Behaviour of Constants in 2E

Products

• CA 2E

Issue/Introduction

after regenerating and compiling an external function that has some constants defined on parameters to another program,  in older versions of 2E, version 7.0, the constants remain a constant/literal string.   However, at 8.7, they are not put into an array and the field length defaults to 14.  In test case scenario, the string is only 6 characters so it cause decimal issues because the extra spaces push additional data out so did not line up. 

Environment

Release:  8.7.4
CA 2E

Cause

This is a change in the 2E constants handling functionality which took place from CA 2E 7.0 to 8.7.x

Resolution

A test fix is available for release 8.7.4.  Please contact Support to obtain the fix.  

Additional Information

The fix should be included in future releases of 2E, after 8.7.4