2386950 - Runtime Errors CONNE_ILLEGAL_TRANSPORT_HEADER in program /SDF/UPL_PERIODIC_EXTRACTOR

UPL Analysis job /SDF/UPL_PERIODIC_EXTRACTOR fails with a dump:

Category ABAP Programming Error
Runtime Errors CONNE_ILLEGAL_TRANSPORT_HEADER
Except. CX_SY_IMPORT_FORMAT_ERROR
ABAP Program CL_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY==========CP
Application Component BC-DWB-TOO-COV

Error in the ABAP Application Program 

     The current ABAP program "CL_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY==========CP" had to be
      terminated because it has
     come across a statement that unfortunately cannot be executed.

The termination occurred in ABAP program "CL_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY==========CP",
     in "IF_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY~READ". The main program
    was "SAPMSSY1".

    In the source code, the termination point is in line 9 of (Include)
    program "CL_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY==========CM002".
    The termination is due to exception "CX_SY_IMPORT_FORMAT_ERROR" occurring in
     procedure "IF_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY~READ" "(METHOD)".
    This exception was not handled locally or declared in the RAISING
    clause in the procedure's signature however. 
    The procedure is in program "CL_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY==========CP        ". The
     source code begins in line 1 of 
    (include) program "CL_SCV_RD_REPOSITORY==========CM002     ".       

    7|    reskey-testkey  = i_testkey.
    8|
>>>>>|    IMPORT 
   10|      wures     = r_data-items
  

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