IC52818: HATS USING DBCS CODEPAGE SENDS JUST CHARACTER(S) TYPED IN ONE TY PE OF INPUT FIELD, BUT HOD/PCOMM SEEM TO SEND THEM WITH PADDING.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Customer has a 4-character input field in which they type just
  one character.  HATS sends just the one character to the host,
  which causes the host to return a formatting error (specific
  to that host application).  HOD and PCOMM send the character
  followed by three spaces.  Other fields on other screens seem
  to work fine in HATS.
  

Local fix

• type character, followed by spaces to fill field
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: HATS users using DBCS code pages             *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: HATS sends "Z" in 4-char field, but     *
  *                      emulators Host On Demand and Personal   *
  *                      Communications send "Z   "              *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  In DBCS codepage, HATS calls ECLField.SetString() to send data.
  But in ECLField.SetString(), we call ECLPS.setToNull() to
  clear the field data before sending data.
  

Problem conclusion

• Following behavior of HATS in SBCS environment, we changed
  ECLField.SetString() to  ECLPS.SetString().
  Before calling ECLPS.SetString(), we will verify that the data
  length is  not over the field length.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  HATS MULTI V5

• Fixed component ID

  5724F9700

Applicable component levels

• R500 PSY

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