IZ08630: POLICY FAILS WHEN DOING A COMPARISON BETWEEN RESULT OF LOCALTIME(ACTTIME, "E") TO A STRING

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Impact 3.1FP5: Comparison result of localtime to strings leads
  to policy failure.
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007: Parser log: Class of DayOfWeek :
  IPLDate
  --> Policy abort
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007: MessageProcessor: Exception
  occurred while executing policy LocaltimeTest
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007:
  Thread￸HttpProcessor￸5104ﾂ￸4ﾂ,5,mainﾂ:
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007: java.lang.NullPointerException
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007:   at
  java.util.Date.compareTo(Date.java:905)
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007:   at
  java.sql.Timestamp.compareTo(Timestamp.java:462)
  Tue Oct 30 11:29:11 CET 2007:   at
  com.micromuse.common.parser.IPLInterpreterVisitor.standardizeDat
  esAndCompare(IPLInterpreterVisitor.java:3486)
  .
  This is an extract of the policy:
  .
  ActTime = getdate();
  log("ActTime : " + ActTime);
  log("Class of ActTime: " + ClassOf(ActTime));
  .
  DayOfWeek = localtime(ActTime, "E");
  log("DayOfWeek : " + DayOfWeek);
  log("Class of DayOfWeek : " + ClassOf(DayOfWeek));
  

Local fix

• Casting the var to String:
  1) DayOfWeek = String(localTime(ActTime,"E"));
  Or
  2) DayOfWeek= String(DayOfWeek);
  Or
  3) I((String(DayOfWeek) == "Sat" ) ]] (String(DayOfWeek) =
  "Sun"))ﾅﾊ
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All Netcool/Impact Users who are using       *
  *                 LocalTime() Action Function                  *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: POLICY FAILS WHEN DOING A COMPARISON    *
  *                      BETWEEN RESULT OF LOCALTIME(ACTTIME, E) *
  *                      TO A STRING                             *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  *                                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  Steps to replicate 1) configure Impact Server 2) Create a poliy
  using LocalTime() action Function
  result=LocalTime(getDate(),E);   if(result == Fri){
  log(today is Friday);   }
  
  3) Run the policy and observe a null pointer exception
  

Problem conclusion

• Fixed in Netcool/Impact Fix Pack
  

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:

Modules/Macros

• NETCOOL
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  NETCOOL/IMPACT

• Fixed component ID

  5724O59IS

Applicable component levels

• R310 PSY

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