Re: Oracle 9i Reports

Thanks, Looks like the reporting platform is not really stable. Unless you decide to pick another product for reporting, you have to deal with a whole bunch of bugs....

"Ana C. Dent" <anacedent_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<4ijsa.532$d14.122_at_fed1read03>...
> Andy wrote:
> > We are exploring reporting tools for use in our new web application.
> > Since we are heavily invested into Oracle we are considering using
> > Oracle9i Reports and Discoverer.
> >
> > I was hoping if someone could share their experience in utilizing
> > these tools.
> >
> > Is it easy, difficult, plain outright useless....
> 9iAS R1 is already obsoleted or soon will be.
> 9iAS R2 V9.0.2.1.0 (a.k.a. Beverly Hills release)
> give MUCH better performance over R1 if/when you
> get all the bugs ptached or worked around.
>
> Supposedly V9.0.4 will be released Real Soon Now (RSN)
> and is purported to be "much" better than all previous
> releases. Of course that is damning with faint praise.
>
> For example Reports Server V9.0.2.1.0 for Solaris can
> NOT print directly to a printer. Once you patch this
> problem, you discover that each Reports Server engine
> process will print successfully ONE report before it
> refuses to function (again). So apply yet another fix
> to limit the engine life to ONE report and now you can
> send multiple reports through the s/w, but the system
> overhead from starting new JAVA engines tends to degrade
> reponse time.
>
> Find bug, patch bug, repeat.
> Lather, Rinse, repeat.
>
> HTH & YMMV!
Received on Fri May 02 2003 - 18:13:08 CEST