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  • 1.  Informix JDBC 4.50.J10W1 from fix central

    Posted Wed December 20, 2023 02:32 AM

    Have anyone been able to install this one?

    After unpacking the final tar, I am not able to run the setup jar file:

    $ java -jar setup.jar -i gui
    Error: An unexpected error occurred while trying to open file setup.jar

    And, if I try to list the content in the jar file, I get:

    $ jar tvf setup.jar
    java.util.zip.ZipException: Invalid CEN header (invalid extra data field size for tag: 0x3831 at 0)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.zerror(ZipFile.java:1769)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.checkExtraFields(ZipFile.java:1274)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.initCEN(ZipFile.java:1734)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.<init>(ZipFile.java:1463)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.get(ZipFile.java:1426)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$CleanableResource.<init>(ZipFile.java:742)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$CleanableResource.get(ZipFile.java:859)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:257)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:186)
        at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:157)
        at jdk.jartool/sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:1499)
        at jdk.jartool/sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:380)
        at jdk.jartool/sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1680)

    Tried both with openjdk 11 and openjdk 17.



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    Øyvind Gjerstad
    Developer/Architect
    PostNord AS
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  • 2.  RE: Informix JDBC 4.50.J10W1 from fix central

    Posted Thu December 21, 2023 03:36 AM

    It worked fine for me yesterday with two different Java 8 distributions (Oracle and Corretto), both on Windows 10 with latest versions of OS and JRE.



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    Doug Lawry
    Oninit Consulting
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  • 3.  RE: Informix JDBC 4.50.J10W1 from fix central

    Posted Thu December 21, 2023 07:02 AM

    I opened a support case. Turns out one has to set special options with java 11 (probably any version > 8):
    export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true

    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7087253



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    Øyvind Gjerstad
    Developer/Architect
    PostNord AS
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