Wrong display with multiple overlays

Products

• iDash Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Many boxes are displayed  like in below picture

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Environment

ixp Release: 11.3.5.5116 on Redhat 6
CA WAAE 11.3.6 SP7 on RedHat 6, Oracle 11.2

Cause

The number of objects (jobs/boxes) in the flow view became enough for the newer JRE’s to have this sort problem

Resolution

Workaround is to update file $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ixp/iXp.jnlp and restart iXp

FROM: 

<j2se version="1.6+" initial-heap-size="80m" max-heap-size="256m" /> 
<jar href="ixpui.jar" kind="main" main="true" download="eager"/> 
<jar href="ixp.jar" download="eager"/> 

TO: 
<j2se version="1.6+" initial-heap-size="80m" max-heap-size="256m" /> 
<property name="java.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort" value="true"/> 
<jar href="ixpui.jar" kind="main" main="true" download="eager"/> 
<jar href="ixp.jar" download="eager"/>

Additional Information

Problem only occurs with desktop JREs 1.7+