PM14363: DFHPI1100 E PIPELINE ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR WHILE PROCESSING AN INBOUND MIME MESSAGE: IT DID NOT CONTAIN A ROOT PART.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Customer receives DFHPI1100E message indicates that a problem
  has occurred with the MIME headers of an MTOM message that was
  received by CICS. The CICS message contains the general class of
  MIME error that occurred: 'it did not contain a Root part.'
  The exception Trace entry PI 1305 PIMM  *EXC* - MIME_PARSE_ERROR
  - is present on trace.
  MIME_PARSE_ERROR is received because DFHPIMM is not aware that
  data are in the LOCALCCSID. HTTP headers are received and
  converted from 819 to the LOCALCCSID which is 1142 in this case.
  Importantly this has converted the @ (at sign) into x'80' which
  is correct match with any parts in the multipart message.
  in 1142.  When DFHPIMM gets called later in the PIPELINE it is
  passed the content-type header and told it is in CCSID 037 even
  though the data is in 1142.
  DFHPIMM then converts the header back to 819.  This causes the
  x'80' to be translated to x'D8' instead of x'40'.  This prevents
  the string from matching any of the parts in the message.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users                               *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Error message DFHPI1100 E 'Pipeline     *
  *                      encountered an error while processing   *
  *                      an inbound MIME message: it did not     *
  *                      contain a root part' is issued when     *
  *                      CICS LOCALCCSID is not equal to 037.    *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  CICS is acting as a Web Service provider with MTOM/XOP. When the
  LOCALCCSID of CICS isn't 37, CICS uses the wrong code page to
  convert the http header.
  
  In DFHPITH, CICS calls WB domain to get
  content-type header which is in LOCALCCSID. Then DFHPITH calls
  BUILD_MIME_HEADERS in DFHPIMM to parse this content-type. On
  that call, it is assumed that the ccsid is 37. If the LOCALCCSID
  is 37 or using default value(37), it works well, but if the
  LOCALCCSID isn't equal to 37 the parameter 'start' in
  content-type is converted to the wrong code page. This causes
  DFHPIMM to fail to find the root part of the message and
  msgDFHPI1100 is issued.
  

Problem conclusion

• DFHPITH will pass parameter LOCALCCSID instead of hardcoded
  '037' to DFHPIMM parsing MIME message.
  

Temporary fix

• FIX AVAILABLE BY PTF ONLY
  

Comments

APAR Information

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

  PM11948

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

  UK58422

Modules/Macros

•    DESPIDC  DESPITH  DESPITRI DFHPIDCC DFHPIDCD
  DFHPITH  DFHPITRI
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V4

• Fixed component ID

  5655S9700

Applicable component levels

• R600 PSY UK58422

     UP10/07/06 P F007

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