The following issue happens only to some machines so I guess it's not a coding error.

Even the simplest selection:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
WHERE SEATS EQ &SEATS;
END

gives error message:
(FOC295) A VALUE IS MISSING FOR: &SEATS

Version is not the issue. We had 766 on some machines and 764 on others, while the error message pops up under both versions. And the rest that works also contain both versions.

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quote:

&SEATS

It is a coding error if you haven't defined &SEATS


Try entering at the top of the statement:

 -SET &SEATS = '1'; 

it may be that you are trying to run it from another .fex or caster job which means its not prompting you to enter a value for &SEATS. normally when you don't define a variable it will prompt you for it

Do you have user profiles that skip amper autoprompting for some users? or is it the same Id being used on different machines?

Tony, thanks for the tip. I think it is the amper auto-prompting issue.
I tried to search help file for information, but it just says "Select Configuration -> Select Managed Reporting -> Set IBIMR_prompting" (whici is nowhere to be found), and refers to "WebFOCUS Security and Administration manual".

Is the report in MRE? try right-clicking it in DS and looking at the properties

IBIMR_prompting can be found via the Client server console (http://[your server]/ibi_html/wfconsole.htm).

T

Yeah, my mistake, it's under administration console. Thought it was just some DS setting, forgot it was security.
Thanks, problem solved.