Errors in PPM app-ca.logs When Making Changes in Action Item Object

Products

• Clarity PPM SaaS
• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

We are seeing an error in the app-ca.logs when making changes to the Action Item Object view (example, updating or removing a field from the view)

Error excerpt:

Failure while evaluating "integer(data/object/@code)" in expression "{integer(data/object/@code)}"
java.lang.Exception: Invalid expression integer(data/object/@code): Error parsing number actionitem

        at com.niku.xql2.XQLVisitor.eval(XQLVisitor.java:1134)
        at com.niku.xql2.XQLVisitor.eval(XQLVisitor.java:1060)
        at com.niku.xql2.XQLVisitor.process(XQLVisitor.java:1292)
        at com.niku.xql2.XQLVisitor.process(XQLVisitor.java:1340)

Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Error parsing number actionitem
        at com.niku.union.utility.DataFormatUtil.parseNumber(DataFormatUtil.java:247)
        at com.niku.union.utility.DataFormatUtil.parseInt(DataFormatUtil.java:107)
        at com.niku.xql2.eval.XQLEvaluatorUtil.convert(XQLEvaluatorUtil.java:38)
        at com.niku.xql2.eval.XQLUnaryNode.eval(XQLUnaryNode.java:32)
        at com.niku.xql2.eval.XQLEvaluator.parse(XQLEvaluator.java:40)

Environment

Release:
Component: PPMPRD

Resolution

This issue is no longer reproducible in CA PPM 15.2 and higher. It does not appear to have any impact as changes are completed successfully. 

Additional Information

See KB KB000007107 - Warning appears on app-ca.log files: VXML Image "null" not found in VXMLImages map. Please add or change VXML to use the constant! for a warning that may also be noticed in the logs that has been confirmed to be of no impact