What's new in GLS, Version 6.00

Starting in Informix GLS 6.00.xC4, you can specify the display widths that DB-Access and other character-based Informix applications use for characters in the Unicode Private Use Area (PUA) ranges. Before you try to display the characters that are in PUA ranges, set the new IFX_PUA_DISPLAY_MAPPING environment variable, and create a mapping file: $INFORMIXDIR/gls/etc/pua.map. In the file, list each character followed by the character representation display width. Valid display widths are 1 (halfwidth character representation) or 2 (fullwidth character representation). If you do not specify a display width for a character in the file, the default is halfwidth.

Now you can control which separator to use in the character-string representation of fractional seconds. To define a separator between seconds and fractional seconds, you must include a literal character between the %S and %F directives when you set the GL_DATETIME or DBTIME environment variable, or when you call the TO_CHAR function. By default, a separator is not used between seconds and fractional seconds. Previously, the ASCII 46 character, a period ( . ), was inserted before the fractional seconds, regardless of whether the formatting string included an explicit separator for the two fields.