Why does rpm2cpio pipelined command fail with error "xz stdin File format not recognized" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7?

Issue

• The following command works as expected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 whereas it doesn't work in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

[root@rhel5u7 ~]# rpm2cpio eap7-wildfly-7.0.4-4.GA_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm | xz -d | cpio -ivd '*standalone*.xml' '*.properties'
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/appclient/logging.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/domain/application-roles.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/domain/application-users.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/domain/default-server-logging.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/domain/logging.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/domain/mgmt-groups.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/domain/mgmt-users.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/application-roles.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/application-users.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/logging.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/mgmt-groups.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/mgmt-users.properties
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/standalone-full-ha.xml
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/standalone-full.xml
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/standalone-ha.xml
./etc/opt/rh/eap7/wildfly/standalone/standalone.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-azure-full-ha.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-azure-ha.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-ec2-full-ha.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-ec2-ha.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-genericjms.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-gossip-full-ha.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-gossip-ha.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-jts.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-minimalistic.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-picketlink.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-rts.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/doc/wildfly/examples/configs/standalone-xts.xml
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/wildfly/bin/add-user.properties
./opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/wildfly/bin/jboss-cli-logging.properties
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• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

# rpm2cpio eap7-wildfly-7.0.4-4.GA_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm | xz -d | cpio -ivd '*standalone*.xml' '*.properties'
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
cpio: premature end of archive