PH63270: FUNCTION BYTE-LENGTH GIVES WRONG RESULTS ON UTF-8 DATA ITEMS

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The starting byte offset and byte-length of reference modified
  PIC U data items that are subordinates in a group were not
  always being calculated correctly when the data item contains
  multi-byte UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters.
  

Local fix

• N/A
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of Enterprise COBOL 6.3 compiling and  *
  *                 running programs that contain reference      *
  *                 modified PIC U data items that are           *
  *                 subordinate items in a group.                *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Incorrect result                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: Apply the IBM-provided PTF                   *
  ****************************************************************
  The starting byte offset and byte-length of reference modified
  PIC U data items that are subordinates in a group were not
  always being calculated correctly when the data item contains
  multi-byte UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters.
  

Problem conclusion

• The compiler was updated to ensure that the starting byte offset
  and byte-length of reference modified PIC U data items that are
  subordinates in a group are calculated correctly.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

  PH62890

• 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 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

• R630 PSY UI98464

     UP24/09/28 P F409

• R631 PSY UI98465

     UP24/09/28 P F409

• R632 PSY UI98466

     UP24/09/28 P F409

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