We are using WebFOCUS 5.3.2 in a Solaris environment. In previous versions, empty ASCII and COMMA reports returned an HTML page, with a message stating the report was empty, but now you just get an empty ASCII or COMMA file back. Is there any way to force WebFOCUS to return empty reports with an html message in 5.3.2???

Did you try adding ..?
SET EMPTYREPORT=ON
TABLE...
..
the settings are ON/OFF/ASCII

After contacting tech support this is now the current implementation. There is not a way for EMPTYREPORT to function as it did in the previous release.