PM75992: SERVER ZOS - STORE EBCDIC-XML-US IF XMLEBCDIC(Y)

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• If a z/OS PERFORM TRANSFORM occurs with XMLEBCDIC(Y)
  and the XML input file prolog contains encoding="UTF-8",
  this works correctly. But if a retranslation is attempted
  using INTYPE(ST) (meaning the input data is retrieved
  from the document store), then the following error occurs:
  Message: UP0001 Severity: 08
    A fatal error occurred during parsing of XML document
    XMLinput at line 1, column 1.
    Message text from parser is An exception occurred!
    Type:UTFDataFormatException, Message:invalid byte  nt
    (x) of a -byte sequence
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• If a z/OS PERFORM TRANSFORM occurs with XMLEBCDIC(Y)
  and the XML input file prolog contains encoding="UTF-8",
  this works correctly. But if a retranslation is attempted
  using INTYPE(ST) (meaning the input data is retrieved
  from the document store), then the following error occurs:
  Message: UP0001 Severity: 08
  A fatal error occurred during parsing of XML document
  XMLinput at line 1, column 1.
  Message text from parser is An exception occurred!
  Type:UTFDataFormatException, Message:invalid byte
  (x) of a -byte sequence.
  

Problem conclusion

• This error occurs because when the original translation
  occurs, DB2 table EDIDSDOC column CHARENCODING contains
  "UTF-8", even though XMLEBCDIC(Y) was specified on the
  PERFORM command. UTF-8 is then used as the source encoding
  during the retranslation attempt.
  The code will be changed to store "ebcdic-xml-us" if
  XMLEBCDIC(Y) is used during an XML translation in z/OS
  batch. It will then be ebcdic-xml-us that is used as the
  source encoding when retranslated with INTYPE(ST).
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• This only applies to z/OS batch.
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UK83059

Modules/Macros

• CPP      EDIUPXML
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WEBS DI ZOS

• Fixed component ID

  5655I4003

Applicable component levels

• R330 PSY UK83059

     UP13/02/26 P F302

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