The following are documentation enhancements for ReportCaster:

• In Version 7 Release 7.03, the ReportCaster documentation was reorganized to align it with how the user accesses the product on the Bindows™ platform. The user can access three interfaces on the Bindows platform: ReportCaster Administration, ReportCaster Development, and ReportCaster Library Content. These three interfaces are now documented in two manuals. The ReportCaster Administration manual describes the ReportCaster Administration interface, and the ReportCaster Development and Library Content manual describes the ReportCaster Development and ReportCaster Library Content interfaces. Additionally, we moved legacy information into two other manuals, ReportCaster Administration Applet Version and ReportCaster HTML User Interface. This simplified documentation model streamlines the documentation and eliminates duplicate information.
• The HTML ODP Format is not supported on z/OS.
• Ability to Recover RUN NOW Jobs Upon ReportCaster Failure. Recovery can now be extended to include On Demand schedules. There is a new global configuration setting in ReportCaster. The Save On Demand Schedules for Job Duration setting instructs the Distribution Server to write On Demand schedules to the ReportCaster repository before they are run. When the job is completed, the Distribution Server deletes the On Demand schedule from the ReportCaster repository. If the Distribution Server shuts down before an On Demand schedule completes, this schedule will be resubmitted when the Distribution Server is restarted if the Recovery is On.

Note: This problem was corrected in the installation packaging on July 1, 2011. If you downloaded WebFOCUS Release 7.7.03 for Windows prior to July 1, 2011, see the following information.

On Windows only, after installing WebFOCUS 7.7.03 as a Service Pack upgrade to an earlier version of WebFOCUS 7.7.x, if the Distribution Server is run as a Windows Service, ReportCaster generates an IO Exception error:

Unable to distribute to <email id>
IO Exception while sending message

• This issue only occurs when installing a WebFOCUS 7.7.03 service pack upgrade.
• This issue does not occur when installing WebFOCUS 7.7.03 as a new installation.
• This issue does not occur when the Distribution Server is run as a batch file.

The problem occurs because of renamed jar files, which require that the Windows ReportCaster Distribution Server service (and only the service) to be re-installed. The new jar files are activation-1.1.1.jar and mail-1.4.2.jar.

As of Version 7 Release 7.02, Dynamic Language settings for ReportCaster are configured in the WebFOCUS Administration Console and no longer configured in the ReportCaster Configuration tool.

As of Version 7 Release 7, when EXL2K TEMPLATE is selected as an output format for distribution, the file type should be xls. The Save As value in ReportCaster defaults to xlt.

This issue has been addressed in Version 7 Release 7.02.

As of Version 7 Release 7, the ReportCaster API Javadoc is no longer accessible from the WebFOCUS Online Help. It is accessible using the following URL:

http://servername:port/webserver_alias/javadoc/rcaster/index.html

The toolbar icons on the ReportCaster Developer and Administrator (applet) interface are incorrectly spaced when the user browser is configured to use Sun Microsystems JVM Versions 1.5_08 and higher on Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Server, and with JVM Versions 1.5_07 and higher on Windows 2003 Server. This is a documented problem in the Sun Microsystems release notes, which are found at:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/releasenotes-142123.html

Sun Microsystems is tracking a number of related reported problems in this area. The main bug ID number is 6349010. The bug ID number that specifically references JVM 1.5_08 is 6234686. Although the description information on these problems states that it is for Windows XP, the problem within the ReportCaster applet interface is only occurring on Windows 2000 and 2003. This is not a problem if the user browser is running on Windows XP.

Evaluation has been performed with the Sun Microsystems JVM 1.6 version and this ReportCaster applet toolbar button issue has been confirmed not to occur with Windows XP, 2000, and 2003. This is a cosmetic issue and does not impact ReportCaster functionality.

There is a known issue opening Excel files distributed by e-mail to an Outlook Web Access mail client due to Outlook attachment blocking. For more information about Outlook Web Access attachment blocking, go to the following URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555001.

The alternative for this issue is to zip the Excel file(s) before distribution. For information on zipping scheduled output, see the ReportCaster End User's Manual.

You cannot open Excel and PDF reports in Internet Explorer if the reports were distributed to Managed Reporting on a WebSphere 6.1 application server configured with Java 1.5.

This problem does not occur:

• With Internet Explorer using the Tomcat application server.
• With the Firefox browser.

When distributing scheduled output using SFTP, you must specify the fully-qualified domain name.

When ReportCaster is configured with Informix, the error java.net.UnknownHostException occurs when a schedule is run and the mail server specified is invalid.

When creating or editing a task and accessing the Password and Advanced buttons using the keyboard, the Enter key does not select the option. An alternative is to use the space bar to select the Password and Advanced buttons.

The following are Web Browser issues when using ReportCaster:

• When using the Firefox browser to access the ReportCaster API Help from the WebFOCUS Online Help, a Page not found error message displays. You must change the URL in the Firefox browser address window from:

  ibi_html/javaassist/intl/EN/help/..\..\..\..\..\javadoc\rcaster\help\index.html

  to:

  ibi_html/javadoc/rcaster/help/index.html

• The ReportCaster Scheduling Wizard that opens from Dashboard is not resizable in Internet Explorer. It is resizable in Firefox.
• When using the Firefox browser, you are unable to see multiple entries in the Distribution List. The Distribution List Destination column does not scroll to show all characters for values that exceed the display width of the Destination column.

The Help option from the Email Address Search dialog does not display online help. The alternative is to use the online help Index and enter Address Search in the keyword entry field to locate and view the online help information for Address Search.

Under certain conditions, you may receive a Siteminder authentication prompt when you attempt to open an On Demand Paging (ODP) report in the Report Library by clicking the report in the left pane of the Library interface. (This prompt does not appear when you open the report in a separate window, that is, when you select the report and click the Open icon.)

If you receive the Siteminder authentication prompt, enter the requested information, then the report will open in the right pane of the Library interface.

ReportCaster cannot be started as a service on WIN Itanium or AMD64.

When a schedule is updated, the next run time is recalculated based only on the primary run interval. This means that if a schedule that includes a secondary run interval is updated before the secondary schedule is able to run, then the secondary run interval is ignored and the NEXTRUNTIME is calculated based on the primary interval.

For example, a schedule exists that is set to run daily at 2:00 PM with a secondary run interval of every 10 minutes from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. When the schedule runs at 2:00 PM, the NEXTRUNTIME is reset to run at 2:10, which honors the secondary run interval. If this schedule is updated at 2:03 PM, the NEXTRUNTIME is recalculated to be 2:00 PM the next day, rather than 2:10 PM on the current day.