BUG: Friendship Tutorial: Runtime Error 1738 Using Playback

ID: Q183547

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft COM Transaction Integrator for CICS and IMS, version 1.0, included with:
- Microsoft SNA Server, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you run the Friendship Demo while using a Diagnostic Playback Remote Environment (RE) and the recording file included with COMTI, the following runtime error message may appear:

(1738) The Method and/or parameters of the request could not be matched in the current recording file.

You will see this error message if your Control Panel settings for Date and Currency formats are not the US Default (Currency Decimal Separator ".", and Date Format M/d/yy, with Date Separator "/").

CAUSE

Friendship Demo Visual Basic and ASP code use hard-coded date and currency formats, which are converted to actual Dates and Currencies based on the Regional Settings in Control Panel for Date and Currency. For example, if your Decimal Separator is set to "," then the 150.00 amount will actually be sent to COMTI as 15000. This is not what the recording file is expecting.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, you can manually edit the dollar amount and date fields when you run the Friendship Demo to match those of your Regional Settings via Control Panel. For example, using the Web client, if you use DD/MM/YY for a date format, change Service Date from 6/1/89 to 1/6/89 and Date of Birth from 2/22/48 to 22/2/48.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft COM Transaction Integrator for CICS and IMS version 1.0 included with SNA Server version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbbug1.00 CTIPlayback CTIVB
Version : WINDOWS:1.0,4.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug