Quiz Reporting Errors

[Richard Kessler]

Sender: pickerij@norbord.com
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>I don't know exactly how your compile job works and I'm no expert on the   
>Compaq environment but I have seen similar problems doing "bulk" compiles   
>on an hp3k. Although our standard states that every Quiz source shall   
>start with "set default" sloppy coders sometimes omit this line.   
>Depending on what the programmer actually does "set" and depending on the   
>version of Quiz things like "report name" and "report limit" can be   
>inherited from one Quiz program to another. This became such a nuisance   
>that my batch compile job starts a nice fresh new execution of Quiz and   
>Qtp for each and every source file. Absolutely brutal on the machine but   
>it gets the compiling done cleanly.
>
>In your case, check for a "report limit" somewhere earlier in the compile   
>job than the report giving you the trouble.
>
>John Pickering

That IS interesting John, as we did have one instance today when 
it appeared that we had to add in a set report nolimit when re-running
the source code for one of the reports that failed to 'show all the
numbers'. I am thinking that we launch all our .QZCs with a NOGO
and a SET REPORT LIMIT 2000000000 (or something about that size) but
will have to double check.  Thanks for the tip!!

Richard Kessler
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