PM01048: DUPLICATE PER USER PORTLET PREFERENCES GENERATED IN CERTAIN COND ITIONS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• WebSphere Portal renders pages incorrectly and the browser does
  not display the page if duplicate per user portlet preferences
  exist.  SystemOut.log contains:
  
  Control       E
  com.ibm.wps.composition.elements.Control getScopedPortletEntity
  EJPEF0025E: The portlet entity for ID [ObjectIDImpl
  '...', PORTLET_ENTITY, VP: ...,
  [Domain: rel], DB: ...] could not be loaded from the database.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Duplicate per user portlet preferences generated in certain
  conditions. This may lead to users seeing wrongly rendered
  pages.
  

Problem conclusion

• Added check to properly handle a database exception.
  
  Note that this fix requires a manual cleanup:
  
  Cleanup:
  
  1) If your system already shows duplicate portlet instances, you
  would need to manually delete them with xmlaccess by exporting
  the page and removing setting the duplicate entries from
  action="update" to action="delete" and re-import the modified
  script.
  
  2) Please go to the manage portlets portlet and pick the
  portlet
  (definition) for the portletinstance that you removed in1) and
  verify and/or remove the unwanted preferences. Note that some
  portlets store the data in binary format such that you may not
  be able to identify single individual preferences.
  
  Manual Steps:
     None
  
  Failing Module(s):
     Engine: Page Assembly
  
  Affected Users:
     All users
  
  Version Information:
      Portal Version(s): 6.1.0.1
       Pre-Requisite(s): PK97053
        Co-Requisite(s): ---
  
      Portal Version(s): 6.1.0.2
       Pre-Requisite(s): PK97053
        Co-Requisite(s): ---
  
  Platform Specific:
     This fix applies to all platforms.
  
  A fix is available from Fix Central:
  
  http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral/swgquickorde
  r?apar=PM01048&productid=WebSphere%20Portal&brandid=5
  
  You may need to type or paste the complete address into your Web
  browser.
  

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

  WEBSPHERE PORTA

• Fixed component ID

  5724E7600

Applicable component levels

• R61A PSY

     UP

• R61B PSY

     UP