PM22740: DESIGN STUDIO AND COMMAND SERVER HANG WHEN DBCS TEXT IS ENTERED IN THE DESCRIPTION FIELD OF A TYPE TREE

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• A map that has DBCS characters in the Description field of a
  type tree compiles without error, but then hangs when you try to
  run the associated map with the Command Server or Design Studio
  / Map Designer with versions 8.1 and 8.2.
  
  If the description is removed, the map runs fine.  The problem
  also does not occur with version 8.3.0.2.
  

Local fix

• WTXCQ - WTX00035485
  BD  / BD
  Circumvention: None
  

Problem summary

• Users Affected:
  WebSphere Transformation Extender customers who use the "Native"
  character set and have non-ASCII characters in their type trees.
  
  Problem Description:
  When WTX was looking for a delimiter during validation, it finds
  that the next character in the data is the equivalent of the
  first character in the delimiter. WTX want to look at the
  remaining characters of the delimiter, but it calculates the
  number of bytes it was examined incorrectly.
  
  Platforms Affected:
  All
  

Problem conclusion

• The looping (caused by our using SJIS as the character set) was
  corrected.
  
  Delivered in:
  8.1.0.6, 8.2.0.6, 8.3.0.3
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WSTX

• Fixed component ID

  5724M4019

Applicable component levels

• R810 PSY

     UP

• R820 PSY

     UP

• R830 PSY

     UP