Re: Help: Forms 4.0 -> Reports 2.0 call is SLOW

In article <Spencer.H.Moore.15.2F647926_at_tek.com> Spencer.H.Moore_at_tek.com (Spencer H Moore) writes:
>From: Spencer.H.Moore_at_tek.com (Spencer H Moore)
>Subject: Re: Help: Forms 4.0 -> Reports 2.0 call is SLOW
>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:56:06 GMT
>Summary: How can I speed up the call from Forms to Reports?
>Keywords: forms reports slow performance MS-Windows
 

>In article <Thomas.B.Cox.35.2F5F2FB1_at_tek.com> Thomas.B.Cox_at_tek.com (Thomas B Cox) writes:
 

>>I'm having a problem that perhaps someone out there has dealt with before.
 

>>On a 486 Windows box (24 mb RAM), running Forms 4.0.12 and Reports 2.0.13, I'm
>>using a button on the form to issue a RUN_PRODUCT call that fires up Reports,
>>passes in parameters from the screen I was just in, and brings up the report
>>for the user to preview and optionally print.
 

>>Problem is, this can take 20-40 seconds. I need it to take more like 5
>>seconds, which is what the users are used to today (using a character mode
>>QBasic app against ISAM files).

 ...
>>Any ideas, experiences, etc. greatly welcomed. (Maybe we should use Visual
>>Basic? C++ user exits? SQR or ReportSmith?) Thanks...
 

>> -Tom
 

>You might try the new CDE2 tools - Oracle Reports 2.5 includes a background
>report server that significantly speeds things up in this situation. What it
>does is eliminate the startup time of the reports runtime on all reports but
>the first one. The first report will still take a while to start, but all
>subsequent reports (as long as will start right away since the tool is already
>loaded. It also allows the user to kill reports in the queue that haven't run
>yet.
 

>I haven't done any measurements yet to see what the memory usage hit is.
 

>Spencer Moore
>CDE2 Ambassador
>Senior Consultant
>ARIS Corporation
Received on Wed Mar 29 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST