2443690 - Foreign language characters causing issue in IDM 8.0

• SAP Identity Management objects (tasks, jobs, scripts, attributes, entry types etc.) containing some characters in foreign languages have become corrupted after time.
• In IDM Developer Studio, updating an attribute’s description to include a foreign-language character can produce the error "Update of Attribute failed" and a NullPointerException in the Eclipse log.
• Example: In IDM Developer Studio, saving a Form will result in the error "Update of Process failed" and a NullPointerException recorded in the Eclipse log.
• The SAP Netweaver AS Java default traces may show the error:
  An exception of type 'WstxIOException' occurred.
  [EXCEPTION]
  org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.ep.EntityProviderException: An exception of type 'WstxIOException' occurred.

SAP Identity Management 8.0

German, Spanish, French, EntityProviderException, Unicode, Encode, Encoding, Umlauts, UTF8 , KBA , BC-IAM-IDM , Identity Management , Problem