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When we upgraded from 8.0.7 to 8.1.5. we noticed that the FTP file from Report Caster in CSV format is creating a blank line on every record. The email version of the csv file is OK, no blank lines. Any idea what's causing this issue in Report Caster?

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Does the CSV file have a blank line between the records, this could be a carriage control line feed character?

What server is this being FTP'd to?

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Yes, the CSV file has a blank line between records. We are using Report Caster SFTP and not FTP. The Reporting server and the SFTP server are both running in Linux.

The weird thing is if I choose the Compress/Zip/Gzip instead of NONE option, the compressed file in CSV format is correct.

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Depending on the SFTP software, it is probably adding a carriage return to each line in ASCII mode. Switch to binary mode to do your transfers.


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Thank you for your reply. Where do you switch it?

Note that the Email method works fine for CSV format both in WF 8.0.7 and 8.1.5 version. This SFTP method issue in the 8.1.5 version is not a problem at all in 8.0.7 version. Both are using the same SFTP server.


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Please ask your internal techsupport team. Possibly, your SFTP software has changed?

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Our SFTP software did not change as we are using the same SFTP server both for the new WF 8.1.5 and the oldWF8.0.7. Why would it work in 8.0.7 but not in 8.1.5? Because of this we decided to move our reports using the SFTP method back to WF 8.0.7. BTW, we opened an IBI ticket for this issue but have not gotten a reply back from them yet. I'm just curious if there is anybody out there on WF 8.1.5 version and has reports using the Report Caster SFTP method.


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This may not be an answer for you but I found it easier to HOLD the output in a folder on the reporting server and do my own ftp/sftp scripts.

This way, if for some reason the ftp/sftp fails (say the receiving systems is down), I still have the output file and can manually send it later.


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Yes, I tried creating a hold file in csv format and manually scp it to the SFTP server. It works fine, no blank lines. Obviously then the issue is on the Report Caster distribution using SFTP method which produces blank line between records in CSV file.

As a workaround, since a lot of our reports are already set up to use the Report Caster SFTP method, we decided to keep it that way and write a script instead to clean up the transferred CSV file in our SFTP server


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