Thanks Hardy.
The JVM info (attaching here, I don't have permissions to alter the description, huh):

java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxi3280-20150129_02)
IBM J9 VM (build 2.8, JRE 1.8.0 Linux x86-32 20150116_231420 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - R28_Java8_GA_20150116_2030_B231420
JIT - tr.r14.java_20150109_82886.02
GC - R28_Java8_GA_20150116_2030_B231420
J9CL - 20150116_231420)
JCL - 20150123_01 based on Oracle jdk8u31-b12

It happened on x86_64 RHEL and Fedora.

I'll send you an e-mail about getting that JDK.