PM78147: IN THE TI EDITOR THE TAB "VARIABLES" DOES NOT RESPECT THE DECIMAL SEPARATOR SET IN THE TAB "DATA SOURCE".

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• It looks like the tab "Variables" is using the decimal separator
  set in the Windows Regional Settings of the Windows Client
  running the TI Editor and not the decimal separator set in the
  tab "Data Source" of a TI process.   You created a new TI
  process. In the first tab "Data Source" of the TI Editor you
  explicitely set the decimal separator in the entry field
  "Decimal Separator". In the second tab "Variables" of the TI
  Editor you used the button "New Variable" to create a new
  variable. The formula you attached to the new variable performs
  a mathematical operation, for instance calculating a sum like
  V3=V1+V2. Thus you set the Variable Type of the formula's
  operands V1 and V2 to "Numeric".  Later on you open your new TI
  process in a TI Editor running on a Windows Client whose decimal
  separator set in the Windows Regional Settings is different from
  the decimal separator set in the TI process.  When this
  condition is meet, when you click on the second tab "Variables"
  a warning is returned:    TM1 Warning    Some problems occured
  while getting the sample values for the following variables. The
  use of these variables in a formula will cause a "variable is
  undefined" error. To correct this you can either ignore the
  variable or fix the specific problem for each one of them.
  <variable name>: Cannot convert string to a number.  In the
  second tab "Variables", when you click on the button "Formula"
  to open the formula attached to the new variable in the Process
  Variable Formula Editor, a warning is returned:    TM1 Warning
   Some problems occured while getting the sample values for the
  following variables. The use of these variables in a formula
  will cause a "variable is undefined" error. To correct this you
  can either ignore the variable or fix the specific problem for
  each one of them.    <variable name>: Cannot convert string to a
  number.  But the TI process itself can be successfully executed
  and will deliver the correct results.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All Users                                                    *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * See error description.                                       *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * This is a known minor limitation of the TI Editor and an     *
  * acceptable workaround exists.                                *
  *                                                              *
  * The workaround is to set the Variable Type of the formula's  *
  * operands to "String" instead of "Numeric", then alter the    *
  * formula to perform a type conversion of the operands from    *
  * string to number using the TI function StringToNumberEx      *
  * before performing the mathematical operation. The decimal    *
  * separator and the thousand separator used as arguments of    *
  * the TI function StringToNumberEx are identical to the ones   *
  * set in the first tab "Data Source" of the TI Editor.         *
  *                                                              *
  * For instance:                                                *
  * The formula                                                  *
  *    V3=V1+V2;                                                 *
  * has to be rewritten as                                       *
  *    V3=StringToNumberEx(V1, ',', '.')+StringToNumberEx(V2,    *
  * ',', '.');                                                   *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• No Intent to Fix
  

Temporary fix

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