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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 4, 2019

Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data.

Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage!

PMR23932,060,618

Needed by Date Dec 31, 2019
  • Guest
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    Jul 22, 2019

    Hello Janet!

    in the PMR you can see, that we want to Change all the Umlauts ä, ö, ü, ß to the corresponding character a, o, u, s with one call. Thats what translate does. 

    All findings in a arbitrary string should be changed from ä to a and ö to o in one call!

    I think thats not possible using overlay because there is only one starting Position.

    Kind regards

    Martin

  • Admin
    Janet Figone
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    Jul 16, 2019

    Hello Martin, Thank you for submitting this Idea. Db2 for z/OS development has reviewed it and would like to know why OVERLAY https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_12.0.0/sqlref/src/tpc/db2z_bif_overlay.html can't be used?