JR47840: WEB SERVICE DOESN'T RECOGNIZED THE TIMEZONE INFO IN REQUEST MESSAGE

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

• The web service does not recognize the time zone information
  in the request message.
  
  
  When a client uses a web service with the type date, he or she
  might find that the request message contains a datetime string
  that is of a different time zone than the server. The value in
  IBM BPM is not
  correct.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:  IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 Advanced  *
  *                  and Standard                                *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: In a web service, when IBM BPM          *
  *                      receives a request with a datetime      *
  *                      value that contains time zone           *
  *                      information that is different from      *
  *                      the default time zone that is used on   *
  *                      the server, IBM BPM parses that value   *
  *                      without considering the time zone       *
  *                      information. Therefore, the actual      *
  *                      time value is changed based on the      *
  *                      time zone change. Consider the          *
  *                      following example message:              *
  *                      2013-09-                                *
  *                      17T22:26:20.751+06:00 ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚  
  *                       ‚  
  *                       ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚  
  *                         ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚  
  *                      If the server default time zone is      *
  *                      GMT, the value you get on ‚  the server
  *                      is                                      *
  *                      2013-09-                                *
  *                      17T22:26:20.751+00:00 ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚   ‚  
  *                      IBM BPM must use the time zone that     *
  *                      is provided by the request message      *
  *                      rather than the default time zone on    *
  *                      the server. ‚   ‚   ‚  
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  In a web service, when IBM BPM receives a request with a
  datetime value that contains time zone information that is
  different from the default time zone that is used on the
  server, IBM BPM parses that value without considering the time
  zone information.
  

Problem conclusion

• With the fix applied, when a datetime value is entered, IBM
  BPM extracts the time zone information from the input and then
  sets the parser to parse the datetime value in the target time
  zone. The resulting datetime value that is entered on the
  server is in correct time zone.
  
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  fix.
  

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

• R800 PSY

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