charset problems with dispatcher / SP7

[former_member327338]

Hi all,

can anybody with a running SP7 installation (SQL Server) please confirm that the dispatcher (on Windows) starts when you have a non-ascii-character in the rt-users Password (like the § Symbol?)

We found serious issues with that. With earlier SPs (in fact SP5) there is no problem. But after updating to SP 7 the dispatchers in the DEV-environment don't start anymore (with errormessage: login failed for user 'mxmc_rt').

There seem to be even more charset related issues at that point (constants containing non-ascii-characters are read incorreclty for example). We have these issues in 2 different environments.

Setting the -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 for the whole JRE doesn't help.

Does anybody know about this issue or can help solving it?

Best regards,

Tobias

[bxiv]

I also had serious issues with a second install and found it to be an issue with special characters, my DBA had me change it and the issue went away; we never had time to go back and figure out why/how a development box allowed for special characters.

[former_member327338]

After a bit more investigation we found the following issues:

- non-ASCII-characters in the password for the RT-user do not work in SP 7

- if in an fromLDAP/toLDAP-pass a constant is used that contains a non-ASCII-character as part of the ldap connection, eg. base dn: this will also not work as of SP 7

- if you use scripts in your job and the job uses global or job constants or hardcoded values in the script AND the script is saved in UTF-8 you get problems if the content of the constants or hardcoded values contain non-ASCII characters (so be sure not to save your scripts in UTF-8-format - maybe you need to reconfigure your editor).

I will also post an OSS message to SAP for this points.

Best regards,

Tobias