FDM error while masking a numeric value from a seedlist file

Products

• CA Test Data Manager (Data Finder / Grid Tools)

Issue/Introduction

When trying to mask a numeric value from a seedlist but after masking few values its failing with below error.

"cannot update numeric column <colname> with value <colValue> - please check your masking function and / or options are consistent with a numeric value"

Environment

Release:
Component: TDMFDM

Cause

Issue happened due to the incorrect/unexpected encoding of the seedlist file where it was encoded as UTF-8-BOM. 

Resolution

To resolve this issue please open it in Notepad++ , change the encoding to just "UTF-8" and save the file. Now retry masking and it should not throw same error.