IR49831: INCORRECT VALUE IN NUM.PRICES OF EALPMRES.DAT AFTER PERMANENT PRICE CHANGE

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Incorrect value in NUM.PRICES of EALPMRES.DAT after permanent
  price change
  Recreate:
  1) create a new item in the item record file.
  2) Create a new Price Management event with promotional price
     for this item that is lower than the original price.
  3) Create another Price Management event for the same item
     with the same price and dates as the one created above.
  4) Create a Permanent Price Management event for the same
     item with a lower price than the promotion above.  The
     activation date of this permanent price should be between
     the start and end of the promotions from steps 2 and 3.
  5) After the new Permanent price has been applied, the
     NUM.PRICES field in EALPMRES.DAT will have a value of 3
     instead of 2.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• The DEACTIVATE.PRICE routine causes RE.NUM.PRICES to
  increment, even in the situation where we are updating
  a permanent price that is inactive and having the new
  permanent price swap places with a currently active
  promo event price that hasn't expired.  This caused the
  count to be one more than it should be in NUM.PRICES
  in the EALPMRES file.
  

Problem conclusion

• RE.NUM.PRICES was being allowed to get larger than the
  MAX.PROMOS value, which should never happen.  Put a
  conditional test after the increment to insure
  RE.NUM.PRICES cannot get larger than it ever should be.
  

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:

Modules/Macros

•    EALPPROP          EALPPROX
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  4680-4690 GEN S

• Fixed component ID

  569654600

Applicable component levels

• R121 PSY

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