PI79121: INCORRECT LENGTH OF VARIABLE LENGTH FIELD WHEN USING THE JAVA JSON PARSER

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• You are running CICS transaction server 5.3.
  You have a COBOL variable length field defined.
  When you send the data with the Native JSON Parser,  your COBOL
  program receives the data with the correct length- in this case
  11.
  When you now use the Java JSON Parser, sending the same data,
  your COBOL program receives the data with an incorrect length
  of 8.
  
  
  
  Additional Symptom(s) Search Keyword(s): KIXREVxxx
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users                               *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Incorrect bytes count for the converted *
  *                      DBCS in JSON payload when with Java     *
  *                      parser.                                 *
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  * RECOMMENDATION: .                                            *
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  Java parser is being used to convert JSON message. If the
  JSON binding file is generated from a data structure contains
  OCCURS DEPENDING ON, and in which DBCS characters included,
  the characters are converted correctly to DBCS, but the bytes
  count of the message is wrong.  It counts one DBCS character
  as one byte, rather than counting the real bytes count in the
  message. E.g., it counts 0E61A00F as one byte but it's four
  bytes long actually.
  

Problem conclusion

• Java parser for JSON has been altered to correctly count the
  bytes number of DBCS characters.
  

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:

  UI49507 UI49508

Modules/Macros

• DFJ@H403
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R00D PSY UI49508

     UP17/08/15 P F708

• R10D PSY UI49507

     UP17/08/15 P F708

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