Hello Dave - I ran into this in 2016 on z.
Here's some discussion I had on this:
With 8.5 comes greater accuracy with handling of non-US characters.
Typically, this is a symptom of the German "Sharp S" which when
uppercased becomes two letters.
Here's how you fix it:
a) install PM82660/UK92465
b) add the following to ars.cfg:
ARS_USE_OLD_STYLE_CASE=1
That's all that's needed to resolve the loading problem.
However,
c) all clients should be at 8.5.0.6 or higher to deal with the
character being stored as a Sharp S when doing searches.
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Related APAR:
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APAR PM70770 / UK81470 Description
Upper-casing the German s-sharp produces SS. This expansion of
the string caused the NULL that terminated the string to be
overlaid, causing subsequent string operations to behave
incorrectly.
PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: When running arsload with a applgrp *
* field that specifies upper-casing and *
* the field contains a German s-sharp *
* (U+00DF), the field can either be *
* truncated, or arsload can abend due to *
* heap corruption. *
****************************************************************
* RECOMMENDATION: *
****************************************************************
ARNADMP is changed to detect the expansion of the string due to
the upper-case operation and not overlay the trailing NUL.
Additionally, ARNADMP will detect if the expansion exceeds the
size of the field and issue an error message.
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This issue was reported on z and fixed on z.
But then along came the problem on AIX.
For indexing and loading on AIX you also add the following to ars.cfg:
ARS_USE_OLD_STYLE_CASE=1
Just for completeness of this discussion, there was still a problem loading from AIX -> z.
A colleague weighed in with this:
I have been looking at how to fix this issue and trying to use ars.cfg /
ars.ini on your AIX machine may prove to be a bit tricky.
From my tests here on the AIX box you can also specify an environment
variable. Do this for the user(s) who run the arsload command:
ARS_USE_OLD_STYLE_CASE=1
The reply was
...it works!! ...
I put
export ARS_USE_OLD_STYLE_CASE=1
before the call of arsload
Ed
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