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Cody
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Hi All,

I am getting a very strange error.

I am using the following code in several reports
 WHERE SOME_DT GE '&NEWFROMDATE'

In the master file SOME_DT looks like this:
FIELDNAME=SOME_DT, ALIAS=SOME_DT, USAGE=YYMD, ACTUAL=DATE, MISSING=ON, $

and &NEWFROMDATE is 2010-09-01

This code is working fine in all reports in my Development environment, but when I move it to a test environment I get this error in one report only.
 (FOC015) THE TEST VALUE IS LONGER THAN THE FIELD FORMAT LENGTH: 2010-09-01
 0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE     46  IN PROCEDURE dm_crf_suppFOCEXEC
 (FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED

If I update my code to 
 [CODE] WHERE SOME_DT GE DT(&NEWFROMDATE)

It works fine in my test environment for the one report but breaks the the other reports in test and breaks all reports in development environment.

In the database all of the date fields are Oracle DATE format fields.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cody

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There has to be some difference in the Master files between the 2 environments. If there are multiple masters with the same name, one may be found before another in the APP PATH on one of the servers.

- ABT


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Cody
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ABT, Thanks so much! I hadn't even considered that there could be another copy of the master files somewhere. It turns out someone else created them and they were getting picked up, which is where the error was. I am still a little confused why only the one report was having the error, but in the end as long as everything is working.


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