PI05635: WHEN DEFAULT ENCODING IS NOT SET WHEN USING XERCES TYPE TREE, THE OUTPUT DATA MAY BE CORRUPTED

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When data encoding is not set it will default to native.
  However with Xerces schema the default is either UTF-8 or
  whatever the encoding is set to in the type tree.
  
  Corruption may occur on systems where the native encoding and
  XML type tree encoding are different.
  

Local fix

• WTXCQ - WTX00043570
  EM / EM
  Circumvention: None
  

Problem summary

• Users Affected:
  WebSphere Transformation Extender customers using Xerces parser
  
  Problem Description:
  Error "An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x14) was found in the
  element content of the document" received when running WMB on
  MVS
  
  Platforms Affected:
  ALL
  

Problem conclusion

• Properly set the default encoding. Previously when data encoding
   was not set it would default to native. However with Xerces
  schema the default is either UTF-8 or what the encoding was set
  to in  the type tree. Prevent corrupted data when running high
  volumes output. Corruption would show up on systems where the
  native encoding and XML encoding are different.
  
  Delivered in:
  8.3.0.6, 8.4.0.5, 8.4.1.1
  

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

  WTX INT SRVR ZO

• Fixed component ID

  5655R9503

Applicable component levels

• R833 PSY

     UP

• R843 PSY

     UP