Vantage Chart Generator - Probable fatal error: No physical fonts found.

Products

• Vantage Storage Resource Manager

Issue/Introduction

Encountered an issue with the new release of the Vantage Chart Generator.
When attempting to run a scheduled report with graphing, the Generator STC returns an RC=8 and gives the following response in the Java section:

2025-03-07 20:11:34 .main. ERROR ChartGeneratorConfiguration - Exiting with code: 8
2025-03-07 20:11:34 .main. ERROR o.s.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
java.lang.Error: Probable fatal error: No physical fonts found.

The STC is being ran with the newest job card published with the r14.1.5 PTF and customized according to instructions.

Cause

The log contains an error complaining about missing fonts "Caused by: java.lang.Error: Probable fatal error: No physical fonts found." and that is related to Java 17 (since Java 11 fonts need to be configured explicitly).

Resolution

Verify if the content of OMVS.FONTS.ZFS is mounted under .../usr/lpp/fonts. If not it needs to be mounted, as default fonts mounted in .../usr/lpp/fonts/worldtype, are referenced in $JAVA_HOME/lib/fontconfig.properties.src by default.

Run the vantage chart generator again.