View/Deliver Report ID (sysout-id) - Special Character Support

Products

• View

Issue/Introduction

What special characters are supported for specification of a Report ID (sysout-id) in both CA View and CA Deliver?

Environment

14.0, View, Deliver, Security, ERO, Special, Characters, Support

Resolution

See below links to appropriate areas of CA View and CA Deliver documentation outlining special character support for Report ID's.

 

---- Security consideration ---- Initialization Parameters

      SECTRAN=

If you use external security (RACF, CA ACF2 Security, CA Top Secret Security) and the report id contains characters
from the extended special character set, you must set SECTRAN=YES. This setting causes the extended special
characters to be automatically translated to ‘_’ underscores before the RACROUTE security call.

 

---- View 14.0 Getting Started ---- Understand Basic Terms Report ID

      Note: A Report ID cannot start with a blank.     

      A Report ID (sysout-id) can contain alphanumeric and the following special characters:

 Period .
 Dollar $
 Pound or Hash #
 Rate @
 Percent %
 Dash or Hyphen -
 Cent ¢
 Exclamation Mark !
 Slash /
 Underscore _
 Blank
 Less than <
 Left Parentheses (
 Plus +
 Vertical Bar | (hex 4F)
 Logical Not ¬ (hex 5F)
 Broken Bar ¦ (Hex 6A)
 Ampersand &
 Right Parentheses )
 Colon :
 Semicolon ;
 Greater than >
 Comma ,
 Single quote '
 Double quote "
 Equal to =
 Question Mark ?

 

---- ERO Table Statements     

      A SYSOUT-ID can contain alphanumeric and the following special characters:

 Period .
 National characters $,#,@
 Percent sign %
 Cent sign ¢
 Exclamation mark !
 Slash /
 Underscore _
 Dash -
 Asterisk *
 Blank “ “
 Less than sign <
 Left parentheses (
 Plus sign +
 Bar |
 Ampersand &
 Right parentheses )
 Semicolon ;
 Not Sign ¬
 Broken bar ¦
 Comma ,
 Greater than sign >
 Question mark ?
 Colon :
 Single quote ’
 Equal sign =
 Double quote "

Note: If the sysout-Id contains spaces, it must be enclosed in quotes (single or double). Any quotes in Report-id must be
entered as a pair of quotes because a non-paired quote will end the ID. For example, if the value were JIM’S REPORT it
must be entered as ‘JIM’’S REPORT’ or “JIM’S REPORT”.

 

---- CA Deliver 14.0 ---- Basic Reports and Attributes

      A Report Identifier can contain alphanumeric and the following special characters:

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