Re: RDi 9.9 **FREE RPG parser

Hi Thomas,

If you have 'Automatic Syntax checking' turned on, the Program Verifier DLLS are called automatically.

This impacts NL text, but ALSO those lovely hex color characters so popular to color 5250 source members.

Steve Ferrell
Team Lead Software Engineer - RDi
Fortra.com





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Sorry, I made a mistake, because I forgot to start the verifier. I just loaded the member into the editor without starting the verifier.

If I start the verifier I get the same error. The good thing is that adding "-Dfile.encoding=CP1252" to "RDi.ini" fixed the problem. E.g.:

-Dequinox.resolver.batch.timeout=1000
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=Windows-ROOT
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=NONE
-Xms2048m
-Xmx2048m
-Dfile.encoding=CP1252

Thomas.



Am Di., 3. Feb. 2026 um 14:58 Uhr schrieb Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <
[email protected]>:

> Hi Thomas and Daniel,
>
> Yes, the Program Verifiers (COBOL and RPG) likely need the work around.
>
> Java changed the default encoding on Windows to UTF-8. The Program
> Verifiers are still expecting them to be CP1252.
>
> The compiler team is aware of the issue.
>
> If you don't use the program verifiers, you can turn off the
> 'Automatic Syntax checking', and the errors should go away.
>
> Steve Ferrell
> Team Lead Software Engineer - RDi
> Fortra.com
>
>
>
>
>
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> Gross
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> Hi Thomas,
>
> on my side it's a source member - using CCSID 273 - German W11 -
> German partition.
>
> But I will try that - could be the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
> > Am 03.02.2026 um 13:57 schrieb Thomas Raddatz via WDSCI-L <
> [email protected]>:
> >
> > I use RDi 9.9 on a German Windows 11 PC and your test source does
> > not show any errors when pasted into a member of an i Project.
> >
> > My workspace settings are:
> > Text file encoding: UTF-8
> > New text file line delimiter: Linux
> >
> > Opening the same source from a member on the IBM i (Object Table
> > view) works fine (without errors), too.
> >
> > Maybe it helps setting property "file.encoding" as described in the
> > fix
> > list:
> >
> > Known issues:
> > * On Windows, program verifiers issue errors for NL characters.  As
> > a workaround, add the following in the rdi.ini after -vmargs:
> >    -Dfile.encoding=CP1252
> >
> > I did not need to set that property.
> >
> > Thomas.
> >
> >
> >> Am Di., 3. Feb. 2026 um 07:56 Uhr schrieb Daniel Gross
> >> <[email protected]
> >:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> maybe I'm missing something or a default setting has changed, but
> >> my RDi
> >> 9.9 is flagging variables and constants starting with # as errors.
> >>
> >> **free
> >> dcl-c #CONSTANT 0;
> >> dcl-s #variable int(10) inz(#CONSTANT); #variable = #CONSTANT;
> >> *inlr = *on;
> >>
> >> This little program is compiling without problems. But lines 2, 3
> >> and
> >> 4 are flagged as error in RDi 9.9.
> >>
> >> It's a wild mix of RNF3904, RNF3312, RNF3301, RNF0633, RNF3429,
> >> RNF0607 and RNF0604.
> >>
> >> The same code isn't flagged in RDi 9.8.0.6. And as I wrote, the
> >> code compiles without errors (on 7.5).
> >>
> >> The same happens with other sources - the example above is only as
> >> short as I thought to have all possible problems
> >>
> >> So do I have something wrong, or is this a defect? And if it's a
> >> defect, has someone a workaround until IBM/Fortra is supplying a fix?
> >>
> >> TIA and kind regards,
> >>
> >> Daniel
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