Quiz Reporting Errors

[Richard Witkopp]

> Richard Witkopp writes:
> >We used to do that until Cognos changed the way Quiz behaved on one
> >of it's releases and some reports started reporting incorrect totals.
> >A company VP informed us of it. Very unpleasant. We always tested
> >after any recompiles after that.
> 
> I do mass compiles, too.  So far this has been the best 
> solution for me.
> This worked well in 5.09, 6.09, and 7.29 so I'm wondering what Cognos
> changed that would make the mass compile cause problems.  
> BTW, the first
> two lines in every source file is CANCEL CLEAR followed by 
> SET DEFAULT.

IIRC, they fixed a small bug regarding linking or footings or
something like that which caused subtotals to be calculated differently
than in the past. They were older programs that probably should've
been written a little differently. Very few shops can be confident
that proper coding has been used since day 1.

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