PI80582: IBM RATIONAL DEVELOPER FOR Z SYSTEMS (RDZ/IDZ) ZUNIT FAILS WITH NPE ON SUBMIT WHEN BIDI IS TURNED ON

Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 5 (9.5.1.6) for 9.5.1.
Rational Developer for z Systems Fix Pack 7 (9.5.1.7) for 9.5.1.
Rational Developer for z Systems Fix Pack 8 (9.5.1.8) for 9.5.1.
Rational Developer for z Systems Fix Pack 9 (9.5.1.9) for 9.5.1.
Rational Developer for z Systems Fix Pack 10 (9.5.1.10) for 9.5.1.
Rational Developer for z Systems Fix Pack 11 (9.5.1.11) for 9.5.1.
Rational Developer for z Systems Fix Pack 12 (9.5.1.12) for 9.5.1.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• IBM Rational Developer for System z - RDz - v9.5.1
  IBM Developer for z Systems - IDz - v14
  
  Zunit fails with NPE on submit when BIDI is turned on
  
  Below is the stack trace found in the .log file:
  !ENTRY com.ibm.etools.zunit.ui 4 0 2017-04-04 15:02:42.453
  !MESSAGE
  !STACK 0
  java.lang.NullPointerException
  at com.ibm.etools.zos.subsystem.jes.JMMinerConnection.submit
  at com.ibm.ftt.jes.util.core.JesJobUtil.submit
  at com.ibm.etools.zunit.ui.operations.BuildProcess.
                                                submitJCLFile
  at com.ibm.etools.zunit.ui.operations.BuildProcess.run
  at com.ibm.etools.zunit.ui.operations.
           BuildTestCaseOperation.buildTestCase
  at com.ibm.etools.zunit.ui.operations.
                                    BuildTestCaseOperation.run
  at org.eclipse.jface.operation.
                           ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run
  

Local fix

• None available
  

Problem summary

• With the BIDI preference turned on (in RDz), when the
  .JMMinerConnection.submit() API is used with a java.io.File that
   resides outside of an Eclipse project (in this case, under the
  workspace .metadata folder) an NPE is hit.
  

Problem conclusion

• When BIDI is turned on, the java.io.File needs to be converted
  to an IFile (the Eclipse representation of a file) in order to
  be passed into the BIDI transformation API.  The APIs used to
  convert the File to an IFile result in null because they were
  not meant to be used for files that are not part of an Eclipse
  project.
  
  The problem listed in this APAR has been resolved with
  IBM Rational Developer for z Systems V9.5.1.6 Fix Pack which
  is available from the Recommended Fixes support download page:
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2294&uid=swg27006335
  

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

  DEV FOR Z SYS

• Fixed component ID

  5724T0700

Applicable component levels

• R951 PSY

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