Logon failed when connecting to Crystal Reports XI

Hello
Is there anyone who can help me on the above? Well here is the problem am facing for couple of days and am trying all the R&D but in vein.
Am trying to connect Crystal Reports XI but am getting logon error when making a connection to the database. The datasource used is OLE DB and throws an error "Logon failed.Details:IM006:[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed"
How do I resolved this?
Regards
Caiveru

Hey Cauvery,
Just check whether ther required database drivers are installed properly, where the SQL might be your database.
Try with other type of connection and check .
As some database's wont allow specific type of connections.
Thanks,
Naveen.

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From Assignments
After creating the command, highlight it and hit u201CF2u201D. You should be able to edit the name and change it from u201CCommandu201D to something more meaningful. At the current time Iu2019m unsure if the issue with the default tables all pointing toward the project table is an error on the provider side or Crystal Reports end, and if one of the new patches will fix it. I will update this document accordingly when I have more information and do more testing. I will note however, there is no way to change which table these preset fields point to.
Thank you for your time.

Connecting to crystal report via JDBC

Hi,
I am new to Crystal Reports. I want to connect to MSSQL Database using JDBC drivers. I was wondering if there is a way I can use JDBC drivers for connection with Crystal Reports when designing the report ?
Thanks
Sherif

Hi Sheriff,
I am not aware of CR 9 as it is out of support. But in CRXIR2 and CR2008 you can simply do it while creating new report. In the wizard you just need to select JDBC(JNDI) option under Create new connection.
After that just specify the connection url and JDBC class name.
I would suggest you to upgrade your product to CR2008 as it has excellent new features which would realy help you with the same.
Regards,
Nilesh Benke

How do I connect from Crystal Report version XI to Oracle 10G express?

I'm new to oracle 10G express and I'm developing an application that needs reports to preview some data from oracle tables.
The oracle database is installed on the server and I installed the client on my machine. I need to use the crystal report 11 to report the output. Thus, I designed a crystal report that should simply read a table on oracle and though I need to be able to connect to the oracle 10G Express Edition database. I tried to create a connection from the crystal report using the Database Expert >> Create New Connection >> Oracle Server and I include the following parameters.:
- Service: host:1521/XE
- Username: username
- Password: password
Then when I tried to connect the crystal report crashes always.
Is there any way to create a connection to the Oracle Database 10G express from Crystal Report 11?
Please advise...

Thank you bala,
First, How I should start the Listener on the database server?
Listener.ora content:
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
+(SID_LIST =+
+(SID_DESC =+
+(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)+
+(ORACLE_HOME = C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server)+
+(PROGRAM = extproc)+
+)+
+(SID_DESC =+
+(SID_NAME = CLRExtProc)+
+(ORACLE_HOME = C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server)+
+(PROGRAM = extproc)+
+)+
+)+
LISTENER =
+(DESCRIPTION_LIST =+
+(DESCRIPTION =+
+(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC_FOR_XE))+
+(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = Daoud-PC)(PORT = 1521))+
+)+
+)+
DEFAULT_SERVICE_LISTENER = (XE)
How to configure the tnsnames.ora on the client side?
tnsnames.ora content:
XE =
+(DESCRIPTION =+
+(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = Daoud-PC)(PORT = 1521))+
+(CONNECT_DATA =+
+(SERVER = DEDICATED)+
+(SERVICE_NAME = XE)+
+)+
+)+
EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA =
+(DESCRIPTION =+
+(ADDRESS_LIST =+
+(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC_FOR_XE))+
+)+
+(CONNECT_DATA =+
+(SID = PLSExtProc)+
+(PRESENTATION = RO)+
+)+
+)+
ORACLR_CONNECTION_DATA =
+(DESCRIPTION =+
+(ADDRESS_LIST =+
+(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC_FOR_XE))+
+)+
+(CONNECT_DATA =+
+(SID = CLRExtProc)+
+(PRESENTATION = RO)+
+)+
+)+
Now I`m trying to initialize this on one machine (database & client) and so the crystal report will be on the same machine where the database exist; Additionally, this machine has OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and include the Oracle 10g Express Database & Oracle 10g Express Client software.
Please check the files content I included above and give me the way on how to establish a connection from the crystal report to the database where both are installed on the same machine.
Thanks in advance...

Connection between Crystal Report and SAP ECC

Hi. can you help me please.
I'm testing the connection between Crystal Report and SAP ECC. I tried using the tables,
but by making the links between foreign keys does not bring data. The other way I tried was using an ABAP function module,
but using this way, Crystal will only works like a Presentation Layer because all the work was did it in ABAP;
besides that shows the limitation that I can not pass as input a table.
what is the best practice for reporting on SAP ECC using Crystal Report?
Thanks.

Hi,
Crystal Reports is able to leverage tables, ABAP functions, SAP query and InfoSets.
what is the issue when using the tables ?
ingo

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