PI95465: WHEN AN ARRAY IS NOT INITIALIZED THERE IS AN EXCEPTION WHILE JAVA GENERATION

Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (9.5.1.1) for 9.5

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When compiling a Program using Rational Business Developer which
  call another program passing a array without initialization
  cause a pointer exception.
  
  According to the
  document(https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMQ79_9.5.
  1/com.ibm.egl.lr.doc/topics/regl_core_call.html), "If the called
  program changes any passed data, the storage area that is
  available to the caller is also changed."
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * EGL for Java generation local call users.                    *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Pass an array to the local call parameter, if the array is   *
  * not initialized, there will be a NullPointerException while  *
  * running the generated Java code.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem is fixed. The array is now transferred as reference,
  no checking for its value.
  

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

  RATL BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels