Submitter has two servers communicating with each other over TLS. One has minimum TLS protocol level of TLS1.2 set. The other server is running JDK7u and is operating in TLS 1.0 mode. Submitter attempting to modify behaviour via use of
-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2

That property however will only influence behaviour on HttpsClient/HttpsURLConnection managed TLS connections.