Microsoft KB Archive/330121

= FIX: The BizTalk Mapper May Not Correctly Serialize a Flat File Document =

Article ID: 330121

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q330121



SYMPTOMS
During serialization, if an incoming field contains a null value, the output document may not contain the field. This was originally by design, but this behavior will change when you install Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 Service Pack 1 (SP1). You can also change this behavior the installation of the hotfix that is discussed in this article.



Service Pack Information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

815781 How to Obtain the Latest BizTalk Server 2002 Service Pack

Hotfix Information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that this article describes. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451

Note If additional issues occur or any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. To create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

  Date         Time   Version            Size    File name --  11-Apr-2002  16:41                     13,680  Btm_priorityupgrade.sql 11-Apr-2002 16:40  1.0.0.2            33,040  Hotfixsetup.exe 22-Oct-2002 00:23                        901  Qfehotfix.ini 22-Oct-2002 00:22                    500,224  Qfepatch.msp 22-Oct-2002 00:23                      7,168  Qfeunpatch.msp 11-Apr-2002 16:41                     19,632  Sq_priorityupgrade.sql After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name 22-Oct-2002 00:09  3.0.1544.0        131,344  Cisapi.dll 22-Oct-2002 00:09  3.0.1544.0        524,560  Ciscore.dll 22-Oct-2002 00:09  3.0.1544.0        405,776  Cisengine.dll 22-Oct-2002 00:09  3.0.1544.0        471,312  Cisserializer.dll 22-Oct-2002 00:09  3.0.1544.0        348,432  Mscis.exe 22-Oct-2002 00:09  3.0.1544.0        188,688  Serializedoc.dll

To apply the fix, follow these steps:
 * 1) Stop the BizTalk Messaging Service.
 * 2) Use the SQL Query Analyzer to apply BTM_PriorityUpgrade.sql to the InterchangeBTM database.
 * 3) Use the SQL Query Analyzer to apply SQ_PriorityUpgrade.sql to the InterchangeSQ database.
 * 4) Run the hotfix installation program (Hotfixsetup.exe).
 * 5) Start the BizTalk Messaging Service.

To change the behavior of BizTalk Server 2002 to permit the output of all trailing delimiters, set the following registry key:

'''HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTSSvc

Value: AppendTrailingDelimiters

Data Type: REG_DWORD : 1

'''

NOTE: When you do this, the change applies to all documents that BizTalk Server processes. You cannot set this per document.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 Service Pack 1.

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbiztalk2002sp1fix kbbug kbfix KB330121

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