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IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.3 Service Pack 4

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Abstract

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.3 Service Pack 4 contains APAR fixes for components of InfoSphere Information Server released after 11.7.1.3 Service Pack 3. This document lists the fixes contained in Service Pack 4.

Content

The following sections list APARs that are added in Service Pack 4 for InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.3.  Information Server 11.7.1.3 is a prerequisite for this service pack. 

Fixes added in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.3 Service Pack 4

Connectivity IBM/BigData

APAR Description
JR64097 DataDirect JDBC Driver for Hive update to Version 6.0.1.000489
JR64227 Db2 Connector fails to perform bulk load that uses alias for partitioned table in Db2 for z/OS
JR64295 DataDirect JDBC Driver for Hive update to Version 6.0.1.000584
JR64308 Db2 Connector reports misleading warning attempting to preemptively delete the TWT
JR64341 Db2 Connector does not log sufficient details while failing on out of bounds decimal value
JR64404 Db2 Connector fails to load strings with line delimiter (0x0A) or NUL (0x00) characters by using DEL file type
JR64345 DataDirect JDBC Driver for Hive update to Version 6.0.1.000623
JR64438 Kafka Connector does not stop when job run time reaches defined timeout
JR64440 Db2 Connector fails with error 'Required property not set: /Usage/TableName' when writing to Db2 for z/OS using custom SQL
JR64492 Kafka Connector running in continuous mode fails with commit cannot be completed error
JR64558 Db2 Connector logs misleading error message 'Table .NAME was not found.' for table name not including schema
JR64585 DataDirect JDBC Driver for Hive update to Version 6.0.1.000679
JR64690 Hive Connector performance improvements for metadata import

Connectivity Non-IBM

APAR Description
JR64043 Crash seen in ODBC Trace binary when SQL statement contains number of characters
JR64063 JDBC Driver for MongoDB gives connection failure when there are special characters in the database name
JR64067 Allow creation of 0-byte files in AWS s3 using S3 Connector
JR64144 Add method to get the Execution Mode in Java Integration Stage
JR64153 Support LDAP authentication in IBM DataDirect JDBC Driver for MongoDB
JR64117 IGC Parsing errors when Teradata connector converts invalid xml chars to question mark
JR64583 Add retry settings in BigQuery Connector
JR63818 Stored procedure job that works on IS 11.3 fails on IS 11.7 with invalid cursor state
JR64105 Read-Delimited file correctly when escape character Is used just before delimiter
JR64109 Test connection fails if password has even number of pound characters
JR64185 Upgrade of DataDirect OpenSSL libraries to version 1.1.1l
JR64089 Oracle connector job aborts with failure code 139 if the value for username or password job parameter is empty and CC_ORA_NLS_LANG_ENV=TRUE
JR64259 Handle public synonyms in case of cross-schema references
JR64297 Support Reject links for Parquet File Format in the File Connector
JR64329 Disable batch errors mode during piecewise write operation in PL/SQL statements
JR64187 Provide option in File Connector by using Native HDFS file system to pass config options to HDFS Native Client
JR64366 SCAPI Bridge patch to support parallelism in merge modes of BigQuery connector
JR64367 Support parallelism for merge modes in BigQueryCC
JR64368 Support Load, Custom SQL and Before/After SQL in Redshift CC
JR64336 Exception reading Excel files having NOTE/Comments with xmlbeans 3.0.0 and Apache POI 3.14
JR64400 Optimize select statement used during metadata import of Redshift Connector
JR64409 ADLS Connector read jobs that use Excel and JSON file formats fail with property mismatch error
JR64467 Oracle Connector is creating invalid control file for Manual Load mode for Parallel Jobs
JR64488 IBM DataDirect JDBC Driver for Cassandra Upgrade of jackson databind jar in DataDirect Cassandra JDBC Driver
JR64576 Log warning when Oracle connector cannot describe the user defined select statement
JR64688 Oracle connector is not able to resolve cross-schema private synonym to the corresponding table name
JR64636 Add support for S3 Endpoint Configuration

Data Quality Exception Console

APAR Description
JR64594 When opening DQEC on an MS tier installation the link generated has incorrect port for ms tier, it should have no port
JR64826 Data Quality Exception Console search facets do not offer options to filter Exceptions Sets

DataStage

APAR Description
DSCore
JR64586 InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (CVE-2021-38952)
JR64476 InfoSphere Information Server is affected by a vulnerability in Dojo toolkit (CVE-2021-23450)
JR64294 -run -mode VALIDATE does not return even though validation has completed in job log
JR64432 DataStage Clients can report a 30107 error
JR63813 Reduce locking on parallel job's RT_SCn file
JR64289 Add an option to revert JR56086 behavior for message handler import
JR64199 Queuing DataStage job not stopping after exceeding timeout limit set in WLM_QUEUE_WAIT_TIMEOUT
JR64150 Runtime error in Designer Job Properties if more than 32766 jobs in a project
JR64148 Improve performance of an internal API routine when a project has many jobs
JR63284 DataStage Designer IDE in Windows incapable of managing multiple monitors and large monitors
JR64610 Generate the messages as warnings when the rows are rejected by transformer
JR64414 Email cannot be sent to multiple recipients
DSEngine
JR64118 Intermittent IIS-DSTAGE-RUN-E-0187 warning reported in job log
JR64201
DataStage dsdlockd program intermittently fails with segmentation fault exception

Information Analyzer Auto Quality

APAR Description
JR64651 Information Analyzer project property “defaultElseValueForRules=NA” doesn’t produce the right results
JR64672 Microservices tier existence check fails with WebSphere Application Server class path issue, causing Information Analyzer Data Rules to fail
JR64337 Fix Rule stage jobs performance issue seen in 11711 SP2
JR64658 DQEC shows incorrect date values for Information Analyzer data quality rules output
JR64652 Business Term Search within Information Analyzer Data Rules UI doesn't show expected results

Information Governance Catalog (IGC)

APAR Description
JR64559 Information Asset Administrator cannot access Categories with catalog Permissions configured
JR64502 SQL Parse error, wrong lineage when DataStage Job uses parameters from Parameters Set enclosed with single quotation marks
JR64621 Incorrectly updated list of predefined values for Custom Attribute applied to multiple asset types
JR64247 ldm2bg creates terms with name containing suffix _1
JR64048 IGC Published Queries definitions getting out-of-sync on multi node
JR64073 IGC Queries for Data Rules or Data Rule Sets do not allow to separate Implemented Bindings based on asset type
DT128363 IGC skips processing term assignments created via IA quality analysis during delete of Assigned to Terms property elements
DT128369 Rejected business term shows relationship to assigned asset created with IA term assignment

Information Server Framework

APAR Description
JR64083 Information Server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in XStream
JR64311 Unable to access Workflow details in the Administration tab of Information Governance Catalog
JR64347 In some installation sequences, while patching to 11.7.1.3 the customer's configuration information in WebSphere Liberty is lost
JR64377 During a Fix pack or Service pack installation, execution of the iisAdmin script fails as characters are misinterpreted. For example, /a is erroneously changed to /7
JR64476 Information Server is affected by a vulnerability in Dojo Toolkit CVE-2021-23450
JR64529 Insecure path attribute in Information Server cookie
JR64743 Information Server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (CVE-2022-22427)
JR64760 Upgrade Spring
JR64765 Information Server is vulnerable to privilege escalation
 

Unified Governance (UG)

APAR Description
JR64342 Information Server Microservices tier Kubernetes is vulnerable to CVE-2021-25851
JR64626 Microservices tier backup restore fails on Version 11.7.1.3
JR64702 Microservices tier affected by vulnerabilities in Liberty WebSphere Application
JR64703 Kafka vulnerabilities in 11.7.1.3 microservices tier

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 June 2023

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ibm16573741