ESM Userid containing special character causes errors looking for the keyring

Products

• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• Common Services
• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation
• Mainframe Operational Intelligence

Issue/Introduction

Using a security defined user id that contains the pound sign #. For example: MTC#.

The ESM started task (ESMPROC) does not stay up. The log shows this error:

10:39:43.634 [main] INFO  com.ca.sslsocket.CASSLImplementation - keyStoreFile name is safkeyring://MTC%23/RINGMTCSS
10:39:43.637 [main] ERROR org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol - Failed to start end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["h
ttp-nio-7100"]
java.io.IOException: R_datalib (IRRSDL00) error: profile for ring not found (8, 8, 84)

The pound sign is being translated to "%23"

In this example, the safkeyring in the CAW0OPTV(ESMENV) file is defined as follows:

IJO="$IJO -Dserver.ssl.key-store=safkeyring://MTC#/RINGMTCSS"

Environment

Release : 15.0

Component : EXTERNAL MICROSERVICE (ESM)

Security: CA TOP SECRET for z/OS

Resolution

Provided new ESM fix SO14954

This new PTF delivers an ESM 3.0.1 SPRINGBOOT 2.1 UPGRADE. Within this new version support was added for UTF8 special characters in USERID and KEYRING names