Re: can't get report viewer to work...

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/02/2006 12:16:45 PM:

I am trying to use the report viewer in WDSC to look at a spooled report 

my 

program generated. To do that, I am choosing the "view" option when you 
right click on a spooled file entry in the Remote Systems perspective. 
Whether I expand the tree and right click on an individual entry and 

choose 

"view" or if I choose to "Show in table" and then choose "view" from 

there I 

get the same results.

I do have the SoftLanding plug-in installed so that may have something 

to do 

with this.

The viewer will open in a separate window but all the controls are 
grayed-out and the report never loads. It's just a dead window. From the 

same perspective, I can get the item to load in to the text editor if I 
choose "Open with text editor" instead of "view".

Is there a configuration setting I missed somewhere for the report 

viewer to 

work? TIA

Anything that has to do with spooled files comes from the RSE Extensions, 
not WDSC.  The application that pops-up when you take the View option is a 
class that is provided as part of JT400 (which is from IBM).  I cannot 
comment what the problem might be, except that it is pretty crappy even 
when it is working.  If viewing it in text mode does not meet your needs, 
I'd recommend doing Save As ... and choosing the TIFF format.  You can 
then view the TIFF using the viewer that comes with Windows.  This is 
essentially all the IBM viewer is doing and the one built into Windows 
works better.

Mark