RE: Problem with conditioned fields -- WDSCI-L

According to DDS Reference, '£' is not valid for a field name.  
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AUI03/1.2.2?SHELF=&DT=19990811160340&CASE=
The DDS syntax rules for record and field names are: 

Names must be 10 characters or less. 

Names must begin with an alphabetic character (A through Z, @, $, and #). 
All subsequent characters can be alphanumeric (A through Z, 0 through 9, 
@, $, #, and _ (underscore)). There can be no embedded blanks. 

I also tried to create a display file containing the code including '£' in 
customer's email below.  In the 5250 edit mode, an error is shown to 
indicate that '£' is not valid in the field name (Character after first 
character of name not valid). 

If the display file is saved anyway, compiling it will throw the same 
CPD7425 error again.

So I think in the your maybe you were using a different language (CCSID) 
so that '£' was mapped to a valid character for field name, eg, @, $, or # 
?   To convert the display file properly you may need to change the 
iSeries user locale and current locale on PC to use the right language. 

Now, I seem to recall somewhere that the codepoint used for '$' in NA is 
used for '£' in the UK ?  So following the above it could be that the 
iSeries is set to a UK-English locale and the PC set to a US-English 
locale or some such.

Mike


Mike Hockings, P.Eng.
WebSphere Development Tools for AS/400  -  CODE/Designer & WebFacing !
IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory 
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I have managed to establish that this is a problem with the £ in the
fieldname. I changed the field to WXTOVL and reconverted and it worked 
fine.
Does anyone know if this is a known issue and whether theres a fix for it? 
I
really hope there is as this could potentially put our project on hold as 
we
use £'s for all value fieldnames.

Regards,
 
Steve Lakin
ERP Analyst Programmer
Ramesys
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Subject: [WDSCI-L] Problem with conditioned fields

I am trying to webface a DDS member containing the following piece of 
code:

A N91        W£TOVL    R        O  5 62EDTCDE(L)

A  91        WCTOVL    R        O  5 62EDTCDE(L)


When I run the application this screen crashes saying that it expected to
receive 17 fields but it actually received 18. In the error message the 
list
of fields only contains WCTOVL. If I comment out W£TOVL and recompile the
DDS the application runs fine. Is this a known bug with the conversion
process? It's a pretty major one if it is. We have code like this all over
our application and I dare say so do a lot of people.

Regards,
 
Steve Lakin
ERP Analyst Programmer
Ramesys



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