Dear Allin and Ricardo,

I would like to report some problems I encountered using DBnomics database from Gretl. They are the following:

a) If the data series does not exist, it crushes Gretl.
Try to download:   Eurostat/ei_bssi_m_r2/M.BS-ESI-I.SA.IE   (Ireland does not report Economic Sentiment Indicator)

b) If you try to download data with some missing values it stops with error; try:

open dbnomics
data Eurostat/namq_10_gdp/Q.CLV10_MEUR.NSA.B1GQ.DE --name="DE_y_nsa"
data Eurostat/bop_iip6_q/Q.MIO_EUR.FA.S1.S1.N_LE.WRL_REST.DE --name="DE_niip"

Here the problem is that Q.MIO_EUR.FA.S1.S1.N_LE.WRL_REST.DE reports only Q4 values for the years 1999 - 2003, before it starts reporting all quarterly values from 2004 onwards.


I guess the crush should be considered a bug. It would be very helpful if you could fix at least the first problem. My system is Win 10 with Gretl 2018b.


Many thanks for the good work.

Andreas