Symptom

Gentran Integration Suite 4.3, build 4312 running on  iSeries V5R3 with DB2

Java user exit in a Gentran Integration Suite map works in GIS 4.0 but fails in GIS 4.3.  This map contains a java user exit which perforns a character replacement function using the Java String method replaceAll(String String).

The map report indicated method not found.  There is a message in the noapp.log referencing a dangling metacharacter pointing to an asterisk.  This user exit was developed specifically to translate an asterisk in mapped field data to a blank, because the asterisk was conflicting with EDI element delimiters downstream from this map.

We discovered that this user exit worked in GIS 4.0 ( Java 1.3.1) but  Java 1.5.0 returns an error which is what Gentran Integration Suite 4.3 is running on. 

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: BfiReplaceAll

Report Entry:
       Section: INPUT       Severity: ERROR
       SyntaxSpecific: false       Syntax: -1        Code: 170 Extended Rule Error
       Info:
              10002: Block Count
              18
              10017: Map Iteration Count
              1
              10003: Block Name
              F47017
              10016: Block Signature Id Tag
              10004: Field Name
              SZDSC2
              10009: Field Number
              11
              10005: Field Data
              26x26                        
              10006: Exception
              java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: BfiReplaceAll
              10019: Location Index