PM84317: Wide activity diagrams that are closed in the diagram editor are no correctly rendered in a generated BIRT report

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Environment:
  
  - RSA 8.5.1
  - BIRT 2.6.2 (included in RSA)
  - Windows XP
  
  Reproducible: Y
  
  Description of problem:
  
  The generation of a report that makes use of an activity diagram
  which is very wide and not opened in an editor during the
  generation will result in a corrupt image of the diagram in the
  report, where parts of the diagrams are missing. This doesn't
  happen when the diagram is opened in an editor or when it is not
  wide enough.
  
  Steps to reproduce
  
  1) Create an activity diagram that is extremely wide (at least
  wider than the editor's view) and that contains activities and
  flows outside the editor's window.
  2) Create a birt report template that will use the included
  diagram as a data source. See this page for a tutorial:
  http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rsahelp/v8/index.jsp?topic=/co
  m.ibm.xtools.gs_using_rsx.doc/topics/c_gs_birt_reports.html
  3) Close the diagram
  4) Generate the report and notice that on the right side of it,
  some flows are missing.
  5) Open the diagram
  6) Generate the report and see that it's properly generated.
  
  Workaround
  
  To prevent this issue from happening, you need to make sure that
  the Activity Diagram is opened in an editor while the report is
  being generated.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  Activity diagrams that span wide requiring horizontal
  scrollbars appear truncated in BIRT reports unless, when the
  diagram is open in the workspace.
  

Problem conclusion

• BIRT reports will now correctly include the full activity
  diagram canvas irrespective of whether the diagram is open
  at that instance or not.
  

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

  RATL SW ARCHITE

• Fixed component ID

  5725A3000

Applicable component levels

• R851 PSN

     UP