A bug was discovered in Capitalware’s MQ Auditor related to PCF response message for the PCF MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command. The PCF response message to the MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command has 2 parts: list of queues and list of queue types. To format the queue types (i.e. local, alias, etc.), the code used a 1024 byte static array. The formatting of each queue type is a single digit number followed by a colon “:”. Hence, it means 2 bytes are used per queue type and that a maximum of 512 queues (1024/2) can be processed. If the PCF MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command requests data for more than 512 queues then MQ Auditor crashes and MQ generates an FDC.
I have updated the code to use a dynamic buffer rather than a static array.
Note: If you have excluded the “AMQ.*” temporary dynamic queues in the IniFile then MQ Auditor will not process PCF response messages. Hence, the issue will not affect you.
i.e.
UseExcludeQueues = Y ExcludeQueues = AMQ.*
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Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
