Extra spaces not visible in job log #473
Description
This is maybe a niche issue, but I am trying to debug a stored procedure by using SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF() to print to the job log.
One of the fields I am printing is a text field that HAS to be right aligned (left padded with spaces). In the job log, it was showing as not right aligned, and I was trying to figure out why, until I tried printing the HEX() of the field, which revealed that it did have the space characters, and it was just the display that was not including them.
DECLARE seg_PMCU CHAR(12);
SET seg_PMCU = LPAD('MED', 12, ' ');
CALL SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF('--- DEBUGGING --------------------------------------');
CALL SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF('BRANCH ['|| seg_PMCU ||']');
CALL SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF('BRANCH ['|| HEX(seg_PMCU) ||']');
When viewing the joblog from a 5250 session, the spaces are shown
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Remote system
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| IBM i OS | V7R5M0 |
| Tech Refresh | 6 |
| CCSID Origin | 37 |
| Runtime CCSID | 37 |
| Default CCSID | 37 |
| SSHD CCSID | ? |
| cqsh | true |
| SQL | Enabled |
| Source dates | Disabled |
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| /usr/bin | /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin | /QSYS.lib/ILEDITOR.lib | /QSYS.LIB | /QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin | /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk80 | /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk17 | /QOpensys/pkgs/lib/jvm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| attr | bash | GETNEWLIBL.PGM | QZDFMDB2.PGM | startDebugService.sh | 64bit | 64bit | openjdk-11 |
| iconv | chsh | ||||||
| setccsid | ls | ||||||
| tar | md5sum | ||||||
| uname | sort | ||||||
| stat |
Shell env
BUILDLIB=QGPL
CURLIB=QGPL
HOME=/home/PMICHAL
HOST=10.100.0.13
LIBLS=CBUTILITY JDFSRC WBSSRCJDE QRPG JDFOBJ WBSOBJJDE INSTALL WEEKLY WBSPROJDE QGPL WBSGPL QTEMP
LOGIN=pmichal
LOGNAME=pmichal
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/pmichal
OLDPWD=/home/PMICHAL
PASE_USRGRP_LIMITED=N
PATH=/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:.:/usr/bin
PWD=/home/PMICHAL
SHELL=/QOpensys/pkgs/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
SSH_CLIENT=10.100.3.123 63227 22
SSH_CONNECTION=10.100.3.123 63227 10.100.0.13 22
TZ=<EST>5<EDT>,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
USER=pmichal
USERNAME=pmichal
WORKDIR=/home/PMICHAL
_=/QOpenSys/usr/bin/envVariants
{
"american": "#@$",
"local": "#@$"
}