IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact V6.1.1 Fix Pack 5 (6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005)

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Readme file for: IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact
Product/Component Release: 6.1.1
Update name: Fix Pack 5
Fix ID: 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005
IBM Corp.
Publication date: November 3, 2017
Last modified date: October 31, 2017

Attention: You can always find the most current version of the readme file online.

Publish date is subject to change at any time without notices
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Contents:

1.0 Files included in this Fix Pack
2.0 Hardware and software requirements
3.0 Installation information
3.1 Dependencies
3.2 Prerequisites
3.3 Special considerations and Notices
3.4 Superceded Fixes
3.5 Extracting Fix Pack files
3.6 Installation in a Cluster Environment
3.7 Installation of the Fix Pack
3.8 Uninstalling the Fix Pack
3.9 Recovering from a failed Fix Pack installation
3.10 Policies overwritten by this Fix Pack
3.11 Discovery Library Toolkit
3.12 "Service Level Objectives (SLO) Reporting" function
4.0 Additional information
5.0 List of APARs
5.1 Fixes (APARs) Included In this Fix Pack.
6.0 New support and features
6.1 Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 5
Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 4
Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 3
Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 2
Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 1
6.2 Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 5
Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 4
Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 3
Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 2
Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 1
6.3 eWAS Fixes and Upgrades
6.4 Enhancements in Fix Pack 5
Enhancements in Fix Pack 4
Enhancements in Fix Pack 3
Enhancements in Fix Pack 2
Enhancements in Fix Pack 1
6.5 Deprecated features in Fix Pack 5
Deprecated features in Fix Pack 4
Deprecated features in Fix Pack 3
Deprecated features in Fix Pack 2
Deprecated features in Fix Pack 1
6.6 MSN support in Fix Pack 1
7.0 Known Issues in Fix Pack 5
7.1 Auto saved Policies not cleaned up
7.2 Unable to save ObjectServer DataType when the
Impact server name is long
7.3 WEBSERVICES SECURITY NOT FUNCTIONAL
7.4 If using WEBSERVICES SECURITY (WSS) user authentication
7.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
7.6 Change the cursor sensitivity for DB2 JDBC Connections
8.0 Copyright and trademark information


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1.0 Files included in this Fix Pack
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This Fix Pack is a cumulative Fix Release, addressing APARs and
internally found issues post-dating the release of IBM Tivoli
Netcool/Impact version 6.1.1. The following table contains a list of
files included in this Fix Pack and operating systems associated with
these files:

Platform File
AIX * 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005-aix.tar
Linux * 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005-linux.tar
Solaris * 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005-solaris.tar
Windows * 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005-windows.zip
Linux for * 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005-zLinux.tar
System z

all platforms * 6.1.1-TIV-NCI-FP0005.README


Note: The installer only works for 64 bit architectures

Note: Whenever <ARCH> is used in the text of this readme, as part of the
filename of the Fix Pack package, it refers to, and can be
substituted for one of the following operating systems:
* Linux
* Solaris
* AIX
* zLinux


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2.0 Hardware and software requirements
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For information about supported operating systems and software, see
System requirements or see Planning, Setting up a deployment,
System requirements in the Netcool/Impact Administration Guide PDF.

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSHYH_6.1.1.5/com.ibm.netcoolimpact.doc/common/dita/imp_hardware_requirements.html

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4.0 Additional information
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Please refer to Tivoli Netcool/Impact 6.1.1 Documentation for
additional information


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5.0 List of APARs
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5.1 Fixes (APARs) Included In this Fix Pack
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The following IMPACT APARs are delivered with Fix Pack 5:

IV73243: XSS ISSUE IN PROJECTNAME PARAMETER
IV75005: TBSM SERVER WILL NOT STARTUP WITH ITCAM FOR TRANSACTIONS
IV76521: UI DATA PROVIDER DOES NOT PRESERVE PROVIDER/SOURCE ON EDIT
IV78197: NCI_STARTSVN DOESN'T HANDLE .JS POLICIES
IV79350: EXCEPTION HANDLER UNABLE TO CATCH EXCEPTION WHEN POLICY IS EXECUTED FROM AN OPERATOR VIEW
IV79363: STARTING TIME FOR POLICY ACTIVATOR SERVICES IS NOT CORRECTLY LOGGED
IV80613: WITH IMPACT POLICY, OUTPUT OF SNMPGETNEXTACTION IS GARBLED
IV80747: THE PARAMETER SECURITYTOKENFROMREQUEST HAS THE SESSION INFORMATION
IV85196: COMMANDLINEMANAGER SERVICE DOESN'T STOPS ON SECONDARY IMPACT SERVERS
IV86919: IMPACTDB/DERBY DATABASE PROBLEMS IN CLUSTER
IV87164: POLICY ACTIVATORS RUNS TWICE IF RESTARTED WHILE POLICY RUNNING *HIGH*
IV87831: OUT-OF-THE-BOX JARS COPIED FROM THE SOURCE SERVER WHEN MIGRATING
IV89467: BACKUP DERBY NOT STARTING IN SLAVE MODE
IV91142: SERVER LOAD INCREASE AFTER UPGRADE TO 611 FP4


The following IMPACT APARs are delivered with Fix Pack 4:

IV59728: IMPACT SECONDARY IS NOT SHUTTING DOWN IF RESYNC WITH PRIMARY FAILS
IV59840: Jabber Service sending GroupChat message not received when accounts and groups are hosted on Cisco XMPP server
IV66337: WEBSERVICE LISTENER POLICY STRING VALUE PARAMETERS CAN'T ACCEPT MULTIPLES LINES ENTRIES AND SOME SPECIAL CHARACTERS
IV66441: NULLPOINTER EXCEPTION DURING REPLICATION
IV68163: IMPACT UNABLE TO STOP PROPER HAD TO KILL THE SERVICE
IV71068: JREXECACTION FAILS WHEN IMPACT.SERVER.SSL_ENABLED=TRUE
IV72091: GETBYFILTER UNABLE TO HANDLE DBCS DATA
IV72561: JAVA.LANG.RUNTIMEEXCEPTION: NO CONTEXT ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT THREAD
IV72673: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: ORA-01003: NO STATEMENT PARSED
IV74071: CPU USAGE INCREASING DUE TO REGEX LOOPING
IV74421: MEMORY LEAK DUE TO EVENT READER CHECK POINT"
IV74485: DATABASEEVENTREADER USES INCORRECT DATE FORMAT ON RESTARTING
IV75602: DERBY REPLICATION DOES NOT WORK CONSISTENTLY BETWEEN IMPACT CLUSTER MEMBERS
IV75913: ABLE TO ACCESS ITEMS IN SCRIPTS DIRECTORY WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION
IV77882: MDVREGR - LIKE COMPARISON OPERATOR IN A POLICY NOT WORKING
IV79004: DIRECTSQL ON OPERATOR VIEW POLICY DOESN'T WORK AFTER FP1
IV79769: SERVICE LEVEL OUTAGES(SLO) CALCULATED INCORRECTLY : REGRESSION
IV79910: REXTRACTALL FUNCTION DOES NOT RETURN MATCHING CONTENT :REGRESSION
IV80388: THE "COMMONS-FILEUPLOAD-1.0.JAR" FILE IS VULNERABLE TO CVE-2013-0248



The following IMPACT APARs are delivered with Fix Pack 3:

IV27869: related to PMR 15590,SGC,724 - For 6.1.1 Impact
- The latest build should be installing version 2.2.0.2 of
VMMObjectServerPlugin
IV50058: IMPACT SERVER FAILS TO WORK PROPERLY WITH ANY SPACES IN CONFIGURABLE PROPS FILES
IV58590: SNMPTRAPACTION FAILS ON 2ND TRAP WHEN PROCESSING MULTIPLES
IV59481: UNABLE TO SEND HIBERNATIONS TO CLUSTER MEMBERS WHENEVER DIRECTSQL IS BEING USED
IV59770: DATA ITEMS RETRIEVED FROM A DIRECTSQL'S SELECT ARE NOT ABLE TO BE UPDATED
IV60438: IMPACT POLICY WIZARD (XML) FAILS WITH JAVA.LANG.NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION
IV61538: MWM WINDOWS DO NOT ADJUST FOR DST
IV61725: GETSCHEDULEMEMBER FUNCTION ISSUE
IV63535: UNABLE TO PERFORM DECRYPTION OF INPUT VALUE - DATA SOURCE ACCOUNT GETTING LOCKED
IV63942: SESSION.SENDCOMMAND IN A JS POLICY DOESN'T RETURNS ANY RESPONSE
IV64075: NullPointerExceptions
IV64837: IMPACT MWM WINDOW CREATED WITH WRONG END DATE
IV65055: GET/SETGLOBALVARIABLES DO NOT WORK WITH ACTIVATE FUCNTION
IV65179: LOCAL VARIABLES NOT RESTORED AFTER HIBERNATION
IV66164: ADD RECURRING MW WINDOW
IV67091: TBSM FAILOVER BACKUP NOT STARTED CORRECTLY IF STARTED TOO SOON
IV67829: ITM/TEPS DATA DISPLAYED INCORRECTLY IN UI
IV68383: DEBUG FLAG GENERATES MEMORY ISSUES WHEN NON OMNIBUS EVENTS ARE PROCESSED
IV69164: POLICY USES HIBERNATION WILL NOT WAKE UP
IV70836: COMMANDRESPONSE ERROR IN JS POLICY
IV71157: ACTIVATE FUNCTION CALLED FROM WITHIN POLICY SUB-FUNCTION HAS NO EFFECT
IV71513: EVENT IS NOT BEING PROCESSED CORRECTLY AFTER HIBERNATION
IV73098: EVENTS OCCURING ONE HOUR BEFORE ONE TIME WINDOW GOING INTO MAINTENANCE
IV73243: XSS ISSUE IN PROJECTNAME PARAMETER

The following IMPACT APARs are delivered with Fix Pack 2:

IV18554: 511:EVAL FUNCTIONALITY HAS CHANGED FROM 4.1 TO 5.1.1
IV23315: UPGRADE FROM IMPACT 5.1.1 TO IMPACT 6.x DISTRIBUTED [611]
IV64152: SECONDARY NODE CAN'T BIND TO THE NAME SERVER
IV61089: INSTALL FAILS AT STARTWAS STEP
IV63137: IMPACT 6.1.1 REPLICATION FROM PRI TO SEC NOT WORKING
IV62792: 1.2 GB WAS BEING FILLED BY BLANKS FROM LOGGER FUNCTION
IV61956: DATA MODEL NOT SORTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
IV61746: IMPACT 611 FP1 INSTALL FAILS WHEN INSTALLING ON GA 611, WHICH HAS BEEN FIRST UPGRADED FROM IMPACT
IV61399: NULL VALUE ON FIELD, DASH WIDGET SPINS TO MANY TIME MAKING DATA VEIW VERY SLOW TO VIEW.
IV60005: DATA TYPE NOT SAVED CORRECTLY IF FEILD DELETED AND REMAINDER RE-ORDERED.
IV60253: TEPS UIDP NOT CLEARING CACHE, CAUSING MEMORY LEAKS.
IV58616: DIRECTSQL EXECUTE CAUSES EXCEPTION IN POLICY EXECUTION
IV58511: EMAIL READER SERVICE DOES NOT HANDLE EMAILS THAT USE A NON-STANDARD CHARACTER SET
IV53717: JMS MESSAGE LISTENER SERVICE NOT STOPPING PROPERLY
IV56745: IMPACT IS UNABLE TO HANDLE EXCEPTIONS FROM A WEBSERVICES CALL
IV56068: IMPACT THREADS INCREASING WHEN WEBSERVICES SECURITY IS ENABLED
IV55989: HIDDEN/DELETED FIELDS NOT BEING REMOVED FORM OPERATOR VIEW
IV50329: WEBSERVICES SECURITY NOT FUCTIONAL
IV56541: CONFVMM4NCOS SCRIPT IN IMPACT 6.1 IS NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED
IV47748: CAN'T LOAD WEBSERVICE LIBRARIES THAT HAVE JAVA OR JAVAX PACKAGES IN THEM
IV55464: UNABLE TO CREATE A BUTTON ON JAZZ AFTER JAZZ FP2
IV60923: USING THE DIRECTSQL APPROACH AND HAS IDENTIFIED THE NON-REFRESH OF THE SCHEMA ON USERNAME UPDATE IN THE DSA AS SECURITY RISK

The following IMPACT APARs are delivered with Fix Pack 1:

IV11728: USING EVENTREADER PARSERESTRICTIONFILTER TO ALLOW THE USE OF GETDATE()
IV21717: ONE TIME MAINTENANCE WINDOWS DO NOT ADJUST FOR DST
IV22560: ANALYZE EVENT MAPPING TOOL FAILS AND HAMMERS CPU
IV33973: JMS READER DOES NOT CONVERT ACTIVEMQMAPMESSAGE DATA FOR TRANSFER TO SECONDARY CLUSTER MEMBER
IV34503: "OPTIMIZE LIST" OPTION DOESN'T REFLECT THE APPLIED CHANGES TOTHE LIST IN THE "RESTRICT FIELDS", WITHIN THE EVENTREADER
IV35827: ERROR PRODUCED IN NETCOOL.LOG WHEN USING AN EVENTREADER WITH A BLANK FILTER VALUE
IV35885: IMPACT NEEDS TO CHECK USER CREATED SERVICES, FOR WITH NAMES THAT END WITH A "_SERVER".
IV35940: RETURNEVENT() FUNCTION WITHIN DATABASEEVENTREADER ADDED UNWANTED SINGLE QUOTES TO THE IDENTIFER FIELD IN THE SQL "VIA" STATEMENT
IV36405: THE CONFVMM4LDAP COMMAND IS SHIPPED WITH IMPACT 6.1, BUT IS NOT DOCUMENTED
IV36503: MWM CALENDAR: USING FORWARD BY ONE MONTH CAN LEAD TO NON-EXISTENT DATES BEING CREATED
IV37040: USING "NCI_COLLECT_LOGS" UTILITY IN A GUI SERVER ONLY INSTALL DOES NOT WORK.
IV37369: OBJECT.PROTOTYPE.TOSTRING.CALL(OBJ) RETURNS {}
IV37717: IMPACT 6.1 FP1 OPVIEW SOAP ERROR
IV37759: INTERNAL DATATYPE STRING VALUE IS INTERPRETED AS AN INTEGER IF IT CONTAINS ONLY DIGITS
IV38045: ORACLE DSA ERROR FOR COLUMN NAMES WITH "DOUBLE-QUOTES" AND "NOT-ALL-CAPS"
IV38585: NCI_EXPORT NOT EXITING CLEANLY WHEN RUNNING ON A NON PRIMARY IMPACT
IV38961: APPLICATION AND DATA NEEDS TO BE VALIDATED.
IV39368: INCREASING CPU WHEN JABBERSERVICE
IV40158: ABILITY TO CHANGE NUMBER OF POLLING INTERVALS
IV41888: DISABLE THE HIBERNATION STORAGE
IV42715: ERROR WHEN USING # IN IMPACT FILTER FROM DATATYPE DATAITEMS GUI WINDOW
IV43030: IMPACT MISSED ENRICHING FEW EVENTS WHICH OCCURED SIMULTANIOUSLY
IV43751: EVENTPROCESSOR IN A SECONDARY SERVER IS UN-ABLE TO CONTACT PRIMARY SERVER EVENTPROCESSOR.
IV45068: ERROR TRYING TO CREATE SCHEDULE DATATYPE DATAITEM: ERROR MESSAGE: HTTP ERROR 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
IV45511: NEEDED 6.1.1 MWM OPVIEW POLICIES GET OVER-WRITTEN, AFTER MIGRATION FROM EITHER IMPACT 5.X OR 6.1, CAUSING MWM ISSUES
IV45569: DOCUMENTATION NEEDED ...HOW TO HANDLE BUILD-UP OF "ORPHANED" FILES, CREATED FOR XINY DATATYPE
IV45838: OBJECTSERVER CONNECTION DOES NOT RECOVER FROM BUSY PERIOD IF SELFMONITORING (DATASOURCE MONITORING) IS ENABLED
IV46099: JMSREPLYTO WAS NOT ABLE TO SET CORRECT QUEUE.
IV46493: ATTEMPTING TO USE DATATYPE FILTERS - "SPECIAL" CHARACTERS BEING CONVERTED TO HTML ENCODING THAT BREAKS OUTGOING SQL.
IV46696: LIMITING THE NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS THAT IMPACT OPENS TO JMS
IV46729: TOPOLOGY WIDGET KEEPS THE OLD LINKS BETWEEN NODES AND DOESN'T CLEAR IT, RESULTING IN AN INCORRECT RELATIONSHIP
IV46799: FUNCTION <FUNCTIONNAME> IS NOT DEFINED BEFORE CALL
IV47058: MWM POLICY SETS SUPPRESESCL FIELD TO 6 IMMEDIATELY AFTER SETTING TO 1.
IV47799: SELECTING 2 KEY FIELDS IN DATA TYPE ON DEFAULTOBJECTSERVER DOESN'T WORK
IV47904: EIC 'TEST SQL' FAILS DUE TO UNSCAPED CHARACTERS
IV47988: SETTING THE WSSETDEFAULTPKGNAME VALUE GLOBALLY DOESN'T WORK WHEN THE WSINVOKE FUNCTION IS INSIDE A POLICY FUNCTION
IV48113: SLOW RESPONSE ON THE POLICY PAGE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO OPEN A LARGE NUMBER OF POLICIES VIA THE GUI
IV48113: SLOW RESPONSE ON THE POLICY PAGE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO OPEN A LARGE NUMBER OF POLICIES VIA THE GUI
IV50464: JMS TIMEOUT CAUSES POLICY ASSIGNED TO OPERATORVIEW EXECUTE TWICE
IV50932 MAINTENANCE WINDOW EVENT SHOWED STATUS 'NORMAL' - parent apar cancelled
IV51062: DB2 DSA FAILS TO QUERY COLUMN NAMES WITH "DOUBLE-QUOTES AND NOT-ALL-CAPS"
IV51098 WIDGET TABLE STOPPED WORKING AFTER JAZZ FIX PACK 1 INSTALLATION
IV51100 THE "VALUE STATUS GAUGE" IN JAZZ FIX PACK 1 FOR SERVICE MANAGEMENT DOES NOT WORK WITH NETCOOL IM
IV53483: CALLDBFUNCTION USAGE IN ORACLE DATABASE WITH FILTER 0=1
IV53810: I10N - TRANSLATION ISSUE
Translation issues in XinY policy and in Browse and Cancel buttons have been fixed.
IV53818: ISSUES WITH INTEGRATIONS ON 611
Web services related issues have been fixed.
IV53822: FIXES FOR HA IN 611 FP1
Issues related to Omnibus failover/failback have been fixed.
IV53824: FIXES IN IMPACT SCRIPTS FOR 611 FP1
Issues in Impact scripts nci_export, nci_import and nci_encryptpolicy have been fixed.
IV53825: THIS APAR INCLUDES FIXES FOR DATA MODEL ISSUES IN 611 FP1
IV53826: FIXES ISSUES IN 611 FP1 WITH POLICIES
IV53827: THIS APAR FIXES SERVICES RELATED ISSUES IN 611 FP1
IV53836: FIXES UI DATA PROVIDER ISSUES IN 611 FP1
IV54939: A MISSING $IMPACT_HOME/LOGS/INSTALL/ DIRECTORY WILL RESULT IN THE NCI_CONFIGURATION_UTILITY PROBLEM
IV55776: UI PROVIDER ENHANCEMENTS IN 611 FP1
This contains UI Provider enhancements where the user can show status and percentage in topology,
tree, table, and list widgets
IV55778: JABBER UPDATES IN 611 FP1
This contains Jabber Updates to use the smack library.
IV55779: ADDITIONAL POLICY FUNCTIONS IN 611 FP1
This contains additional policy functions to escape special characters and filter malicious
content in strings.
IV55780: DSA ENHANCEMENTS IN 611 FP1
DSA enhancements that alert the user when users switch between failover and
failback configuration. Improved handling of network timeouts.
IV55781: SERVICEABILITY IMPROVEMENTS IN 611 FP1
Serviceability improvements, which include improved error messages for
GetHTTP and services.



List of Impact APARs that have documentation updates or have additional information:

IV20165: E-MAIL READER DELETES E-MAILS AFTER READING THEMe
The email reader service reads incoming email, and runs policies based on the
contents of the email.
To stop the email reader from deleting emails after you read them, add the
following property to the <EmailReaderName>.props file.
<emailreadername>.deleteonread=false
Where <emailreadername> is the email reader service name. Restart the service.
This only works for IMAP email servers.

IV37369: OBJECT.PROTOTYPE.TOSTRING.CALL(OBJ) RETURNS {}
If a customer is using Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) in a javascript policy,
and wants to follow the javascript standard, he can add the following property
to NCI_server.props file -

impact.featureToStringAsSource.enabled=false

When the property is set to false, the data follows the JavaScript standard and
the data output by the Log function is not the same as in IPL. To make the
output the same in JavaScript and IPL, make the value true but this does not
follow the javascript standard.

IV38585: NCI_EXPORT NOT EXITING CLEANLY WHEN RUNNING ON A NON PRIMARY IMPACT
NCI_EXPORT restriction: nci_export will not execute on the non-primary member of a cluster.

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSHYH_6.1.1.3/com.ibm.netcoolimpact.doc/
admin/imag_tools_nci_export_c.html

IV40158: ABILITY TO CHANGE NUMBER OF POLLING INTERVALS
In order to make the readEventBuffer store the events for a longer interval, the number of
intervals can be updated. The default number is 3.

Add the following property to the <CLUSTERNAME>_<readername>.props. file (eg NCI_omnieventreader.props file)-

impact.<readername>.numreaderbuffer=4

The default value for this property is 3.

IV40179: ERROR MESSAGES FIRST APPEAR ON 6.1 AND 6.1.1 DURING STARTUP, DUE TO THE FACT THE
NAMESERVER IS NOT INITIALISED YET
When the Impact Server is started during the installation, the following message
is displayed in the netcool.log file:

Unable to login to configured name servers host , port

The message occurs because the Name Server can take time to initialize while
Netcool/Impact starts. You can ignore this message. It is normal and it
disappears when the Name Server server is initialized.

IV43157: ALL SERVERS IN A CLUSTER ARE REQUIRED TO USE THE SAME ADMIN UID AND PASSWORD
If you are configuring the Tivoli® Integrated Portal profile for a cluster
of servers, you must use the same user name and password for all the servers in
the cluster.

IV44875: SET JREXEC TO LOG TO FILE IS NOT WORKING
Documentation has been updated on JRExec server logging.

IV45481: NO DOCUMENTATION ON THE REQUIRED HTTP AUTHENTICATION FOR THE IMPACT 6.X WEBSERVICES
Documentation has been updated for Impact web services.

IV45569: DOCUMENTATION NEEDED ...HOW TO HANDLE BUILD-UP OF "ORPHANED" FILES, CREATED FOR XINY DATATYPE
A new policy has been added - XINY_DataType_PurgeData - to remove aged data items. More
information can be found in the Troubleshooting Guide.

IV46185: JAVACALL METHOD FAILS WITH JAVA.LANG.ILLEGALACCESSEXCEPTION-CANNOT ACCESS A MEMBER OF CLASS JAVA.UTIL.HASHTABLE$HASHITERATOR
Documentation has been updated for the NewJavaObject function.

IV46512: THERE'S A NEED TO DOCUMENT THE FACT THAT ONE NEEDS TO RESTART IMPACT FOR JVM TO RELEASE ANY LOADED JAR FILES FOR WEBSERVICES
Documentation has been updated to specify the procedure of what to do when a user compiles a wsdl file
using classes from a previously compiled file.

IV47057: DATA TYPE QUERY CACHING RETURNING BAD DATA
Documentation on Data caching information has been updated.

IV47454: INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO RUN UPGRADE PACAKAGE FOR IMPACT 6.1.1 ON CONSOLE OR SILENT MODE
Documentation on How to upgrade from Netcool/Impact 6.1 in console mode has been added.

IV50673: INCORRECT/UNCLEAR DOCUMENTATION FOR HANDLING EXCEPTIONS

IV50776: DURING UPGRADE WE WILL OVER WRITE ANY CUSTOMIZED MWM POLICIES WITH NEWER THE MWM DEFAULT POLICY'S VERSIONS

IV51431: NEED TO DOCUMENT THAT DOT NOATION CAN NOT BE USED IN THE NAMING OF POLICIES, SERVICES, DATA TYPES, DATA SOURCES, AND PROJECTS.
Documentation has been updated to note that Dot notation "." can not be used in the naming
of POLICIES, SERVICES, DATA TYPES, DATA SOURCES, AND PROJECTS.

IV52651: DATABASEREADER NOT WORKING PROPERLY WHEN USING GETUPDATES ON DATABASE TABLE'S TIMESTAMP FIELD
Database event reader service

An additional property can be added to the NCI_XXX.props file in order to match the
the date and time format of the timestamp field in the external database.
Where NCI is the name of the impact instance and XXX is the name of the database
event reader.
An example of this property is:
impact.XXX.formatpattern=dd-MMM-yy hh.mm.ss.SSS aaa

IV55778: JABBER UPDATES IN 611 FP1
An additional property can be added to the JabberReader property files if password is required to
login to a group.

impact.<jabberreader>.groupchatpassword=passwordToChatWithGroup

For e.g. if the reader is the DefaultJabberReader, then add the property shown below to the
NCI_defaultjabberreader.props file. If this property is present, it will be used while
login to the group.

impact.defaultjabberreader.groupchatpassword=passwordToChatWithGroup


IV71068: JREXECACTION FAILS WHEN IMPACT.SERVER.SSL_ENABLED=TRUE
Updated documentation, with specific steps needed to create
key file and setup SSL certificates between Impact and JRExec
server.

IV73181: ISSUES WITH SQL EXCEPTIONS APPEARING WHEN USING THE DB2 DSA, COULD BE RESOLVED BY ADDING ADDITIONAL DATASOURCE PROPERTIES
Troubleshooting Guide has been updated to address issues
related to the handling of "read only" data from DB2 Data
Sources. A new section has been added to the Troubleshooting
Guide and it is titled:
"Error returning read-only data from DB2 Data Source"

IV73633: HOW TO PROPERLY UPDATE THE INTERNAL HSQL OR DB2 DRIVERS WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THE IMPACT 6.1.1 INSTALLATION
The Administration Guide has been updated. The section titled
"Adding JDBC drivers and third-party JAR files to the shared library"
has bee updated to include steps needed to drivers

IV75254: DOCUMENTATION OF ENABLING WEB SERVICES SECURITY NEEDS AN OVERHAUL"
Both the "Netcool/Impact DSA Reference Guide" and the
Troubleshooting Guide, have been updated to include detailed
information on Web Services security setup, specially in a
clustered environment.


IV75734: ERROR HANDLING NOT HANDLE BY POLICY EXECUTED FROM POLICY ACTIVATOR
The following information has been added to the
"Policy logger service configuration window" section, with
regards to the "Error-handling Policy":

Note: If you have a Policy Activator service and you want it
to utilize a default exception handler policy, you must
specify the following property in the
<servername>_<activatorservicename>.props file:
impact.<activatorservicename>.errorhandlername=<policy
name to run>


IV79194: DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED FOR UI DATA PROVIDER TIMEOUTS
Additional information has been added to the Solutions Guide.
The new information describes the availability of two parms
which can be used to control "Connection Timeout" and
"Response Timeout" associated with the UI data providers.
The two parms are:
impact.uidataprovider.gethttp.conntimeout=<connection_timeout_in_miliseconds>
and
impact.uidataprovider.gethttp.sotimeout=<response_timeout_in_miliseconds>

Those parms are to be defined in the server. props file.


IV82840: CLUSTER SECONDARY MIGRATION DOES NOT WORK 511 TO 611
The "About this task" statement on "Scenario 2: Migrating
5.1.1 servers to version 6.1.1, with both 6.1.1 servers
installed on different machines" section of the Admin Guide
is being updated to read as follows:

For simplicity's sake, we assume a deployment of a single GUI
Server, and Impact Server. In a clustered environment, please
see the procedure below. Also, note that the installation
paths that are used here for both version 5.1.1, and 6.1.1 are
default installation paths.

IV85196: COMMANDLINEMANAGER SERVICE DOESN'T STOPS ON SECONDARY IMPACT SERVERS
Additional information has been added to the Solutions Guide.
This information provides access to three property values
associated with the CommandLineManager behavior.


For additional information, refer to the following link:

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSHYH_6.1.1.5/com.ibm.netcoolimpact.doc/welcome_kc.html


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6.0 New support and features
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6.1 Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 5
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Impact 6.1.1 supports FF ESR 54 as of Fix Pack 5 (and TIP 2.2.0.19)
As well as, Internet Explorer 11 (Compatibility Mode)


Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 4
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Impact 6.1.1 supports FF ESR 38 as of Fix Pack 4 (and TIP 2.2.0.17)
As well as, Internet Explorer 11 (Compatibility Mode)


Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 3
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None


Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 2
------------------------------------------

Impact 6.1.1 supports FF ESR 31 and IE 11 as of Fix Pack 2.
IBM strongly recommends updating to TIP 2.2.0.15 if support is
required for FF ESR 31 and IE11.


Additional Browser Support with Fix Pack 1
------------------------------------------

Impact 6.1.1 supports FF ESR 10 and FF17 as of Fix Pack 1.
IBM strongly recommends updating to TIP 2.2.0.13 if support is
required for FF ESR 24 and IE10.

This Fix pack supports Internet Explorer 9(IE9) in
"Internet Explorer 9" browser mode which is the default mode, not
in "Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility View" browser mode.
The document mode is automatically set by TIP and should remain
'IE7 standards'.


6.2 Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 5
-------------------------------------------
This Fix Pack 5 has been tested on Solaris 11.3, Linux RHEL 6.8 and
7.3 in addition to the platforms supported in Impact 6.1.1 GA and prior
Fix Packs

Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 4
-------------------------------------------
None

Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 3
-------------------------------------------

This Fix Pack 3 has been tested on AIX7.1, Solaris 11.2, Linux SLES 12
and Linux & zLinux RHEL 7 in addition to the platforms supported
in Impact 6.1.1 GA and Fix Pack 1.

zLinux SLES 12 is NOT currently supported!


Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 2
-------------------------------------------
None


Additional Platform support with Fix Pack 1
-------------------------------------------

This Fix Pack 2 has been tested on Solaris 11, SuSE 11.3
and RHEL 6.5 in addition to the platforms supported
in Impact 6.1.1 GA.


6.3 eWAS Fixes and Upgrades
-----------------------

Please Note: When updating eWAS, any IBM product service that uses the
eWAS; should be set to Manual start and the machine should be rebooted
before the Update.

You must confirm that the services did not start before running the
install and ensure you backup the eWAS using the backupConfig command.

Netcool/Impact 6.1.1 Fix Pack 5 was tested and verified on
WebSphere Application Server (eWAS) 7.0 Fix Pack 43 (which is included
in TIP 2.2.0.19)

Please follow the instruction if you want to perform the upgrade:

1 - If you do not have the UpdateInstaller tool for WebSphere
Application Server - download and install it from.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21205991

2 - Install the eWAS and WASSDK packages

o Run the backupConfig command to back up configuration files.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/tcfg_svr_conf_backup.html


o Stop all application server processes.
The product might not continue to operate successfully if you attempt
to install Fix Pack while embedded WebSphere Application Server related
Java processes are still running.

o Download the eWAS and WASSDK maintenance packages from
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/websphere/appserv/support/fixpacks/was70/cumulative/cf70043

embedded WAS AppServer: 7.0.0-WS-WASEmbeded-<osarch>-FP0000043.pak
WAS SDK: 7.0.0-WS-WASSDK-<osarch>-FP0000043.pak


Place both maintenance pack files into the update installer maintenance
directory:

<updi_install_root>/maintenance, where <updi_install_root> is the
installed location of the Update installer.

o To install downloaded maintenance packages

Open a command shell window and change directories to the
<updi_install_root> install location of the Update Installer.
cd <updi_install_root>

Use the "update" command to install the maintenance package that you
downloaded into <updi_install_root>/maintenance directory.

For Windows
update.bat

For Linux or UNIX platforms:
./update.sh

The logs for update will be available in the
<appsrv_install_root>/logs/update folder.

For the Product Selection Directory path, point the installer to the
Impact <installdir>/tipv2 directory.

For the Maintenance Package Directory Selection, point the installer to
the UPDI maintenance directory:

<installdir>/tipv2/WebSphereUpdateInstallerV7/maintenance

Refer to the following file for detailed information on the use of the
"update" command, including silent mode installation.
<updi_install_root>/docs/readme_updateinstaller.html

3 - Verify the eWAS version after fix pack installation:

# for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux, open a login shell
cd <eWAS_install_location>/bin
./versionInfo.sh

# for Windows open a command prompt:
cd <eWAS_install_location>\bin
versionInfo.bat

4 - Proceed to restart your eWAS.


6.4 Enhancements in Fix Pack 5
--------------------------
Fix Pack 5 includes the following enhancements:
- Added support MS-SQL TLS v1.2 for use with Impact.
Refer to the following URL for information on how to setup the
secured connection:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Business%20Service%20Manager1/page/TLS%20Configuration%20Setup

- Display proper policy name and line number, when running nested
policy calls.


Enhancements in Fix Pack 4
--------------------------
Fix Pack 4 includes the following enhancements:
- Replication of a cluster that uses three or more Impact Servers:
To ensure that the preferred server is always the primary server
whenever it is available, it is best practice to set
impact.server.preferredprimary=true in the
$IMPACT_HOME/etc/<ServerName>_server.props on the primary
preferred server. A restart of the server is required.

To ensure that the secondary preferred server is always the
primary server whenever the primary preferred server is not
available, it is best practice to set
impact.server.secondary.preferredprimary=true
in $IMPACT_HOME/etc/<ServerName>_server.props on the
secondary preferred server. A restart of the server is required.

NOTE: The above parms should only be used on the first two
servers of a two or more cluster setup.

- Enhancements to the Impact Solution called
"Service Level Objectives (SLO) Reporting". The SLO function
is enhanced by Fixpack 4 for:

* New SLO calculation algorithm and sample usage
* Maintaining the reporting data in the SLORPRT database
* Removing service, SLA, and calendar definitions
* Exporting service and calendar definitions
* Removing specific outage data
* Restoring outage data
* Setting SLO configuration values


Enhancements in Fix Pack 3
--------------------------
Fix Pack 3 includes the following enhancements:
- Tivoli Netcool/Impact provides new property to ascertain which Data
Provider field is used, when retrieving ITM data from the REST
Service
- Enhancements to the Impact Solution called
"Service Level Objectives (SLO) Reporting". The SLO function
is enhanced by Fixpack 3 for:

* Support of a time zone specification when creating the SLA
definitions

* Detection of active outages in the sample policy that reads from
a TBSM Metric History database

* Bug fixes and improved documentation

Enhancements in Fix Pack 2
--------------------------

None

Enhancements in Fix Pack 1
--------------------------

Fix Pack 1 includes the following enhancements:
- UI Provider Enhancements, you can show status and percentage in
topology, tree, table, and list widgets.
- UI Provider - Large table model support for Apache Derby and
HSQLDB databases.
- OSLC security requirements can be enabled or disabled by using a
script.
- Jabber Updates to use the smack library.
- Web Documenter security enhancements. The Web Documenter can be
viewed only by a logged in user.
- Additional policy functions, Escape, and Illegal to escape special
characters and filter content from strings.
- DSA enhancements, that alert you when you switch between failover
and failback configuration. Improved handling of network timeouts.
- Serviceability improvements, which include improved error messages
for GetHTTP and services.
- Configuring Netcool/Impact to send messages to Tivoli Monitoring
Universal Message Console. Now uses the ITMLibraryFunctions.zip
file that is available for download from Netcool/Impact devWorks
wiki in the Scenarios and Examples page.
- Policy preferences updates that include the option to enable the
table preference for navigation to enhance performance.

6.5 Deprecated features in Fix Pack 5
---------------------------------
None

Deprecated features in Fix Pack 4
---------------------------------
The following features are being marked as deprecated in this release.

- Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) version 2.x is no longer supported
for running SLO reports, as end-of-service for TCR 2.x is announced
for April 2016. For SLO reports, use Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR)
3.1 or higher. The Netcool/Impact Infocenter has been updated to
reflect this change.

Deprecated features in Fix Pack 3
---------------------------------
None

Deprecated features in Fix Pack 2
---------------------------------
None

Deprecated features in Fix Pack 1
---------------------------------

The following features are being marked as deprecated in this release.
- Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) functions.
WSDMGetResourceProperty
WSDMInvoke
WSDMUpdateResourceProperty
- Web Services Notification Listener Service
- Cramer DSA
- Socket DSA
- External SVN, RCS, and ClearCase® as version control systems.


6.6 MSN support in Fix Pack 1
-------------------------

Messenger was retired by Microsoft in April 2013. As a result, Jabber
integration with MSN is no longer supported by Impact.



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7.0 Known Issues in Fix Pack 5
===============================
7.1 Auto saved Policies not cleaned up
The auto saved copy of a policy is not removed after the recovered
policy is saved. There is no issue with leaving the auto saved copy on
the Impact server. It will be overwritten by the next auto saved copy
of the policy.

However, if user wants to manually remove the auto saved copy, user
needs to log in to the Impact server and then manually remove the copy
from:

<install>\impact\policy\.autoSaved\defaultWIMFileBasedRealm\<user>\

7.2 Unable to save ObjectServer DataType when the Impact server name is
long. There is an issue with saving ObjectServer DataType when the
Impact server name is longer than 23 characters.

To workaround this issue, user needs to override the APPLICATIONNAME
property with a shorter string.

Workaround:
1. Log into the Impact server
2. Navigate to the <installDir>/impact/etc/ directory
Open the appropriate .ds file for the object server you want to
connect to:

<serverName>_<datasourceName>.ds

e.g.

NCI_PRI-1_TEST-2_FINAL-impact_defaultobjectserver.ds

3. Add the following properties to the file:

<datasourceName>.ObjectServer.NUMDSPROPERTIES=1
<datasourceName>.ObjectServer.DSPROPERTY.1.NAME=APPLICATIONNAME
<datasourceName>.ObjectServer.DSPROPERTY.1.VALUE=NCI

e.g.

defaultobjectserver.ObjectServer.NUMDSPROPERTIES=1
defaultobjectserver.ObjectServer.DSPROPERTY.1.NAME=APPLICATIONNAME
defaultobjectserver.ObjectServer.DSPROPERTY.1.VALUE=NCI

NOTE: If user already has a datasource specific property in
the property file, then the above should be set to a number
higher.
e.g
defaultobjectserver.ObjectServer.NUMDSPROPERTIES=2
defaultobjectserver.ObjectServer.DSPROPERTY.2.NAME=APPLICATIONNAME
defaultobjectserver.ObjectServer.DSPROPERTY.2.VALUE=NCI

4. Save the changes.

5. Restart the Impact server and UI server.


7.3 WEBSERVICES SECURITY NOT FUNCTIONAL
If using WebService Security when making a WebService call,
(callProps.EnableWSS=true), the jar file
tipv2/plugin/org.apache.axis2.jar must be replaced by the jar
file impact/lib3p/org.apache.axis2-woden.jar and the newly replaced
file must be renamed to org.apache.axis2.jar.

Restart is required.

7.4 If using WEBSERVICES SECURITY (WSS) user authentication, then the
impact/dsa/wsdsa/wss/conf/wscb.properties needs to be altered to
only have one entry. If there is more than one entry in the file,
only the uid.1 and pwd.1 will be read

7.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.
IE11 (supported only with TIP 2.2.0.15 and above) may cause
unexpected behavior in the Policy Editor, whereby the Policy List
panel disappears when the Project drop-down menu is selected. To
circumvent this, simply click on a different project in the
Project drop-down list and then click again on the desired
project, to restore the correct layout.

7.6 Change the cursor sensitivity for DB2 JDBC Connections
Netcool/Impact as the underlying engine for JDBC connections.
Netcool/Impact decides which cursor sensitivity setting to use when
running JDBC statements. Is it possible to override the default
setting? The answer is: Yes!

Refer the following technote for proper procedure:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21975764

7.7 In the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH), when using
Large Data Model, clicking "Show more items ..." very quickly,
results in the List widget filter being lost. It works as expected
if one waits some seconds between the consecutive selects of
"Show more items ..."


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8.0 Copyright and trademark information
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This information could include technical inaccuracies or typographical
errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein; these
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Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service
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Please read THE IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact v5.1.1 NOTICES AND INFORMATION
in the file notices1.txt included in this Fix Pack before you proceed
with the download and installation of this Fix Pack. You can find the
additional notices file on the same webpage as this Fix Pack.

8.2 THIRD-PARTY LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, NOTICES AND INFORMATION

The license agreement for this product refers you to this file for
details concerning terms and conditions applicable to third party
software code included in this product, and for certain notices and
other information IBM must provide to you under its license to certain
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information are provided or referenced below. Please note that any
non-English version of the licenses below is unofficial and is provided
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Notwithstanding the terms and conditions of any other agreement you may
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"IBM"), the third party software code identified below are "Excluded
Components" and are subject to the following terms and conditions:

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* IBM will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special,
exemplary, punitive or consequential damages with respect to the
Excluded Components.

8.3 IBM obtained Smack V3.3.0 under the following current license from
Apache Software Foundation:

Apache License
Version 2.0, January 2004
http://www.apache.org/licenses/