Symptom
Enhancement Rerquest (ER)
When tracing Crystal Reports database SQL sent to MS SQL Server using Profiler the log shows "Crystal Reports...."
Environment
Crystal Reports Designer 2011 SP 11
Crystal Reports Designer 2013 SP 6
Crystal Reports Designer 2016
Crystal Reports developer, for Visual Studio SP 13
Cause
Currently this "Application Name" property is harded coded and will ignore any custom setting.
Resolution
For an unknown reason we did not change this to allow setting it in code, doing so removes the existing value.
The work around is to set it in the connection property in CR Designer or use an OLE DB UDL or ODBC File connection and specify the property there.
Keywords
Crystal Reports, Database Wizard, OLE DB, Application Name, cr for vs , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , BI-RA-CR-SDK , SDK related, including Java/.NET etc. , Product Enhancement