OA39617: WHEN A QUESTION MARK IS ENTERED ANOTHER CHARACTER IS RECEIVED, OK AFTER CHANGING THE OPERATING SYSTEM FROM HEBREW TO ENGLISH.

Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.6
Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.9
Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.11
Rational Host On-Demand Fix Pack 1 (11.0.6.1) for 11.0.6
Rational Host On-Demand 11.0.10

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When a customer enters a question mark they get another
  character received instead. Had to change the operating
  system from Hebrew to English to get the appropriate
  character.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Host On-Demand users with Hebrew 3270 and    *
  *                 5250 sessions                                *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: When session keyboard language is set   *
  *                      to English and system keyboard layout   *
  *                      locale is set to Hebrew, some           *
  *                      characters are displayed incorrectly.   *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  HOD code relies mainly on getKeyChar() to recognize typed
  characters. However, for non-English system keyboard layouts,
  it becomes national.  For example Hebrew TAW instead of a
  comma which makes HOD code confused.
  

Problem conclusion

• New versions of JDK have an API to recognize current system
  keyboard layout locale.  In case of collision between it and
  current session languages, necessary processing is added to
  replace the pressed character by the expected ones.
  
  Fix is included in HOD 11.0.6 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:

Modules/Macros

• HODBEANS
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  HOD MVS

• Fixed component ID

  5733A5900

Applicable component levels

• RB00 PSY

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