Re: How can I tell if 5770SS1-39 "International Components for Unicode" is still used?

Yes, IFS supports without problems file names in unicode with international characters.I don't know on what RPG runtime *NATURAL string functions over unicode stuff (i.e. substring) depends on to be honest.
I suspect that the ILE C compilers are not able to compile recent ICU4C even if one wants their own user SRVPGM not coupled with the OS distribution...


On Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:46:31 PM GMT+2, Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Got a reply at the IBM Community.  Apparently there's a few SQL Services
which use it.  Example:
IFS_PATH scalar function - IBM Documentation
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=services-ifs-path-scalar-function>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

How can I tell if 5770SS1-39 "International Components for Unicode" is
still used?

It's really dated.  It has several CVE's out against it which IBM has no
intention of resolving.  Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by multiple
vulnerabilities in International Components for Unicode (ICU) option 39
[CVE-2017-14952 CVE-2011-4599 CVE-2017-17484].
<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7241126>

I'd like to remove it if it is not used.