PH04800: CONVERSION OF JSON TO COBOL DATA ELEMENT CONTAINING 0.0 PRODUCE ERROR DFHPI1009 OUTPUT_OVERFLOW

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• You migrated from CICS 5.2 to 5.4 and now receive errors
  in the conversion of JSON to COBOL data elements.  The
  field is defined in COBOL as V999 and contained zeros -
  such as 0.0 or .000.
  
  This worked fine in 5.2, but now fails with:
  "Fault": {
      "faultstring": "Conversion from JSON failed",
      "detail": { "CICSFault":
           "DFHPI1009 date time applid tran JSON to data
                     transformation failed.
                     A conversion error (OUTPUT_OVERFLOW)
                     occurred when converting field <fieldname>
                     for WEBSERVICE service }
  
  Additional Symptom(s) Search Keyword(s): KIXREVRJL
  PI1009 overflow output
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Message DFHPI1009 OUTPUT_OVERFLOW       *
  *                      conversion error.                       *
  ****************************************************************
  Using JSON Web Services it is possible to receive a DFHPI1009
  message for OUTPUT_OVERFLOW when a field definition has been
  defined without any leading digits before a decimal point and
  the value of the field is zero.
  

Problem conclusion

• putBigDecimal in ConversionLib.java has been changed to check
  for a value of zero before throwing the OUTPUT_OVERFLOW
  exception.
  

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:

  UI60783 UI60784

Modules/Macros

• DFJ@H403
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R10D PSY UI60784

     UP19/01/18 P F901

• R200 PSY UI60783

     UP19/01/25 P F901

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