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RE: Non displayable characters in a PF

I'd like to be able to understand why when the characters are pasted to the screen by the user, they are not visible. However, when validated, the unwanted data is available to the RPG program and get written to the file.
Going over to RPG list just in case.

-----Message d'origine-----
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Mike CUNNINGHAM
Not in DDS for the screen. I think the correct way to fix
this is to write the RPG code to translate any invalid
characters and remove them from the screen field before
writing to the database

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Non displayable characters in a PF

What do you mean you can't control it? You mean that can't
put a check constraint on that field to disallow any
characters outside of a set range?

Rob Berendt
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From:
David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Date:
03/26/2009 08:32 AM
Subject:
RE: Non displayable characters in a PF
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Thanks,

Sorry if I wasn't clear : we don't want user pasting this
kind of thing but presumably we can't prevent it unless it
can be detected. We have only discovered the characters when
the contents of the PF were written out to XML files. This
caused an error in the application treating the XML.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de
lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 13:17 À :
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : RE: Non displayable
characters in a PF

Word (and other programs) can contain formatting information in
addition to the actual text: bold, font change, font size
change, etc.

I've found it easiest to copy the text from Word into Notepad or
UltraEdit (I use this), then copy that resulting text into 5250. UE
and Notepad only recognize the textual data, and ignore formatting
characteristics.

HTH,
Loyd

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David FOXWELL
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Non displayable characters in a PF

Hi,

Hope this isn't too vague a question :

Users are copying and pasting into a green screen
application from MS
Word and the results are saved in a PF. The user entry program does
not display these characters and so the user doesn't
realise. DSPPFM
shows the characters in inverse video. It's not possible to modify
afterwards with DFU.

What is missing to prevent the pasting of these unwanted characters?
Why doesn't the data entry screen show them but DSPPFM does?

Thanks.

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