APAR status
Closed as program error.
Error description
BPM 8.0.1 Web Service Integration component (in BPD) has incorrect treatment of timezones of xsd:Date. This is a change in behavior from BPM v7.5.1, as well as inconsistent with WPS/SCA and prior behavior. Assume the local timezone is a US time e.g. -0500 (new york). If an incoming date is un-timezoned: 2013-02-15; the product is assuming the incoming value is GMT, thereby it subtracts out 5hours, and the internal representation of the TW.Date is shown to have following value: <property name="field2" type="Date"> <fullYear>2013</fullYear> <month>1</month> <date>14</date> <dayOfWeek>4</dayOfWeek> <hours>19</hours> <minutes>0</minutes> <seconds>0</seconds> <milliseconds>0</milliseconds> </property> the expected behavior should assume GMT and maintain the date, and zero out any hours/min/sec/milliseconds: <property name="field2" type="Date"> <fullYear>2013</fullYear> <month>1</month> <date>15</date> <dayOfWeek>4</dayOfWeek> <hours>0</hours> <minutes>0</minutes> <seconds>0</seconds> <milliseconds>0</milliseconds> </property> This causes incorrect Day to be shown downstream of the call, and a customer's existing projects do not work the same in new BPM 8.0.1.
Local fix
As a temporary workaround, customer may change a preference of use-jaxws to "false" to use the prior 7510 WebService engine for exact same behavior as 7510. This is not recommended or supported for production. The prior 7510 WebService engine will be phased out and does not contain any modification or corrections since intial release. Within the 99Local.xml or 100Custom.xml file, please find the configuration tag <use-jaxws>true</use-jaxws> please change the value to false to revert to the Axis engine. These configuration files are located within the profiles for the server runtime: e.g. on a system using the ProcessCenter as a playback server. E:\IBM\BPM\v8.0.1\profiles\ProcCtr01\config\cells\Test1Node03C ell\nodes\Test17Node04\servers\server1\process-center\config and E:\IBM\BPM\v8.0.1\profiles\ProcCtr01\config\cells\Test1Node03C ell\nodes\Test1Node04\servers\server1\process-center\config\sy stem
Problem summary
**************************************************************** * USERS AFFECTED: Applications using Date type variables in * * web services. * **************************************************************** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Timezone is inconsistent and may * * result in an incorrect day in the * * response. * **************************************************************** * RECOMMENDATION: * **************************************************************** When using BPM 8.0.1 Web Service Integration component (in BPD) has incorrect treatment of timezones of xsd:Date. This is a change in behavior from BPM v7.5.1, as well as inconsistent with WPS/SCA and prior behavior. Assume the local timezone is a US time e.g. -0500 (New York). If an incoming date is un-timezoned: 2013-02-15; the product is assuming the incoming value is GMT, thereby it subtracts out 5 hours, and the internal representation of the TW.Date is shown to have following value: <property name="field2" type="Date"> <fullYear>2013</fullYear> <month>1</month> <date>14</date> <dayOfWeek>4</dayOfWeek> <hours>19</hours> <minutes>0</minutes> <seconds>0</seconds> <milliseconds>0</milliseconds> </property> The expected behavior should assume GMT and maintain the date accordingly. This causes incorrect Day to be shown downstream in the call.
Problem conclusion
Code changes have been made to properly calculate the date and keep it consistent. An interim fix is available on v8.0.1.0. The code will be integrated into the next fix pack and release.
Temporary fix
Comments
APAR Information
APAR number
JR46002
Reported component name
BPM ADVANCED
Reported component ID
5725C9400
Reported release
800
Status
CLOSED PER
PE
NoPE
HIPER
NoHIPER
Special Attention
NoSpecatt
Submitted date
2013-03-11
Closed date
2013-05-05
Last modified date
2013-05-05
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Fix information
Fixed component name
BPM ADVANCED
Fixed component ID
5725C9400
Applicable component levels
R800 PSY
UP
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Document Information
Modified date:
07 January 2022