IJ05891: CONMAN AD HOC SUBMITTING JOBS WITH A COMBINATION OF QUOTES AND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES CAN FAIL WITH NO ERROR RETURNED

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When ad hoc submitting jobs with a combination of quotes and
  environment variables, a job can fail to submit without any
  error being returned.
  .
  As an example, the following job submits successfully:
  .
    conman 'sbd "echo \"LOGIN\"" alias=echo4'
    IBM Workload Scheduler(UNIX)/CONMAN 9.3.0.03 (20170607)
      ...
    Scheduled for (Exp) 11/13/17 (#23) on MDM00.  Batchman LIVES.
  .  Limit:
    SYSTEM, Fence: 0, Audit Level: 0
    %sbd "echo \"LOGIN\"" alias=echo4
    Submitted MDM00#echo "LOGIN" to batchman as MDM00#JOBS.ECHO4
  .
  But this one does not:
  .
    conman 'sbd "echo \"$LOGIN\"";alias=echo3'
    IBM Workload Scheduler(UNIX)/CONMAN 9.3.0.03 (20170607)
     ...
    Scheduled for (Exp) 11/13/17 (#23) on MDM00.  Batchman LIVES.
    Limit: SYSTEM, Fence: 0, Audit Level: 0
  .
  Note that in this case there is no "%sbd" ... or "Submitted"
  lines.
  .
  Whether the combination of quotes is correct is not significant
  here, the issue is that conman is not returning any kind of
  error, butsimply stops and returns an exit 0.
  

Local fix

• Adjust the quoting until a combination is found which enables
  the submit to complete successfully.
  

Problem summary

• ["conman", "sbd \"echo \\\"$LOGIN\\\"\" alias=echo"...], [/* 38
  vars
  */]) = 0
  
  the problem from the shell add 2 \\ so the command
  is not recognized correctly.
  conman exit with not submitted job . otherwise conman response
  with
  
  Submitted EU-HWS-LNX31#echo $LOGIN to batchman as
  EU-HWS-LNX31#JOBS.ECHO617Y4
  

Problem conclusion

• This APAR will be fixed 9.3.0-TIV-TWS-FP0004, 9.4.0 F7
  

Temporary fix

• conman 'sbd "echo \"LOGIN\"" alias=echo4'
  

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

  TIV WKLD SCHDL

• Fixed component ID

  5698WKB93

Applicable component levels