The Tomcat 4.x servers are not passing NLS characters to the SAS Anti-Money Laundering database. For languages other than English, request parameters cannot be read correctly using UTF-8, because request parameters appear to be in specific encoding.

When you enter NLS characters, such as the Spanish tilde, Tomcat saves the characters as "?" due to improper encoding.

The request parameters should be read in a specific encoding. For example, iso-8859-1 for Spanish.

A new property, called request.characterEncoding, is added to the sasaml.config file for character encoding. This property will need to be set to the localized encoding in order for Tomcat to correctly read request parameters.

Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Anti-Money Laundering	Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Windows Vista	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled AIX	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux	2.1.1	2.2.1	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.1 TS1M3 SP4

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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A fix for this issue for SAS Anti-Money Laundering 2.2.1 is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/aml221.html#035279

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The Tomcat 4.x servers are not passing NLS characters to the database. This is an issue within Tomcat with request encoding. For languages other than English, request parameters cannot be read correctly using UTF-8, because request parameters appear to be in specific encoding.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2009-08-11 10:51:15
Date Created:	2009-03-24 16:58:17