IC93195: PCOM: ALL JAPANESE DOUBLE-BYTE CHARACTERS ARE DISPLAYED AS GARBAGE IF USING HCP 931 ON 5250 SESSION

Personal Communications 6.0.9
Personal Communications 6.0.10
Personal Communications 6.0.11
Personal Communications 6.0.12
Personal Communications 6.0.13
Personal Communications 6.0.15

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• If using HCP 931 on 5250 session, all Japanese DBCS characters
  are displayed as garbages on every screen.
  .
  Inf: HCP931 consists of SBCS for English and Japanese DBCS.
       Character set     Codepage       CCSID
  SBCS     101              37           8229
  DBCS    1001             300            300
  .
  

Local fix

• Use popular Japanese Host codepage like 930
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All PCOM Japanese HCP931 users               *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Garbage characters appear on the PCOM   *
  *                      emulator screen when Host code page     *
  *                      931 is used.                            *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  When HCP931 is used with IBM Personal Communications emulator
  sessions, garbage characters appear on the screen. This Host
  code page is not being handled the same as other Japanese Host
  code pages.
  

Problem conclusion

• PSCC.DLL, PCSCT.DLL, PCSCTNW.DLL, PCSEDIT.DLL, PCSFONT.DLL,
  PCSPCO.DLL, and PCSWS.EXE have been changed to handle HCP931
  in the same way as other Japanese Host code pages.
  
  Fix scheduled for PCOM 6.0.9 Refresh Pack
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Modules/Macros

• PCSCC    PCSCT    PCSCTNW  PCSEDIT  PCSFONT  PCSPCO   PCSWS
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PCOMM V5 COMBO-

• Fixed component ID

  5639I700J

Applicable component levels

• R601 PSY

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