PI64381: INCORRECT RESULTS FROM THE GETTOKENCOUNT FUNCTION WITH SPACES INDELIMITER

Rational Business Developer 9.5.1
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (9.0.1.2) for 9.0.1
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (9.1.1.2) for 9.1.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The getTokenCount function is not working correctly if the
  entire, or last character, in the delimiter is a space. The code
  is truncating the trailing spaces on the move to an internal
  string, causing the loss of all trailing spaces from the
  delimiter, which would then give incorrect results on the
  getTokenCount function.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Users that use the Strlib.getTokenCount function where the   *
  * delimiter argument is a character space or ends with a space *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * When the delimiter argument was converted to a string, so    *
  * the getTokenCount function could process, trailing spaces    *
  * were removed. This was due to the normal fixed text (char,   *
  * unicode, etc) to string processing. However, in the case of  *
  * the getTokenCount function, trailing spaces should not have  *
  * been removed. The result of this removal could be to return  *
  * incorrect results for the function call.                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• The software has been updated to properly handle the delimiter
  argument. The process will no longer trim trailing spaces.
  

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