This is a new one for me.
I have a customer that has sites in both the US and Canada. In the last
week, something strange has happened in their files TWICE.
They are using CICS to add a new vendor to an IMS database. The next
time they try to access the vendor record, the terminal session gets a
prog-something because the customer name now has a x'1A' in the name
where it should have been an apostrophe. TN3270 just does not like a
x'1A' in a data field.
For example:
GROUT.S WELDING LIMITED
CDDEE1E4ECDCCDC4DCDCECC44
79643A2065349570394935400
I asked if they are creating new vendor records via an off-platform
feed, but they say the are keying them manually in a CICS terminal session.
I do know that both times this has happened, the vendor was a Canadian
supplier so maybe this has something to do with French keyboards?
(Grasping for straws, maybe?)
Anybody seen this or think they may know what is happening?
Tony Thigpen
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