**Data conversion error ** in Quiz !

[chuck.reinke]

I've seen this happen when some program other than PowerHouse was used to
load the original data and lacked proper editing. Zoned is the same as
Ascii, but should always be numeric, but might not be where you are getting
these conversion errors.

Try using QTP with and EDIT on the offending field, or go into PDL and
redefine the item as an Ascii field of the same size so you can report out
what's actually there.

Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amarendra GODBOLE" <root@zworg.com>
To: <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: **Data conversion error ** in Quiz !


> Hi All,
>
> I have come across a peculiar problem while running Quiz. Basically I
> get data conversion errors. I investigated more, and found out that
> these errors are coming up due to negative values in the data file.
> PowerHouse Quiz is not able to read these values, and subsequently
> convert them, and hence it is outputting 0.
>
> The data type of this item in error is ZONED SIGNED 10. Has anyone come
> across such an issue ? Is there any global PH setting to take care of
> this ? I am unable to figure out what is going wrong, and where.
>
> I am running PH 8.23.D7 on HP-UX/9000 SuperDome machine.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Amar
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