The sign-out override email received on an ALTER action is confusing.

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

An ALTER action will issue a signout override message if an element is currently signed out to a userid which is different than the userid executing the ALTER action.

This is an example of the message the current ALTER action:
 
 USERID1 has just overridden your signout of element ELM001 on 26JAN2016 at 09:56 while doing the ALTER action.
 This element was located at:
 Env      : ENV1
 System   : SYS1
 Subsystem: SUB1
 Type     : TYPE1
 Stage    : 1
 
The message is misleading because:
1. The ALTER action does not change the signout userid unless REPLACE SIGNOUT USERID is specified.
2. The ALTER may not make any changes due to filtering
3. The ALTER may not make any changes due to the use of the NOUPDATE option.

Environment

Endevor - Release 17.0 ONLY 

Endevor - Release 18.0 ONLY 

Resolution

PTF RO83927 has been written for v17 of Endevor

PTF RO86669 has been written for v18 of Endevor