036 DATA NOT NUMERIC IN FILE - filename

Cause: During a record read operation, a file variable defined as type N (numeric) in the file definition is found to contain alphanumeric data.

Action: The condition can be caused by one of the following:

The data in the record may have been corrupted due to hardware problems. Physically delete the record and re-add it with correct data.

If the error occurs frequently on many records of the file, then someone must have inserted a file variable in the middle of the file variable definition in file definition procedure and re-generate the function(s) using that file. This can be corrected by:

a. Undoing the changes in the file definition and then adding the file variables at the end of file variable definition and re-generating the function(s) using the file.

c. Physically copying all records in the file from current format to the new format using an update function.

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