Quiz Reporting Errors

[Deskin, Bob]

I'm just guesing here, but we went to a new subfile format with PowerHouse
series 8, format 8 (just coincidence). Is it possible that you have old
subfiles around with prior formats? Normally, QUIZ and QTP check the format
but it depends what you're doing. QUIZ (and QTP) can read any subfile format
without being told what the format is. However when writing, they will write
format 8 unless being told otherwise. In addition, I would expect an error
if you tried to append to or overwrite an older format without specifying
the FORMAT option.

Sorry there's not much here.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


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> From: 	Richard Kessler[SMTP:71051.1106@compuserve.com]
> Sent: 	January 30, 1999 5:11 PM
> To: 	All
> Subject: 	Quiz Reporting Errors
> 
> Have recently re-compiled our source code with PH813D under AIX (UNIX)
> and are seeing problems with the numerical/data output on QUIZ reports.  
> The numbers are not correct.  Have not been able to gather enough detail
> to
> determine
> this for sure, but it looks like not all transactions have been picked up,
> resulting
> in numbers that are smaller than expected, and otherwise incorrect. 
> 
> Our typical method of generating a report is to have a QTP produce a
> subfile which is then used by the QUIZ report for further linking(if
> necessary)
> and reporting. 
> 
> In the cases where we have identified problems, I can manually run the 
> QUIZ source code through QUIZ against the subfile that has already
> been created, and the report comes out ok.  This seems to indicate
> that the QTP part of the process is ok.  If we recompile the erroneous
> report (again using the subfile that was associated with the first error),
> then the report runs correctly on subsequent attempts. 
> 
> The method used to compile all the QUIZ reports was to first run
> QTP and compile all the programs that create subfiles. Then, 
> without exiting QTP, a QUIZ session is called so that all the
> QUIZ source(s) can be compiled using the 'subfiles' structures
> that are currently in memory from the QTP compiles.  We don't do
> all 2700 programs like this. They are broken up into 15 different 
> modules.
> 
> I suspect that we might have a problem with this compile method
> and some limitation in the environment such as memory or disk
> space limits that might be causing some of the QUIZ reports
> to be faulty. 
> 
> We have a call in with tech support and are awaiting a response,,
> but wanted to see if anyone here has any ideas ! ???
> 
> Thanks!
> Richard Kessler
> 71051.1106@compuserve.com 
> 
> 
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