Dealing with “REP-56055: Exceed max connections allowed: 20″ Oracle Reports Error

July 23rd, 2003 by Mark Rittman

If you’re using Oracle Reports delivered as either a JSP or through the Reports Servlet, and you’re getting the error “REP-56055: Exceed max connections allowed: 20″, you need to increase the maxConnect value in the reports configuration file to a higher value.

  1. Find the file $ORACLE_HOME/reports/conf/repservername.conf

    where $ORACLE_HOME is your applications (not infrastructure) home, and repservername is your reports server name, i.e. rep_markr.

  2. Find the line <connection maxConnect=”20″ idleTimeOut=”15″>
  3. Change the maxConnect value to something like “100″
  4. Restart your reports server, i.e.

    $ORACLE_HOME/dcm/bin/dcmctl restart -co OC4J_BI_Forms -v

which fixed the error for me.

Comments

  1. Ivan Sapundjiev Says:

    I have OracleAS Forms and Reports Services v9.0.4
    i increase the maxConnect=&#8221;20&#8243; to 150 and after one day have this one :
    REP-56055: Exceed max connections allowed: 150
    Can you help me

  2. Nathalie Says:

    How many clients are connecting to server *at the same time* ? (ie how many simultaneous requests ?)
    greater than 150 ?
    This error means just that.
    So you need to set this value according to requests you are expecting.

  3. PIlhofer Says:

    Hello Mr. Rittman
    Can you help me please: a report is called from forms 9i with web.show_document (…, ‘_blank’);
    due to Citrix it is impossible to open a new browser window
    (this problem must be solved on the user’s side).
    My problem is, that maxConnect-number grows up to 400 and the message REP-56055 comes everywhere.
    How can I catch it? (=if the report not showed, no connection)
    Thank you in advance.
    S.Pilhofer

  4. Mike Says:

    Hello, Mr. Rittman / PIlhofer.
    Have you solved?. We have the same problem. With 100, 200, 300… the message comes everywhere.

    Thanks.