PM96872: Using XML transfer simulation diagram results in 'no duration values...does not reference' error in Rational System Architect

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Attempts to transfer using an Extensible Markup Language (XML)
  file of a Simulation Ready diagram to another Encyclopedia
  results in 'no duration values... does not reference' error in
  IBM Rational System Architect (SA).
  
  CONFIGURATION
  Environment = Microsoft Windows (R)
  Tool = Rational System Architect (R)
  Version = 11.4.2.4
  Add-on = SA Simulator III
  
  SYMPTOM
  The Simulation does not run.
  In the 'SA Simulator Report' window the full error message is:
  Simple process - Process
  - simple resource does not reference a resource
  - Definition '24/7' of type 'Shift' has no duration values
    set-Simple Start event-Event
    Definition 'sim object' of type 'Object' does not reference
    any arrival time.
  
  STEPS TO REPRODUCE
  1) Create a Simulation Ready diagram.
  
  2) Run an XML export of the Simulation Ready diagram.
  
  3) Run an XML import in a new Encyclopedia of the file
     created at Step #2.
  
  4) Run the Simulation in the new Encyclopedia.
  
  CAUSE
  The parameters referred to in the SYMPTOM are missing from the
  XML file created by SA.
  
  WORKAROUNDS
  To transfer a Simulation Ready diagram to another Encyclopedia
  you can either:
  
  * Use the menu:
    'Tools ? Collaboration ? Merge... / Extract'
    To launch a facility to transfer the diagram between
    Encyclopedias.
  
  Or,
  
  * Make a backup of the Encyclopedia in SA Encyclopedia
    Manager (SAEM). You can restore that as another
    Encyclopedia name.
  
  NOTE
  If you cannot use either of workarounds and use XML to transfer
  the Simulation Ready diagram then you can attempt to fully
  resolve the 'no duration values... does not reference' error by
  setting one or more of the following parameters after the
  transfer:
  
  * Resource Allocation: Resource
  * Resource Availability: Role
  * Resource Availability: Shift
  * Shift: Duration
  * Simulation: Arrival Profile
  * Process: Busy
  
  The complete list of parameters is dependent on your diagram
  model.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  Items referencing items selected to be exported or their
  subordinates are not included for export.
  
  Symbols and their definitions are imported but not related.
  

Problem conclusion

• A new option 'Include related items and subordinates' which
  can be used in conjunction with existing selections has been
  provided. The purpose is to allow items which reference
  items in the list produced by the use of the existing check
  boxes to be included along with their subordinates. Such
  items would not have been included by using the existing
  subordinate options because these follow outgoing
  relationships.
  Exporting the example diagram using the renamed 'Diagrams,
  child diagrams and subordinate definitions' option along
  with the 'Include related items and subordinates' option
  causes the missing definition to be included and when
  imported into a new encyclopedia this results in a model
  that is valid for simulation.
  
  Imported symbols are now related with the imported
  definitions where appropriate.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TLOGIC SYS ARCH

• Fixed component ID

  5724V68SA

Applicable component levels

• RB42 PSN

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