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I opened a case for this and will post the findings. Thanks for all the inputs.

I have an issue where a report (fex) can 'run directly' but will not 'Run Deferred' and thinking that it has to do with the value assigned to &WFDESCRIBE, which has a standard is not 'OFF', it's default of 'XMLRUN' (or something other than 'OFF').

The following is the result of the “-? &WFDESCRIBE” command.
-? &WFDESCRIBE
Produces:
CURRENTLY DEFINED & VARIABLES STARTING WITH 'WFDESCRIBE':
&WFDESCRIBE   = XMLRUN
&WFDESCRIBE   = OFF

My question is: Why is it there twice? The second one, OFF, negates the first one, XMLRUN, or the last one that it’s set to using the ‘-SET &WFDESCRIBE='Whatever';’ command.

My thought is that this is preventing procedures to run successfully as ‘Run Deferred’.

Your Thoughts and Input are greatly appreciated.

~Doug

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Could it be possible that it is two distinct variable's name but only first 10 digits of the name is displayed so we thought that it's the same variable ?

But I can have up to 12 digits displayed from other variables...so I doubt that it's the case...

Maybe your best shot will be to contact TechSupport


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Doug

You might try to put -SET &ECHO=ALL; at the top of the fex and have the output of HTML. After the report runs deferred right mouse click on the output and view source and see if you can see that variable get set.. Not sure if it will display anything...


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Thanks MartinY,

The "-? Variable" command will display all variables with the specified variable as a prefix, similar to a search for a file as 'FILE*' which displays all files that start with 'FILE'. You can see this as follows: 
-? &D
Which returns any variable starting with the letter 'D': 
 CURRENTLY DEFINED & VARIABLES STARTING WITH 'D':
 &DATE         = 04/08/20
 &DBMSERR      =        0
 &DELTD        =        0
 &DMY          = 080420
 &DMYY         = 08042020
 &DUPLS        =        0
 
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Thanks Chuck,

The issue is that 'Run Deferred' runs differently (AKA: Fails to run at all) the 'Run Direct'. Thus, I can't view the source of it when it's deferred.
 
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@Doug

Reason why I mentioned that I am able to see variables with a 12 digits name and that I doubt it's the case...

But I also remember that there were an old bug where variable's name get "confused" when first x number of digits were the same.
And if I remember well it was something around the tenth digits.
But this bug seems to be now resolved because I have many variable's name that have similar digits without any issues.

Good luck


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Thanks again Martin, I hope you didn't take it as an insult to your experience as I didn't mean it that way at all.

I think that bug was fixed when we moved away from the 8.3 scenario.
 
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REFERENCE/Just FYI: TONY A's Post from Jun 18 2013 12:52

As for autoprompting, you can also check the value for the variable &WFDESCRIBE by issuing -? & SAVEPRINT (ala Francis Mariani!) and if the value is anything other than OFF you have autoprompting turned on. The usual setting is XMLPROMPT.

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There was a PCHOLD instead of a HOLD in the procedure. There was no PC to HOLD it to when running DEFERRED so it failed.

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... And it get deeper. So I opened a case with IBI.




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