Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi. Over the past weekend we've updated the OS on our web server from AIX 5.1 to AIX 5.3. This seems to have caused a couple of glitches in one of our web apps which is running under Websphere version 5.0.2.9. Everywhere that numbers (specifically dollar values) are appearing on the screen, they are being prefixed by an unusual character, a "¤". Again, this happened immediately following the AIX upgrade. We've recycled the app server multiple time, but it hasn't corrected the problem. In addition, there are a few other issues in our app since the upgrade.

Has anyone ever heard of this problem with Websphere after upgrading AIX to version 5.3?

Thanks,

• Dylan

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

This is kind of hard since you don't have the old 5.1 to compare. The first thing I would check is whether the LANG (locale) somehow got changed as that could affect the characters generated. At least I'd check the locale on the 5.3 to see if it is using a Unicode locale such as EN_US or the ISO8859 locale such as en_US. Prior to AIX 5L En_US (IBM-850 codepage) was often used and with that graphics characters were easier to display.

Just a thought, although I haven't seen your particular issue.