[Download-List] Calculated Fields Not Downloading Properly

[Jeffery G. Summers]

Okay.  Here's what I did when I upgraded.  I deleted the contents of
DOWNLOAD.SOURCE and then copied all the new files for 7.10.  I followed the
installation instructions for building the VOC and running tests - all
worked fine.    

Then I started getting calls - all the offices that used pre-built DOWNLOAD
statements for extracts were getting errors.  So I blew away 7.10 and copied
6.0 in its place, doing the install steps as listed.  Version 6.0 seemed to
work with most of my extracts but after a couple of months of 6.0 I'm
encountering more instances like this one.  All the VOC pointers [I hope]
should be accurate since I overwrote the original directory with the new
files.

I just re-ran BUILDDL.VOC but still seem to have the same problem.

My DOWNLOAD statement consists of DOWNLOAD STUDENTS STU.HOME.CITY for
testing and it still has errors.  Do I need to do a fresh install in a new
directory?

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: download-list-admin at cedarville.edu
[mailto:download-list-admin at cedarville.edu] On Behalf Of David L. Rotman
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:34 AM
To: download-list at cedarville.edu
Subject: Re: [Download-List] Calculated Fields Not Downloading Properly

Jeff--

I don't think the problem is related to the version of
DOWNLOAD, as I can use the STU.HOME.CITY field
just fine here.

It's possible that you have mixed pointers regarding
different versions of DOWNLOAD as line 106 in version
7.x is unlikely to give this error message (version 5.10
would be more likely)...so make sure all of your VOC
pointers or catalog entries point to version 7.10.

If fixing the pointers doesn't help, perhaps you could share
your DOWNLOAD statement and we could look for other
causes.




>>> jsummers at transy.edu 1/3/2005 3:16:10 PM >>>
Hello all.  I'm new(er) to the list so forgive me if this is a
"newby"-type
question.  We upgraded from version 5.0 to 7.10 and found we were
having all
kinds of trouble getting data to extract properly.  So I downgraded to
version 6.0 and it seemed to be working okay (for a while).  

I've discovered many "computed columns"/I-desc/virtual fields are
ending up
"null".  I'm getting the following error message when sending the
output to
the screen:

In DOWNLOAD.SOURCE/_DOWNLOAD.LOAD at line 106 WARNING: UNINITIALIZED
VARIABLE US
ED! Zero Assumed! 

Some of these are Datatel-supplied fields (this one in particular is
STU.HOME.CITY from STUDENTS).  I CD'd the field but still get this
error.
In the extract file it simply fills in the information with the
information
for the previous field listed in the extract specs.  LISTing the
information
works fine as does querybuilder; it only has problems when issuing the
DOWNLOAD.

Any of you know what I can do to fix this problem?  We never had this
issue
on 5.00 - should I downgrade to 5.10?

We are using AIX 5.3.3, Unidata 6.0, on an RS-6000 box.  Suggestions?

Thanks!

=========================
Jeffery G. Summers
System Administrator
Transylvania University
Colleague R17/Ben 5.1/AIX 5.3.3
859-233-8134
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