PM67410: DATA CONTAINING MANY CHARACTERS THAT NEED TO BE SUBSTITUTED OR ESCAPED WHEN CREATING XML OUTPUT CAUSES THE MAP TO CRASH

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Data that contains many characters that need to be substituted
  or escaped when creating XML output may cause the map to crash.
  

Local fix

• WTXCQ - WTX00040954
  LV / LV
  Circumvention: None
  

Problem summary

• Users Affected:
  WebSphere Transformation Extender customers using XDS parser
  (native schema maps).
  
  Problem Description:
  Memory corruption in the XDS parser resulting with abends when
  data contains many characters that needs to be substituted.
  Platforms Affected:
  All
  

Problem conclusion

• The "invalid data" was output as XML, and it contained many
  apostrophes, which have to be escaped in XML output (each
  instance changed to "'").  We were only allowing the size
  of the data to double; in this case the output was more than
  five times the size of the input.  The XDS parser code has been
  changed to properly expand buffers if the buffer was consumed.
  
  Delivered in:
  8.3.0.5, 8.4.0.4
  

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

  WTX FOR INT SER

• Fixed component ID

  5724M4010

Applicable component levels

• R810 PSY

     UP

• R820 PSY

     UP

• R830 PSY

     UP

• R840 PSY

     UP