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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 4, 2015

Fix Process Designer to filter out control characters which cause issues in Process Center

If a developer somehow enters a hidden control character, Process Designer accepts it and stores it in the underlying XML for the process model. However, if such a control character is present, Process Center cannot promote the Process Application, and logs the following error:

[8/7/15 11:24:42:487 EDT] 0000012b wle E CWLLG2015E: An unexpected runtime exception occurred. See exception for more details. Error: Export failed on UCA 'MyUCA': The data
"MyUCA" is not legal for a JDOM attribute: 0x1f is not a legal XML character.. com.ibm.bpm.pal.PALException: Export failed on UCA 'MyUCA': The data "MyUCA" is not legal for a JDOM attribute: 0x1f
is not a legal XML character.

IBM Support says this is working as designed, and asks that an RFE be opened to fix this issue.

Idea priority Medium
RFE ID 76567
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM Business Process Manager
  • Guest
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    Mar 31, 2023

    Hello, thank you for your idea submission. We are closing this idea, if this is still of interest please open a new ticket in the current product.

  • Guest
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    Sep 25, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Smarter Process
    Product - IBM Business Process Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Business Process Management
    Product - IBM Business Process Manager