JR34220: DESIGNER CLIENT GUIDES FOR BOTH 8.0.1 AND 8.1 SAY YOU CAN USE A PERIOD IN A COLUMN NAME; PX FRAMEWORK CAN'T HANDLE IT.

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• Customer used a period in two field names and his XML Output
  Stage would not compile.  Engineers looked into it and say that
  the PX Framework will not handle periods in column names.
  
  The 8.0.1 Designer Client Guide, pg. 34 claims that column names
  can be any length, must start with an alphabetic character, and
  may contain alphanumeric characters, $, period and underscore.
  The 8.1 Designer Client Guide says the same thing on pg. 76.
  The documents should be corrected.
  

Local fix

• user can substitute underscore for period
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  USERS AFFECTED:
  DESIGNER CLIENT GUIDES FOR BOTH 8.0.1 AND 8.1 SAY YOU CAN USE A
  PERIOD IN A COLUMN NAME; PX FRAMEWORK CAN'T HANDLE IT.
  ****************************************************************
  PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
  Customer used a period in two field names and his XML Output
  Stage would not compile.  Engineers looked into it and say that
  the PX Framework will not handle periods in column names.
  
  The 8.0.1 Designer Client Guide, pg. 34 claims that column
  names
  can be any length, must start with an alphabetic character,
  and
  may contain alphanumeric characters, $, period and underscore.
  
  The 8.1 Designer Client Guide says the same thing on pg. 76.
  The documents should be corrected.
  ****************************************************************
  RECOMMENDATION:
  The doc error has been fixed in the Designer Guide for 8.5.
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• This has been fixed in the Designer Guide for 8.5 - there are
  now separate naming rules for columns in px jobs, and permitted
  names do not include period characters.
  

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

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