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Runtime Error Occurred When Selecting System Monitors in IBM Navigator for i

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Abstract

When selecting System Monitors in IBM Navigator for i users are getting "Runtime Error Occurred: Check the error log for previous error condition.

Content

When selecting System Monitors in IBM Navigator for i users are getting "Runtime Error Occurred: Check the error log for previous error condition. Looking in the Monitor.log (located in /QIBM/UserData/OS400/Navigator/config/MONITOR/) there is the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:90)
    at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:86)
    at com.ibm.as400.mc.common.DataBaseInitializer.getDbInitScript(DataBaseInitializer.java:419)
    at com.ibm.as400.mc.common.DataBaseInitializer.executeScript(DataBaseInitializer.java:356)
    at com.ibm.as400.mc.common.DataBaseInitializer.doInitialize(DataBaseInitializer.java:336)
    at com.ibm.as400.mc.common.DataBaseInitializer.initialize(DataBaseInitializer.java:94)
    at com.ibm.as400.mc.service.ManagementServer.initializeDatabase(ManagementServer.java:249)
    at com.ibm.as400.mc.service.ManagementServer.main(ManagementServer.java:208)

The work around for this issue is

1) CHGJOB CCSID(37)

2) QSYS/SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(QSYSDIR/QINAVMNSRV) PARM(*START)) JOB(QINAVMNSRV) JOBD(QGPL/QDFTSVR) JOBQ(QSYS/QSYSNOMAX) OUTQ(*CURRENT) USER(QLWISVR) CURLIB(*CRTDFT) INLLIBL(*JOBD) INLASPGRP(*JOBD)

*********NOTE************

The fix is in the latest HTTP Group ptf (came out in July 2018)

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Document Information

Modified date:
18 December 2019

UID

ibm10717635