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Status Not under consideration
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 22, 2010

Request to enhance error message for locale not supported during Informix extraction

When trying to extract database information to migrate from Informix i4GL to EGL, An error is raised when an incorrect locale is used: Locale not supported.

It would be good to have an indication of what locale is supported.

Error message seems to come from Informix InfoCenter (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/c
om.ibm.jdbc_pg.doc/jdbc233.htm) which forwards to the "IBM Informix GLS User's Guide" at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v111/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.glsug.doc/glsug.htm.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Mar 11, 2021

    IBM Business Developer is a continuous delivery offering, and aims to satisfy the needs of a rapidly evolving market segment. Product strategy evolves and requirements are continuously evaluated against that strategy. This RFE has recently been reappraised against the wider product strategy and does not fall into IBMs delivery plans for the next 12 month. Whilst this RFE might be valid and we might look to deliver longer term, this RFE is being rejected at this time.

  • Guest
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    Mar 9, 2021

    This RFE is more than a decade old. It might not be relevant now. Please create a new RFE if this requirement is not yet addressed in the product and it still exists.

  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
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    Apr 21, 2010

    The I4GL migration tool uses the set of locales supported by Java. We plan to write a technote to provide this information.

  • Guest
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    Mar 29, 2010

    In such cases, when I use a correct Informix-supported DBLOCALE and CLIENTLOCALE such as ar_ae.1256 while It's not supported by RBD, It should accept that locale (Highly recommended) or at least tell what are the alternatives.

  • Guest
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    Mar 22, 2010

    new RFE submitted