Leo found the thread. Archived 2018. Page 47. A single comment from “K_Schmidt”:

“It’s not the query,” Leo whispered, his voice frayed. “It’s the iReport designer. The version we’re on—5.6.0—has a known bug with sub-reports. We need the old one. The legend.”

It is crucial to understand that and has not been officially supported since the end of 2015. Jaspersoft has replaced it with Jaspersoft Studio . iReport Designer 4.0.1 Jaspersoft Studio (Modern) Status Legacy/Obsolete Active/Supported Platform NetBeans Platform Eclipse Platform Performance Buggy on newer Java Highly optimized Data Sources Limited by 2011 tech Modern DBs, Big Data (Hive) Latest Ver. 5.6.0 (Legacy) 10.x+ (Current) Tips for Running iReport 4.0.1 Today

At 1:45 PM, he walked into the CFO’s office and handed over a flawless PDF. The CFO grunted approval.