PI14728: Date/time/timestamp masks do not work with code pages that do not support lower case letters

Rational Business Developer 9.1
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2) for 8.5.1
Rational Business Developer 9.1.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Date/time/timestamp masks do not work with code pages that do
  not support lower case letters
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  The problem is that date/time/timestamp formats defined in
  EGL carry with them an internal description which is a
  subset of this mask: yyyyMMddHHmmssffffff. When calling the
  runtime libraries, the mask for the variable is passed as
  one of the arguments. For code pages that do not support
  lower case letters (JPN 930 is the only one I know of), the
  mask's value got altered when the cobol source was
  transmitted to the mainframe. This caused the runtime
  function to fail, because the mask is not correct.
  

Problem conclusion

• The software has been modified to use cobol hex value for
  the mask that represents the characters. This does not
  change the logic of the call in any way, the software merely
  uses a hex move statement instead of character, and since
  the hex is coded with the desired values, the proper mask
  value is made.
  A fixtest is available.
  

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

  RATL BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSN

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