JR43758: DECIMAL NUMBERS FORMAT ISSUE IN COACHES WITH COMMA FOR DECIMAL SEPARATION AND PERIOD FOR THOUSANDS SEPARATION LOST IN 8.0 CODE

Version 8.0 Refresh Pack 1 for the IBM Business Process Manager products

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Upgrading BPM from 7.5.0 to 8.0 resultsin the loss of locale
  specific functionality. In 7.5 coaches the comma (,) can be
  used as the decimal separator and the period (.) as the
  thousand separator for numbers if configured to do so.
  
  In 8.0 even if changing the format to "###.###.###,##" it still
  doesn't work as it did in 7.5.
  

Local fix

• Use commas as thousands separator and periods as decimal
  separator. There is no workaround to allow the opposite as was
  possible in 7.5.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:  Users of BPM Express, BPM Standard, and     *
  *                  BPM Advanced.                               *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Heritage coaches' formatting for        *
  *                      numbers is not displaying correctly     *
  *                      for locales with differing comma and    *
  *                      decimal placement.                      *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  Code was introduced that caused the Formatting javascript in
  coaches to be called twice causing loss of correct
  formatting, it broke both integer and decimal values.
  

Problem conclusion

• To correct this functionality, bad code was rolledback
  allowing Heritage coaches to properly format numbers for
  different locales.
  
  Fix is available on FixCentral.
  
  Install/Dependency information is available in the readme.txt
  on FixCentral. When the user goes to the download files page
  in FixCentral, the readme will be available with the fix
  package as a separate download.
  

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:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  BPM STANDARD

• Fixed component ID

  5725C9500

Applicable component levels

• R800 PSY

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