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his requirement has been re-assessed. It is not likely that this will be implemented in the next 12-24 months and so it is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.
But perhaps a requirement should be opened to allow DBCS in the XMLUCHAR function? (that generates XML as UTF-8)
Hi Team, can someone help with the status of this request please..
Team, any more questions on my request ? We would need PL/1 to be flexible for handling DBCS characters also during XMLCHAR function execution.. This is much in demand.. Please try to have a look at this.. Thanks
#1. No plans for having XML data element names as DBCS in near future as well.
#2. DBCS data stored within the PL1 character variable has to be supported in XMLCHAR function.
For our scenario, we have declared the variable as datatype CHAR, do you think I need to declare it as GRAPHIC? and is GRAPHIC data type is supported in XMLCHAR function ?
Data has to be written to the buffer along with the shift-in & shift-out codes, which helps identifying DBCS.
In our case,
#1.Actual DBCS data ==> 静岡県静岡市葵区紺屋町１７‐１
#2.I believe PL1 read the single byte Hex value of it, and recognized it like this ==> ･｣､ｼ､ｪ･｣､ｼ､ｫ&R､ｬ<]､Z､ｭ｡1｡7｣!｡1
#3.After applying XMLCHAR function, the data is formatted within tags like this ==> ･｣､ｼ､ｪ･｣､ｼ､ｫ&R､ｬ<]､Z､ｭ｡1｡7｣!｡1
==> You can see < symbol from the #2 is replaced with < in #3 after applying XMLCHAR. probably PL1 see it as a special character.
Fixing this would help our application to achieve lot many things in PL1.
We're tentatively accepting this until we get an answer to our earlier questions
Is the requirement for 1) that data element names in DBCS are supported or 2) that DBCS data be supported? or both?
Another way to ask 2) would be to ask if structure elements with the GRAPHIC attribute are to be supported?
For 2) should the data simply be written to the buffer? or should the data be enclosed in shift-codes?