validateMixedItems

When you generate a COBOL program, the validateMixedItems build descriptor option specifies whether a generated program validates the integrity of DBCHAR strings when an MBCHAR variable is assigned to another MBCHAR variable.

Values

NO
EGL run time services do not validate the data in an MBCHAR-to-MBCHAR assignment If your program assigns values to MBCHAR variables, but the error situation for MBCHAR-to-MBCHAR assignment is not possible, you can set this option to NO for better runtime performance.
YES (the default value)
EGL runtime services validate the data in an MBCHAR-to-MBCHAR assignment. If the resulting value would contain an invalid DBCS string, such as a split DBCHAR character or a missing final shift-in character, EGL truncates characters as needed to ensure that the target variable contains a valid string of type MBCHAR, then adds (if necessary) terminating single-byte blanks.

For more information on exception handling and variable types, see the topics "Exception handling" and "Primitive data types" in the EGL Language Reference.


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