Article ID	1264
Article Title	HOWTO: Run Crystal Reports report using DB2 / MSSQL database from VDF
Article URL	http://www.dataaccess.com/kbasepublic/kbprint.asp?ArticleID=1264
KBase Category	Crystal Reports
Date Created	01/25/2001
Last Edit Date	07/01/2004

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To be able to run a report that uses DB2 or MS SQL Server as the database from a VDF application, you will need to provide the logon information through one of the commands listed below:

- LogOnServer
This is easier to call than the NthTableLogOn properties and it can be called at any time. You must know the database DLL name to make this call.

- NthTableLogOn properties
These are more flexible than LogOnServer since they allow you to override any of the log on parameters. These properties must be called from the OnInitializeReport procedure.


Example:
// Setting the logon parameters using the LogOnServer procedure
   Procedure OnInitializeReport
      Send LogOnServer "p2sodbc.dll" "server" "database" "username" "password"
   End_Procedure // OnInitializeReport

// Setting the logon parameters for each table using the NthTableLogOn properties
   Procedure OnInitializeReport
      Integer iTables iCounter

      Get NTables To iTables
      For iCounter From 0 To (iTables-1)
          Set NthTableLogOnServerName iCounter To "server"
          Set NthTableLogOnDatabaseName iCounter To "database"
          Set NthTableLogOnUserId iCounter To "username"
          Set NthTableLogOnPassword iCounter To "password"
      Loop
   End_Procedure // OnInitializeReport


If you are not sure what the DLL name is or what logon information to use, you can get those from the report itself:
- From the Designer, open your report

- Select Database \ Convert Database Driver
Here you will find the name of the DLL being used. The name displayed has a D as the second character but the DLL name will have a 2 instead of a D - only 16-bit DLLs have their file name using D.
e.g.: If pdsodbc.dll is displayed, the name of the file you will need to inform is p2sodbc.dll

- Select Database \ Set Location
From here you can get the logon information

Note1:
The report against a DB2 database can be built using the ODBC Driver (p2sodbc.dll, displayed as pdsodbc.dll ) or the DB2 Native Driver (p2sdb2.dll, displayed as pdsdb2.dll). They will both need the same logon information to be provided.

Note2:
If the error message "Cannot open SQL server" is displayed, the logon was not successful. Check your logon information and the command used.

Additional Notes:
For Visual DataFlex version 8 and higher, NthTableLogOnXXX will require an additional parameter - iPropagateAcrossTables (0 - not to propagate; 1 - to propagate). The propagate flag may be used to affect all tables with similar server and database properties.

          Set NthTableLogOnServerName iCounter To "server" 0
          Set NthTableLogOnDatabaseName iCounter To "database" 0
          Set NthTableLogOnUserId iCounter To "username" 0
          Set NthTableLogOnPassword iCounter To "password" 0



Contributed By:
Ulbe Stellema
Company: Data Access Worldwide
email: ulbe.stellema@dataaccess.eu
Web Site: http://www.dataaccess.eu

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