Messages "Close Parenthesis Required to End Parameter List" and "UNKNOWN COMMAND" may appear when trying to customize an ACTLABEL entry via TPXBATCH

Products

• Teleview
• TELEVIEW- PACKAGE
• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

From CA TPX Release 5.2 onwards it is possible to customize the ACT via TPXBATCH. When trying to update variable ACTLABEL with 'Session Description' containing blanks the job fails with messages:

Close Parenthesis Required to End Parameter List
UNKNOWN COMMAND

Environment

Release: NVINAM00200-5.3-TPX-Session Management-Access Management package
Component:

Resolution

When the value in ACTLABEL is closed into apostrophes the TPXBATCH Job runs fine:

 UPDATE ACTAPPL (<acttable> <applid>
 (ACTLABEL ('text containing several words')))

Additional Information

The Syntax diagram for UPDATE ACTAPPL looks like:

 UPDATE ACTAPPL (<acttable> <applid>
 (ACTLABEL (text containing several words)))