JR47725: MULTIBYTE CHARACTERS CORRUPTED WHEN USED AS PAYLOAD OF DURABLE MESSAGE EVENTS.

Version 8.0.1 Fix Pack 2 for the IBM Business Process Manager products
Version 8.5.0 Fix Pack 1 for the IBM Business Process Manager products
Version 8.5 Refresh Pack 5 for the IBM Business Process Manager products

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• If a BPD contains a durable inbound (start or intermediate)
  message event and the incoming message for this event contains
  multibyte character data, then the characters are corrupted. The
   BPD will receive only question marks instead of the multibyte
  characters.
  

Local fix

• n/a
  

Problem summary

• If a BPD contains a durable inbound (start or intermediate)
  message event and the incoming message for this event contains
  multibyte character data, then the characters are corrupted. The
  BPD will receive only question marks instead of the multibyte
  characters.
  
  PROBLEM DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
  Durable message events are saved into the database. During this
  save, strings that are contained in the payload of the message
  are converted to a byte array. This conversion happens with the
  default encoding of the system, which is Cp1252 in case of
  windows.  During this conversion, multibyte characters are
  converted to question marks.
  

Problem conclusion

• Use UTF-8 encoding for conversion from String to byte array when
  durable message events are saved to the database.
  
  FIX AVAILABILITY:
  iFix for 8.0.1.0 is available on Fix Central, search for APAR
  JR47725 at http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
  iFix for 8.0.1.1 is available on Fix Central, search for APAR
  JR47725 at http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
  iFix for 8.5.0.0 is available on Fix Central, search for APAR
  JR47725 at http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
  Fix is also targetted for inclusion in next fixpack for BPM
  8.0.1, BPM 8.5.0
  
  When obtaining any of the above fixes, be sure to download the
  accompanying readme, for itself, and any prerequisite fixes, and
  review them thorougly.
  

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

  BPM STANDARD

• Fixed component ID

  5725C9500

Applicable component levels

• R801 PSY

     UP

• R850 PSY

     UP