Version 1.0.16.0 release notes (March 2019)

What's new

IAS M4002-001 model introduced on 27 March 2019

The smallest data warehousing appliance in the IAS family, M4002-001 model is a single Lenovo D2 enclosure that can be installed on a customer-provided rack. It contains three SD530 nodes, and attaches directly to customer-provided PDUs and network switches. For a detailed overview of the appliance, see Integrated Analytics System M4002-001 model overview.

Backup and restore

For backup and restore using EMC, db_backup and db_restore commands now supports -sessions option. It specifies the number of sessions that can be used. If -sessions option is not specified, the number of sessions is set to 1 by default.

Reliability and serviceability

• The default collection history of db2support is changed from 14 to 2 days. If you want to increase the collection history, you can run the apdiag command with additional option --comp-param database/support:' -H 14d'.
• Starting from 1.0.16.0, the core files will not be collected by default. To collect core files, you should use the apdiag command with the --skip-cores no option.

Components

You can use IAS with DSX Local Version 1.2. DSX is not pre-installed and IBM Support must be involved in the installation process. For more details, see What's new

When you migrate from other databases, you can now use IBM Database Conversion Workbench 4.0.22 - see Release Notes® for details.

Resolved issues

• The list of Red Hat CVEs patched in 1.0.16.0 release:

  CVE-2018-5742 CVE-2018-16540 CVE-2018-19475 CVE-2018-19476 CVE-2018-19477 CVE-2019-6116 CVE-2018-18397 CVE-2018-18559 CVE-2018-15688 CVE-2018-16864 CVE-2018-16865 CVE-2019-3815 CVE-2018-18311 CVE-2019-6133

Known issues

If you are upgrading from IAS version 1.0.10.1 or below, you must perform a two-step upgrade: first upgrade to 1.0.15.0, and then upgrade again from 1.0.15.0 to 1.0.16.0.