Posted by Grant Foraker on September 06, 2005 at 14:02:11:
I been cleaning up all the IMAGE files for a customer that I aquired post Y2K (when I deimaged all my other customers). Since I like clean USE files, I also converted all the fields that should have been expressions. When the report ran for the first time, since the conversion, I received the following error from Reporter ...
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Report Preparation in progress - $REBATE8 on REP #FILES is on REP
PRINT VENDOR;VNAME;NAME;ITEM.NUMBER;DESCRIPTION;
DATE.SHIPPED;ORDER;UNIT.OF.STOCK;STOCK.QTY.SHP
TOTAL STOCK.QTY.SHP
BREAK VENDOR,N;ITEM.NUMBER
RUN QREPORTS,,'$REBATE9,REP'
Compilation errors encountered
TAB to display MTB error log
26 ~REBATE8IBS 0000 USE "~RPGUSE"
72 ~REBATE8IBS 019D PRINT001:FORMAT _
72 ~REBATE8IBS 03 ******** _
123 ~REBATE8IBS 00CA USE "~RPGUSE",,20100
166 ~REBATE8IBS 0488 PRINT(PRINTER,PRINT001) & ~LINCNT=~LINCNT+1
166 ~REBATE8IBS 18 ****************************** & ~LINCNT=~LINCNT+1
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It took a lot of messing about to determine that Reporter didn't like the VNAME expression (a short version of VENDOR.NAME gotten via a Link). I even added a DEFINE to avoid any nesting problems. Finally, I changed VNAME to VEND.NAME and the problem went away. The only hint was, while tweaking, the error came up for VNAME1$ instead of PRINT001.