PH15236: MESSAGE 'DFHWSADH ERROR DETECTED BY CICS' WHEN A SOAPMESSAGE CONTAINS A FIELD WITH CDATA.

Obtain the fix for this APAR.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• After applying UI58040 to CICS 5.4 the WS-Addressing header
  handler DFHWSADH will report an error if an incoming SOAP
  message contains a field with CDATA.
  
  This is due to a mismatch between EBCDIC code pages used between
  different CICS modules, which causes the square brackets of the
  CDATA to be rejected.
  
  This problem only affects customers using WS-Addressing with
  CDATA in the message.
  
  PI 1F05 PIA1  *EXC* - ADDRESSING_EXCEPTION
  
  and
  
  PI 0A32 PIIS EVENT - RESPONSE_CNT -
  *<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-EN*
  ....
  *e>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode><fa*
  *ultstring>DFHWSADH error detecte*
  *d</faultstring></SOAP-ENV:Fault>*
  *</SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envel*
  *ope>                            *
  

Local fix

• NA
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The WS-Addressing header handler        *
  *                      DFHWSADH will report an error if an     *
  *                      incoming SOAP message contains a field  *
  *                      with CDATA.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  DFHPIA1 is called by DFHWSADH to handle WS-Addressing as part of
  SOAP pipeline processing. DFHPIA1 is handling the request in
  EBCDIC code page 037. This module embeds the DFHXUPAR XML
  parsing logic but that assumes the data is in EBCDIC 1047. These
  code pages are practically identical, however left and right
  square brackets have different encodings.  This means that when
  DFHXUPAR attempts to process the CDATA it thinks the square
  bracket characters are in the wrong code page and returns an
  exception.
  Before PI95625 CICS failed to process the WS-Addressing
  information but the pipeline continued and invoked the requested
  WebService.
  After this APAR processes is terminated immediately and this
  leads to a SOAP fault.
  

Problem conclusion

• DFHPIA1 will handle its data in codepage 1047 so that the
  correct character data is used.
  

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:

  UI66455 UI66456

Modules/Macros

• DFHPIA1  DFHPIAD  DFHPIAT  DFHPICA  DFHPICC  DFHPIDM  DFHPIDSH
  DFHPIDUF DFHPIII  DFHPIIW  DFHPIJG  DFHPIJP  DFHPIJP1 DFHPIJS
  DFHPIJW  DFHPILN  DFHPIMM  DFHPIPL  DFHPIPM  DFHPIPM2 DFHPIPS
  DFHPIRE  DFHPIRI  DFHPIRL  DFHPIRM  DFHPIRN  DFHPIRS  DFHPISC
  DFHPISF  DFHPISN  DFHPIST  DFHPITC  DFHPITC1 DFHPITC2 DFHPITC3
  DFHPITE  DFHPITH  DFHPITJ  DFHPITL  DFHPITQ  DFHPITRI DFHPITS
  DFHPIUE  DFHPIWR  DFHPIWT  DFHPIXI  DFHPIXM  DFHPIXO  DFHWSADH
  DFHWSATR
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R100 PSY UI66456

     UP19/11/16 P F911

• R200 PSY UI66455

     UP19/11/16 P F911

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