JR50446: CORRUPT ECM URL CAUSES 'JAVA.NET.SOCKETTIMEOUTEXCEPTION: ASYNC OPERATION TIMED OUT'.

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

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• URL of the ECMServer configuration is invalid. This URL is
  created at design time in Process Designer. Due to this invalid
  URL the first parameter ("credentialEnforce=true") of the
  request cannot be parsed by the runtime. And therefore the
  wrong user is taken to connect to ECM System.
  
   ECM server settings are corrupt in the database, and the
  runtime does not handle this correctly.  Process Designer
  converts the
  ECM server settings into an URL and stores it in an Environment
  Variable.  The runtime attempts to determine the correct
  authorization,
  by parsing the URL and checking for the credentialEnforced flag.
  Because the URL is invalid, this is not correctly interrupted
  and
  sometimes the SSO code path is taken.  The outbound call fails
  because
  SSO is not established.
  
  PRODUCTS AFFECTED:
  IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced
  IBM BPM Standard
  IBM BPM Express
  

Local fix

• The customer can however work around the issue by the following
  procedure:
  
  (I) For "named snapshots" the user can overwrite the ECM Server
  configuration in the Process admin console. Do so:
   (1) Log-on to Process Admin Console.
   (2) Click "installed Applications" and choose the appropriate
  application and snapshot.
   (3) Click on "Servers" and choose the configured ECM Server.
   (4) Do a "dummy" change (e.g. change and change back the user
  name) and
  apply the change.
  
  This will update the URL in the database and the runtime will
  take this
  valid URL instead.
  
  (II) For running the "TIP" out of process designer, you cannot
  overwrite
  the ECM Server configuration. But you can remove the ECM Server
  configuration completely and recreate it again. It is important
  that you
  do not change the values of the configuration once they are
  saved,
  because this will again invalidate the URL.
  

Problem summary

• Affects customers that use PD to author ECM connections. URL
  generation breaks down if question marks are entered into
  "Context Path" text box. More than one question mark in a URL
  break Java's URL parsing. User input needs to be sanitized.
  
  A fix will be incorporated into a later release that sanitizes
  user input to make sure it does not contain any question marks.
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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Fix information

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSN

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