[AWA] EARLIEST_STARTTIME (in MODIFY_UC_OBJECT) returns error when used with non-default format

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

EARLIEST_STARTTIME (in MODIFY_UC_OBJECT) returns error when used with non-default format 

Reproduction steps:

• Create a work flow with child tasks 
• Set a script with MODIFY_UC_OBJECT(<JOBP's runID>,EARLIEST_STARTTIME, <child task's name>, "HHMM;&TIME#") with &TIME# and format (HHMM) freely defined 

Example:
:SET &hnd# = MODIFY_UC_OBJECT(&runid#, EARLIEST_STARTTIME, "&taskname#","HHMM;&time#")

<where &time# was set as 1655 to match with for mat HHMM for example>

Error message:

"U00020437 Runtime error in object 'SCRI.MODIFY.1', line '00001': Time '165' does not correspond to time format 'HHMM'."

 

Cause

Looks like the length of that attribute is capped at 8 chars (including the ";"), this is identified as a bug.

Environment

Release:
Component: AAUTEN

Resolution

An error has been fixed where MODIFY_UC_OBJECT did not work for opcode EARLIEST_STARTTIME if a different time format was used.

Fixed versions:

• Automation Engine 12.1.5 (Planned release on 20-May-2019) 
• Automation Engine 12.2.3 (Planned release on 04-Jun-2019) 
• Automation Engine 12.3.0 (Planned release on 28-Jun-2019)