"A <freeform> number is invalid."

Pickering, John (NORBORD) PICKERIJ@norbord.com
Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:44:33 -0400


May we see the Qtp source please.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	george.j.wen@us.abb.com [SMTP:george.j.wen@us.abb.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:22 AM
> To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Cc:	joann.l.olsen@us.abb.com
> Subject:	"A <freeform> number is invalid."
> 
> 
> 
> I'm an AS/400 PH user - version 6.07F.  It's a lonely world but there are
> many
> of us
> out there.  They just need to come out of the woodwork.
> 
> My problem is this:  I created a subfile in Quiz and then needed to run
> QTP to
> do
> some updates to the subfile.  I'm getting the above error message on
> character
> fields.  I'm not updating any numeric fields-only those with the '*' are
> to be
> updated.
> I isolated them one at a time and all of them produces the error.
> 
> I tried playing with the numeric fields thinking maybe they're causing the
> problem
> enven though they're not being updated.  In the initial creation of the
> subfile
> in Quiz
> the numeric fields are defined as Float*8.  Changing them to Packed did
> nothing.
> Changing them to Zoned created file size problems within the quiz routines
> when
> trying to append to the subfile.  Anyone out there seen this?
> 
> 
>                                              INPUT OUTPUT
> T570010A                                TYPE SCALE SCALE  DEC PICTURE
>   ABACUS-BAU                         CHAR                  X(12)
>   DUNS-NBR                             CHAR                  X(9)
>   CUST-NBR                              CHAR                  X(8)
> * CUST-NAME                          CHAR                  X(40)
> * CUST-ADDR                          CHAR                  X(40)
> * CUST-CITY                             CHAR                  X(25)
> * CUST-STATE                        CHAR                  X(3)
> * CUST-ZIP                                CHAR                  X(12)
> * CUST-CNTRY                       CHAR                  X(4)
> * CUST-PHONE                      CHAR                  X(16)
>   PN-FY                                      CHAR                  X(4)
>   SHIP-AMT                              NUM     0     0    0   ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
>   ORD-AMT                              NUM     0     0    0   ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
>   GROSS-RESULT                NUM     0     0    0   ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
> 
> QTP run:
> 
> Executing request 1 ...
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> A <freeform> number is invalid.
> 
>    Item:  CUST-ADDR
> 
>    File:  T5700101
> 
> 
> Action taken: Run terminated.
> 
> 
> 
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