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Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this idea has been in the status of Uncommitted Candidate / Future Consideration. This capability was actually added to the product quite some time ago as part of APAR IC87087 which was present in WMBv8.0.0.2 in March 2013. This same feature has been carried forward in to the more recent ACE product versions as well, where it can be configured in the configuration yaml documents as well. For reference, here is the description of IC87087:
This APAR introduces a new parameter "invalidCharacterEscapeType" on the ComIbmGenericXmlParserFactory which allows characters which can not be represented in the serialization codepage to be replaced with one of three entity types. This property can take the values "unicode", "hex" or "decimal".
When set to "unicode" the character is rendered in the form {U+XXXX} where XXXX is the unicode codepoint associated with the character. For example for the Euro character this is {U+20AC}.
When set to "hex" the character is rendered in the form &#xXXXX; where XXXX is the unicode codepoint associated with the character. For example for the Euro character this is €.
When set to decimal the character is rendered in the form &#DDDD; where DDDD is the unicode codepoint associated with the character expressed in decimal. For example for the Euro character this is #8364;.
This property can be set at the execution group level using mqsichangeproperties for example:
mqsichangeproperties <brokerName> -e <egName> -o ComIbmGenericXmlParserFactory -n invalidCharacterEscapeType -v <unicode|decimal|hex>
Status of the Idea is updated to Delivered.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Connectivity and Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
Completely reasonable requirement, thanks for raising. We'll investigate this with the next round of XML enhancements.