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APARs fixed in IBM Spectrum Protect server 8.1.12 interim fix levels

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Question

What APARs and security vulnerabilities were fixed in interim fix (patch) levels for IBM Spectrum Protect server Version 8.1.12?

Answer

The following tables list APARs and security vulnerabilities that are addressed in interim fix levels for IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.12 server users.

Find the latest IBM Spectrum Protect downloads by going to Fixes by Version.

Tip: In the following tables, Rel represents the release number in which the issue was detected. In some cases, the operating system is identified (A = IBM AIX, L = Linux®, and W = Microsoft® Windows). For example, 81L denotes V8.1 running on a Linux operating system.

APARs fixed in level 8.1.12.200
APARs fixed in level 8.1.12.100
APARs fixed in level 8.1.12.200
APAR
Severity
Operating System/Release of Reported Issue
(APAR, CompId, Rel)
Abstract
IT35703 3 IT35703 5698ISMSV 81L CLIENT OPERATION SLOWDOWN IF DESTINATION STORAGE POOL CONTAI
IT36716 1 IT36716 5698ISMSV 81A SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER MIGHT CRASH DUE TO ACTIVE LOG PINNIN
IT36801 2 IT36801 5698ISMSV 81L NODE REPLICATION MAY FAIL FOR FILESPACES CONTAINING A LARGE
IT36901 3 IT36901 5698ISMSV 81L THE SERVER FAILS TO MOUNT A TAPE VIA EXTERNAL LIBRARIES WIT
IT36947 2 IT36947 5698ISMSV 71L THE INSERTDB OPERATION MAY FAIL DURING A CROSS PLATFORM SERV
IT37019 2 IT37019 5698ISMSV 81A ANR3701E CANNOT CONNECT TO THE CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER DUE TO JAVA OUT OF MEMORY ERROR
IT37067 2 IT37067 5698ISMSV 81A BACKUP STG TO SEQUENTIAL COPY STGPOOL IS VERY SLOW WHEN THAT
IT37106 2 IT37106 5698ISMSV 81L ANR0551E LOCK CONFLICT REPORTED AFTER OFFSITE RECLAMATION LE
IT37107 3 IT37107 5698ISMSV 81L CLOUD DB BACKUP FAILS WITH ANR9999D_2667574571
IT37113 2 IT37113 5698ISMSV 81A BACKUP TO DIRECTORY CONTAINER STGPOOLS IS SLOW, SESSION HANG
IT37116 2 IT37116 5698ISMSV 81W NDMP BACKUP TO A CONTAINER STGPOOL FAILS WITH ANR9999D_23525
IT37133 2 IT37133 5698ISMSV 81A 8.1.12.000 SERVER CORE/CRASH IN SMMONITORTASKSESSIONS
IT37138 1 IT37138 5698ISMSV 81L POOR PERFORMANCE WRITING TO FILE CLASS POOLS RESIDING ON NFS
IT37211 3 IT37211 5698ISMSV 81L ANR9999D_2217168549 DURING LANFREE BACKUP
IT37363 2 IT37363 5698ISMSV 81L ANR0162W, ANR0106E, 100% CPU - DATA IS NOT EXPIRED FROM CONT
IT37377 2 IT37377 5698ISMSV 81A IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER V8.1.12 CAN CRASH IF TIERING OR
IT37419 2 IT37419 5698ISMSV 81A SLOW COPY TO CLOUD OPERATION FROM S3 CLIENTS TO THE IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER ON AIX
IT37456 2 IT37456 5698ISMSV 81A POOR PERFORMANCE FOR STORING OR RETRIEVING DATA FOR HTTP PUT
IT37482 2 IT37482 5698ISMSV 81L THE SPECTRUM PROTECT OPERATIONS CENTER REST API SERVICES FOR
IT37494 4 IT37494 5698ISMSV 81A CANCELING A PROTECT STGPOOL SESSION RETURN ANR1901I SESSION
IT37539 1 IT37539 5698ISMSV 81A A LAN-FREE RESTORE FAILS WITH MESSAGES ANR9999D AND ANR0106E
IT37544 2 IT37544 5698ISMSV 81W OBJECT AGENT FAILS WITH "XMINIOINVALIDOBJECTNAME: OBJECT NAME CONTAINS UNSUPPORTED CHARACTERS"
IT37689 4 IT37689 5698ISMSV 81A STORAGE RULE WITH ACTION=COPY DOES NOT COPY API METADATA
IT37783 3 IT37783 5698ISMSV 81A SERVER FAILS TO CONNECT TO BACKEND S3 OBJECT STORE FOR ONPRE
IT37838 3 IT37838 5698ISMSV 81A INSTALLATION BY USING THE IBM INSTALLATION MANAGER GRAPHICAL
IT38051 2 IT38051 5698ISMSV 81W CLOUD TRANSFER PROCESSES TO S3 CLOUD OR AWS CLOUD MAY FAIL W
IT38103 2 IT38103 5698ISMSV 81A POOR PERFORMANCE OF THE OBJECT AGENT DUE TO LOCK CONTENTION
IT38104 2 IT38104 5698ISMSV 81A OBJECT AGENT GET REQUESTS POOR PERFORMANCE
IT38178 2 IT38178 5698ISMSV 81W Server crashes while writing instrumentation data to file
IT38305 2 IT38305 5698ISMSV 81A Server can crash if 'protect stgpool type=local' process is
IT38646 2 IT38646 5698ISMSV 81L DSMSERV EXTRACTDB FAILS WITH MESSAGE ANR0453W SERVER TO SERV
IT38668 2 IT38668 5698ISMSV 81L ANR0522W, OCCURS WITH AMPLE FREE SPACE IN CONTAINER POOL
IT38939 2 IT38939 5698ISMSV 71L SERVER UPGRADE FROM 7.1.7 OR OLDER V7 OR 8.1.0/8.1.1 TO 8.1.

APARs fixed in level 8.1.12.100

APAR
Operating System/Release of Reported Issue
(APAR, CompId, Rel)
Abstract
IT35505 IT35505 5698ISMSV 81L REPLICATION PROCESS FAILS WITH MESSAGE ANR1893E DUE TO DELET
IT35790 IT35790 5698ISMSV 81L REPLICATE NODE PROCESS MAY HANG AFTER SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVE
IT36030 IT36030 5698ISMSV 81L NAS NDMP FILE LEVEL RESTORE MAY FAIL WITH ERROR "UNKNOWN ERR
IT36437 IT36437 5698ISMSV 81A IMPORTED DATA MAY FAIL TO RESTORE WITH ANR9999D_3632385001 "
IT36480 IT36480 5698ISMSV 81L IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER CRASHES WHEN ENABLING CENTERA TR
IT36728 IT36728 5698ISMSV 81A COPY RETENTION SET PROCESS FAILS WHEN COPYING CLIENT DATA TH
IT36765 IT36765 5698ISMSV 71L DURING SERVER-TO-SERVER EXPORT/IMPORT, EXCESSIVE TRANSACTION
IT36766 IT36766 5698ISMSV 81L SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER SECURE COMMUNICATIONS ( HTTPS) TO CL
IT36775 IT36775 5698ISMSV 81A ANR0379W SERVER DATABASE DEADLOCK DURING CONCURRENT CONVERT
IT36777 IT36777 5698ISMSV 81A THE IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER MIGHT NOT START AFTER UPGRAD
IT36962 IT36962 5698ISMSV 81W OBJECT AGENT SERVICE WILL NOT START.
IT37019 IT37019 5698ISMSV 81A ANR3701E CANNOT CONNECT TO THE CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER DUE TO

Security vulnerabilities fixed in level 8.1.12.100

Security vulnerability
Abstract
CVE-2020-5024, CVE-2020-5025, CVE-2020-4976 The IBM Spectrum Protect Server is affected by IBM Db2 vulnerabilities such as denial of service, buffer overflow, and weak file permissions.

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Modified date:
14 February 2022

UID

ibm16442429

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