PI71418: RDZ DEBUGGER CRASHES FOR COBOL PROGRAM WITH FILLER FIELD CONTAINING ACCENTED CHARACTERS ENDING IN COLUMN 72

Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 6 (9.0.1.6) for 9.0.1
Rational Developer for System z Interim Fix 1 for 9.0.1.6
Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 7 (9.0.1.7) for 9.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• In Rational Developer for System z v9.0.1, debugger crashes for
  a COBOL program containing a FILLER field with accented
  characters when the string value ends at column 72.
  Here is an example of the FILLER field:
  
         01 WS-LISTX.
            03 FILLER              PIC X(0052) VALUE
                   '01instalação
  '.
  '.
  
  The same problem can be seen in RDz 9.1.1+ service packs.
  

Local fix

• Reduce the length of the FILLER value string to end before
  column 72
  

Problem summary

• When debugging code that contains national language characters
  with the Integrated Debugger, the source appears corrupted in
  the debug session, or a source not found error may appear.
  

Problem conclusion

• The listing was not correctly being converted to UTF8 from the
  host encoding prior to being displayed in the editor.  This
  issue is now fixed.
  
  The problem listed in this APAR has been resolved with
  IBM Rational Developer for System z V9.0.1.6 Fix Pack which
  is available from the Recommended Fixes support download page:
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2294&uid=swg27006335
  

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

  DEV FOR Z SYS

• Fixed component ID

  5724T0700

Applicable component levels

• R901 PSY

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