PI79610: DFHPI1007 XML TO DATA TRANSFORMATION FAILED

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Customer upgraded from CICS TS 5.1 to CICS TS 5.3 and began
  receiving message:
  
  DFHPI1007 XML TO DATA TRANSFORMATION FAILED BECAUSE OF
  INCORRECT INPUT (MISSING_EQUALS_ATTR TYPEHTTP:
  xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx) FOR XMLTRANSFORM xxxxxxxx.
  
  The problem stems from function CONVERT_DATA within the
  PERFORM_XML_PARSE process. Here CICS converts ASCII_VARIANTS
  to the code page of the customer.  NOTE:  The length of ASCII
  VARIANTS AT CICS TS 5.3 has increased to x'AD' (decimal 173 from
  the 5.1 length of x'78' (decimal 120).
  .
    The problem is set up when the ASCII VARIANT  of:
  xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
  
  is moved into container DFHPICC-00000003 with a length of x'40'
  at CICS TS 5.3 (same is only x'31' at CICS TS 5.1).  Moving the
  x'40'  bytes causes the ASCII VARIANT to be moved as:
  
  xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacetypehttp://www.w3
  
  which is x'F' bytes too much.  Thus the next ASCII VARIANT of
  'type' followed by a portion of the next ASCII VARIANT of
  'http://www.w3.'  is also moved.
  
  Eventually the customer's application issues an EXEC CICS
  EXEC CICS TRANSFORM-XMLTODATA
  and during TRANSFORM_XML_TO_STRUCTURE processing of the data
  in container DFHPICC-00000003, CICS stumbles on the 'typehttp'
  and issues an exception trace entry thinking the attribute is
  missing an equal sign as follows:
  
  0F3A PICC  *EXC* - INPUT_ERROR - MISSING_EQUALS_ATTR
  .
  Additional Symptom(s) Search Keyword(s): KIXREVEPH
  UNDEFINED_NAME_SPACE
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users                               *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: DFHPI1007 MISSING_EQUALS_ATTR occurs    *
  *                      when calling PERFORM XMLTODATA          *
  *                      conversion.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  PERFORM XMLTODATA is called by an application to convert XML to
  data.  If the schema being used has any xsd:any elements then
  this causes CICS to add namespaces into the containers for
  future use.  The XML namespace length is incorrectly calculated
  causing too much data to be moved into the container.  This
  can cause the application to fail with a DFHPI1007 message like:
  
  DFHPI1007 XML TO DATA TRANSFORMATION FAILED BECAUSE OF INCORRECT
   INPUT (MISSING_EQUALS_ATTR TYPEHTTP: )
  
  Additional Keywords: msgDFHPI1007
  

Problem conclusion

• Updated DFHPICC to ensure length is correctly passed.
  

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:

  UI48836 UI48837 UI48838

Modules/Macros

• DFHD2RL  DFHECRL  DFHEPRL  DFHFCBU  DFHLDRL  DFHMLJS  DFHMLTF
  DFHMPRL  DFHPGRL  DFHPICA  DFHPICC  DFHPICCT DFHPIDM  DFHPIIW
  DFHPIRL  DFHPIRN  DFHPITL  DFHPIWR  DFHRLBR  DFHRLDM  DFHRLPK1
  DFHRLPM  DFHRLRG1 DFHRLRO  DFHRLRS1 DFHRLST  DFHSJJI  DFHSJRL
  DFHSOIS  DFHSORM  DFHWBRL  DFHXMRL  DFJ@H360 EYU0BPDX EYU0TADX
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R000 PSY UI48836

     UP17/07/21 P F707

• R00D PSY UI48837

     UP17/07/21 P F707

• R00M PSY UI48838

     UP17/07/21 P F707

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