IJ07577: TACMD VIEWSIT ABENDS EXPORTING TO FILE

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3.0 Fix Pack 7 Service Pack 1 (6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0001)

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The Tivoli Command Line Interface command 'viewsit' randomly
  abends when exporting Situations to a file. The command does
  export the Situaton information to the specified file, however
  it displays abend information prior to returning to the user.
  
  RECREATE INSTRUCTIONS:
  
  Execute the following script to reproduce the problem
  
  for i in `tacmd listsit | egrep -v '^NAME' | awk '{print
  $1}'`;do tacmd viewsit -s $i -e $i;done
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• The viewsit command intermittently abends when exporting
  Situation definitions.
  
  
  The viewsit command does not correctly handle local variables
  allocated on its stack and heap.  As a result, the command will
  intermittently abend when it incorrectly attempts to free the
  allocated memory associated with the variable.
  

Problem conclusion

• Revised the code to correctly manage the memory it allocates
  that is referenced by local variables.
  
  
  The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  packages:
  
     | service pack | 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0001
  

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

  TEMS

• Fixed component ID

  5724C04MS

Applicable component levels