Oracle Discoverer Desktop has encountered a problem and needs to close

Question

Hi Everyone,
Hope all is well,
For Oracle Desktop users:
a) do you ever get this msg when you exit Discov?
b) this pc uses: Windows XP Professional 2002 SP3 - does your pc have same?
I am trying to run Discov. through command line in a .bat file form Microsoft Access VB/A and:
1) the bat file works if i run it directly from Windows Explorer
2) the bat file DOES EVOKE Discoverer when executing from VBA, but it fails right before the parameter screen
comes up with a Windows error
3) bat file evokes the query WITHOUT parms, so that user can enter parms themselves
Rod West gave me an idea, yet trying to see if it's a more basic problem related to pc, Windows, etc.
tx for your ideas, sandra
Edited by: [email protected] on Jan 14, 2010 8:40 AM

Answer 1

Hi Patrick.
Thx for writing...
I must step out for lunch, and detach from this for a little while ....
a) i can try your idea, and if the idea works, it does not really help me, bec. most of my reports use parms
b) if i run .bat file directly from Windows explorer by clicking .bat file and then pressing enter , discov. opens fine
c) if i run .bat file from with Access VB/A using shell(full pathname of .bat), discov. fails right before parm screen comes up
this happens when i am signing in as myself, and executing a query from another sign on called SREG
as explained below:
this statement works BEAUTIFULLY: (divided into 4 lines for readablity)
C:\oracle\BIToolsHome_1\bin\dis51usr.exe
/connect XXX_SignOn/XXX_Password@odsp8
/opendb XXX_queryName
/sheet all
From within VBA, i replace the xxx fields with valid signon and password.
Let's focus on xxx_queryName:
When i save a query in Discoverer, query is save to an INTERNAL database repository
with the user's signin as a preceding qualifier.
so if i sign in as mytfein, the query's name is MYTFEIN.queryname
To create a library of reports, our admin created a general id called SREG and we sign in using
SREG to save a report so that it is public.
to recap:
If i save query to database using my signin, mytfein
the query's name really is: MYTFEIN.queryName
if i log as SREG and save query to database
the query's name really is: SREG.queryname
now, the shell(.bat) DOES work when the command line uses:
MYTFEIN as the signin AND MYTFEIN as qualifier for query name
C:\oracle\BIToolsHome_1\bin\dis51usr.exe
/connect mytfein/mytfein123@odsp
/opendb mytfein.Advisor_CAD_M3
/sheet all
the shell(.bat) DOES NOT work when the command line uses:
MYTFEIN as the signin AND SREG as qualifier for query name
I want MYTFEIN-->SREG to work, bec. I want to create an Access form that will allow
the user to evoke queries from our public SREG library.
C:\oracle\BIToolsHome_1\bin\dis51usr.exe
/connect mytfein/mytfein123@odsp
/opendb SREG.Advisor_CAD_M3
/sheet all
this is the error message from windows event viewer:
run eventvwr.msc, click appliacation on left side of screen, then click on item with red x
msg:
Event Type:     Error
Event Source:     Application Error
Event Category:     None
Event ID:     1000
Date:          1/14/2010
Time:          11:54:48 AM
User:          N/A
Computer:     STUAB010111DX06
Description:
Faulting application dis51usr.exe, version 10.1.2.48, faulting module dis51usr.exe, version 10.1.2.48, fault address 0x000c3eaf.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 64 69 73 ure dis
0018: 35 31 75 73 72 2e 65 78 51usr.ex
0020: 65 20 31 30 2e 31 2e 32 e 10.1.2
0028: 2e 34 38 20 69 6e 20 64 .48 in d
0030: 69 73 35 31 75 73 72 2e is51usr.
0038: 65 78 65 20 31 30 2e 31 exe 10.1
0040: 2e 32 2e 34 38 20 61 74 .2.48 at
0048: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset
0050: 30 30 30 63 33 65 61 66 000c3eaf
0058: 0d 0a ..
Rod offered an idea, but it does not work for me.
Wish we could contact the Discov. people directly....
tx, s
Edited by: [email protected] on Jan 14, 2010 11:26 AM