PK68862: EDC5147I ILLEGAL BYTE SEQUENCE ENCOUNTERED WHEN TRANSLATING DBCS CHARACTERS FROM EBCDIC TO ASCII

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• On a z/OS 1.9 system, customers viewing html documents via
  the HTTP server report seeing garbage on their PC screen.
  Tracing shows that an errno 147 (EILSEQ) was returned because
  the iconv input data buffer contained only the first byte of
  a DBCS character as the last byte in the buffer. The code pages
  involved in this case were IBM-939 and IBM-932C
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of the z/OS C/C++ Run-Time Library's   *
  *                 iconv() function and the iconv utility.      *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: errno was being set to EILSEQ when an   *
  *                      incomplete multibyte character is       *
  *                      encountered at the end of the input     *
  *                      buffer.  EINVAL is the correct errno    *
  *                      setting for this condition.             *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  See problem description.
  

Problem conclusion

• The iconv() function was updated to set errno to EINVAL when an
  incomplete multibyte character is encountered at the end of the
  input buffer.  This update will also apply to the iconv utility.
  

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:

  UK38948 UK38949

Modules/Macros

• CELHCDPG CELQCDPG CEL4CDPG EJR
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  LE C LIBRARY

• Fixed component ID

  568819805

Applicable component levels

• R740 PSY UK38948

     UP08/08/27 P F808

• R750 PSY UK38949

     UP08/08/27 P F808

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