PM02109: CHANGE THE SEVERITY LEVELS IN TRANSFORMER LOGS.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Client is looking to have the severity levels of log reflect the
  true serverity of the situation, which the current logs do not.
  
  From the client
  
  In Trasformer 8.4 when we build a cube and deploy (i.e. copy and
  activate) it, the log file produced seems to have incorrect
  error
  levels. According to the rules, the error levels 1,2,3,4 in
  transformer
  log file are defined as
  
  1 severe errors
  2 error message
  3 warning messages
  4 informational messages
  
  Looking at the attached excerpts from a transformer log file,
  you can
  see that till the cube is built, the log levels are as expected.
  But
  when the cube starts getting deployed, the log levels look
  incorrect.
  Creating deployment directory, copying MDC to the final
  destination etc
  are logged with a log level of 2. These steps should actually
  have a
  log level of 4 because they are informational messages.
  
  Our aim here is to write a script that checks for errors and
  sends
  message to cognos admin. If log levels are designated wrongly,
  this
  checking wont work fine. So if there could be a way to change
  the log
  level for copying and activating messages from 2 to 4, it would
  be
  better.
  
  ***Log is attached***
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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Problem conclusion

• Output the comments issued by Cube deployment and Cognos package
   importation as info messages (severity 4)
  
  Fixed in Transformer 8.5.128.0 or later.
  

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

  COG8 BI TRANSFO

• Fixed component ID

  5724W12TR

Applicable component levels

• RA10 PSN

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