IT17310: CreateDate within a queue statistics PCF messages has wrong day of month and has two unwanted characters at the end

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The CreateDate (PCF id MQCA_CREATION_DATE) within a Queue
  Statistics message has incorrect contents.
  
  It should be of the form 'yyyy-mm-ddbb', where the last two
  bytes 'b' are blanks, but it has the contents 'yyyy-mm-gggg'
  where 'gggg' is some non-blank data corresponding to the first 4
  bytes of the CreateTime.
  
  Therefore the portion of the CreateDate that might be expected
  to hold the day of the month (dd) in fact holds the hour of the
  day.  This will usually result in the dd value being wrong.
  
  See the example below:
  
  String (MQCFST)
  Parameter Id : 2004 (MQCA_CREATION_DATE)
  Value : "2016-10-21.5  "
  String (MQCFST)
  Parameter Id : 2004 (MQCA_CREATION_TIME)
  Value : "21.53.56"
  
  This problem was introduced as a side-effect in MQ 8.0.0.5 via
  APAR IT12103.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  USERS AFFECTED:
  Users of MQ 8.0.0.5 who are using the Queue Statistics PCF
  messages and are relying on correct formats appearing for the
  CreateDate portion of the message.
  
  
  Platforms affected:
  MultiPlatform
  
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  PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
  After the change in IT12103, the CreateDate (12 bytes long) was
  copied wrongly from a data area that was 8 bytes long, so was
  smaller than the 12 bytes needed.
  
  Therefore the resulting CreateDate in the PCF message contained
  the first 8 bytes of the true creation date, and the first 4
  bytes of the creation time, which was held in the next portion
  of memory.
  
  No unsafe memory operations took place, but the resulting data
  was incorrect.
  

Problem conclusion

• The MQ code has been corrected to ensure a 12 byte data area is
  used to hold the creation date before copying to the PCF
  message.  This ensures the value copied to the PCF message will
  be valid.
  
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  The fix is targeted for delivery in the following PTFs:
  
  Version    Maintenance Level
  v8.0       8.0.0.7
  v9.0 CD    9.0.2
  v9.0 LTS   9.0.0.1
  
  The latest available maintenance can be obtained from
  'WebSphere MQ Recommended Fixes'
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg27006037
  
  If the maintenance level is not yet available information on
  its planned availability can be found in 'WebSphere MQ
  Planned Maintenance Release Dates'
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg27006309
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  

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

  WMQ BASE MULTIP

• Fixed component ID

  5724H7251

Applicable component levels

• R800 PSY

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