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  3. July 2016

Re: users pasting hex '41' into char fields...

Roger Harman <roger.harman@...> wrote:


We had an issue with unprintables when users pasted from Outlook into a
green screen "Diary" entry. If there
was an ellipsis (I recall some other weird things too),Outlook did not
store it as three periods but it was
its' own hex character.

I fixed it with a one-time batch scan/update of the table and a
permanent fix by doing an edit right up front
when they enter it. Fortunately, it was just one program that a
jillion others called to do the diary entry.

Roger -

We had a similar issue in our JDE OneWorld environment. JDE had note
fields in which users were pasting data from Excel, Word, and Outlook, and
we occasionally encountered X'41' characters in the IBM i database field
where this data was stored.

Regards,
steve


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