Report fails to generate on Crystal Reports Server

Post Author: cmilkosk
CA Forum: General
Hello all!
I have a case open with BO on generating a report from a Crystal Reports Server (CRS). The report works fine when running in Crystal Reports on my PC, but after I send it to the Crystal Reports Server, it fails with a message like:"Failed to open the connection.
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\Data\procSched\metrixdb.reportjobserver\~tmp9bc512965895e0.rpt"This error appears to be telling you that it is trying to connect to
the CRS's reportjobserver process and having a problem, but the service is up according to the Central Config Manager. I tried starting and stopping it, but it didn't make a difference. This happens for different reports sent to the server. One common thing that I've noticed is that the reports that connect to the CRS's local SQL Server 2005 database are the ones that are failing. So, my CRS resides on the same host as the SQL Server 2005 database (which also houses the CRS SQL DB). Interestingly, reports scheduled that connect to a remote SQL Server 2000 database work fine. It could be the simplest report that I am running off of the CRS/SQL Server 2005 host, and it still fails every time. Tech support so far hasn't been much of a help. They suggested that I upgrade my Crystal Reports software on my PC to R2, but that didn't fix the problem.Has anyone had any trouble like this before? If so, have you found out what the cause was?I'm beginning to wonder if it is related to SQL Server 2005 or potentially just that it is connecting to a local database.Note - my CRS's software version appears to be 11.5.3.438. I'm not sure if I am running CRS R1 or R2 (how can you tell?).Anyone have any ideas?Thanks,Chris

Post Author: cmilkosk
CA Forum: General
Anyone have any ideas? Tech Support doesn't seem to be helping much. Chris

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 CrystalReportViewer viewer = new CrystalReportViewer();
 ServletContext cxt = req.getSession().getServletContext();
 String fileName = "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/lib-so/ix_sample2.rpt";
 try
 String realPath = fileName;
 reportClientDocument.open(realPath, 0);
 viewer.refresh();
 viewer.setReportSource(reportClientDocument.getReportSource());
 catch(Exception e)
 System.out.println("inside catch block...");
 e.printStackTrace();
 IReportSource reportSource = reportClientDocument.getReportSource();
 Fields oFields = new Fields();
 ParameterField portfolio = new ParameterField();
 portfolio.setName("Portfolio");
 Values oValues = new Values();
 ParameterFieldDiscreteValue oParameterFieldDiscreteValue = new ParameterFieldDiscreteValue();
 oParameterFieldDiscreteValue.setValue(new Integer(16));
 oValues.add(oParameterFieldDiscreteValue);
 portfolio.setCurrentValues(oValues);
 portfolio.setReportName(fileName);
 oFields.add(portfolio);
 viewer.setOwnPage(false);
 viewer.setParameterFields(fi);
 try {
 viewer.processHttpRequest(req, res, cxt, res.getWriter());
 viewer.dispose();
 catch (ReportSDKExceptionBase e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
thanks,
Mallikarjun
Edited by: mallikarjuna.ch1 on May 17, 2009 9:58 AM

Thanks a lot for worthful suggetion Neeraj.
I got resolved my problem. I have one more issue, please give a clarification about that.
my doublt is,
For parameterized rpt file running purpose I need to set the database details . every jar file is placed in application lib only. And my CRConfig.xml file also placed bellow.
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><CrystalReportEngine-configuration>
 <timeout>1</timeout>
 <ExternalFunctionLibraryClassNames>
 <classname> </classname>
 <classname> </classname>
 </ExternalFunctionLibraryClassNames>
<keycode>B6W60-01CS200-00GCPT0-0JY1</keycode>
<Javaserver-configuration>
<DataDriverCommon>
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 <IORFileLocation>$</IORFileLocation>
 <JavaServerTimeout>1800</JavaServerTimeout>
 <JavaServerStartupTimeout>30</JavaServerStartupTimeout>
 <JVMMaxHeap>64000000</JVMMaxHeap>
 <JVMMinHeap>32000000</JVMMinHeap>
 <NumberOfThreads>100</NumberOfThreads>
</DataDriverCommon>
<JDBC>
 <CacheRowSetSize>100</CacheRowSetSize>
 <JDBCURL>jdbc:sqlserver://10.0.0.65:1433;DatabaseName=reportmanager</JDBCURL>
 <JDBCClassName>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver</JDBCClassName>
 <JDBCUserName>malli</JDBCUserName>
 <JNDIURL></JNDIURL>
 <JNDIConnectionFactory></JNDIConnectionFactory>
 <JNDIInitContext>/</JNDIInitContext>
 <JNDIUserName>weblogic</JNDIUserName>
 <GenericJDBCDriver>
 <Default>
 <ServerType>UNKNOWN</ServerType>
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 <StoredProcType>Standard</StoredProcType>
 <LogonStyle>Standard</LogonStyle>
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 <Sybase>
 <ServerType>SYBASE</ServerType>
 <QuoteIdentifierOnOff>OFF</QuoteIdentifierOnOff>
 <DriverClassName>com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDriver</DriverClassName>
 <StoredProcType>Standard</StoredProcType>
 <LogonStyle>MySQL</LogonStyle>
 </Sybase>
 </GenericJDBCDriver>
</JDBC>
<XML>
 <CacheRowSetSize>100</CacheRowSetSize>
 <PreReadNBytes>4096</PreReadNBytes>
 <XMLLocalURL></XMLLocalURL>
 <SchemaLocalURL></SchemaLocalURL>
 <XMLHttpURL></XMLHttpURL>
 <SchemaHttpURL></SchemaHttpURL>
</XML>
<JavaBeans>
 <CacheRowSetSize>100</CacheRowSetSize>
 <JavaBeansClassPath></JavaBeansClassPath>
</JavaBeans>
</Javaserver-configuration>
</CrystalReportEngine-configuration>
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