PM96083: DEFAULT BUILD DESCRIPTOR SETTING IS NOT RECOGNIZED

Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2) for 8.5.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• DEFAULT BUILD DESCRIPTOR SETTING IS NOT RECOGNIZED
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  I believe I found what the problem was. It seems to be a
  timing issue because of the intermittent occurrence of the
  problem the user is having. I read through the notes and
  thought it might have been related to another apar (PM87924)
  that we tried to fix. This other apar didn't go far enough
  however.
  
  When I was trying some things in my own development
  environment, the problem happened to me and I got a stack
  trace that showed the SAXexception that occurred. Once the
  SAXexception occurred, it skipped the logic that set the
  encoding string which is used later on when the build
  descriptor properties are trying to be saved to disk. This
  caused an exception and subsequently the properties file did
  not get written. This in turn causes the loss of the build
  descriptor settings, the next time they are tried to be read
  from disk.
  
  I believe the original SAXexception is the root problem.
  This exception is thrown by the SAX parser when more than 1
  thread is trying to parse at the same time. This is not
  allowed. In order to fix this, the java keyword
  "synchronized" needed to be specified on the method that
  calls the SAX parser.
  

Problem conclusion

• The software was updated to use the java keyword
  "synchronized" when called the SAX parser.
  

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 BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSN

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