RE: QSYSObjectPathName -- Length is not valid???

Hi, Paul --

From the error message and stack trace, it looks like you're calling the

(String, String, String) constructor with a second argument of
"/QSYS.LIB/MDBLLIB007.LIB/BLPEDI94.FILE/MAVERIK.MBR" rather than just
MDBLLIB007. This is why it's complaining that the object name is too long.
Check earlier in the stack trace to see where you're calling the constructor
from and if the second argument could somehow get messed up (ie assigned to
the entire path name instead of just the object name) in a multithreaded
environment. In particular, check to see if the second argument is supplied
by a class or instance field rather than from a method variable.

You might want to turn on tracing as well via a call to

Trace.setTraceDiagnosticOn(true);
Trace.setTraceOn(true);

It would also be good to put some kind of logging of System.err.println call
in your code just before you call the QSYSObjectPathName constructor and
print out the value of each of the three arguments.

HTH,
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clapham, Paul
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:03 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: RE: QSYSObjectPathName -- Length is not valid???

Actually it's the same JT400 which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't
work, all on my test machine. Here's the top of the stack trace:

com.ibm.as400.access.ExtendedIllegalArgumentException: objectName
(/QSYS.LIB/MDBLLIB007.LIB/BLPEDI94.FILE/MAVERIK.MBR): Length is not valid.
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:195)
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:41)
at java.lang.RuntimeException.<init>(RuntimeException.java:43)
at

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException.<init>(IllegalArgumentException.java:36)

at

com.ibm.as400.access.ExtendedIllegalArgumentException.<init>(ExtendedIllega

lArgumentException.java:65)
at

com.ibm.as400.access.QSYSObjectPathName.checkObjectName(QSYSObjectPathName.

java:462)
at

com.ibm.as400.access.QSYSObjectPathName.<init>(QSYSObjectPathName.java:200)

This is a very simple class, all it does is to take the parts of the path
name and format them into a QSYS.LIB path name. No connection to AS400
objects, just string manipulations.

Unfortunately this is the jt400Native.jar which is installed on the

iSeries

as part of the Java installation. And it's in the extensions directory, so
just putting the JTOpen version on the classpath wouldn't do anything. I'm
reluctant to change that configuration because chances are it's something
stupid that I'm doing, but I sure can't see what. So I'm going to take
Thorbjørn's advice and decompile the jar to see what it's doing.

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Kimmel
Sent: December 3, 2009 07:45
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: RE: QSYSObjectPathName -- Length is not valid???


Thor raised a good point. Do you have the old jt400 on the production
machine and the new one on the test machine?

One trick I learned from Tim Rowe: IBM puts all the latest code into
jtopen.jar on sourceforge. So if you want the latest fixes, download the
jar from there. The PTF's to fix the current official release of jt400.jar
can lag weeks or months behind.

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 12:35 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: QSYSObjectPathName -- Length is not valid???

Clapham, Paul skrev:

QSYSObjectPathName fileName = new QSYSObjectPathName("%LIBL%",
"BLPEDI94", "MAVERIK", "MBR");

and when I run it in my complex environment it throws this exception:

com.ibm.as400.access.ExtendedIllegalArgumentException: objectName
(/QSYS.LIB/%LIBL%.LIB/BLPEDI94.FILE/MAVERIK.MBR): Length is not valid.

If I copy and paste the line of code into a simple program which just
does that and then prints the result, I get the result printed. But in
my multi-threaded message-processing system, I get the exception. Not
only that, the line of code is working correctly in the production
environment and it's just failing in the test environment.

In all cases it's the QSYSObjectPathName class which is being loaded
from here:

/QIBM/ProdData/OS400/jt400/lib/jt400Native.jar

I would transfer that jt400Native.jar to my personal computer, and use a
decompiler for analyzing the stack trace with the
ExtendedIllegalArgumentException (my guess is that %LIBL%.LIB should be
just %LIBL%).

I have good experiences with the Jadclipse plugin to Eclipse for this (for
which you need the jad binary) when you remember to set up Jadclipse to
generate source corresponding to the original line numbers in the
Preferences.

We are currently shipping jt400.jar with a Java program being deployed on
V6R1 as the native library had some issue with AS400 connections not
remembering CHGLIBL commands which had been issued earlier. We worked
around it by including the jt400 5.0 jar instead.


--
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "...plus... Tubular Bells!"