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  3. January 2007

Relaxation of rules for RPG's unicode support: PTFs for v5r3 and v5r4

Anyone who has tried to change a database field to be unicode instead of
character or DBCS has discovered how annoying it is to have to specify
%UCS2/%CHAR/%GRAPH whenever the field is used with other data.  The RPG
compiler has relaxed some of the rules regarding using UCS2 with
character and DBCS data; this change is available through V5R3 and V5R4
PTFs.  Not all the rules have been relaxed; the change only affects
assignment and comparison operations, and initialization of UCS2 fields.

This article gives some details: 
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/Jan07/Developer

Here are the PTFs: 
   v5r3m0 tgtrls(*current):  SI24532  
   v5r4m0 tgtrls(*current):  SI26312  
   v5r4m0 tgtrls(*prv)    :  SI25232

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