3 Oracle Reports

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle Reports. It includes the following topics:

General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes general issue and workarounds. It includes the following topic:

Mapping Users and Roles to Reports Application

In Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3.0) installations, roles and users are not added to the Reports application, by default. To run a report using JPS security, you must add roles and users to the Reports application.

For more information, see:

  • "Managing Application Roles" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide

  • "Managing Users and Security Policies" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services manual

Openmotif Library for SUSE Linux 11 Operating Systems

Before installing Oracle Reports 11g Release 1, ensure that the openmotif22-libs-2.2.4-138.17 library is installed on your machine. If this library is not installed, the installation of Oracle Reports fails.

You can download the library from the following location:

http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/sles-11/openmotif_FUSION_SLES11.tgz

Configuration Fails While Starting WLS_Reports Server

While starting managed weblogic server, WLS_REPORTS, configuration fails showing the following errors:

The input line is too long.
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

This occurs when user creates MW_HOME, ORACLE_HOME and domain directory with long names. Consequently the value for environment variable like JAVA_OPTIONS and CLASSPATH become very long, and the actual command for starting the WLS_REPORTS Managed Server exceeds the windows command maximum limit of 8191 characters.

To work around this issue, use short names for ORACLE_HOME, MW_HOME and domain directory on windows.

Oracle Reports Builder Fails to Open the Data Model from Object Navigator

On Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit) systems, Oracle Reports builder fails to open the Data Model view when you double-click the data model icon from the Object Navigator.

Workaround

From the File menu, select New, then select Report, and then select the Build a new report manually option to open the Data Model view.

Reports Weblayout not Supported on SUSE 10

As Mozilla Firefox is not supported on SUSE 10, Reports WebLayout is not certified with SUSE 10.