ZAM Contract Management has bad date and numeric values with Finnish & Euro settings used.

  • 3754777
  • 15-Jan-2008
  • 29-Apr-2013

Environment


Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5

Situation

Contract times are miscalculated, because of Finnish date format.
Contract Management has several problems with Finnish regional settings on backend server.
Finnish date format

Resolution

Fixed in ZENworks Asset Management 7.5 Interim Release 8 or newer

Interim Releases can be scheduled to run automatically or can be downloaded manually at https://download.novell.com. The Interim releases can be set up within the ZAM Manager for the Task server to check the site on a scheduled basis, and download and apply them automatically. Please refer to the Help Section details of how to set up automatic downloads if desired.

Each interim release is cumulative. If Interim Release 8 is not available due to a newer interim release being placed on the website, be assured that the code needed is in the later release.


Additional Information

Contract Management works if Finnish date format is NOT used.
The Finnish date & time format had not been included.The Euro symbol is breaking the form validation.