2022-11-25 Monthly Regular TC

Topics:

Topic 1: News & Updates,

Presenter: Markus Stoll + All

News, Topics, Updates from CDISC US Interchange or the community:

- New FDA TCG (Tehcnical Conformance Guide) update end of Oct 2022
  Update section in the new document (v5.0) was presented and discussed
- No team members participated on US Interchange - therefore no updates from there

Topic 2: Next Face-2-Face Meeting - planning for 2023

Location: Mainanalytics in Sulzbach (Taunus)

- Online poll for most convient meeting slot:
  (offered are 3 slots in March 2023)
- Decision about when Poll to be closed will be taken mid Dezember 2022 in the next regular monthly TC
  Link to Poll:
  https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/ejZPN8ye

Topic 3: Technical Information Sessions - Meeting Series in 2023

Presenter: Markus

- Idea to start with a new "technical information session" series in 2023. Focus: technical topics of interest (tools, techniques, others) can be shared among the usergroup team members in 30 minute presentation slots (proposed timeframe) in our regular monthly TC's.
- Markus proposed to start with topics from the CDISC COSA (Open Source Alliance Initiative) and to initiative a poll among the UG members to select the most popular topics.
- Markus also asked for any additional topics in case there are any ideas among the team members.
- Decision: All agreed to start with the poll

Post Meeting Note: Link to Poll - https://wiki.cdisc.org/polls/viewpoll.action?guid=73197d64b0844117a4864b94a5264476

Topic 4: AoB

Question/Query: How to handle special characters in cases of data in local language or exceeding length issues (>200 chars) in XPT files

- XPT files only supports encoding in ASCII-126 data value ranges (no UTF-8)
- values exceeding 200 chars need to splitted according to official manual in SDTM-IG
- local language