DevOps, CI/CD and Automation

Our project has reports that fail with the following error message:

REP-1920: Character mode runtime incompatible with
DESFORMAT of PDF, HTML, HTMLCSS, or RTF.

It is not always the same reports that receive the above message, it appears to be random in nature. Indeed, the vast majority of time these reports run with no errors at all. All of a sudden, out of the blue, certain reports (no pattern, it could be any of our reports) will fail with the REP-1920 error message.

To make matters worse, NONE of our reports are in CHARACTER mode. All have an initial value of DEFAULT (i.e. BITMAP). Now we do have one report that generates a CHARACTER report dynamically, by passing a paramter at runtime, but that report (the .rdf) has a DEFAULT mode as well, and is run off of a different report server than all the other reports.

I have scoured the NET and have not found anything that can tell me why we are receiving these error messages. Anybody?

Note: We are running Report Server 6i Patch 10 (6.0.8.19.0) on a Windows 2000 box. Dev Tools are Patch 10 as well.

Thanks

James Walters