Custom GEL Script no longer working after GCP migration

Products

• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

We have a custom GEL script that reads data from a CSV file on the SFTP site and creates cost plans (and another one that creates transactions).

These jobs are failing on the very first step of the process.  As part of the GCP migration, these processes should have been updated to work properly.  We are getting the following error:

com.niku.union.gel.GELValidationException; lineNumber: 92; columnNumber: 54; The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.	at com.niku.union.gel.GELValidator.validate(GELValidator.java:363)	at com.niku.union.gel.GELController.invoke(GELController.java:70)	at com.niku.bpm.services.ExecuteCustomAction.run(ExecuteCustomAction.java:207)	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

Environment

Release : 15.8

Component : CA PPM SAAS APPLICATION

Resolution

When the migration of this customer was done, we updated the process gel script with the necessary postgres updates. With the update, the hexadecimal characters specified in the gel script were incorrectly converted to the actual characters. Engineering corrected the issue on the processes.