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RE: illegal characters

Dan,

How does your file get populated?  Are these fields only added/updated
with interactive programs?  Quite often bad data results from errors in
application design.  Comm. problems and terminated sessions don't strike
me as the first place I would look.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of Dan Rasch
> Subject: illegal characters
> 
> 
> We encounter illegal/non-displayable characters in records at times.
> They cause I/O errors when writing to the screen, and it happens
> fairy often.  I suspect both comm problems and users turning their
> PC off mid-session.
> 
> How can this be trapped and/or monitored?
> And would it have to be handled at the application, sub-system,
> session, hardware, or system level?

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