Special Character Support

New Features › Special Character Support

Special Character Support

The report and distribution identifiers are 1-to 32-character fields with a limited set of acceptable characters. Version 12.0 provides additional character support for these fields.

Following is the new list of valid characters for the report and distribution identifiers:

Letters (A-Z)
Numbers (0-9)
period (.)
National characters ($,#,@)
Percent (%)
Cent (¢)
Exclamation (!)
Slash (/)
underscore (_)
dash (-)
Blank ( )
Less than(<)
Left parentheses “(“
Plus (+)
Bar (|)
Ampersand (&)
Right parentheses “)”
Semicolon (;)
Not Sign (¬)
Broken bar (¦)
Comma (,)
Greater than (>)
Question mark (?)
Colon (:)
Single quote (‘)
Equal (=)
Double quote (“)

These characters are only valid for Version 12.0 databases. Existing databases must be upgraded to Version 12.0 to use this new feature.

Note: For more information about database conversion, see the Migration Information section in the Installation Guide.

These new characters are based on US code page 037. The use of any other code page with CA View can produce unpredictable results. Any other code page that maps the above special character differently than code page 037 can present a problem.

CA Output Management Web Viewer Version 12.0 can be used to access CA View reports that make use of special characters support. Previous releases of CA Output Management Web Viewer cannot access CA View reports defined with special characters.

The semicolon is used as the ISPF Command Delimiter. The use of this character in Report or DISTID names can prevent them from being used on the command line under the ISPF interface. We recommend changing the ISPF Command Delimiter to another character that is not used in Report or DISTID names.

The equal sign is used as the ISPF jump character. The use of this character in Report or DISTID names can prevent them from being used on the command line under the ISPF interface.

The question mark is used as the ISPF help command character. The use of this character in Report or DISTID names can prevent them from being used on the command line under the ISPF interface.