PK96180: INCONSISTENT BEHAVIOUR BETWEEN PROMPT RENDERING AND REPORT RENDERING

APAR status

• Closed as unreproducible.

Error description

• Cognos 8.4 search and select prompt seems not be able to hadnle
  ASCII charcter code 26.
  
  Cognos code should be able to handle the control-character
  correctly.
  It clearly can render the symbols if they are in a report and
  indeed allow interactions with that
  character in the database queries so it should display them in a
  prompt as well.
  This is inconsistent behaviour between prompt rendering and
  report rendering.
  
  As well Cognos Viewer behave differently than Cognos Viewer in
  the portlet:
  
  Cognos Viewer find seems find and display the item in the prompt
  but then the report fail to run with the following error:
  
  DPR-ERR-2101 Your request was invalid. Please contact your
  administrator
  
  Cognos Viewer on a portlet failed doing a search with the
  following error message
  
  Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 26)) at [row,col
  {unknown-source}]: [107,-417]
  Details | Retry | Hide this message.
  

Local fix

• Workaround: replace any code 26 characters in that field with a
  '?'
  (done in FM and not the DB as this would require significantwork
  on our database since the field in question is a business key).
  

Problem summary

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Problem conclusion

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

  COG8 BI COG VIE

• Fixed component ID

  5724W12CV

Applicable component levels

• RA11 PSN

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