AutoSys Workload Automation

Noticed this cryptic, and grammatically incorrect message, on an AutoSys agent standard error file after getting 11.3.6 SP7 upgrade complete:

[

tzmappings: Illegal format at near line 11.

]

I found .../jre/lib/tzmappings and at first glance thought it was recent:

# @(#)tzmappings        1.5 01/03/18

Then after searching realized that's not M/D/Y or D/M/Y but Y/M/D.  You'd think Y2K taught us something but guess not.

That source code control was abandoned somewhere back up-line and there are some yyyymmdd comments.

# 140314.1 20080918
# 192944.70 20120914
# 194271.70 20121107

One of those is not in SP7 comments but may be immaterial.

Java uses tzmappings file on Windows (only). Did you see that error on a Windows System Agent job standard err/out?

What version of CA WA System Agent is on that Windows? 11.3 SP7?

> Did you see that error on a Windows System Agent job standard err/out?

No,  on AIX.

> 11.3 SP7?

It's the 11.3.6 SP7 AutoSys version.  System agents have different naming even though I consider this 11.3.6.

CA Workload Automation Agent for AIX 11.4, Build 1609

Fascinating that there is a third place for timezones to be defined, beyond the OS and the AutoSys database tables.  As it turns out, the file pushed out with the AutoSys SP7 install for AIX has CR-LF line endings.  Earlier versions appear to have standard UNIX LF endings.

Converting the file to a standard UNIX style and restarting the agent makes the error file empty.

I have seen same error in R11.4 Agent on AIX 

-rw-r--r-- 1 autosys system 0 Oct 03 05:54 nohup.stdout
-rw-r--r-- 1 autosys system 44 Oct 03 05:54 nohup.stderr

# cat nohup.stderr
+ cat nohup.stderr
tzmappings: Illegal format at near line 11.
#

Copied SP7  tzmappings file to R11.4 agent to address it    

Regards

Chandrasekhar Karamsetty