Update Investment Allocations job fails with NullPointerException Cannot invoke "com.niku.xmlserver.core.NkTime.getTimeOfDay()" because "finish" is null

Products

• Clarity PPM SaaS
• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

When certain projects have a baseline created, the job Update Investment Allocations and Usage would fail with error. If we delete the baseline then the job runs with no issue.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1. Connect to Clarity
2. Open an affected project, example code PR12031
3. Create a new baseline
4. Run the job Update Investment Allocations and Usage

Expected Results: the job to run successfully

Actual Results: The Update Investment Allocations job fails with error java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.niku.xmlserver.core.NkTime.getTimeOfDay()" because "finish" is null

ERROR 2025-09-24 09:44:16,542 [Dispatch Update Investment Allocations and Usage : bg@xxxxxxx(tenant=clarity)] niku.njs (clarity:admin:87060193__3FB82B49-751A-4BEB-A85B-AE8E4C5FDEA5:Update Investment Allocations and Usage) () Error executing job: 6089034
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.niku.xmlserver.core.NkTime.getTimeOfDay()" because "finish" is null
              at com.niku.projmgr.service.staffing.job.InvestmentAllocationJob.scheduledEventFired(InvestmentAllocationJob.java:112)
              at com.niku.njs.BGTask.run(BGTask.java:114)
              at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
              at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
              at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.niku.xmlserver.core.NkTime.getTimeOfDay()" because "finish" is null
              at com.niku.xql2.pmd.rules.InvestmentTSVController.markTOD(InvestmentTSVController.java:1367)
              at com.niku.xql2.pmd.rules.InvestmentTSVController.setInvestmentCurve(InvestmentTSVController.java:1317)
              at com.niku.xql2.pmd.rules.InvestmentTSVController.updateInvestmentBaselineFields(InvestmentTSVController.java:1166)
              at com.niku.xql2.pmd.rules.InvestmentTSVController.generate(InvestmentTSVController.java:440)
              at com.niku.xql2.pmd.rules.InvestmentTSVController.processRequest(InvestmentTSVController.java:151)
              at com.niku.projmgr.service.staffing.job.InvestmentAllocationJob.scheduledEventFired(InvestmentAllocationJob.java:90)
              ... 4 more

Environment

Clarity 16.2.3, 16.3.0, 16.3.1, 16.3.2

Cause

DE176288

Resolution

Fixed in:

• Clarity 16.4.0
• Clarity 16.3.3 Patch 2 (16.3.3.2)

Workaround: Delete the baseline from the affected project