PM19645: Error messages within the Reverse Engineering tool progress Wind ow do not appear in the corresponding log

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Description
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  Reverse engineering Ada source files using the Ada Reverse Engin
  eering tool. If error messages are displayed within the tool's p
  rogress window during an Ada reverse engineering activity, those
   error messages do not get included within the log file correspo
  nding to that reverse engineering activity.
  
  1) A screen shot of Reverse Engineering Progress Window from a c
  ode importation activity showing an error message;
  2) the log file from the same activity (and which contains all o
  f the information that the 'Progress Window' contains and in the
   same order, except for the error message) - the error message s
  imply does not seem to have been written to the log).
  
  customer coment :
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  In our opinion, the entry of error messages into a log file is a
   fundamental requirement for logging.  This is because the log f
  ile is the only permanent record of the progress of the activity
   that was being logged.  If the activity fails due to errors, th
  e log file is the location where the error messages can be expec
  ted to be examined off-line.  Indeed, it is only when errors hav
  e occurred that a log file will ordinarily need to be examined.
  
  If the error messages are not placed in the log file then the lo
  g file is not a complete record of the progress of the activity
  being logged.  Furthermore, since it cannot be used for the off-
  line examination of error messages the log file serves little us
  eful purpose.
  
  The placing of error messages into the log file should therefore
   have a much higher priority for implementation than a simple re
  quest for a future enhancement for the development team to consi
  der.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  When reverse engineering Ada code, error messages displayed
  in the progress window do not appear in the relevant log
  file.
  

Problem conclusion

• Fixed in 7.5.3.1
  

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

  TLOGIC RHAPSODY

• Fixed component ID

  5724V74RP

Applicable component levels

• R751 PSN

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