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Detail Filter Issues - DECFLOAT

Started by rocket21, 05 Feb 2013 08:27:34 AM

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rocket21

I've tried a bunch of tests/work arounds without luck, so hopefully some folks who are much brighter than me can figure out what I'm doing wrong!

I have a DB2 set up with Cognos 10.2, pushing DB2 views through Framework Manager into Cognos.  No issues with all but one.

I have stripped the view in question down to two varchar fields.  If I drop the fields in a list box in Report studio, I can run the report and/or view tabular data.

If I attempt to put a Detail filter on either field with [FIELD_NAME] = ?FIELD_NAME?, I get a XQE-DAT-0001 Data source adatpor error...Invalid character found in a character string argument of the function "DECFLOAT" SQLCODE = -420, SQLSTATE=22018 error when attempting to run the report or view tabular data.

The data is text - occasion & , . and numbers, but nothing bizarre.  I'm able to filter on the same data via another object/view/table without issues.

I can also export the DB2 view data via Datastudio without any issue.  The export is clean when viewed in Notepad.

Any thoughts?   Thank you in advance for your help!

rocket21

Resolved:

Downstream there was a left outer join that resulted in some nulls in an integer field.  Even though the integer field wasn't being queried upstream into Cognos, it was still throwing that error.

I ended up splitting the left outer joins, with the second one looking for null values in the right table, and populating those with 0, then union-ing them together.