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I have a java verification program that is run from a HPUX server cron job to check
the status of my 9.0.2.12.2 Oracle 9iAS Forms Services running on a
Windows 2000 server. The program determines if the Forms Services
restarted after a cold, off-hours backup by retrieving and reading
base.htm.
I have 3 windows servers with "identical" configurations of 9iAS Forms
Services. The java verification program works when running against the dev and
test Forms servers but not against the production Forms server. It
did work against the production Forms server until I upgraded to
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against the test Forms server is to rename base.htm so the program
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import java.io.*;
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Accessing "http://productionserver:7778/forms90/f90servlet" from IE works fine.
Any clues or ideas are appreciated.
Thanks

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(3) Reopen VA03, attachment list displayed suddenly.
Reference Source# SAP Library, search 'Starting Only One Service Directly'.
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