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"Invalid wide character" returned when attempting to read the APPLY log file

Question & Answer


Question

The "more" command fails with a message of "Invalid wide character" when the command is used to read the Apply log file.

Cause

The SQLERRMC component of the SQL communications area (SQLCA) contains one or more tokens, separated by the characters X'FF'. These characters are substituted for variables in the descriptions of error conditions. The X'FF' characters will cause an "Invalid wide character" error if the log contain this message.

Answer

Use the od -txc <filename> command to view the log file.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSDP5R","label":"InfoSphere Replication Server"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"SQL replication","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"8.1;8.2;9.1","Edition":"All Editions","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB10","label":"Data and AI"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21249872