I should probably add in that the Jenkins server is being run in WebSphere Liberty Profile 8.5.5.2 and Java is an IBM 1.6.0. We tracked the issue down to TarUtils by debugging the running Jenkins server
WLP Info (dev machine):
ps aux | grep wlp
crr 1460 0.0 0.0 4444 780 ? S 10:37 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/ibm/wlp/bin/server run Home
crr 1523 53.7 2.1 4906124 343144 ? Sl 10:37 1:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-ibm/jre/bin/java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Darchaius.deployment.applicationId=pipeline -Darchaius.deployment.environment=dev -Darchaius.dynamicPropertyFactory.registerConfigWithJMX=true -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=localhost:10000,server=y,suspend=n -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xquickstart -Dwas4d.error.page=localhost:2425/108267124 -javaagent:/opt/ibm/wlp/bin/tools/ws-javaagent.jar -jar /opt/ibm/wlp/bin/tools/ws-server.jar Home
Java:
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxa6460sr16-20140418_01(SR16))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64 jvmxa6460sr16-20140416_196573 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - 20140416_196573
JIT - r9_20130920_46510ifx5
GC - GA24_Java6_SR16_20140416_1614_B196573)
JCL - 20140406_01
Setting file.encoding system property has no effect?