IBM Content Manager, Version 8.5 Operating systems: AIX

Performance degradation on AIX during Content Manager EE login

Symptom

On AIX, the CPU performance abnormally spikes during a Content Manager EE login or during a query that uses the execute() or executeWithCallback() methods.

Possible cause

On some systems such as AIX POWER-series servers and virtualization environments, the default FIPS-certified version of IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) might cause performance degradation. The non-FIPS certified version of GSKit contains a fix.

Action

Enable the non-FIPS certified version of GSKit for the library server by setting the ICC_IGNORE_FIPS and ICC_TRNG environment variables:

For DB2 on Windows: Add the environment variables ICC_IGNORE_FIPS=yes and ICC_TRNG=ALT to your Windows system environment. Then restart the DB2 instance associated with your Content Manager EE library server database.

For DB2 on AIX, Linux, or Solaris: In the profile.env file, append ICC_IGNORE_FIPS and ICC_TRNG to DB2ENVLIST. In the userprofile file, add the following case-sensitive lines:

ICC_IGNORE_FIPS=yes
ICC_TRNG=ALT
export ICC_IGNORE_FIPS ICC_TRNG

Then restart the DB2 instance associated with your Content Manager EE library server database.

For Oracle: As the Oracle DBA or a user with the authority to modify the Oracle listener.ora configuration file, find the entry under the named listener used to service the Content Manager EE library server in listener.ora and append the following variable to ENVS. For example:

SID_LIST_LISTENER_ECM =
...
      (ENVS="...,ICC_IGNORE_FIPS=yes,ICC_TRNG=ALT")

Then restart the named listener used to service the Content Manager EE library server.

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