IC87385: MACRO EDITOR DOES NOT PROCESS TWO SEQUENCED APOSTROPHES CORRECTLY

Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.7
Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.9
Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.11
Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.10

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Macro Editor does not process two sequenced apostrophes
  correctly.
  
  The user needs to assign a value to string variable, and the
  value ends with apostrophe.
  
  According to Macro Programming Guide, the string should be
  correct. Moreover, no syntax error are shown.
  There appear to be two problems:
  
  1. If userr closes the Code Editor and re-opens it, the
  statement changes from
  <varupdate name="$myvar$" value="&apos; Insert
  values(\&apos;&apos;" /> to
  <varupdate name="$myvar$" value="&apos; Insert
  values(\&apos;" />  (with one &apos; instead of two).
  
  2. If user presses Save And Exit, the Macro editor fails with
  wrong syntax.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To make the macro work, Customer can insert a space character
  between these two
  &apos; entities.  The macro works, but the result is wrong: an
  unnecessary leading space is inserted in the Customer's DB
  table. For
  some cases that does not matter; for other cases that will cause
  a failure.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Host On-Demand users who use macros          *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: If a macro variable value had           *
  *                      continuous apostrophes, for example,    *
  *                      the escape char in a macro variable     *
  *                      value, it is interpretted as only one   *
  *                      apostrophe and the others are discarded *
  *                      by the macro parser.                    *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  This problem was happening because of the current macro
  variable parser if a variable value had continuous apostrophes,
  it was considered as only one apostrophe and all others are
  discarded.
  

Problem conclusion

• Design was modified to accept continuous apostrophes in Macro
  variable value.
  
  Fix scheduled for HOD 11.0.7 Refresh Pack
  

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:

  IP23484 IP23485

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  HOD

• Fixed component ID

  5733A5901

Applicable component levels

• RB00 PSY

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