PH61671: INCORRECT OVERFLOW AND POINTER WHEN USING UTF-8 ITEMS ON THE STRING STATEMENT.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• STRING statement With Pointer <pointer-value> does not point to
  a character position of the receiving field, but rather to the
  number of bytes.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of Enterprise COBOL 6.4 whose COBOL    *
  *                 programs contain STRING statements with      *
  *                 USAGE UTF-8 operands.                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Several problems have been identified:  *
  *                      1. The POINTER phrase did not return    *
  *                      the correct index. 2. The ON OVERFLOW   *
  *                      and NOT ON OVERFLOW phrases were not    *
  *                      executed appropriately. 3. UTF-8        *
  *                      figurative constant senders and         *
  *                      delimiters did not function correctly.  *
  *                      4. Multi-byte UTF-8 code points were    *
  *                      not                                     *
  *                      handled correctly. 5. Incorrect output  *
  *                      may appear in the unused bytes of UTF-8 *
  *                      fixed character length PIC U(n) items.  *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: None.                                        *
  ****************************************************************
  N/A
  

Problem conclusion

• The compiler was fixed to address the items listed above.
  

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

• IGY8RWTU IGYCASMB IGYCCBE  IGYCCCRT IGYCCICS IGYCCSRV IGYCDGEN
  IGYCDIAG IGYCDMAP IGYCEN$0 IGYCEN$1 IGYCEN$2 IGYCEN$3 IGYCEN$4
  IGYCEN$5 IGYCEN$8 IGYCEN$D IGYCEN$R IGYCFGEN IGYCFREE IGYCINIT
  IGYCJA$0 IGYCJA$1 IGYCJA$2 IGYCJA$3 IGYCJA$4 IGYCJA$5 IGYCJA$8
  IGYCJA$D IGYCJA$R IGYCJBLD IGYCJDM1 IGYCJDM2 IGYCJDM3 IGYCJDM4
  IGYCJDM5 IGYCJDM6 IGYCJDMB IGYCJDMJ IGYCJDMR IGYCJDN1 IGYCJDN2
  IGYCJDN3 IGYCJDNB IGYCJDNJ IGYCJDNR IGYCJGEN IGYCLIBR IGYCLSTR
  IGYCLVL0 IGYCLVL1 IGYCLVL2 IGYCLVL3 IGYCLVL8 IGYCMALL IGYCOSCN
  IGYCPGEN IGYCRCTL IGYCRDPR IGYCRDSC IGYCREAL IGYCRWT  IGYCSCAN
  IGYCSIMD IGYCUE$0 IGYCUE$1 IGYCUE$2 IGYCUE$3 IGYCUE$4 IGYCUE$5
  IGYCUE$8 IGYCUE$D IGYCUE$R IGYCXREF IGYDRV   IGYEQCWI IGYMSGE
  IGYMSGK  IGYMSGT  IGYQCBE  IGYQSPLT IGYZQEN6 IGYZQENU IGYZQJP6
  IGYZQJPN
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  ENT COBOL FOR Z

• Fixed component ID

  5655EC600

Applicable component levels

• R640 PSY UI97420

     UP24/06/27 P F406

• R641 PSY UI97421

     UP24/06/27 P F406

• R642 PSY UI97422

     UP24/06/27 P F406

• R64H PSY UI97423

     UP24/06/27 P F406

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