Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Running the FRx AA Wizard in a 64 bit Machine

Microsoft does not support FRx on a 64 bit machine. That is not to say that FRx does not work on a 64 bit machine. I have seen instances where FRx works just fine on a 64 bit machine. But here is an instance where you will not be able to use a 64 bit machine.
If you are setting up FRx to report on Analytical Accounting information, you will need to go through a process of defining the AA dimensions in FRx. The Analytical Accounting Dimension Wizard which can be found in the Analytical Accounting folder within the FRx folder is used to add the AA dimensions to FRx.
On the first step you will be asked to specify the ODBC Datasource, System Database, Login and Password.

As soon as you move focus to the Company dropdown, you will get this error message.
“An internal program error has occurred. The program is shutting down.”

This will only happen on a 64 bit machine. The only workaround is to run this process from a 32 bit machine. However, once you have created the dimensions in FRX using this process, you can use the 64 but machine to build AA reports as long as you have the Sysdata folder shared.

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