ZZ00177: TEAMWORKSRUNTIMEEXCEPTION DEPLOYING CUSTOM PATTERN

IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Fix Pack 1 (2.3.0.1) for 2.3

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Problem Description:
  
  
  In SCO 2.3 if a custom flavor has been created with an
  automatically
  generated ID and attached to a Virtual System Pattern then the
  Self
  Service Offering Deploy Virtual System Instance fails to deploy
  the
  pattern with the message:
  
  Runtime error in script ("Process: 'Deploy Single Pattern'
  ProcessItem:
  'Edit Script Parameters' Type: 'PRE'" -1:-1).Internal Script
  error: com.
  lombardisoftware.core.TeamWorksRuntimeException: The object is
  created
  as an array. Only array functions are available. Object:
  TWObject
  [(Active: Y), (Type: 2), (TWClassID:
  TWClass.d2e5a15a-ea53-4793-9e93-
  29af5bd80b13), (MetaData: objectID=8d0a24b6-25e6-47e3-9abe-
  bfb2211f3e52, dirty=true, shared=false, key=null, version=null,
  rootVersionContextID=null, className=null)]
  
  This is caused by the Pre Script in the Edit Script Parameters
  step in
  the Process Application Deploy Single Pattern which takes the ID
  of the
  flavor assigned to a vSYS Pattern and subtracts one from it in
  order to
  index an array of flavors loaded earlier. This obviously does
  not work
  because the auto-generated ID of a custom  flavor is a UUID
  (e.g.
  420c9398-263b-3b99-dbc9-aa81009febd6) . It is quite likely that
  this
  problem will occur if there is a gap in the sequence numbering
  of
  flavors too. The code should be changed to look up the name of
  the
  flavor using any ID instead of referencing an array.
  
  Luckily it is simple to workaround - either replace all flavors
  so that
  they have unique IDs that ascend from number 1 or remove all
  custom
  flavors from vSYS patterns.
  
  Feedback from dev team:
  
  During development of this toolkit it was assumed to
  have flavor IDs as integers.
  

Local fix

• no workaround
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:
  All users of SmartCloud Orchestrator 2.3 using self service
  offerings with custom added flavors
  
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
  The "Deploy Single Pattern" Offering does not correctly handle
  if the flavor ID is a UUID
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:
  The following manual workaround is available while waiting for
  the official fix to be released.
  1. Open "SCOrchestrator_Support_vSys_Toolkit" in Process
  Designer
  2. Open the "Deploy Simple Pattern" Human Service
  3. Open pre-processing step "Edit Script Parameters - Pre"
  4. Add a for loop to loop over tw.local.flavors
  5. Within the loop add a name match check
  tw.local.currentPartParameterCust[i].value ==
  tw.local.flavors[loop index].value
  6. Assign tw.local.flavorSelected = tw.local.flavors[loop index]
  while the check established in step 5. returns true
  6. Create a snapshot to save your changes using a snapshot name
  to help identify this temporary change
  7. Upgrade dependency of all toolkits and process applications
  using the created toolkit snapshot level
  
  For permanent resolution apply SmartCloud Orchestrator 2.3
  Fixpack 1 when available.
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:
  Apply SmartCloud Orchestrator 2.3 Fixpack 1 when available.
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem area targets to display the pattern pre-configured
  flavor. The wrong assuption was that flavor IDs are simple
  integers.
  
   The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  packages:
  | mod level| 2.3.0-CSI-ISCO-LA0001
  | fix pack | SmartCloud Orchestrator FixPack 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

  SMRTCLOUD ORCHS

• Fixed component ID

  5725H2800

Applicable component levels

• R230 PSY

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