Hi, while running reports in oracle applications ,i also defined a value set with parameters. Moreover i have defined the correct mask for the date field in the properties of report & i got the following errors: appllcsp environment variable set to:current nls_lang and nls_numeric_characters environment variables are: american_america.utf8 '.,' err rep-0613 : value does not match mask 'dd-mon-rr' ora-018161 :literal does not match format string program exited with status 3 can any body solve my problem. Cause: program terminated,returning status code 3.