Troubleshooting
Problem
Special characters in strings can lead to various issue in Workflow depending on your environment.
Symptom
For example, in an offline deployment you could see this error when a special character is used in the file name:
com.ibm.bpm.pal.PALException: Malformed input or input contains unmappable characters: \/tmp\/SpecialChar??App - v1.zip1234527351517156789
at com.ibm.bpm.pal.action.ProcessServerActionsImpl.offlineDeploy(ProcessServerActionsImpl.java:133)
at com.ibm.bpm.pal.commands.CommandServiceImpl.processServerOfflineDeploy(CommandServiceImpl.java:1988)
at com.ibm.bpm.pal.action.ProcessServerActionsImpl.offlineDeploy(ProcessServerActionsImpl.java:133)
at com.ibm.bpm.pal.commands.CommandServiceImpl.processServerOfflineDeploy(CommandServiceImpl.java:1988)
where the ?? in the application name is where a special character would have been.
Document Location
Worldwide
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Modified date:
06 February 2024
UID
ibm17054892