PH71603: UMS STARTUP CRASH: NULL CHARSET PASSED TO INPUTSTREAMREADER DURING Z/OSMF VALIDATION

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• UMS startup crash: null charset passed to InputStreamReader
  during z/OSMF validation. After z/OS APAR PH66874, z/OSMF no
  longer includes a Content-Type header in certain responses,
  triggering this latent bug.
  
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException:
  charsetName
  at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>
  (InputStreamReader.java:120)
  at com.rocketsoft.webservices.rest.client.WebServiceCallRespons
  e.getContentAsString(SourceFile:231)
  at com.rocketsoft.newton.utilities.ServiceInitializationWaiter.
  attemptServiceInitialization(SourceFile:91)
  at com.rocketsoft.newton.utilities.ServiceInitializationWaiter.
  attemptServiceInitialization(SourceFile:58)
  at com.rocketsoft.newton.utilities.ServiceInitializationWaiter.
  attemptZosmfServiceInitialization(SourceFile:263)
  at com.rocketsoft.newton.utilities.NewtonConfigurationValidator
  Test.validate(SourceFile:109)
  at com.rocketsoft.newton.utilities.NewtonConfigurationValidator
  .validateAll(SourceFile:112)
  at com.rocketsoft.newton.utilities.NewtonConfigurationValidator
  .validateAll(SourceFile:91)
  at
  com.rocketsoft.newton.server.NewtonServer.main(SourceFile:301)
  

Local fix

• setting validateAtStart to false in ZWEYAML
     components:
       izp:
         server:
           validation:
             validateAtStart: false
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: UMS startup crash: null charset passed  *
  *                      to InputStreamReader during z/OSMF      *
  *                      validation                              *
  ****************************************************************
   UMS startup crash: null charset passed to InputStreamReader
  during z/OSMF validation. After z/OS APAR PH66874, z/OSMF
  no longer includes a Content-Type header in certain responses,
  triggering this latent bug.
  

Problem conclusion

• Apply the PTF provided by this APAR.
  

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:

Modules/Macros

• IZPGEN00 IZPIPLUG IZPIVP   IZPMIG00 IZPMNFST IZPSERVE IZPUI
  IZPYAML
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  UNIFIED MGMT SV

• Fixed component ID

  5698UM100

Applicable component levels

• R120 PSY UO08337

     UP26/06/26 P F606

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