PI47480: INCORRECT MESSAGE WHEN EMBEDDING STRING VALUES

Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 1 (9.1.1.1) for 9.1.1
Rational Business Developer 9.5.1
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (9.0.1.2) for 9.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• An egl program, which formats messages to be displayed to the
  end user doesn't work in generated Cobol.  The purpose of the
  program is to embed a list of valid input values to a message
  string.
  
  For example, when the values list
  "A,E,H,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,V,Y " is embedded into a message
  string the output string is incorrectly formatted.
  
  VGLib.copybytes was corrupting the result of the copy if both
  the source and the target arguments are the same array element
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Users that use the system copybytes function passing an      *
  * argument that is an element of an array.                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * When an element of an array was passed to the copybytes      *
  * function, the code generated caused the original element to  *
  * be replaced after the changes were made. This made the       *
  * appearance of nothing happening to the element. The cause of *
  * this is because the system definition for the parameter is   *
  * inout, which causes the generator to replace the element.    *
  * Code has been added to the copybytes function to detect this *
  * and prevent the additional replacement from occurring. Other *
  * system functions do not have this problem.                   *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• The logic has been updated to prevent the replacement of the
  array element after the changes have been made.
  

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

  RATL BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels

• R901 PSY

     UP

• R911 PSY

     UP

• R950 PSY

     UP