Irrational subfile behavior

Al Karman alkarman@hotmail.com
Wed, 01 Sep 1999 21:08:50 GMT


Funny you mention subtotalling - I do invoke that arcane function....
Why does Quiz insist on redefining, on its own, my fine work??
And a follow-up, Mr. President....why DOESN'T QTP do auto-redefine??

>From: "Ohmes, Matt" <Matt.Ohmes@COGNOS.com>
>To: 'Al Karman' <alkarman@hotmail.com>, powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Irrational subfile behavior
>Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:04:51 -0400
>
>Hi Al,
>
>Hmmmm.. you don't show the code that created the subfile.  Do you, by any
>chance perform a summary operation against them, like SUBTOTAL?  For
>example:
>Report &
>   TI-KEY  &
>   TI-PLAN-ID &
>   TI-PART-ID &
>   TI-REC-CODE SUBTOTAL &
>   T-CB2-COUNT SUBTOTAL ...
>
>If you do, then Quiz will usually write the results out as a floating point
>number.
>
>If you have QTP, define a temporary items as Zoned*2 and then COUNT or
>SUBTOTAL into that to create the subfile.
>
>Hope that helps!
>Matt
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Al Karman [mailto:alkarman@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 3:52 PM
>To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: Irrational subfile behavior
>
>
>Good afternoon, fellow code-mules....
>
>I've the following ?
>
>I build a subfile (trwrk01) and define the 4x 'count' fields as    zoned*2.
>
>Now, riddle me this----how are my 'count' field morphing themselves into
>floating point, hmmm ?
>
>
>Q U I Z   (PowerHouse  8.19.C1)
>Copyright 1998 COGNOS INCORPORATED
>
>acc *trwrk01
>sho ite
>
>                                                  INPUT OUTPUT
>TRWRK01                                 TYPE SCALE SCALE  DEC PICTURE
>* TI-KEY                              CHAR                  X(14)
>TI-PLAN-ID                            CHAR                  X(4)
>TI-PART-ID                            CHAR                  X(10)
>TI-REC-CODE                           CHAR                  X(3)
>T-CB2-COUNT-81                        NUM     0     0    0  ^^
>T-CB2-COUNT-83                        NUM     0     0    0  ^^
>T-LO2-COUNT-1                         NUM     0     0    0  ^^
>T-LO2-COUNT-2                         NUM     0     0    0  ^^
>REF-NBR-LO2                           CHAR                  X(2)
>TI-401K-BASIC-PCT                     NUM     0     0    0   ^^
>TI-AFT-BASIC-PCT                      NUM     0     0    0   ^^
>ASD-T-PAYMENT                         NUM     0     0    0  ^^^^^^^^
>TI-INT-RATE-LO2                       NUM     0     0    0  ^^.^^^
>TI-LOAN-LENGTH-LO2                    NUM     0     0    0   ^,^^^
>TI-PAYMENT-FREQ-LO2                   CHAR                  X(2)
>TI-LOAN-AMOUNT-LO2                    NUM     0     0    0
>
>e
>End Run
>qshow
>
>Q S H O W   (PowerHouse  8.19.C1)
>Copyright 1998 COGNOS INCORPORATED
>
>
>sho sub trwrk01
>99/09/01                    SUBFILE DICTIONARY
>                             SUBFILE RECORD REPORT
>
>
>      Subfile:            TRWRK01
> > >     Type:               Permanent
> > >     Organization:       Indexed
> > >     Format:             8
> > >     Record Size:        98 Bytes
> > >
>Item                          Type             Offset Size  Occurs
>
>TI-KEY                               CHARACTER        0      14
>TI-PLAN-ID                           CHARACTER        14     4
>TI-PART-ID                           CHARACTER        18     10
>TI-REC-CODE                          CHARACTER        28     3
>T-CB2-COUNT-81                       IEEE FLOAT       31     8
>T-CB2-COUNT-83                       IEEE FLOAT       39     8
>T-LO2-COUNT-1                        IEEE FLOAT       47     8
>T-LO2-COUNT-2                        IEEE FLOAT       55     8
>REF-NBR-LO2                          CHARACTER        63     2
>TI-401K-BASIC-PCT                    ZONED UNSIGNED   65     2
>TI-AFT-BASIC-PCT                     ZONED UNSIGNED   67     2
>ASD-T-PAYMENT                        ZONED UNSIGNED   69     9
>TI-INT-RATE-LO2                      ZONED UNSIGNED   78     5
>TI-LOAN-LENGTH-LO2                   ZONED UNSIGNED   83     4
>TI-PAYMENT-FREQ-LO2                  CHARACTER        87     2
>TI-LOAN-AMOUNT-LO2                   ZONED UNSIGNED   89     9
> > >
> > > -- Index Contents --
> > >
>   ** TRIDX1 is a 14 byte  REPEATING PRIMARY  index **
> > >
> > >
>Segment                              Type            Size  Ord  Offset
>TI-KEY                               CHARACTER         14    A       0
>
>
>
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