diff --git a/lucene/queryparser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/TestQueryTemplateManager.java b/lucene/queryparser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/TestQueryTemplateManager.java
index 66d93e5e061..7d4caacb46d 100644
--- a/lucene/queryparser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/TestQueryTemplateManager.java
+++ b/lucene/queryparser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/TestQueryTemplateManager.java
@@ -74,11 +74,8 @@ public class TestQueryTemplateManager extends LuceneTestCase {
 
 
   public void testFormTransforms() throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException, TransformerException, ParserException {
-    // Sun 1.5 suffers from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6240963
-    if (Constants.JAVA_VENDOR.startsWith("Sun") && Constants.JAVA_VERSION.startsWith("1.5")) {
-      String defLang = Locale.getDefault().getLanguage();
-      assumeFalse("Sun JRE 1.5 suffers from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6240963 under Turkish locale", defLang.equals("tr") || defLang.equals("az"));
-    }
+    assumeFalse("test temporarily disabled on J9, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6556",
+                 Constants.JAVA_VENDOR.startsWith("IBM"));
     //Cache all the query templates we will be referring to.
     QueryTemplateManager qtm = new QueryTemplateManager();
     qtm.addQueryTemplate("albumBooleanQuery", getClass().getResourceAsStream("albumBooleanQuery.xsl"));