PI28541: THE VALUES "FIELD IS OPTIONAL" AND "IGNORE RULE CACHE" ARE LOST WHEN THE XML PARENT NODE IS OPENED AND CLOSED.

Rational Integration Tester 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1) for 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 3 (8.7.0.3) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 3 (8.7.0.3) for 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 4 (8.7.0.4) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 4 (8.7.0.4) for 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 4 (8.7.0.4) for 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 3 (8.7.0.3) for 8.7

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Imagine a message tree built from the following simple XML
  <root>
     <name>Fred</name>
     <age>64</age>
     <spouse>Sue</spouse>
     <child>Ben</child>
  </root>
  Two of the tree nodes displayed in IBM Rational Integration
  Tester (RIT) will be "text (String) {XML}" and "name (Element)".
  
  > Open the "name (Element)" node and check "Field is optional"
  and "Ignore rule cache" and "Accept fields in any order" and
  "Ignore missing fields in received message" and "Ignore
  additional fields in received message". Click "OK".
  > Re-open the "name (Element)" node and validate that these
  fields are still checked.
  > Open "text (String) {XML}" and click "OK".
  > Re-open the "name (Element)" node and validate that these
  fields are still checked.  The fields "Field is optional" and
  "Ignore rule cache" will have been cleared.
  
  Note that all five of these fields are blank to start with, but
  clicking "OK" on the "text (String) {XML}" field editor clears
  two of these values but not the other three.
  

Local fix

• Fix up the values or avoid opening the XML node.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All users of Rational Integration Tester working with XML    *
  * schemas.                                                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Values for the "Field is optional" and "Ignore rule cache"   *
  * fields in a message were incorrectly cleared when an XML     *
  * parent node was opened and closed in the message editor.     *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• A fix for this issue was provided in version 8.7.0 of Rational
  Integration Tester. The fields are no longer cleared when the
  parent node is opened and closed.
  

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 INTEGRA TE

• Fixed component ID

  5725G79IT

Applicable component levels

• R800 PSN

     UP

• R801 PSN

     UP

• R850 PSN

     UP

• R851 PSN

     UP

• R860 PSN

     UP

• R870 PSY

     UP