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IBM Power Systems Development - RDi team
We have reviewed this requirement and we feel it would be a beneficial enhancement to the product. We hope to be able to add it to our development plans in the future.
The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.
Background: The CEAC members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
Here is the problem description of RFE 123323, which was closed as a duplicate of this one.
Character variables that do not have the job CCSID are not handled correctly in the RDi debugger. The value for the a_500 variable in the program below shows 'a|b' in the RDi debugger, and the a_utf8 variable shows '/ Â'. In the system debugger, all the variables show a value of 'a!b'.
dcl-s a_job char(3) inz('a!b');
dcl-s a_37 char(3) ccsid(37) inz('a!b');
dcl-s a_500 char(3) ccsid(500) inz('a!b');
dcl-s a_utf8 char(3) ccsid(*utf8) inz('a!b');
return;
Also, if UCS-2 and UTF-16 fields have data that cannot be converted to the job CCSID, the data is not handled correctly in the RDi debugger. For example, the utf16 variable in the program below has the characters U+2018 and U+2019. These are the "smart quotes" (Left Single Quotation Mark and Right Single Quotation Mark). The utf16 variable with the hex value x'201800612019' should display as ‘a', but RDi displays it as a.
dcl-s utf16 ucs2(3) ccsid(*utf16) inz(u'201800612019');
return;
A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.
Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.
Thank you for submitting this request for enhancement; we are evaluating it.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for Power Systems
Component - RPG/COBOL Development Tools
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Other
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
And it would be very helpful if the RDi Debugger could show the complete content of a variable, not only the first 1024 bytes.
Attachment (Description): RDI can't show UNICODE data