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<Will Wallace>
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We are running WebFOCUS 5.3.2 in a Solaris environment and whenever we run a report in COMMA, PDF, or ASCII format and it hits a certain number of rows we get the following error from the servlet.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at ibi.webfoc.wfapi.WFReport.redirectReportDataOutputStream(WFReport.java:2376)
at ibi.webfoc.wfapi.WFReport.FetchReportData(WFReport.java:1016)
...

The report inputs are being sent to the servlet via a POST. The report will return in HTML format correctly, but for some reason these other formats will not.
 
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From the online help of the WebFOCUS Administration Console:

"The mime.wfs file contains information about format types available with WebFOCUS. Setting the redirect column to yes enables redirection, which allows you to save the report output in a temporary directory. Then, an http call is made from the browser to retrieve the temporary stored output for display in the browser. If redirection is turned off, the report output displays in the browser immediately after the request is executed."

Have you verified the redirection settings for the WebFOCUS server?

You may verify and configure them with the Administration Console: http://server_name/ibi_html/wfconsole.htm

Click on Configuration
Click on Redirection Settings

The following formats are set to Redirect = Yes on my WebFOCUS 5.3.2 - Windows XP server and on my WebFOCUS 5.3.4 - AIX server:

htx, xht, wk1, xls, pdf, dif, csv, tab, doc
 
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<Will Wallace>
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We have tried this once and it did not work. However, I will try this again and repost the result.
 
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I tried changing the redirects from no to yes and we still get the same error from the servlet. Are there any other solutions??
 
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