PM22852: DATA NOT BEING CONVERTED ON AN EXEC CICS WEB-RECEIVE WHEN A CONTENT-TYPE HEADER IS NOT PROVIDED.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• WEB converter program does EXEC CICS WEB RECEIVE:
  exec cics web receive
      set (address of entity-body)
      length (entity-body-len)
      mediatype (media-type)
      bodycharset (body-charset)
      srvconvert
  end-exec
  .
  The web client has not included a Content-Type in the
  HTTP header.
  .
  Since SRVCONVERT has been specified on the web receive, CICS
  should convert the entity body assuming it was encoded with
  ISO-8859-1. This conversion is not occuring and ASCII data
  is being passed to the application.
  .
  Additional Keywords:
  KIXREVSCB
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: EXEC CICS WEB RECEIVE with SRVCONVERT   *
  *                      specified does not convert the entity   *
  *                      body if there is no HTTP Content-Type   *
  *                      header.                                 *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  When SRVCONVERT is specified on an EXEC CICS WEB RECEIVE and
  the media type is not supplied on the command or in an HTTP
  Content-Type header, CICS should assume the entity body is
  text and use default values for data conversion, as
  documented in the CICS Application Programming Reference
  manual.
  The wrb_recv_text_body flag is used to determine whether
  data conversion is required. This flag is initialized to OFF,
  indicating a non-text entity body, and is set ON if media
  type information identifies the body as text. If there is no
  media type information wrb_recv_text_body remains OFF and
  data conversion is bypassed.
  Additional keyword: SERVERCONV
  

Problem conclusion

• When initializing a WebRequestBlock, the wrb_recv_text_body
  flag is set ON and it is set OFF if the media type shows
  the entity body as being non-text.
  In the absence of media type information, the
  wrb_recv_text_body remains ON and CICS converts the data
  using default code page values.
  

Temporary fix

• FIX AVAILABLE BY PTF ONLY
  

Comments

APAR Information

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

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

  UK61814

Modules/Macros

•    DESWBAP  DESWBBLI DESWBDM  DESWBRQ  DESWBRQF
  DESWBSR  DESWBXM  DFHWBAP  DFHWBAPF DFHWBBLI DFHWBDM  DFHWBRQS
  DFHWBSR  DFHWBXM
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V4

• Fixed component ID

  5655S9700

Applicable component levels

• R600 PSY UK61814

     UP10/11/03 P F011

Fix is available

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