PM28914: BLOB FIELD NOT SHOWING PROPERLY FOR PDF

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• Client is converting from Crystal Enterprise to Cognos.????We
  have several blob fields in our databases that are giving us
  this ??type of error. All the blobs are text fields. Our DB
  Administrator has??researched and we have some fields that are
  as big as 32K. ????We have set up determinants in the Business
  view of framework manager??for each query subject, designating a
  unique key.??This all appears to work properly for HTML
  output.??In PDF, for some incident numbers, we are receiving an
  error running to PDF output.??These are seen when some of the
  larger blobs are run to PDF.?? ??Once we use the cast function
  in the report for these fields the error??goes away, but we are
  limiting the output, which does not serve our??business
  requirements.?? ??Also, these 3 fields generated in report as
  html, but we had to convert??them with cast for pdf
  output.??This is not acceptable and they wish to be able to
  generate all of teh blob content to the PDF document.????NOTE:
  ??Final report( HTML ) is a single row and one of the cells
  extends across aboth 300 HTML pages in size.????The error code
  RSV-RND-0127 does not appear in out knowledbe bases at all.????I
  am looking for some report workaround.????Under what
  circumstances would we expect to receive this error???Is there
  an upper limit on what PDF can handle for a single cell
  perhaps???Is there possibly a buffer limit which we could be
  hitting?
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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Fix information

Applicable component levels

• RA21 PSN

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