PH57385: DEPLOYING URBANCODE DEPLOY ZOS VERSIONS RESULTS IN 'ERROR - DEPLOYING VERSION.STATUS CODE 400'

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• THE DEPLOY-DATASET PLUGIN STEP FAILS WITH THE FOLLOWING ERROR
  WHILE ADDING ARTIFACT INFORMATION TO THE ZINVENTORY WHEN
  DEPLOYING A ZOS VERSION. THIS IS OBSERVED WHEN THE INPUTS AND
  INPUT TAG FOR A GIVEN RESOURCE IN THE SHIPLIST HAVE ATTRIBUTE
  VALUES MORE THAN 1024 BYTES
  
  Adding data to zInventory
  Error deploying version.Status code - 400
  Reason phrase
  Validation failed for classes
  [com.urbancode.ds.zos.ZInventoryEntry] during persist time for
  groups [javax.validation.groups.Default, ]
  List of constraint violations:[
  	ConstraintViolationImpl{interpolatedMessage='length must be
  between 0 and 1024', propertyPath=inputs, rootBeanClass=class
  com.urbancode.ds.zos.ZInventoryEntry,
  messageTemplate='{org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Length.mes
  sage}'}
  ]
  

Local fix

• Follow the below steps for local fix.
  1) Upgrade the z/OS Utility plugin to version 89 or above:
  https://urbancode.github.io/IBM-UCx-PLUGIN-DOCS/UCD/zos-deploy
  2) Take a backup of AGENT_HOME/bin/setenv-zos.sh file
  3) Edit AGENT_HOME/bin/setenv-zos.sh file and add
  ignore.zsearch.inputs property in ZOS_JAVA_OPTS export command
  as below setting it to true.
  export ZOS_JAVA_OPTS='-Xmx128m -Dignore.zsearch.inputs=true'
  4) Restart the Agent for changes to be applied.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * zos users using zos agent and zos utility plugin             *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * HE DEPLOY-DATASET PLUGIN STEP FAILS WITH THE FOLLOWING ERROR *
  * WHILE ADDING ARTIFACT INFORMATION TO THE ZINVENTORY WHEN     *
  * DEPLOYING A ZOS VERSION. THIS IS OBSERVED WHEN THE INPUTS    *
  * AND                                                          *
  * INPUT TAG FOR A GIVEN RESOURCE IN THE SHIPLIST HAVE          *
  * ATTRIBUTE                                                    *
  * VALUES MORE THAN 1024 BYTES                                  *
  *                                                              *
  * Adding data to zInventory with error deploying               *
  * version.Status code - 400                                    *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Upgrade to version 801 or later
  

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

  UC DEPLOY

• Fixed component ID

  5725M5400

Applicable component levels