PI98908: STRING STATEMENT CONTAINING A LENGTH OF HAS UNDEFINED AND UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOR, DIFFERING FROM V4.2.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• LENGTH OF is an integer sender and is therefore incompatible
  with the STRING statement. However V4.2 seems to support it
  partially and Enterprise COBOL Vx.x does not complain about
  using it as a sender. The compiler was generating unexpected and
  undefined code when parsing an integer sender in a STRING
  statement.
  Compiler was updated to properly handle a LENGTH OF sender in a
  STRING statement.
  

Local fix

• Copy LENGTH OF value into a temporary USAGE DISPLAY data item
  and use that data item in the STRING statement.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of Enterprise COBOL V5.2 compiling     *
  *                 programs with a STRING statement containing  *
  *                 a LENGTH OF value.                           *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: String statement containing a LENGTH    *
  *                      OF has undefined and unexpected         *
  *                      behaviour, differing from V4.2.         *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: Apply the provided PTF.                      *
  ****************************************************************
  LENGTH OF is an integer sender and is therefore incompatible
  with the STRING statement. However V4.2 seems to support it
  partially and Enterprise COBOL Vx.x does not complain about
  using it as a sender. The compiler was generating unexpected
  and undefined code when parsing an integer sender in a STRING
  statement.
  

Problem conclusion

• Compiler was updated to properly handle a LENGTH OF sender in a
  STRING statement.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

  PI98509

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

Modules/Macros

• IGY8RWTU IGYCBE   IGYCCBE  IGYCCICS IGYCCSRV IGYCDGEN IGYCDIAG
  IGYCDMAP IGYCEN$0 IGYCEN$1 IGYCEN$2 IGYCEN$3 IGYCEN$4 IGYCEN$5
  IGYCEN$8 IGYCEN$D IGYCEN$R IGYCFGEN IGYCFREE IGYCINIT IGYCJA$0
  IGYCJA$1 IGYCJA$2 IGYCJA$3 IGYCJA$4 IGYCJA$5 IGYCJA$8 IGYCJA$D
  IGYCJA$R IGYCLIBH IGYCLIBO IGYCLIBR IGYCLSTR IGYCLVL0 IGYCLVL1
  IGYCLVL2 IGYCLVL3 IGYCLVL8 IGYCMALL IGYCOSCN IGYCPGEN IGYCRCTL
  IGYCRDPR IGYCRDSC IGYCREAL IGYCRWT  IGYCSCAN IGYCSIMD IGYCUE$0
  IGYCUE$1 IGYCUE$2 IGYCUE$3 IGYCUE$4 IGYCUE$5 IGYCUE$8 IGYCUE$D
  IGYCUE$R IGYCXREF IGYECWI  IGYMSGE  IGYMSGK  IGYMSGT
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  ENT COBOL FOR Z

• Fixed component ID

  5655W3200

Applicable component levels

• R520 PSY UI56404

     UP18/06/21 P F806

• R521 PSY UI56405

     UP18/06/22 P F806

• R522 PSY UI56406

     UP18/06/22 P F806

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