Reports not posting after PIA bounce

We also ran into a report server problem during go-live for the Tools patch.  Right after everything was signed-off, we put back the login page and bounced PIA.  Then when someone ran a report, it wouldn't post.  I bounced the Process Scheduler and that  didn't fix it.  We found an Oracle case (660253.1) that addressed the problem.  It has a work-around and a fix for the problem.  The quick work-around is to login through the report server.  Our report server is dedicated, so we don't usually login through it, but the login page is not disabled.  So we logged in and it was all good.

The log term fix is a bit more work, but then you won't have to go through another step each time you bounce PIA on the report server.  You'll need to edit $PS_HOME\webserv\peoplesoft\applications\peoplesoft\PORTAL.war\WEB-INF\web.xml

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<servlet> <servlet-name>psp</servlet-name> <servlet-class>psft.pt8.psp</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>configDir</param-name> <param-value>D:/pt8.51\webserv/peoplesoft/applications\peoplesoft\PORTAL.war/WEB-INF/psftdocs</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup> <!-- add this line --> </servlet>

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After saving the file, stop PIA, delete the web cache, and start PIA again.

In our test system we use the same web server for login and for the report server, so we never saw this problem in test.   If you do the same in production, you won't need to worry about this issue.