IZ63301: RUNINFO_DESCRIPTION IS INCORRECT FOR NON-ENGLISH

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When stopping the TEMS or other components, you can get a
  message similar to the following:
  
  KCIIN2525W The saved PID description [start] does not match the
  current
  running process description [/opt/IBM/ITM/aix536/ms/bin/cms
  start] for
  PID [569478] for application product code [ms]. This means that
  unless
  you use the [-n] flag (CLI mode only), it will not be stopped.
  This is
  to prevent re-used PIDs from being killed and unintentionally
  stopping non-ITM processes.
  
  
  This can be caused by the way the process list output is
  parsed when the language is set to a non-english setting like
  sv_SE.
  
  Run the command "ps -fp 569478 | more" to determine if this PID
  has really been reused or not.
  
  
  
  RECREATE INSTRUCTIONS:
  
  Set the language on the test system to sv_SE on another
  non-english
  language setting.  Many non-english ISO language setting work
  correctly
  so you may need to find one that fails if you do not use sv_SE.
  
  Install a TEMS, TEPS, OS agent
  Configure them all
  Start them all
  View config/.ConfigData/RunInfo_Description
  
  Determine if the *,description entry is different than the
  results of
  ps -fp PIDNUMBER for each of the entries in the file.
  If it is the same, you will not see the failure.
  

Local fix

• If the result of "ps -fp PIDNUMBER" looks correct for the PID
  reported
  by the "cinfo -r" command, you can remove that PIDNUMBER entry
  from the
  config/.ConfigData/RunInfo_Description file and then stop the
  TEMS with
  the "itmcmd server stop TEMSNAME" command.
  

Problem summary

• The itmcmd agent command uses the output of the ps command to
  parse the process information when stopping the agent.  On a
  non-English system, the result of ps is different than that of
  an English system.  The difference of the result makes the parse
  codes fail.
  

Problem conclusion

• The code was modified to temporarily switch to English get the
  results and then switch back to the original language.
  
  The fix for this APAR is included in the following maintenance
  vehicle:
      | fix pack | 6.2.1-TIV-ITM-FP0002
      | fix pack | 6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0002
  

Temporary fix

• Run the command "ps -fp thepid" to make sure that the PID is
  really a running agent, then use the -n flag to force the agent
  to quit.
  

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  OMEG DIST INSTA

• Fixed component ID

  5608A41CI

Applicable component levels

• R621 PSY

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