PI72336: ACTION PIN IS NOW OWNED BY ACTION

IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.2.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Description
  
  The customer is trying to extract information about object flows
  from an activity diagram. They use action pins on actions to
  type the object flows.
  They cannot find a way to identify the action that owns an
  action pin. The pin owner is shown as the activity, not the
  action.
  
  See attached document that shows the issue
  
  Action Pins should be owned by the Action
  
  Research
  
  In the OMG SysML Guide, it is stated that action pins are owned
  by their action
  
  "Starting an action:
  â ¢ An action starts when a token is placed on all of its
  control inputs and all of its required inputs
  (must meet minimum multiplicity of its input pins) and the
  previous invoked activity has
  completed
  â ¢ An action invokes an activity when it starts, and
  passes the tokens from its input pins to the
  input parameter nodes of the invoked activity"
  
  Use Case
  
  They want to identify the source of the object flow, which is
  the action that has the action pin that provides the object
  flow.
  They also are interested in the action being discover-able in
  ReporterPLUS, Rhapsody tables and RPE
  
  They want to be able to create information for documents that
  shows that Function A has an output Message A of Pin A which it
  provides to Pin B where it is consumed by Action B.
  Right now they can create tables in ReporterPLUS that show that
  Message A goes from Pin A to Pin B, but that's meaningless
  without knowing that Pin A is owned by Function A and Pin B is
  owned by Function B.
  
  The end game it to define the functional interfaces.
  
  
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  Escalation
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  &id=59267
  
  From Dev:
  
  10. Zvika Verzberger1 Nov 13, 2016 3:15 AM
  In Rhapsody, all elements in statechart and activity diagram are
  owned by the diagram.
  The action is the parent of the pin.
  Anyway, there is a defect here that prevent showing the parent
  of an action.
  Please open a defect.
  We will find a way to solve this issue.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Rhapsody                                                     *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Action Pin is not owned by Action (table/matrix)             *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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Problem conclusion

• Displaying the owner of a Pin can be achieved by Tables using
  Java code.
  With 814, use the tables column type "User Defined Method" and
  specify a plugin method that implements the required content.
  See attached model for example of using a plugin method in a
  table in 256683_814.zip
  
  With 815 the tables were improved, and now it is possible to
  either use the 814 Java plugin, or use inline Java code.
  See attached model for example of using user Java implementation
  in 256683_815.zip
  
  For more details on using Java with tables see :
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LveEQQwiqk&index=7&list=PLZGO0q
  YNSD4VrcVNWT5ltkBI8vbkMDY0Y
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omLjAkVHXt8&index=8&list=PLZGO0q
  YNSD4VrcVNWT5ltkBI8vbkMDY0Y
  

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

  TLOGIC RHAPSODY

• Fixed component ID

  5724V74RP

Applicable component levels

• R813 PSN

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