Starting a TIBCO iProcess Engine (iPE) case in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (BW) 5.9.0 results in a NullPointerException.

Starting a TIBCO iProcess Engine (iPE) case in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (BW) 5.9.0 results in a NullPointerException.

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Article ID: KB0090405

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Products Versions
TIBCO iProcess Technology Plug-ins -
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Description

Description:
After upgrading to BW 5.9.0, iPE case operations using the TIBCO BusinessWorks iProcess Pallet return a NullPointerException. "Unable to start case for iProcess procedure [<procname>].  Exception [com.tibco.plugin.jdbc.JDBCPluginException] occurred. JDBC plugin evaluation error: java.lang.NullPointerException" caused by: "JDBC plugin evaluation error:" caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.tibco.plugin.jdbc.JDBCCommon.merantUnlock(Unknown Source)."
Symptoms:
Case starting is not possible using BW 5.9.0 with the iProcess Palette.
Cause:
Change in the product introduced in 5.9.0 with JDBC query execution.

Issue/Introduction

Starting a TIBCO iProcess Engine (iPE) case in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (BW) 5.9.0 results in a NullPointerException.

Resolution

JIRA BW-13627 addresses this and is fixed in ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.9.2. New installs that will be interacting with iProcess should use ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.9.2 or later.