PM80894: RDz Enterprise Service Tools WSDL contains incorrect diacritic (Umlaut trema) characters when generated directly to the host.

Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 1 (8.5.1.1) for 8.5.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Rational Developer for System z (RDz) Enterprise Service tools
  (EST) WSDL contains incorrect diacritic (umlaut, trema)
  characters when generated directly to the host.
  
  The problem occurs when using the RDz feature to generate PL/I
  Structures from a given WSDL directly to the host. Starting
  with RDz 8.5. these includes are generated with default locale
  (e.g. German) text. When the generated includes are directly
  deployed to the host, the code page mapping is not correct.
  
  Workaround:
  Generate the files locally, then copy manually to the host
  using copy and paste. This way the diacritic characters (e.g.
  umlauts) survive.
  
  Cause:
  RDz is using null as the default Java charset for generated
  source files. This should be the Workspace default. A null
  charset is only appropriate for binary files.
  
  Reproduction scenario:
  - Set RDz language to German as -nl de_DE
  - Create a New 'Web Services for CICS Project'
    - Use Scenario
      ?Create New Service Implementation (top-down)?
    - Set target remote
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• COBOL and PL/I source files generated by the Enterprise Service
  Tools single-service project wizards may contain damaged
  characters when the files are generated directly to z/OS.
  

Problem conclusion

• The Enterprise Service Tools single-service project wizards
  first generate COBOL and PL/I source files locally before
  copying them to the host.  These local files are temporary and
  are deleted after being copied to z/OS.  The encoding property
  of the temporary files was being set to null, causing the
  transport to assume single-byte ASCII (ISO-8859-1), causing
  corruption of unicode characters above 0x007F.
  
  The problem listed in this APAR has been resolved with
  IBM Rational Developer for System z V8.5.1.1 Fix Pack which
  is available from the Recommended Fixes support download page:
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2294&uid=swg27006335
  

Temporary fix

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL DEV FOR SY

• Fixed component ID

  5724T0700

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSY

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