SAP PO 7.5 - Encoding Issue with Byte Order Mark in File Sender Channel with fixed lenght.

[Sheep2001]

Hi Folks,

I need your assistance. I have a file scenario, where I read a flat file (fixed lengh) from filer using MTB and send the data via ABAP Proxy to ERP system.

The file itself, seems to be encoded in UTF-8. However in the first record of the file, the first field which has a fixed lenght of 3 is always shifted one digit to the right, see picture.

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I think this is because of the Byte Order Mark. My channel config is a follows:

pochannel.png

is there any solution to remove the byte order mark?

i havent found one in SAP community.

Thanks

[peter_wallner2]

Hi, I am not sure if you can remove the byte order mark with the MTB standard module, you might have to go with a custom adapter module and check for an UTF8 BOM and remove it if you find one. There is an adapter module that adds a BOM: https://github.com/viksingh/PIAdapterModuleAddBom/blob/master/AddBomBean.java - use that as a guideline and instead of adding you remove it

[stefan_grube · Accepted solution]

If you use the file adapter, you could remove the BOM with a line command.

I found this for UNIX:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45240387/how-can-i-remove-the-bom-from-a-utf-8-file

[Sheep2001]

Thanks Peter, we will look into that, it seems this is the only possibility to remove the BOM. As it already needs to be removed before converting into XML

[peter_wallner2]

Hello Patrick, I agree, it seems crazy to make a custom module for that but I remember I had done this before but I can't find the java code anymore. yes, before you XMLize the payload that is the only way to do it or with a line command like Stefan suggests.