Serverside PDF generation using Report

In the past I have used Reports to generate PDF reports that are then mailed to recipients in the company.
I use to use a cronjob to call the reports executable on a server to create the pdf file.
We are now using reports 9i and application server, and I am having problems trying to replicate this function.
I do not need to run this via the web, but just produce the pdf that gets send out to recipients.
What would be the easiest way to manage this.
Can I call the rwserver using the command line to run a report using Cron. Or is there a report scheduler?
Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Hi,
Can I call the rwserver using the command line If you used rwcli60 in 6i, then we have its equivalent command line executable in 9i that you can use. The 9i executable is rwclient. The remaining command can be the same as 6i.
Navneet.

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