PM69113: In Rational Developer for System Z v8.5.0.0, COBOL program flow DIAGRAM MAY BE INCOMPLETE.

Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 1 (8.5.0.1) for 8.5

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• APAR Error Description:
  Abstract: In Rational Developer for System Z (RDz) version 8.5,
  attempt to show a COBOL program flow results in an incomplete
  diagram.
  1) In RDz 8.5, open in the LPEX editor a COBOL program
  containing section names in lowercase letters like for example
  Test1 below:
         Procedure Division.
         MainLine        SECTION.
             Perform Test1.
             Goback.
  
         Test1       Section.
             Continue.
  
         END PROGRAM HELLO.
  
  The Program flow will only display boxes HELLO and MainLine.
  
  Local fix:
  The section names need to be uppercase letters like:
  
   MainLine        SECTION.
     Perform TEST1.
     Goback.
  
   TEST1       Section.
     Continue.
  
  In System z LPEX:
  1) Ctrl-A  (to select all)
  2) Alt-Shift-K  (to uppercase selection)
  3) Show In -? Program Control Flow   to see diagram
  4) (back in editor) Ctrl-Z (to undo uppercase action)
  
  In COBOL Editor:
  1) Ctrl-A  (to select all)
  2) Ctrl-Shift-F  (shortcut to Source ? Format, default
  formatting does uppercase as well as other formatting)
  3) Show In -? Program Control Flow   to see diagram
  4) (back in editor) Ctrl-Z (to undo source format action)
  
  Second problem:
  java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException is seen when closing
  then reopening RD/z's workbench while connected to DB2.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• When COBOL sections are declared using mixed-case or lower-case
  names, control flow analysis cannot find references to those
  sections, so the Program Control Flow diagram and the Identify
  Unreachable Code action show incorrect results.
  

Problem conclusion

• Section names were added to the control flow analysis using the
  name as typed.  The fix is to add section names using the mapped
  uppercase symbol name so that they can be found during control
  flow analysis.
  
  The problem listed in this APAR has been resolved with
  IBM Rational Developer for System z V8.5.0.1 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

  RATL DEV FOR SY

• Fixed component ID

  5724T0700

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSY

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