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

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 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