PI08189: ERROR WHEN CONNECTING TO SERVER AFTER SETTING APP TO ACTIVE IN THE CONSOLE.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The customer provided the following steps and details:
  
  1 set app status "Disabled" on Worklight Console.
  2 launch app with "connectOnStartup: false"and tap "connect to
  server" button to call WL.Client.connect().
  3 app showes Simple Dialog becase of app status "Disabled"
  (Please refer to remoteDisable_connect.xlsx-Step 3 screen shot)
           This is a correct behavior.
  4 Close Simple Dialog and change app status to "Active" on
  Worklight Console.
  5 tap "connect to server" button to call WL.Client.connect(),
  worklight client runtime throw error.
  (Please refer to remoteDisable_connect.xlsx-Step 5 screen shot)
       2013-12-02 16:05:49.633 Test[16321:c07] [ERROR] Cannot
  invoke
  WL.Client.connect while it is already executing.
       2013-12-02 16:05:49.634 Test[16321:c07] [DEBUG]
  WL.Client.connect onFailure
  
        After this situation, I can not succeed to call
  WL.Client.connect() even if app status "Active".
  

Local fix

• Restart the application and try again.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Administrators who disable and re-enable applications        *
  * through the Worklight console and the end-users of such      *
  * applications.                                                *
  *                                                              *
  * End users who try to connect to Users who try to connect     *
  * once to a disabled app, but then when it is activated (and   *
  * they have not restarted the app) cannot access it.           *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * When an end user of a Worklight application tries to connect *
  * to an application that has been disabled, they are unable to *
  * connect to it even after it as been reactivated unless they  *
  * restart the application.                                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * -                                                            *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• The code has been fixed so that the application connection can
  be successful.
  
  The fix for this APAR is currently targeted for fixpack 6.0.0.2
  and fixpack 6.1.0.1.
  

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

  WORKLIGHT ENTER

• Fixed component ID

  5725I4300

Applicable component levels

• R506 PSY

     UP

• R600 PSY

     UP

• R610 PSY

     UP