Part I
Preparing Your Environment

Part I contains overview information about the OracleAS Reports Services environment and provides practical information about preparing that environment for running reports. This includes starting and stopping OracleAS Reports Services, configuring Reports-related OracleAS Reports Services components, font related information in Oracle Reports, configuring destinations for OracleAS Reports Services, configuring and using the JDBC PDS, setting up OracleAS Reports Services Security, OracleAS Single Sign-On, deploying reports in OracleAS Portal, and Reports Server clusters.

Part I includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Understanding the OracleAS Reports Services Architecture"

• Chapter 2, "Starting and Stopping OracleAS Reports Services"

• Chapter 3, "Configuring OracleAS Reports Services"

• Chapter 4, "Managing Fonts in Oracle Reports"

• Chapter 5, "Printing on UNIX with Oracle Reports"

• Chapter 6, "Using PDF in Oracle Reports"

• Chapter 7, "Configuring Destinations for OracleAS Reports Services"

• Chapter 8, "Configuring and Using the JDBC PDS"

• Chapter 9, "Securing OracleAS Reports Services"

• Chapter 10, "Configuring and Administering OracleAS Single Sign-On"

• Chapter 11, "Deploying Reports in OracleAS Portal"

• Chapter 12, "Clustering Reports Servers"