Why does Spectrum care about defective shortcuts on the desktop?

Products

• CA Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

We noticed a strange phenomenon when logging into Spectrum. If a "broken connection" exists on the desktop, Spectrum complains when logging in.

- Created a file H:\test.txt and a shortcut to it on the desktop.
- Then deleted the original file H:\test.txt and started Spectrum.
- The following error message appears:

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Spectrum complains that test.txt was deleted and asks if the shortcut should be deleted too.
- If we click "no" it does not start and the error appears again.
- After clicking "no" ("Do not delete invalid shortcut") many times, OneClick can be started.
- We could reproduce this issue on our test environment on Windows 10 with Java 1.8.191 and also with Java 11 (last version of OpenJDK11).
- The shortcut should be created in Windows Library: Desktop or Documents.
- There is no error message if the shortcut is in Downloads, Pictures or other directories.
- After deleting shortcut from Desktop (Documents), there is no error message.
- The error message occurs when initializing OneClick, so,after javaws has started, downloading the application and the login.
- The message appears only then when OneClick starts.
- We also tested on WinServer 2008 R2 with Java 1.8.181 and higher Java version but did not see an error.

Environment

Release:
Component: SPCOCK

Resolution

- This is a known issue reported to Oracle:
  "28894454 - CLIENT_GET_FILE_NAME CAUSES ERRORS WHEN DESKTOP CONTAINS SHORTCUTS POINTING TO DELETED FILES" 
- It is fixed in JDK 8 Update 202 b32. This was released by Oracle on Feb' 5th 2019

So, if you do not mind to "fix" the broken shortcuts on the desktop, just restore or delete the shortcut.

Additional Information

Because "JDK 8 Update 202 b32" is still a beta version, Spectrum has to wait until it is in a "standard" JRE release, before testing for a future release of Spectrum.