Symptoms
When you use the BizTalk Pipeline Component for Host Data Conversion to convert a host file that contains unsigned string numeric data types in a Microsoft Host Integration Server 2010 environment, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:
HISMPCB0015 In BasePrimitiveConverter an invalid zoned decimal value was encountered in parameter name_of_method.
For example, this problem may occur when you configure the BizTalk Pipeline Component for Host Data Conversion to use a HostCodePage setting other than IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada).
Cause
This problem occurs because the BizTalk Pipeline Component for Host Data Conversion uses the IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada) code page incorrectly when it converts unsigned string numeric data types.
Resolution
Hotfix information
The hotfix that resolves this issue is included in cumulative update package 3 for Host Integration Server 2010.
For more information about how to obtain the cumulative update package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2654652 Cumulative update package 3 for Host Integration Server 2010
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
More Information
The following update added additional code page support to the BizTalk Pipeline Component for Host Data Conversion:
2428615 An update is available for the BizTalk Pipeline Component for Host Data Conversion that adds support for additional configuration properties, an XML assembler and disassembler, and new data typesAs noted in the referenced Knowledge Base article, the BizTalk Pipeline Component converted numeric host data types by using host code page 37 (EBCDIC - U.S./Canada) even if another code page was specified even with this previous update applied.
The hotfix that is described in this article corrects the code page conversion problem that occurs when you use unsigned numeric string data types.
