JR46099: TIME ELAPSED UCA: PROBLEM IF 'FIRST' OR 'LAST' AND MULTIPLE WEEKDAYS ARE SELECTED

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The Time Schedule of a time elapsed UCA contains a 'month' pane,
  a pane
  where you can select 'Every', 'First' or 'Last', a 'weekday'
  pane as
  well as 'hour' and a 'minute' pane.
  If you select 'first' or 'last' together with multiple weedays,
  the BPM
  Scheduler will execute the UCA only on one of these weekdays.
  

Local fix

• This IFix fixes this behavior in such a way the the UCA will be
  executed
  on each of the selected weekdays. As an example, if you specify
  'first'
  and 'Monday', 'Wednesday' and 'Thursday', the UCA will be
  executed at
  the first Monday, the first Wednesday and the first Thursday of
  the
  month. The same applies to the 'last' selection.
  

Problem summary

• Problem Description:
  
  The Time Schedule of a time elapsed UCA contains a 'month' pane,
  a pane
  where you can select 'Every', 'First' or 'Last', a 'weekday'
  pane as
  well as 'hour' and a 'minute' pane.
  If you select 'first' or 'last' together with multiple weedays,
  the BPM Scheduler will execute the UCA only on one of these
  weekdays.
  
  Problem Summary:
  The algorith that determines the next time when the UCA is to be
  scheduled does not
  account for the possibility that multiple weekdays can be
  selected in the weeday pane
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem was solved by modifying the algorithm that schedules
  the UCA.
  If a UCA has specified multiple weedays in the weekday pane,
  then the UCA will be executed
  at each of these weekdays.
  If the UCA's Time Schedule specifies for example, 'last' and
  'monday','tuesday' and 'thursday',
  then the UCA will be scheduled at the last monday, last tuesday
  and last thursday of the month.
  The same applies to the 'first' specification.
  
  iFix available on top V751 FP1
  

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:

  JR46119 JR46122

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  BPM ADVANCED

• Fixed component ID

  5725C9400

Applicable component levels

• R751 PSY

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