IT03236: THE MESSAGE ELEMENT SETTER MEDIATION PRIMITIVE INCORRECTLY DECODES MESSAGE ELEMENTS

Version 8.5 Refresh Pack 6 for the IBM Business Process Manager products

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When a customer used a Message Element Setter mediation
  primitive to set values in a message they found that when a "+"
  was added to a String it was written to the message as a blank.
  For example if they set "++Test" to a string value it ended up
  in the message as " Test".
  

Local fix

• n/a
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  USERS AFFECTED:
  Users of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus v7.5 and Business
  Process Server v7.5 and v8 who are making use of a Message
  Element Setter Mediation Primitive to set a String value into a
  message.
  
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  PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
  In prior versions a non-human readable format was used for
  Mediation Flows which required string properties to be encoded.
  v7.5 introduced the Human Readable Flow format and this format
  did not require string properties to be encoded.
  
  The Message Element Setter Mediation Primitive was not able to
  determine if the flow was Human Readable or not and encoded all
  properties regardless. This in some circumstances resulted in a
  string property not being written to a message correctly when
  the flow was Human Readable.
  

Problem conclusion

• The Message Element Setter Mediation Primitive has been changed
  to only encode string properties for non-human readable flows.
  
  This code fix was targeted to be included in the following fix
  packs:
  
  
  7.5.1 Fix Pack 3 (v7.5.1.3)
  8.0.1 Fix Pack 4 (v8.0.1.4)
  

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

  WEB ESB FOR WIN

• Fixed component ID

  5724I8200

Applicable component levels

• R751 PSY

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