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bug
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My report reads variales from an Oracle hold file. Since the WF version is 7.6x I am not able to use -READFILE. In addition, I have to use

SQL SQLORA SET ORACHAR FIX
SQL SQLORA SET VARCHAR OFF

to get rid of the string length when the alpha file is being generated from Oracle table.

The report runs fine when it's run normally. But when it's fired up in ReportCaster, the hold file contains string length, just like holding varchar data:

000007JH169 000006JH24

Here 'JH169' and 'JH24' are actual values.

Is this a known issue? Any solution? Thanks!

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Hi,
Can you provide sample code using car file.


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I don't know about Oracle but with a couple of other databases I use there is a way to work around this.

Lets say you have a field called DESCRIPTION that is A50V.

DEFINE FILE xyz
DESCRIPTION/A50=DESCRIPTION;
END
will give you the field without the varchar number prepended.


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Car file would not make a good example as it's a FOC database and does not have VARCHAR. MSSQL varchar always return fixed length char. Only Oracle would have this issue.


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Originally posted by George Patton:
I don't know about Oracle but with a couple of other databases I use there is a way to work around this.

Lets say you have a field called DESCRIPTION that is A50V.

DEFINE FILE xyz
DESCRIPTION/A50=DESCRIPTION;
END
will give you the field without the varchar number prepended.



George, this is a good work-around. But the client would rather use SQL passthrough to retrieve data, and I have to insert quite a few DEFINE and rerun a TABLE FILE command on each of the hold files in a huge report.

I'll open a case and see what IBI has to say. Thanks!


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