Unicode Test Plan

This document outlines a plan for testing the Unicode enhancements in APPX 6.0.

Overview

Release 6.0.0 of the APPX Utility includes support for Unicode data types.

Major Features:

DD Changes:

Maximum Alpha Field Size increased to 4GB

Maximum Record Size increased to 4GB

Encoding Type Attribute added for Alpha fields

FMS Changes:

APPXIO Support for Unicode fields

Oracle Support for Unicode fields

ILF Support:

SET

SET TEMP

IF / AND / OR

APPEND

STORE / RESTORE

PUSH / POP

ERROR / WARNING / MESSAGE / CANCEL / REFRESH

BEG AT/ END AT

RUN

CALL

PASS

RECEIVE / LOCAL

CNV BIN

CNV PORT

PACK / UNPACK

CNV TEXT

SET DAY / SET MNTH

DEFINE / UNDEFINE

VERIFY

IF DIFF

COMPUTE / TOTAL

SCAN

PRINT

BROWSE

...

Language Translation Support:

Translation Dictionary

Query Support:

Sort OrderSort Order based on Unicode Collating Sequence

Predefine Fields and Files:

TEMP xxxxx

COMPARE File

STD Report Parameters File

Restructure Support:

Restructure APPXIO Files

Oracle Tables

Printing Support:

Text Print Files

PDF Print Files

APPX Client Support:

UTF-8 data stream

Field validation based on Encoding Type

Callable Functions:

Transcoding fields

-- SteveFrizzell - 2011-03-02