AS400 Callapi replaces "\" with "ö" when passing path variables during Submission

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

All special characters are wrongly printed in the AE Reports of a CallAPI job.

When a CallAPI script with the following content is executed:

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0001.00 :SET &SOURCE_DIR# = "\\@@@@ööö\ÖÖÖÖ\XXX\"
0002.00 :PRINT &SOURCE_DIR#
0003.00 :PRINT "ÖÖööääÄÄüüÜÜ"

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The result in AWI will be the following

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:SET &SOURCE_DIR# = "ÖÖ§§§§ŠŠŠÖ\\\\ÖXXXÖ"
:PRINT &SOURCE_DIR#
:PRINT "
ŠŠ{{[[}}]]"

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An unexpected conversion of special characters takes place between german characters as Ö,ö,ä,Ä,ü,Ü.

Environment

Release : 12.3 Component : AUTOMATION ENGINE

Cause

This is a bug of the AS400 Call API

Resolution

In the AS400 agent call api, a fix has been delivered for that issue. The fix requires the use of the newly introduced configuration parameter CODETABLE to force specific character set during the execution.

Depending on your configuration, please set 'CODETABLE=EBCDIC_00037' (ASCII code table) or 'CODETABLE=EBCDIC_00273' (Latin-1 Supplement) in the [GLOBAL] section of the Call API's ini-file.

This parameter will be documented.

The fix is available in the following versions the AS 400 Agent

Automation.Engine 12.3.7 HF1 -- available

Automation.Engine 12.3.8 -- available

Automation.Engine 21.0.1 -- avallable