RE: PDM Lost its colors - Part Deux

Again, I do not think that IBM has went on a rampage to eliminate color. 
What happened is that if you had a member with strange hex codes that was 
not displayable on a 5250 screen, then you couldn't work with this with 
WRKMBRPDM.  Granted, this shouldn't happen on a regular basis.  But there 
are cases of a member having a corrupted text description occurring.  And 
it was blowing up WRKMBRPDM.  The easy fix for IBM was to rip out any 
codes that weren't of the most basic ones.

At this point I think you'll need to submit a DCR to correct this issue. I 
suppose you could contact support line and suggest they fix that PTF to 
stop removing the color attributes.  Actually, I'd try that first.

Rob Berendt
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Well, dagnabit, we installed the TL04077 cume this past weekend.  Our 
colors
are gone now.

PTF SI09069, the original "offending" PTF, was superseded by SI09530.

I still don't get what it was that IBM "corrected".  I've had colors on
member and object descriptions for years, and never experienced the 
problems
IBM mentions.  The cover letter for SI09069 talks about "WRKLIBPDM *ALL
FAILS WHEN YOU PRESS ROLLDOWN KEY" and "PDM will be corrected so that 
error
message CPF5192 is not issued anymore when invalid(non-displayable)
characters exist in the text description of a library, an object or a
member. The invalid characters from the text description will be replaced
with blanks."

Is it time for a DCR?  Anybody on V5R3 with the latest CUME having this
problem?  (Rob?)

db

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Bruce Jones
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:19 PM
> >
> > We've noticed that wrkmbrpdm listing doesn't show colors of the text
> > anymore.  We had some member text with the color attributes but don't
seem
> > to honor the color anymore.  The colors still work inside a source
member
> > just not on the member text.  I assume our latest wave of ptf did 
this.
> >
> > Anybody else notice and have a workaround?
>
> Just a confirmation of what you experienced.  I noticed this too at a
prior
> shop; they were on v5r2, couldn't tell you the cume level.  The shop I'm
at
> now is on v5r2 at cume level TL03252, and I have my colors back!
>
> db

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