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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 17, 2022

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iACS emulation - Enhance character codepage for non-printable character and allow for substitution

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

This is a request to enhance the character code page/table for non-printable characters in the 5250 emulator.

Character code page should follow GS1 General Specifications standards for these characters and allow for substitution to a readable character such as a dash, tilde, pipe, or any other suitable character.


There are three different separator characters used within the data matrix string that should be considered:
record separator (ASCII 29)
group separator (ASCII 30)
end of transaction (ASCII 4)

Full ASCII table available at link below. First column shows all non-printable characters that could be added into character table for substitution:
https://www.asciitable.com/


Use Case:

Scanning a barcode with GS- Group Separators does not read the group separators and simply drops them from the data stream. This makes parsing barcode data without a fixed length impossible. Passing the non-printable characters through the emulator via character substitution would allow for the data to be parsed by programs.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 22, 2022

    Thank you for submitting a Request For Enhancement. This request would require modifications to the data stream. That is not something we would consider doing. For that reason, we are declining this request.

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