How to run Oracle Reports 6i

Question

Can any 1 pls help how to execute the report from plsql or scheduled job and not from a form
I have a report that works fine, The concern now is that somebody will have to manually run this process. It should be something automated, wherein it will run on it's own
Some batch job which will trigger automatically as per the pre defined schedule
Thx in advance
Imran

Answer 1

Hi Imran,
If the job is to be scheduled on unix... do you have an report server rwrun60 on your unix machine? (in other words can you deploy your reports on unix?) If so it will be a lot easier not to use dbms_job but just schedule it with the unix scheduler CRON.
Then you can create a shell script (.bat is used in windows , on unix it should be , actually you even don't need an extention, .unx or .sh)
eg for your script
#!/bin/ksh
ORACLE_HOME=<path to your oracle home on unix>
ORACLE_SID=<SID of the instance your report needs to run on>
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
WORKINGDIR=<your directory where your reports are
export ORACLE_HOME PATH ORACLE_SID WORKINGDIR
cd WORKINGDIR
# if you want more than one report to run at the same time you can use this loop
for i in `ls *.rep`
do
rwrun60 module=$i userid=..... destype=printer (you can of course use other parameters too)
done
*If you want just a single report leave the loop out and put name of report afeter module=
if you save the file ask your unix admins to make it executable and to schedule it with cron on the unix machine
That's all
I have several hundreds reports running this way (on Linux with 10g report server)
Hope it helps
Erwin
In answer to you latest question to run from pl/sql it can but you need to be able to run a "host" command from your database
one way to do it with java class
install these two java sources on your instance
(you can leave the FEP1_ out of course)
CREATE OR REPLACE AND RESOLVE JAVA SOURCE NAMED "FEP1_CaptureStream" AS
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
class FEP1_CaptureStream implements Runnable {
private final InputStream is;
private final String type;
private final OutputStream redirect;
private boolean redirected = false;
FEP1_CaptureStream(InputStream is, String type, OutputStream redirect)
this.is = is;
this.type = type + ">";
this.redirect = redirect;
FEP1_CaptureStream(InputStream is, String type)
this(is, type, null);
FEP1_CaptureStream(InputStream is)
this(is, " ", null);
public void run()
try {
PrintWriter pw = null;
if (redirect != null) {
pw = new PrintWriter(redirect);
redirected = true;
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String line=null;
while ( (line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(type + line);
if (redirected) {
pw.println(line);
if (redirected) {
pw.flush();
pw.close();
br.close();
isr.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
second source
CREATE OR REPLACE AND RESOLVE JAVA SOURCE NAMED "FEP1_ExecOSCmd" AS
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class FEP1_ExecOSCmd {
public static void main (String args[])
int rc = 0;
if (args.length < 1) {
System.out.println("USAGE: java ExecOSCmd \'cmd\' ");
System.exit(1);
try {
String cmd = args[0];
FileOutputStream fos = null;
if (args.length == 2 ) {
fos = new FileOutputStream(args[1]);
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process p = rt.exec(cmd);
FEP1_CaptureStream err = new FEP1_CaptureStream(p.getErrorStream(), "ERR");
Thread e = new Thread(err);
/* NOTE we do not join the error thread. If there was no
Error it may never return. We would wait forever for it to
return thus janging this process */
e.start();
FEP1_CaptureStream out = new FEP1_CaptureStream(p.getInputStream(),
"OUT", fos);
Thread o = new Thread(out);
o.start();
try {
rc = p.waitFor();
/* Handle exceptions for waitFor() */
} catch (InterruptedException intexc) {
System.out.println("Interrupted Exception on waitFor: " +
intexc.getMessage());
if (fos !=null) {
o.join(); // need to wait for the output to finish.
fos.flush();
fos.close();
System.out.println("ExitValue: " + rc);
} catch (Throwable t) {
System.out.println("ExitValue: " + rc);
t.printStackTrace();
Now create a package or standalone procedure to wrap this code
PROCEDURE EXECUTECMD
(CMD VARCHAR2
IS
LANGUAGE JAVA NAME 'FEP1_ExecOSCmd.main(java.lang.String[])';
put security ok and then you can use this procedure in a another
eg
EXECUTECMD('/mybin/start_reports.sh');
this will start the sh script
or
eg
EXECUTECMD('/Oracle/bin/rwrun60 module=.....');
or create a string with all your params and pass it to the command
Be aware that this command executes on the server where your instance is running!
Message was edited by:
Irvine74