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Fantastic - thanks Scott

Thanks - that's what I thought. I've upgraded HTTPAPI multiple times with no issues but haven't done YAJL before. This client has no test box and YAJL is used in multiple business-critical interface applications. I will schedule the update out-of-hours so it can be verified before it gets called for...

I need to upgrade our YAJL installation to the latest version. If I use the same library name for the new version as I did for the old, do I need to recompile all the RPGLE programs that use YAJL? I'm guessing not, but have no means to test outside the live environment.

It turns out the version of YAJL on this IBM i does not have YAJL_GET_STRING_UTF16. Must be quite old. I will get it updated to the latest version. When I install the new YAJL version, do I need to identify and recompile any RPGLE programs that use it? I will use the same library name for YAJL.

Thanks Scott - will give that a try. Your comments about using UTF-16 in the database are noted, and I will make that change.

I have a legacy RPGLE program that uses YAJL to parse JSON data from the IFS into a character column in an IBM i database table. This has been working well for years when the incoming data was basic ASCII and the table column was EBCDIC. We now need to handle a much broader set of characters. The JS...