ICONV Broken on 5.8

[Clifford Ponce]

We recently upgrade from JBase 5.2 to JBase 5.8 (Minor 6.5, Patch d08c917, Change 25023)

We have discovered that ICONV DOES NOT WORK under several circumstances. We have been unable to make simple test cases as ICONV does work sometimes and seems to work in our test case attempts. 

Robert Burke from Rocket (Zumasys) has been on our system and witnessed the troublesome behavior of this very important and primary function.

It has caused major problems with our system. It has effected our inventory to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and we have spent hundreds of man hours fixing data and creating programming work arounds.

Has anyone else experienced this.

I caution everyone to not upgrade until they can guarantee this issue is resolved.

[Rick Weiser]

Hi Cliff,

Why aren't you opening a support call with Rocket?

Rick

[Rick Weiser]

Sorry, I see that Robert is on the email.  What is Rocket doing about the issue?

[Clifford Ponce]

We did open a ticket with Rocket. I had someone on a Teams call watching us reproduce the error on our system. 
They had not, up to that time, been able to reproduce it on one of their systems.

It has been very frustrating!

[Clifford Ponce]

Here is the latest response from Rocket:

The problem here is now with ICONV, but with the jBASE runtime.

There is a known problem where, in the left side of the argument you cannot store the result of the function used with the variable on the right side of the argument.

Change your code to read:

AMT      = REC<4> + 0
NEW.AMT      = ICONV(AMT,'MR2')
CRT "AMT = " : NEW.AMT
A<X> = NEW.AMT

Um, holy crap!  What!? That is kind of the WHOLE idea of a function!!!   Sure hope this gets resolved soon.

[David Dacono]

It is probably good practice to assign the result to a different variable to the variable you are changing.

At machine level you are updating the registers you are reading.  This has led to many inconsistent behaviours over the years and probable bugs into the future too.

Appreciate it is annoying and a lot of code adjustments

David

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