Outputting subfile using QTP

[Armstrong, Mike]

Murray,
This is a bug!! and should be handled as such by support.
Seems to me that all that support should need to reproduce the problem is a
copy of the subfile (It is quite possible data related).
Cheers!
Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Scholz [mailto:murray.scholz@abri.une.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 6:22 PM
To: POWERHOUSE (new) List Group
Subject: Outputting subfile using QTP


Hello All,

Was wondering whether anyone out there has experienced something similar
to the following... (Cognos cannot reproduce problem)

POWERHOUSE v710G1 , VMS 6.2 , on Alpha

Q T P   (7.10.G1)
> access *a-subfile
> temp a-filler char*1
> subfile another-subfile keep include &
        fld-a , &
        a-filler char*6 , &
        fld-b , &
        a-filler char*10 , &
        fld-c
> go

Executing request 1 ...
%SYSTEM-E-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=!XB, virtual
address=!XL, PC=!XL, PS=!XL
%NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort

We use the above technique, in order to 'construct up' subfiles, that
fit record definitions for an existing COBOL (or other) system, and are
not concerned with the 'contents' of the 'filler', just getting the
offsets of the real data fields in the correct positions.

The above code worked "fine" in v710E , also works "fine" in 710G1 on
VAX,
 but dies on Alpha ??!!??
(well, "fine" up to a point... qtp didn't die, but the actual value of
the
filler in the subfile would be binary zero in 1st byte, then spaces in
subsequent bytes... which wasn't a big deal as we are just using the
temp field as 'filler')

Changing the temp to a define does fix the problem, but there are LOTS
of instances of it through our various systems...Any other ideas ?? ...

Murray Scholz
Associate Director
Agricultural Business Research Institute
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351 Australia
Email: murray.scholz@abri.une.edu.au
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