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In the Dashboard, users can cancel active requests that are initiated from their browser session on all available reporting servers by clicking Stop Requests under the Utilities menu on the top banner. All active requests for the current browser session are canceled and the following confirmation message displays:

xx request(s) stopped.

where:

xx

Is the total number of requests that were canceled.

Note: The WebFOCUS Reporting Server may take some time to complete the stop request. Clicking Stop Requests during this time may result in an incorrect number of cancel requests being reported.

Once the request is canceled, Dashboard displays the following information to the user that ran the request:

Reporting server request terminated by operator.

Note: The Stop Request menu option does not stop deferred requests or ReportCaster jobs.

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The following request parameters enable users to stop any report request or group of requests from a Managed Reporting environment or self-service application. The parameters are specified in the URL of the request as follows:

http://server:port/context/WFServlet?IBIWF_action=STOPREQ&IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID=ALL

Stops all requests initiated from the current browser session.

http://server:port/context/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=procedure_name&IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID=value

Runs the report procedure specified by IBIF_ex and assigns an arbitrary value specified by the IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID parameter. The IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID parameter value in this instance cannot be ALL, as it is a reserved keyword value to stop all requests.

If a request contains an arbitrary value for the IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID parameter, a user could stop a specific request or a group of requests by using the following URL and specifying the IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID value of the request or group of requests to stop:

http://server:port/context/WFServlet?
   IBIWF_action=STOPREQ&IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID=value

If the request URL contains multiple procedure names with the same IBIWF_USER_REQUEST_ID value, all report requests are stopped.

Once the request is canceled, the following message is displayed:

Reporting server request terminated by operator.

If the request is stopped while data is already being output, the following message displays in the report output:

This report is invalid because the data retrieval has been killed or the job has been stopped.

If report output is PDF and the request is stopped while data is already being output, the following message displays:

The File is damaged and could not be repaired.

Note: The Stop Request menu option does not stop deferred requests or ReportCaster jobs.