DevTest Parsing exception for copybook protocol

Article Id: 77502
Status: Published
Updated On: 12-04-2018 11:16
Products:
CA Application Test Service Virtualization CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
Issue/Introduction:

While creating a Virtual Service from a RR pair using copybook, this Exception is thrown:
[AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR com.itko.util.swing.UserMessage - An error occurred writing recorded transactions to the database. 
java.lang.RuntimeException: : PI must not start with xml (position:unknown @1:5 in java.io[email protected]) 
at com.itko.lisa.vse.stateful.protocol.copybook.CopybookDataProtocol.updateRequest(CopybookDataProtocol.java:291) 
at com.itko.lisa.vse.stateful.protocol.copybook.CopybookDataProtocol.updateRequest(CopybookDataProtocol.java:158) 

Cause:

Incorrectly formatted data.
Every data section must have a name. 



 

Environment:

All supported DevTest versions and environments

Resolution:

In the following data fragment, the last line does not have a data name: 

03 ACE-HDR-NLINE1     PIC X(25). 
03 ACE-HDR-ACCT-TYPE  PIC X(1). 
03                    PIC X(59).

The correct format should be:

03 ACE-HDR-NLINE1     PIC X(25). 
03 ACE-HDR-ACCT-TYPE  PIC X(1). 
03 FILLER             PIC X(59).

Additional Information:

Not applicable