2936941 - Identity Provisioning entity fails with NullPointerException caused by lastName is null

An Identity Provisioning job fails with the following error for one or multiple entities, which usually happens when reading users from SAP SuccessFactors:

com.sap.security.iag.provisioning.FailedEntityTransformationException: while trying to invoke the method java.lang.Object.toString() of a null object loaded from local variable 'attributeValue' Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.lang.Object.toString() of a null object loaded from local variable 'attributeValue',content={"lastName":null,"firstName":"IPSADMIN",...}"

Note that the lastName is null.

Identity Provisioning

sf error "finished with errors" ias, ips, NullPointer Exception, lastName, null, sfsf , KBA , BC-IAM-IPS , Identity Provisioning Service (IPS) , LOD-SF-PLT-IAS , Identity Authentication Services (IAS) With BizX , Problem