This flag is for backwards compatibility. Some may experience problems with database-driven widgets with Profound UI versions Version 5., Fix Pack 8.0 and later when a data source uses derived fields with character concatenation.
Before Profound UI version Version 5., Fix Pack 8.0, database-driven widgets read from the database in EBCDIC before sending the response back to the browser. To support more character sets, Profound UI was changed to read from the database in Unicode.
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- The Profound UI installation was upgraded from a version level prior to Version 5., Fix Pack 8.0 to a version after Version 5., Fix Pack 10.2.1
- Database-driven widgets fail to show data after upgrading.
- There is an error in the job log or network response: "Character conversion between CCSID 1208 and CCSID 65535 not valid."
- Changing the view or display file is not reasonable.2
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1 This configuration option is available with versions after 5.Profound UI Version 5, Fix Pack 10.1. Thus, if Profound UI was upgraded to 5.fix pack levels 9.0, 5. 9.1, 5. 10.0, or 5. 10.1 of Version 5, then Tech Support must provide a patch in order to use this option.
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