V5 syntax error when using IN_RANGE in Cognos

Question

I get the following error when trying to use IN_RANGE function in Cognos 10. any ideas why this is?

V5 syntax error found in expression "[Appointment Date] IN_RANGE", invalid token "" found after "[Appointment Date] IN_RANG".

The detail error:

=== JAVA STACK TRACE === XQE-V5-0011 V5 syntax error found in expression "[Appointment Date] IN_RANGE", invalid token "" found after "[Appointment Date] IN_RANG". at com.cognos.xqe.ast.v5Exp.V5ExpressionProcessor.processWithV5ExpressionParser(V5ExpressionProcessor.java:252) at com.cognos.xqe.ast.v5Exp.V5ExpressionProcessor.process(V5ExpressionProcessor.java:125) at com.cognos.xqe.transformation.v5.binding.ConvertV5ExpressionToBinary.apply(ConvertV5ExpressionToBinary.java:120) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QTETransformationEngine.applyTransformation(QTETransformationEngine.java:1225) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QTETransformationEngine.applyApplicableTransformation(QTETransformationEngine.java:1143) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QTETransformationEngine.applyIndexedTransformations(QTETransformationEngine.java:633) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QTETransformationEngine.transformationIteration(QTETransformationEngine.java:568) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QTETransformationEngine.applyTransformations(QTETransformationEngine.java:370) at com.cognos.xqe.query.planner.QueryPlanner.plan(QueryPlanner.java:328) at com.cognos.xqe.query.planner.QueryPlanner.planQuery(QueryPlanner.java:389) at com.cognos.xqe.query.planner.QueryPlanner.planQuery(QueryPlanner.java:374) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QueryEngine.prepareRequest(QueryEngine.java:639) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QueryEngine.fetchRSAPIDatasets(QueryEngine.java:469) at com.cognos.xqe.query.engine.QueryEngine.executeRequest(QueryEngine.java:421) at com.cognos.xqe.bibushandler.ExecuteRequestAdapter.executeRequest(ExecuteRequestAdapter.java:112) at com.cognos.xqe.cubingservices.V5QueryHandler.executeRequestInSequence(V5QueryHandler.java:622) at com.cognos.xqe.cubingservices.V5QueryHandler.execute(V5QueryHandler.java:463) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.v5.V5ProviderFacade.execute(V5ProviderFacade.java:109) at com.cognos.cubics.providers.cubingservices.CSStatement.execute(CSStatement.java:156) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.v5.V5RequestHandler.handleRequest(V5RequestHandler.java:59) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.comms.Servlet.processMessage(Servlet.java:128) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.comms.ComWorker.processQueryInputMsg(ComWorker.java:347) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.comms.ComWorker.processInput(ComWorker.java:252) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.comms.ComWorker.call(ComWorker.java:162) at com.ibm.cubeservices.mdx.comms.ComWorker.call(ComWorker.java:64) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:314) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:897) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:919) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:738) === END OF JAVA STACK TRACE === RSV-SRV-0042 Trace back:RSReportService.cpp(752): XQEException: CCL_CAUGHT: RSReportService::process()RSReportServiceMethod.cpp(263): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSReportServiceMethod::process(): asynchRunSpecification_RequestRSASyncExecutionThread.cpp(808): XQEException: RSASyncExecutionThread::checkExceptionRSASyncExecutionThread.cpp(260): XQEException: CCL_CAUGHT: RSASyncExecutionThread::runImpl(): asynchRunSpecification_RequestRSASyncExecutionThread.cpp(864): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSASyncExecutionThread::processCommand(): asynchRunSpecification_RequestExecution/RSRenderExecution.cpp(670): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSRenderExecution::executeAssembly/RSDocAssemblyDispatch.cpp(291): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSDocAssemblyDispatch::dispatchAssemblyAssembly/RSLayoutAssembly.cpp(79): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSLayoutAssembly::assembleAssembly/RSDocAssemblyDispatch.cpp(358): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSDocAssemblyDispatch::dispatchChildrenAssemblyForwardAssembly/RSReportPagesAssembly.cpp(179): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSReportPagesAssembly::assembleAssembly/RSDocAssemblyDispatch.cpp(308): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSDocAssemblyDispatch::dispatchAssemblyAssembly/RSPageAssembly.cpp(303): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSPageAssembly::assembleAssembly/RSDocAssemblyDispatch.cpp(308): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSDocAssemblyDispatch::dispatchAssemblyAssembly/RSTableRowAssembly.cpp(177): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSTableRowAssembly::assembleAssembly/RSDocAssemblyDispatch.cpp(308): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSDocAssemblyDispatch::dispatchAssemblyAssembly/RSTableCellAssembly.cpp(137): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSTableCellAssembly::assembleAssembly/RSDocAssemblyDispatch.cpp(358): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSDocAssemblyDispatch::dispatchChildrenAssemblyForwardAssembly/RSAssembly.cpp(662): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSAssembly::createListIteratorAssembly/RSAssembly.cpp(717): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSAssembly::createListIteratorRSQueryMgr.cpp(1055): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSQueryMgr::getListIteratorRSQueryMgr.cpp(1131): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSQueryMgr::getResultSetIteratorRSQueryMgr.cpp(1295): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSQueryMgr::createIteratorRSQueryMgr.cpp(1569): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSQueryMgr::executeRsapiCommandRSQueryMgrExecutionHandlerImpl.cpp(168): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: RSQueryMgrExecutionHandlerImpl::execute()QFSSession.cpp(1166): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: QFSSession::ProcessDoRequest()QFSSession.cpp(1164): XQEException: CCL_CAUGHT: QFSSession::ProcessDoRequest()QFSSession.cpp(1125): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: QFSSession::ProcessDoRequest()QFSConnection.cpp(753): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: QFSConnection::ExecuteQFSQuery.cpp(135): XQEException: CCL_RETHROW: QFSQuery::Execute v2XQEConnector.cpp(266): XQEException: CCL_THROW: XQEConnector::send

Answer 1

I managed to figure out where the issue is. The datatype (currently being a date field) is not actually a date field so a simple CAST function did the quick fix. For a long term solution the datatype must be changed either in Framework Manager or Data Manager.

e.g. CAST([DATE] AS DATE)

Thanks, Zak