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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 21, 2017

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PL/I for AIX string variables are not displayed correctly using IBM Debugger/Rational Developer applications.

Variables containing unprintable characters are not displayed correctly in "(x)= Variables" view.

Apparently this is reproducible when a binary NUL is present, which carries no special meaning in CHAR NONVAR variables in PL/1.

This severely limits reviewing e.g. communications areas for TXSeries CICS programs, which are affected by instable display of structures variables as such (read: it is not working). (we will prepare a relevant PMR for that other issue once we are have significant sample program to illustrate the issue separately).

We understand that viewing large (>n bytes) variables is somewhat not supported in RTC Debugger, but for smaller variables this should be feasible (being the fully fledged debugger at hand).

Debugger is shortening variables and displays them differently to e.g. a PLI DISPLAY() statement.

Expected behaviour: display all codepoints without restrictions; or at least fail gracefully and do not display wrong values in string representation for PL/1 for AIX 3.1 programs

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 22, 2017

    This should be opened against the debugger

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