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On 27/06/2006, at 1:17 AM, Ron Adams wrote:


 From what I can tell, the characters are usually X'224E20'.  It almost
seems like if these are some key-stroke combination that is not recognized,
but I'm not sure what they would be.

I see Vern has assisted with the SQL syntax to help you find these dodgy records. I'd like to focus on the cause:

x'224E20' is an interesting string. To me the x'22' and x'20' are probably 5250 attribute bytes. x'22' is highlight and x'20' is normal. x'4e' is a plus (+) sign. Combine these three things and you get a highlighted plus sign. Where might this appear in an application? Why, on the last line of a subfile record!

I suspect you have an input capable subfile where the records occupy the full width of the display leaving no room for the SFLEND indicator. Because the subfile record occupies the full width OS/400 overlays the x'224e20' sequence over the last 3 bytes of the last record on the page. While this works OK for output subfiles it is a dumb idea to allow the "more" indicator to overlay input data. This, of course, is not an OS/400 issue but rather one of poor application screen design.

If the user changes this record the application probably gets the highlighted plus sign included in the data.

You solutions are:
1) Shorten the subfile record so there is room for the highlighted plus sign 2) Ensure there is an empty line below the subfile and use SFLEND(*MORE) 3) Shorten the subfile so there is room for a scroll bar and use SFLEND(*SCRBAR) 4) Change the application to check for the x'224e20' sequence and replace it with the original data from a saved copy of the record. 5) Redesign the screen so the record is no longer input capable and provide an alternative method of changing the data.

Obviously, options 1 or 2 are the least intrusive.

In my opinion this is the most likely explanation for the problem but it may be caused by other things too.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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