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Craig Kozlow
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Hello,

We've recently upgraded to WF 7.13 (DevStudio and Server) and have seen 'large' HTML reports simply 'drop' lines at the end of the report. ('Large' is an arbitray number; suffice it to say they contain more data than the average report).

The report is actually two PDF compound reports. The first is the main report(OPEN NOBREAK)and the second is the Grand Totals (CLOSE). Sometimes, lines from the main report are simply lost, and the report jumps to the Grand Totals report.

Examining the source (below), it appears that the first report is ending prematurely and incorrectly as the data table is missing </TD>, </TR> and </HTML> tags, as well as more data. The second report just 'starts' with <HTML>.

This snippet of the source shows where the first report ends (RECEIVING BANK: 051400549WA) and the second report begins (<HTML>Wink

...
...
...
<TR>
<TD class='x6'>
 </TD><TD class='x6'>
RECEIVING BANK: 051400549WA<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META name="HandheldFriendly" content="True">
<META name="PalmComputingPlatform" content="True">
...
...
...

What's make this even more bizarre is, using the same workstation, same version of IE, same memory...

1 - The report always runs to completion via DevStudio, NOT always when using our Self-service J2EE/WAS app
2 - Certain Users can run the report to completion via our Self-service J2EE/WAS app
3 - Doesn't matter how many apps are open and running when the report is generated, the results are the same
4 - If the 'large' report is filtered to only show the bottom subset of missing rows, all the rows show via both DevStudio and the Self-service app.

Sounds like a memory problem somewhere, but where???

Condition 1 points to a problem with the J2EE/WAS interface...but Condition 2 shows seems to point out that its user-specific (which the authors of the app say is impossible). Condition 3 kind of says it's not Workstation memory, but Condition 4 looks like it IS Workstation memory!

Has anyone run into this? Any ideas would be appreciated.... and any ammo to get the J2EE/WAS guys to look at it from their end would be GREATLY appreciated <g>!

Thanks! Craig


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Posts: 28 | Location: USA | Registered: March 24, 2005Report This Post
Craig Kozlow
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Hello (again!),

Just to clarify, the output can actually be PDF or HTML. When I said "The report is actually two PDF compound reports", what I meant was it is two separate reports, running like this...

-SET &FORMAT = ...either HTML or PDF
-SET &OPEN = IF &FORMAT EQ 'PDF' THEN 'OPEN NOBREAK' ELSE '';
-SET &OPEN = IF &FORMAT EQ 'PDF' THEN 'CLOSE' ELSE '';

TABLE FILE file
PRINT whatever
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &FORMAT &OPEN
END

TABLE FILE file
PRINT whomever
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &FORMAT &CLOSE
END

BTW, I've tried HOLD FORMAT HTML AS REPORT and !IBI.FIL.REPORT for both reports, but get the same results.

Craig


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Posts: 28 | Location: USA | Registered: March 24, 2005Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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I don't know if this will help at all (I'm not familiar with WF 7), but the error may be happening due to "Performance" settings. These settings are updated using the Admin Console > Configuration > Performance panel. Please update with caution, as I'm not sure the change will help.

Please read this thread:

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...081078331#4081078331

or this long-winded one:

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...301048331#3301048331

My suspicion rests on this "Performance" setting:
quote:

WF_BURST_OUTPUT

Enables the WFServlet to send simple HTML reports to the WebFOCUS Client faster. If the request is being redirected, or if it is a complex ODP or OLAP report or a report with frames, this option should be turned off.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

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