IY98977: TEC EVENT MSG SLOT IS TRUNCATED FOR SOME SITUATIONS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Environment:
  
  Reproduced internally on standalone ITM 6.1 FP4 with IF11,
  AIX 5.3, TEMS/TEPS/UNIX Agent
  
  Problem Description:
  
  TEC Event Forwarding is enabled on the Hub.  A situation with
  the following formula is used (output is from "tacmd viewsit -s
  <Situation>"):
  
     *IF *VALUE Process.User_Name *EQ testuser *AND *MISSING
     Process.Process_Command *EQ ( 'testprocess' )
  
  When this Situation becomes true, a TEC Event is successfully
  sent.  However, the TEC Event has the "msg" slot truncated
  
  Detailed Recreation Procedure:
  
  TEC Event Forwarding is enabled on the Hub.  A situation with
  the following formula is used (output is from "tacmd viewsit
  -s <Situation>"):
  
     *IF *VALUE Process.User_Name *EQ testuser *AND *MISSING
     Process.Process_Command *EQ ( 'testprocess' )
  
  When this Situation becomes true, a TEC Event is successfully
  sent.  However, the TEC Event has the "msg" slot truncated, as
  follows:
  
     ...;msg='sit_88221_test1[(User_Name="testuser" AND ) ON
     bootcamp.tivlab.austin.ibm.com:K (User_Name="testuser"
     )]';....
  
     Notice that the "msg" slot stops the Situation Description at
  "AND )", but does not include the remaining portion of the
  situation formula. Normally, the full situation formula
  appears here.
  
  (NOTE: Related Files and Output all on ECuRep.
  Pertinent logs:
  
  --TEMS log with at least "ERROR (UNIT:kfaot ALL)" tracing
  enabled
  
  (NOTE: bootcamp_ms_46326cbf-01.log .  See line 1514
  and above.)
  
  (NOTE: the "ERROR (UNIT:kfaot ALL)" was added via the
     Service Console after the TEMS was already started, so you
  will not see the setting explicitly in the log; but it was
  definitely set,)
  
  --Situation Dump: (tacmd viewsit -s <Situation> > viewsit1.out)
  
  --Situation Dump, XML format: (tacmd viewsit -s <Situation> -e
  viewsit2.out)
  
  Suspected Problem:
  
  The *MISSING clause in the situation predicate isn't being
  parsed.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• If a situation has the MISSING clause in it, then the resulting
  TEC event has the msg slot value truncated i.e.:
  
   msg=sit_88221_test1[(User_Name="testuser" AND
   SYSTEM.SEARCH(Process.Process_Command,'MISSING','testprocess')
   ON bootcamp.tivlab.austin.ibm.com:K (User_Name="testuser"
   )]'
  
  has the msg slot value truncated to:
  
   msg='sit_88221_test1[(User_Name="testuser" AND ) ON
   bootcamp.tivlab.austin.ibm.com:K (User_Name="testuser"
   )]'
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem was because of the way the predicates surrounded by
  ( ) are handled by the code.
  
  The code has been changed to take care of the "MISSING"
  predicate, and copy it as such to the msg slot in its entirity.
  
  Limitation:
  All other function predicates like SUM, COUNT, MIN, MAX etc. are
  currently broken.  For each of these functions, the msg slot is
  truncated.  An internal design defect has been opened to track
  the limitation as a redesign will be needed to resolve it.
  
  
  The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  packages:
  
   | fix pack | 6.1.0-TIV-ITM-FP0007
   | fix pack | 6.2.0-TIV-ITM-FP0001
  

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:

  OA24686 OA24709

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TEMS

• Fixed component ID

  5724C04MS

Applicable component levels

• R610 PSY

     UP

• R620 PSY

     UP