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Status Future consideration
Workspace Debug for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 6, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Support Japanese Monospaced Fonts in Headless Code Coverage PDF Reports

When generating PDF reports using the Headless Code Coverage collector with the Japanese locale (-nl ja), the system currently uses a proportional font (such as IBMPlexSansJP). We request that the tool be updated to support a monospaced font for Japanese output to ensure correct source code alignment, or provide a configuration option to allow users to specify a custom font family.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Mar 18, 2026

    I have identified that IBMPlexSansJP lacks a glyph for U+2212 (Minus Sign), which corresponds to X'E9F3' in CCSID 1390.

    Due to this missing glyph, PDF reports containing X'E9F3' are rendered with a "#" (replacement character) instead of the correct minus sign.

    While our coverage collector running on z/OS USS correctly follows the Shift-JIS conversion rules, the font itself cannot display the character. Even if I were to build a custom version of the font with the missing glyph, there is currently no mechanism to specify or switch to a custom font file.

    We urgently request an option to specify a custom font family or an update to IBMPlexSansJP to include the missing glyph.

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  • Guest
    Jan 7, 2026
    Will be considered for a future release
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