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smagadi
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We recently upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1M and seeing a strange behavior with reportcaster. When we run a report directly, the output is good and looks like this:
"001","W","17","AAC","2301 ", "Intro to Management" ," " CR LF
"001","W","17","AAC","2401 ", "Intro to Physics" ," " CR LF
"001","W","17","AAC","2501 ", "Intro to Chemistry" ," " CR LF

but when we run this using reportcaster, we end up getting a blank line between each record:
"001","W","17","AAC","2301 ", "Intro to Management" ," " CR LF
CR LF
"001","W","17","AAC","2401 ", "Intro to Physics" ," " CR LF
CR LF
"001","W","17","AAC","2501 ", "Intro to Chemistry" ," " CR LF
CR LF

The PCHOLD line in the webfocus report looks like this:
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT DFIX DELIMITER , HEADER NO


Any ideas on why this may be happening and how to turn off the blank line in reportcaster run ?

Thank you,
Shashi

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Posts: 10 | Registered: February 16, 2016Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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I've had trouble with reports in EXL2K format and the solution is to "Override the Format Specified in the Procedure" with the same format.

I don't know if it will work, but give this a try:

In Report Caster, for your schedule, edit the Task: look for the "Override the Format Specified in the Procedure" checkbox, select it, and also select "DFIX - Delimited Flat File" in the drop-down box. I'm worried this may not work because you cannot specify the DFIX options here - hopefully they are retrieved from the fex.


Francis


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smagadi
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Thank you for the response.

We tried with
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT COMT
and that worked to produce a report without blank lines.


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smagadi
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Applying patch release 8105m gen 82 fixed this issue.


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