PI68446: SUPPORT NEW XID SEGMENT IN CEX TRACE EVENT X'A3' AND ALSO CHANGEHANDLING OF FILTERING BY RECTOKEN

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• 1. Co-requisite to IMS Connect Extensions APAR PI66144 to
  correctly handle XIDs in Java requests.
  2. Filtering on IMS RECTOKEN may fail under some circumstances.
  3. Various Dialog errors (including ISPS107 and ISPS109) may be
  encountered if a comment line is included in a block command
  (e.g. SS..SS) for a set of logs in a Browse session.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of IMS Problem Investigator V2.4       *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Support new XID segment in CEX trace    *
  *                      event x'A3', also change handling of    *
  *                      Filtering by RECTOKEN.                  *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  1. Co-requisite to IMS Connect Extensions APAR PI66144 to
     correctly handle XIDs in Java requests.
  2. Filtering on IMS RECTOKEN may fail under some circumstances.
  3. Various Dialog errors (including ISPS107 and ISPS109) may be
     encountered if a comment line is included in a block command
     (e.g. SS..SS) for a set of logs in a Browse session
  

Problem conclusion

• 1. Update knowledge module (KM) for the CEX x'A3' trace event to
     correctly display the XID segment.
  2. If a Filter for a specific log record code is constructed
     with one of the criteria being Field Name=RECTOKEN, and
     the record contains a field=RECTOKEN, then no results may be
     returned, even if there are records that validly satisfy
     the criteria. The Field Name RECTOKEN is an IMS PI Global
     Variable and the construction of the field contents and
     subsequent processing is different to the handling of a
     a simple field value within a record knowledge module (KM).
     Because the KM is invoked first in the Filtering process,
     before Global Variable processing, the results may be
     inconsistent. With the application of this APAR all Filtering
     on RECTOKEN is done on the Global Variable field, the KM
     is not used to process the field.
  3. Comment lines
     (Browse list entry starting with "/*" or "*")
     are now excluded in the log Browse process when a set of logs
     is selected via a block command (e.g. SS..SS or WW..WW).
  

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:

  UI40689

Modules/Macros

• ALZA0A39 ALZA0589 ALZCDOLI ALZPRDRV
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  IMS PROBLEM INV

• Fixed component ID

  5655K5000

Applicable component levels

• R240 PSY UI40689

     UP16/09/09 P F609

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