That new feature was a result of a posting a few months back about this exact issue. If there is no report, that's not necessarily an error. The new feature mentioned should resolve the issue. Now if we can just get to that new version...

Jereny,

I never meant to intimate that you were stupid. I am sorry that you took what I said that way. My apologies to you.

Schedule the report to distribute to an FTP server.

or do as Prarie said, but if you do not even want that message, send it to moon@outer.space, I'm sure you never get an answer

Just create a dummy TABLE request at the end of your FEX and put an -EXIT before it

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Originally posted by GinnyJakes:
Jereny,

I never meant to intimate that you were stupid. I am sorry that you took what I said that way. My apologies to you.

No problem GinnyJakes

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Originally posted by Prarie:
That new feature Jenny mentions will be nice...we have a little dummy report that we send with the the report...so you don't get no report to distribute you get an e-mail with an inline message that says:
Job Has Completed

With the 7.6.2 version, we have the same result.

The change is in 764, not 762 and it is a global setting, not an individual schedule setting. Not sure if that is a good thing.

Comment on the post by ehuda - I would absolutely avoid using a -EXIT in ANY ReportCaster request. It can cause all sort of undesirable issues.

as well as &ECHO setting and -Quit.

Ira
aix 533 wf 5.3.6

We usually have a table request at the end of the FEX that does a record count. I save that output to the library -- you're not forced to email it, you're just forced to distribute it somehow and the library qualifies. You can also set it to save only 1 version -- the beauty is, then you can leave all of the notifications on so you only get the email if something produces an error and if you really need to, you can go check the library for the record count (or whatever) to see if it really did work (and possibly what it did).

here's a way, just don't specify PDF in the caster output, just specify html or alpha or something harmless, and have your fex FILEDEF the pdf output to wherever you want it on your server.
FILEDEF MYFILE DISK D:\wherever\MYFILE.PDF or .XLS
i run the same fex with 2 different options, live, or parkit;
live..there is no filedef for the output file
parkit..there is a filedef and i bypass the -HTMLFORM display, or, for excel or pdf, on table hold instead of on table pchold; now, apologize to Ginny.