The default value of the parameter NLSCTRL in the NLS configuration file nlscfg.err has been changed from OFF to ON.
The setting can be verified by issuing the ? LANG query command.
Some European, and Japanese, users on z/OS and AS400 may encounter problems with this change. The related code pages are 273, 277, 278, 280, 284, 297, 500, 871, 875, 939, and 1026. They are all EBCDIC code pages. ASCII code pages (or the Reporting Server code pages on Windows and UNIX) are not affected.
The related special characters are the vertical line ('|', 0x4F in code page 37), the exclamation point ('!', 0x5A in code page 37) and the backslash ('\', 0xE0 in code page 37).
With NLSCTRL=OFF (old default), FOCEXECs using the affected code pages had to use the codepoint of the characters (0x4F, 0x5A and 0xE0). For example, to use a vertical line (|), they had to enter an exclamation point (!). With NLSCTRL=ON (new default), the actual characters can be used.
With NLSCTRL ON, FOCEXECs that used the substitute characters should be edited to use the actual characters.
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