IV55058: KO4SITMA UPDATELOCALSTATUS CRASHES HANDLING TWO SUCCESSIVE N RECORDS

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3 Fix Pack 5 (6.2.3-TIV-ITM-FP0005)

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Receiving two successive events for the same situation with
  ORIGINNODE = blank / DELTASTAT = N causes an attempt to pull
    the SITCOUNT out of an N cache record which fails.
  
  Environment:
    This defect is reported on Windows but applies to all
    platforms.
  
  Detailed Recreation Procedure:
    Not known
  
  Related Files and Output:
  
    Set KBB_RAS1=ERROR (UNIT:ko4async ER ST FL DET)
                 (UNIT:ko4sitma ALL) (UNIT:ko4sdep ALL)
                 (UNIT:ko4pcy ALL) (UNIT:ko4accpr ALL)
                 (UNIT:ko4tobje,Entry:"ibTable::fillTable" ALL)
                 (UNIT:ko4lodge ALL)
  
    to demonstrate the failure
  

Local fix

• Stop the offending situation
  

Problem summary

• When two or more situations have names where one situation name
  is a substring of one or more other situation names and the
  matching substring is at beginning of respective Sit Names, the
  TEMS may crash.
  
  For example :
  
  SitA is named 'myFavorite'
  SitB is named 'myFavoriteSit_mickey'
  SitC is named 'casper_myFavoriteSit'
  SitD is named 'myFavoriteSit_pluto'
  
  In this example 'myFavorite' is a substring of both SitB and
  SitD, as shown above.
  By contrast, SitC 'casper_myFavoriteSit' does NOT match as a
  substring at start of SitA, SitB or SitD's names.
  

Problem conclusion

• A correction was made to key value comparison logic, thereby
  eliminating the false positive matches.
  
  The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  packages:
  | fix pack | 6.2.3-TIV-ITM-FP0005
  

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:

  OA45009

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TEMS

• Fixed component ID

  5724C04MS

Applicable component levels

• R623 PSY

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