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PH00656: IDZ PLI EDITOR FAILS TO PARSE COMMENTS CONTAINING HTML TAGS

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APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • In IBM Developer for z Systems - IDz - v14.1.3,
    PLI editor fails to parse comments containing HTML tags.
    
    Steps to reproduce:
    
    
    1- create a PLI program like
    /*   <TEST       */
    helloapp: proc() options(main);
    
       Display('Hello')
    
    end helloapp;
    
    2- edit it in PLI Editor
    3- right-click in the editor and select menu
    Show In > Program Control Flow
    => Program Control Flow view is empty.
    
    The client .log shows error like:
    
    
    !ENTRY com.ibm.systemz.common.analysis.jviews
    !MESSAGE Exception while reading project
    !STACK 0
    ilog.views.diagrammer.IlvDiagrammerException:
    Exception while reading project
    at ilog.views.diagrammer.project.IlvDiagrammerProject.read()
    at ilog.views.diagrammer.project.IlvDiagrammerProject.<init>()
    at ilog.views.diagrammer.IlvDiagrammer.setDataFile()
    at com.ibm.systemz.common.analysis.jviews.views.
      ControlFlowDiagramView.performLayout()
    at com.ibm.systemz.pl1.analysis.ProgramControlFlowDriver$3.
      run(ProgramControlFlowDriver.java:736)
    ...
    Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException:
    Element type "TEST" must be followed by either attribute
    specifications, ">" or "/>".
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse()
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse()
    

Local fix

  • There is no known workaround at this time
    

Problem summary

  • PCF cannot show up due to the escaping character the nodes have
    in the comments.
    

Problem conclusion

  • Using Apache Text Library to handle the escaping character for
    both XML and JSON so that the PCF can be rendered successfully.
    

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

  • APAR number

    PH00656

  • Reported component name

    DEV FOR Z SYS

  • Reported component ID

    5724T0700

  • Reported release

    E12

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt / Xsystem

  • Submitted date

    2018-07-18

  • Closed date

    2018-09-20

  • Last modified date

    2018-09-20

  • 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

    DEV FOR Z SYS

  • Fixed component ID

    5724T0700

Applicable component levels

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSJK49","label":"IBM Developer for z Systems"},"Component":"","ARM Category":[],"Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"E12","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB35","label":"Mainframe SW"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
20 September 2018