Mapping conversion error in Dates

Hello Experts,
I am doing date conversion in Message Mapping from ECC date will come in YYYYMMDD for target i need to convert to YYYY_MM_DD for this i am using date transfer function.Issue is when date is coming like 20110908 it is converting properly like 2011-09-08
But when from ECC date is coming like 00000000 then by default it converting to 0002-11-30 how this date is coming i am not understanding actually it should convert like 0000-00-00 .
Please help me

Hi,
I am not quite sure why the conversion works like that. That said, the date 0000-00-00 is not a valid date, as that date has never existed. That may be the reason for the strange behaviour by PI.
I suggest you add fixed-values conversion before your dateConvert step in the mapping. Here you check for date 00000000 and map it to e.g. 00010101.
This should solve the issue, if you can live with a result date of 0001-01-01 in these cases.
Br,
Kenneth

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