Re: Field name containing £ invalid

Hi Paul,

Is the job CCSID and file CCSID the same?
It sounds like there may be some bug because they are not.  Due to the
nature of this type of problem, I recommend that you pursue this issue with
official IBM support.

thanks,

Violaine Batthish
WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing
more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. - Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry



wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 27/03/2006 05:39:21 AM:

> Hello,
>
> We have recently started using WDSC/RSE instead of SEU and last week
> came across an issue with the verify function.
>
> In many of our field names we have the "£" character.  When
> verifying these source members the error list shows error RNF0289
> ENTRY CONTAINS DATA THAT IS NOT VALID (Severity 20 error).
>
> In the outline viewer the field shows against the file as QA$RPI
> (Should be QA£RPI) and in the field list the field shows as just Q@.
>
> The program compiles without problem (No errors > 0 severity) and
> verifies in CODE without problems.
>
> Has anybody come across away of getting round this error?  I have
> search the archive and found one reference to £ not being a valid
> character for field names but this is used throughout our systems so
> would not be feasible to change all field names.  I have also search
> the IBM site without success although may be information there I
> have not come across.  I have also tried changing preferences and
> localization settings on my pc but still get the same error.
>
> Our version of RSE is 6.0.1.1.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Paul.
>
>
> Paul Thompson
> IT Business Analyst
> Daniel Thwaites PLC