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IC79889: RESOURCE MONITOR: VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION FOR ${FILEPATH} WITHIN A PRESOURCECALL IN THE TRANSFER TASK CAUSES A FAILURE.

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APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • When an IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition resource
    monitor invokes any of the four available command calls
    (preSourceCall, postSourceCall, preDestinationCall, and
    postDestinationCall) it will evaluate the ${FilePath} variable
    using the '/' character as the path separator. On some
    platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, commands may be unable to
    handle path separators other than the platform default and may
    fail.
    

Local fix

  • Since WMQFTE used Java escaped filepaths for MS Windows, you
    can work around this issue by tokenizing the ${FilePath}
    variable substitution in the command call.
    
    For example, if your ${FilePath} is substituted with
    C:/path/to/myfile.txt a preSourceCall argument could be:
    
    <argument>${FilePath{token=1}{separator=/}}\${FilePath{token=2}{
    separator=/}}\${FilePath{token=3}{separator=/}}\${FilePath{token
    =4}{separator=/}}</argument>
    
    This would result in a correctly formatted filepath for MS
    Windows:  C:\path\to\myfile.txt
    

Problem summary

  • When substituting the ${FilePath} variable, the agent would use
    the '/' character as the path seperator regardless of the
    platform's convention. In some situations this can result in
    errors when other applications on that system are invoked which
    depend on the platform default.
    
    USERS AFFECTED:
    All
    
    PLATFORMS AFFECTED:
    Windows
    

Problem conclusion

  • An agent property has been provided to allow the tuning of this
    behaviour. If you wish to use the platform file seperator as
    determined by Java instead of the '/' character set the
    following property in your agent.properties file:
    
    monitorFilepathPlatformSeparator=true
    
    The default value of this property is 'false'.
    
    The fix for this APAR is currently targeted for inclusion in fix
    pack 7.0.4.2.
    

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

  • APAR number

    IC79889

  • Reported component name

    WMQ FILE TRANSF

  • Reported component ID

    5724R1000

  • Reported release

    704

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt

  • Submitted date

    2011-11-18

  • Closed date

    2012-01-20

  • Last modified date

    2012-07-20

  • 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

    WMQ FILE TRANSF

  • Fixed component ID

    5724R1000

Applicable component levels

  • R704 PSY

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 July 2012