PM37912: STRING PADDING WHEN DATA ITEM OUTPUTS STRING LITERALS

APAR status

• Closed with unknown close code.

Error description

• In Report Studio 8.4.1 GA, if a data item meets the following
  conditions...??1. Uses if-then-else or case-when?2. Uses a
  wildcard search type function (e.g. contains, position)?3.
  Outputs string literals of different character length??...then
  the output strings are padded with spaces to match the character
  length of the longest output string. This is reproducible with
  no Native SQL being generated. This is does not occur of the =
  operator is used to return the boolean for the condition, and
  does not seem to happen if metadata is requested.??Example data
  item expression:?if ('yes' contains 'no')?then ('abc')?else
  ('ab')??The example above will return 'ab ' instead of 'ab'.
  

Local fix

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

Applicable component levels

• RA21 PSN

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