Note
Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Notices.
This edition applies to Fix Pack 6 for version 9, release 5, modification level 0 of IBM® Workload Scheduler (program number 5698-WSH) and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
IBM Workload Scheduler version 9.5.0 Readme File for Fix Pack 6
- Date
- June 17, 2022
- Fix Pack
- 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-FP0006
- Product
- IBM Workload Scheduler version 9.5.0
- General Description
- IBM Workload Scheduler Fix Pack 6 for version 9.5.0
IBM Common Inventory Technology scanner ceases HP support from January 2023. Find more information in the Known limitations and workarounds section of this readme
This readme file provides important information about Fix Pack 6 for IBM Workload Automation version 9.5.0.
The most up-to-date version of this readme can be accessed at the following URL: Fix Pack readmes.
You can find the readme files for previous Fix Packs here:
It is divided into the following sections:
IBM Workload Automation version 9.5.0 Fix Pack 6 supports all product versions indicated in the IBM Workload Scheduler Release Notes.
For the most up-to-date information about supported operating systems, software and hardware requirements, see IBM Workload Scheduler Detailed System Requirements.
Review this section thoroughly before installing or using this Fix Pack.
About this Fix Pack
This section contains information specific for this Fix Pack including what has been modified or introduced, what has been fixed, product versions or components to which the Fix Pack applies, and compatibility issues, if any.
- Product versions and components to which the Fix Pack applies
- This Fix Pack can be applied only on top of IBM Workload Scheduler V9.5.0, and subsequent Fix Packs.
This section includes the following subsections:
Features introduced with Fix Pack 6
- Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6 delivers the following enhancements:
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- USERJOBS clean up utility
- The USERJOBS tool has been developed to clean up Broker Tables in case of jobs in never ending EXEC status inside the USERJBOBS job stream. To resolve the USERJOBS carryforward issue in the way described in Dynamic agent jobs in USERJOBS carry forward every day, a new command has been provided in the TWDWB/bin to automate the procedure: cleanuserjobs.sh(bat). The command can be invoked as follows:
cleanuserjobs.sh(bat)-dbUsr <username> -dbPwd <password> -jobnum <jobnumber> | -file <filename>
- jobnumber can be written in these formats: #Jjobnumber, Jjobnumber or jobnumber.
- filename can contain a list of jobs, limited to one job per row.
- WebSphere® Liberty available ciphers
- The new ./listciphers.sh(bat) command has been provided in the TWDWB/bin to automate the procedure that lists all available ciphers defined in WebSphere Liberty.
- enDbGetOpsAudit
- The security improvements introduced with Fix Pack 5 have increased the amount of logging required when you perform a GET operation on a database object. This might lead to performance problems when requesting a high number of database objects. To prevent these problems, you can now enable or disable auditing on database GET operations using the enDbGetOpsAudit global option. All other database operations are not affected. Find more detailed information in Setting global options.
- Changed features and feature capabilities
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- Supported WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base versions
- IBM Workload Scheduler Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6 was formally tested by using WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base 22.0.0.4 and 22.0.0.5. The minimum required WebSphere Liberty version to successfully install the fixpack is 22.0.0.3 or later.
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- Updated OpenSSL libraries
- IBM Workload Scheduler Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6 has been updated with OpenSSL libraries version 1.1.1n (1.1.1.14) 15 Mar 2022.
- OpenJ9/OpenJDK Runtime Environment
- IBM Workload Scheduler Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6 has been updated with OpenJ9 version jdk88u332-b09_openj9-0.32.0 and 8.0.7.5.
- GSKit
- IBM Workload Scheduler Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6 has been updated with GSKit version 8.0.55.26.
- DB2
- IBM Workload Scheduler Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6 has been tested with DB2 11.5.7 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition
- Windows 2022 and AIX 7.3 support
- FTA and DA agents now support Windows 2022 and AIX 7.3.
- Satisfying Requests for Enhancements (RFEs)
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RFEs give customers the opportunity to collaborate directly with the product development team and other users. The team prioritizes and develops new product features based on proposals made by customers. IBM Workload Scheduler V9.5 Fix Pack 6 delivers the following RFEs:
- RFE WAO-348
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It is now possible to install the dynamic agent on IBM i connecting to the system with a user different from QSECOFR.
Resolved Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
Problems fixed in IBM Workload Scheduler Fix Pack 6 for version 9.5.0
This section lists APARs and internal defects solved by Fix Pack 6.
Table 1. APARs addressed in Fix Pack 6
| APAR |
ABSTRACT |
| IJ09307 |
CONDSUCC NOT ACCEPTED IN THE JOB CONDITION NAME FIELD |
| IJ10726 |
DELETING ONE "FOLLOWS" DEPENDENCY INCORRECTLY DELETES ALL |
| IJ12048 |
HIGH LOAD OF DATASTAGE JOBS (2100+) CAUSES MEMORY LEAK AND JOB FAILURES |
| IJ21519 |
TABLES IN PLN SCHEMA CARRYING OVER TOO MANY ROWS - IMPLEMENTATION FOR IDS DB |
| IJ22106 |
DEPENDENCIES DISPLAY FIELD DOESN'T UPDATE CONSISTENTLY WHEN DELETING DEPENDENCIES USING DWC |
| IJ24615 |
AFTER UPGRADE OF A WINDOWS CLUSTER; THE SERVICES ARE RUNNING BUT THE SCHEDULED JOBS DO NOT START |
| IJ25454 |
NETMAN SERVICE NAME NOT UPDATED ON SECONDARY SERVER IN A WINDOWS CLUSTER AFTER UPGRADE |
| IJ29098 |
JOB MANAGEMENT PLUGIN JOB FAILED WITH THE ERROR MESSAGE AWKJMJ043E IF ITS MONITORED JOB ABEND |
| IJ30359 |
CHANGING A JOB STREAM PRIORITY BY BATCH SELECTION IS VERY SLOW USING THE DWC |
| IJ30510 |
IWS POWERCENTER JOBS DO NOT CHANGE STATE FROM ABEND TO EXEC |
| IJ31864 |
ON ZCENTRIC JOBLOGS ARE DELETED AT MAXAGE EVEN IF JOBS ARE STILL RUNNING |
| IJ32279 |
9.5 FP3 FILETRANSFER PLUGIN HAS BROKEN BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY IN THE WAY JOBS ARE DEFINED |
| IJ32304 |
FORECAST PLAN PROBLEM IN JOB STREAM RUN CYCLE GROUP |
| IJ33333 |
REST API DOCUMENTATION UPDATE |
| IJ34871 |
TWS9.5 FP0004 JOB ABEND WITH ERROR "*/SCRIPT.SH: CANNOT EXECUTE [TEXT FILE BUSY]" |
| IJ35581 |
WHEN SENDING EMAILS BY EVENT RULE, JAPANESE EMAIL BODY IS GARBLED |
| IJ35844 |
COMPOSER EXTRACT FROM ER=@/@ RETURNS DEFINITIONS WITH MISSING "ACTION" FIELD |
| IJ36203 |
RFC_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE, 19 ERROR IN SAP JOBS |
| IJ36216 |
TWSSERVERKEYFILE.JKS AND TWSSERVERTRUSTFILE.JKS FILES NEED TO BE PROVIDED WHEN SUPPLYING CUSTOM CERTIFICATES WITH SERVERINST |
| IJ36425 |
EVENT 128 IS PRODUCED IN EVENTS.LOG WHEN "WAS" IS RESTARTED THE FIRST TIME AFTER COMPLETING JOBS WITH "CRITICAL" AND "DEADLINE" PARAMETERS |
| IJ36453 |
DYNAMIC AGENT (JOBMANAGER PROCESS) NOT ABLE TO HANDLE SPECIAL CHARACTERS |
| IJ36545 |
MAGENT PROCESS UNABLE TO READ EVENTS WRITTEN TO MAGENT.P |
| IJ36844 |
AFTER UPGRADING FROM IBMI DA TO 95FP5 SOME JOBS DO NOT COMPLETE AND CPU USAGE GOES UP TO 100% |
| IJ36846 |
THE WRONG ERROR MESSAGE IS DISPLAYED IF AN INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF PARAMETERS FOR THE SERVERINST.SH SCRIPT HAS BEEN PROVIDED |
| IJ36872 |
CVE-2021-45105 LOGJ42.16 REMOVAL |
| IJ36892 |
INCORRECT STATUS OF REMOTE COMMAND JOB IN TWSD AND TWSZ |
| IJ36977 |
CONMAN CAUSES HIGH CPU UTILIZATION WHEN THE PARENT PROCESS IS TERMINATED |
| IJ36980 |
SQL JOBS - DBMS OUTPUT STATEMENT PROCESSED VALUES NEED TO GET PRINTED IN THE IWA JOB LOGS |
| IJ36998 |
LOG4J-1.2.17.REDHAT-3.JAR STILL PRESENT IN DIRECTORY TWS/TDWB_CLI/LIB AFTER INSTALLING IWS 9.5.0.05 |
| IJ37122 |
REPLYING TO IBM I PROMPT FAILS WITH “UNABLE TO READ THE REPLY COMMAND RC PROPERTIES” |
| IJ37228 |
DOCUMENTATION NEEDS TO BE UPDATED FOR INSTALLING IWS MDM AND DWC ON CONTAINER USING OCP V 4.8 |
| IJ37258 |
THE IWS WINDOWS USER NAME IS NOT CASE SENSITIVE FOR CONMAN, AND ONLY CASE SENSITIVE FOR COMPOSER WHEN THERE IS DUPLICATE NAMES |
| IJ37269 |
COMPOSER EXTRACT OPTION FOR USERS/USER DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY AS DOCUMENTED WHEN USED ALONG WITH "PASSWORD" OPTION IN 9.5 FP5 |
| IJ37306 |
ZOS AGENT TWSINST -U FOR ITS USAGE OUTPUT DOES NOT MENTION JMPORT AND JMPORTSSL USAGE |
| IJ37333 |
INCORRECT POWERCENTER JOB STATUS IN THE TWS POWER CENTER PLUGIN |
| IJ37338 |
WHEN USING THE SELF SERVICE UI DASHBOARD ON Z/OS ENVIRONMENTS, THE OPTION TO FILTER BY WORKSTATION JOB IS GREYED OUT |
| IJ37349 |
ISERIES AGENT WITH IWS95FP5 GETTING "NET_REQUEST_NEWTHREAD: SSL ERROR: ERROR:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF:LIB(255):FUNC(4095):REASON(4095)" IN ITA TRACES |
| IJ37364 |
JDBC POOL EXHAUSTION BECAUSE CONNECTIONS ARE NOT RELEASED |
| IJ37477 |
AFTER PRIORITY IS CHANGED THROUGH DWC, THE JOB STREAM STARTS RUNNING IMMEDIATELY EVEN IF NOT SCHEDULED TO RUN YET |
| IJ37626 |
WHEN BROKER IS IN SSL FEATURE ACTIVE BROKER CAN UNLINK ALL THE AGENTS RANDOMLY WHEN MFT JOBS ARE EXECUTED |
| IJ37701 |
KERBEROS AUTHENTICATION DID NOT WORK WITH PASSWORD WITH = CHARACTER |
| IJ37740 |
THE GCP COULDSTORAGE PLUGIN DOES NEEDS BOTH "STORAGE ADMIN" AND "STORAGE OBJECT ADMIN" RIGHTS - TOO RISKY FOR SECURITY |
| IJ37774 |
4-5 MINS DELAY WHEN USING SSH PROTOCOL FOR REMOTE COMMAND JOB TO WINDOWS SERVER WITH SSH |
| IJ37881 |
JOB LOG ARBITRARY FILE CREATION |
| IJ38164 |
IWS AGENT UNLINKS WHEN A VERY LONG DOMAIN NAME RETURNS FROM CITSCAN.UNABLE_TO_CREATE_ENTITY LOGGED AT MDM |
| IJ38201 |
THE LICENSE TYPE OF EXTENDED AGENT <X-AGENT> IS DIFFERENT FROM HOST WORKSTATION <FTA> |
| IJ38340 |
CUSTOMER HAS APPLIED FP5 TO IWS9.5 FP3 ON AIX. THEY RAN THE COMPOSER COMMANDS AND IT STARTED A NEW LINE AT PORT NUMBER LINE |
| IJ38346 |
JOBMANAGER PROCESS AUTO-RESTARTS EVERY FEW SECONDS |
| IJ38348 |
TWSD 9.5 NEED TO ADD USE TO THE SECURITY FILE FOR CPU CLASSES |
| IJ38495 |
THE LAST CHARACTERS FROM OUTPUT OF REPTR COMMAND ARE GETTING TRUNCATED |
| IJ38758 |
9.5 MDM CRASHES WITH JAVACORE DUE TO SYM_CLOSE FUNCTION WHEN TRYING TO RETRIEVE WORKLOAD |
| IJ38774 |
DATABASE JOBS FAILING WITH "NULL EXECUTION: ERROR" AFTER DEPLOYING THE DATABASE PLUGIN FIX JAR |
| IJ38809 |
AFTER SETTING UP SSL BETWEEN MASTER, DWC AND DB2 INSTANCES, THE TEST CONNECTION FOR REPORTING DISPLAYS A DB ERROR FROM DWC |
| IJ38854 |
AWKJDB801E AN INTERNAL ERROR WHEN ACCESSING DB. THE INTERNAL ERROR IS: "EXCEPTION OCCURRED DURING BIGDECIMAL CONVERSION" |
| IJ38859 |
JOB PRIORITY IS AUTOMATICALLY CHANGED TO ZERO (0) AFTER JNEXTPLAN |
| IJ38960 |
UPDATE OPENSSL |
| IJ38962 |
UPDATE JRE |
| IJ38996 |
UNABLE TO LOAD THE PLANS IN DWC WHEN THERE ARE MORE THAN 250 FILES INTO SCHEDLOG |
| IJ39134 |
MANAGE FILE TRANSFER RECEIVES JOB ISSUE IN THE ABSOLUTE PATH RESOLUTION USING A "LOCAL USER" DIFFERENT BY TWS USER |
| IJ39156 |
MANAGE FILE TRANSFER - ISSUE CONNECTING TO REMOTE SERVER VIA KEYSTORE THAT DOES NOT NEED PASSWORD |
| IJ39387 |
JOB STREAM IS SUBMITTED TWICE IN THE PLAN |
| IJ39558 |
CONMAN SHOW JOBS ON A SPECIFIC JOB ENDS WITH A SEGMENTATION FAULT |
| IJ39791 |
SEVERAL DYNAMIC JOBS REMAIN IN INTRO STATUS WHEN SUBMITTED DURING A DB FAILOVER, SWITCHMGR OPERATION OR LIBERTY RESTART |
| IJ39955 |
SLOWNESS IN CONMAN COMMANDS RELATED TO JOBS WHEN STREAM NAME IS MENTIONED AS "@" IN MASTER |
| IJ40246 |
CENTRALIZED UPDATE IWA 9.5.0.05 FAILED ON WINDOWS SERVER |
| IJ40326 |
WAT NULL POINTER EXCEPTION UPDATING A JOB STREAM |
| KB0095518 |
IMPROPER TRANSFER OF GDG FILE FROM Z/OS AGENT |
| KB0096483 |
MFT FAILS TO RETRIEVE MORE THAN 10000 FILES (SEARCH COMMAND) |
Table 2. Defects fixed in Fix Pack 6
| DEFECT |
ABSTRACT |
| WA-101554 |
JNEXTPLAN (OR FORECAST) FAILS IN CASE OF COM.IBM.TWS.RUNCYCLE.DSTIMPROVEDEVALUATION = TRUE THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH |
| WA-101847 |
"CHECK USER" FAILS WITH CYBERARK ENABLED WHEN USER IS ON A DOMAIN |
| WA-103470 |
DWC CHECK PREREQ ON SLES 15.2 MISMATCH |
| WA-103592 |
EVENT RULE AND CENTRALIZED AGENT UPDATE DOESN'T PROPERLY WORK BETWEEN MDM 10.1 AND DA 9.5 FP5 |
| WA-103820 |
BROKER (SSL) UNLINKS WHEN SUBMITTING MANAGE FILE TRANSFER JOBS |
| WA-103952 |
SAAS AGENT 9.5 FP5 USEROPTS PASSWORD IS WRONGLY ENCRYPTED |
| WA-104729 |
AVOID THAT THE DYNAMIC AGENT GOES OFFLINE WHEN WSCANHW EXCEEDS 2 MINUTES. |
| WA-104986 |
LINUX PPC PROBLEM ON CONMAN: ERROR WHILE LOADING SHARED LIBRARIES: LIBNSL.SO.1 |
| WA-105127 |
RESTORE FAILS ON DA 9.5 FP6 IBMI |
| WA-105288 |
AHA-347 - WA-100029 is causing undesired data in the audit trail |
Backward compatibility
This fix pack delivers support for scheduling objects in folders, including workstations. When monitoring workstations from a back-level agent workstation, the output displays the workstation unique identifier and not the workstation name for those workstations that were defined in folders different from the root folder. To identify the corresponding workstation name, run the conman command using the showid filter, showcpu ;showid, from an updated agent workstation.
Known limitations and workarounds
The following are software limitations and workarounds that affect IBM Workload Scheduler version 9.5.0 Fix Pack 6. For a list of known problems and limitations documented for the V9.5 General Availability release, see the product Release Notes at IBM Workload Scheduler Release Notes.
- WebSphere Liberty minimum required version
- the minimum required WebSphere Liberty version to successfully install the fixpack is 22.0.0.3.
- IBM Common Inventory Technology scanner ceases HP support
- IBM Common Inventory Technology scanner does nott support HP operating systems starting from January 1st 2023. The IBM Workload Scheduler dynamic agent utilizes IBM Common Invetory Technology to collect system configuration data used in the definiton of dynamic pools. For customers using dynamic agents on HP and dynamic pools, we strongly recommend to review dynamic pool workstation definitions. If their requirements are based on filesystems, especially network or remote filesystems, we strongly recommend to remove the HP dynamic agent from the dynamic pool, since management of the requirements may not be accurate.
- APAR IJ39106
- When installing using the keystore and truststore files, customers are required to manually configure these files prior the installation setup. If providing custom .jks files, it is the customers responsibility to provide such .jks files equipped with all the CA certificates they need in the truststore. For more information see Installing the master domain manager and backup master domain manager.
Fix pack structure
This section describes the structure of the images contained in this Fix Pack.
Fix Pack files available for IBM Workload Scheduler using Fix Central
This is the structure of the Fix Pack for the engine on Fix Central:
+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-FP0006.README.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-AIX-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LINUX390-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LINUX_X86_64-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-server-container-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-SOLARIS_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-SOLARIS_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-WINDOWS_X86_64-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-AIX_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-HPIA64_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LINUXPPC_LE_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_PPC_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_S390_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_X86_64_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-SOL_I386_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-WIN_X86_64_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-agent-dynamic-container-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS_OpenShift_Agent_FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS_OpenShift_Server_UI_Agent_FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-AIX_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-HPIA64_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_X86_64_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_S390_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_PPC_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-SOL_I386_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-WIN_X86_64_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-ZSYSTEM_BATCH_REPORTS-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-AIX_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-HPIA64_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LINUXPPC_LE_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_PPC_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_S390_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-LNX_X86_64_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-SOL_I386_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-WIN_X86_64_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.zip
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+---9.5.0-IBM-IWS-agent-zcentric-container-FP0006.zip
Installing the Fix Pack
This section describes how to apply Fix Pack 6 to IBM Workload Scheduler.
The section is divided into the following subsections:
Installation notes
When installing the IBM Workload Scheduler Fix Pack, follow these recommendations:
- Before installing the Fix Pack, ensure you have installed the required prerequisite software. To obtain the latest information about software requirements for IBM Workload Scheduler, run the Software Requirements report and browse to the relevant section.
- The minimum required WebSphere Liberty version to successfully install the fixpack is 22.0.0.3 or later.
- This Fix Pack supports DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition, Version 10.5 on HP-UX and Sun Solaris operating systems only. It is available for download from the Passport Advantage web site with part number: CNED3ML. After the installation of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition, Version 10.5, you must manually apply the license activation key (.lic file). The license key must be downloaded separately from the Passport Advantage web site. The part number related to the license activation key is CNED3ML. The key must be registered using the db2licm command. See Applying DB2 licenses licenses for the procedure to register the key.
If you already have installed DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition, you can switch this license with a DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition license, by following the procedure in Updating licenses. Note that when the procedure references the product-identifier as in step 3:db2licm -a product-identifier, replace the product-identifier with the file representing the license activation key (.lic).
- Before installing this Fix Pack on AIX® V7.1 operating systems, you must apply the patch for APAR IZ99634. For more information, see: APAR IZ99634.
- On UNIX™ operating systems, before installing the IBM Workload Scheduler Fix Pack, ensure that your umask is set to 022. To verify that umask is set to the correct value, from a command prompt, run the umask command. If the value is different from 022, modify it by running the command:
umask 022
- On UNIX operating systems, the database administrator must have read and run privileges for the IBM Workload Scheduler installation path; otherwise the installation fails. (54367)
After the Fix Pack installation completes, verify the following information:
- This Fix Pack installs a new version of the file tws_env.sh (tws_env.cmd) and also creates a backup file named, tws_env.sh.bk (tws_env.cmd.bk), which are both saved to the TWA_HOME/TWS directory, where TWA_HOME is the IBM Workload Scheduler installation directory. After installing the Fix Pack, if you have modified the original version, merge the content of the new version with the content of the original version to carry your customized content into the new version.
- On IBM i operating systems, if you want to install the Fix Pack on the agent for z/OS and IBM Workload Scheduler Dynamic Agent, verify that the user profile used as TWSUser is not a member of a group profile. Set the group profile associated with the TWSUser to *NONE. If the TWSUser is a member of a group, the Fix Pack installation fails.
- Only on Windows™ operating systems, to correctly display double-byte character set (DBCS) characters, you must perform the following actions:
- Set the
LANG environment variable to the DBCS language code you want to use, for example, set LANG=zh_CN.
- Set the
TWS_TISDIR environment variable to the IBM Workload Scheduler home directory, for example, set TWS_TISDIR=C:\FTA\TWS.
- Open the Control Panel window and click Clock, Language, and Region.
- Click Region and Language.
- In the Format tab, choose from the Format drop-down list the language you want to use.
- In the Keyboards and Languages tab, under Display Language, click install and follow the steps to install the DBCS language pack you want to use.
- In the Administrative tab, click Change system locale and, from the drop-down list, choose the language (system locale) you want to use.
Note that all the settings must be coherent, that is they must refer to the same DBCS language setting. After you have completed these changes, reboot your workstation to have the changes take effect.
- When installing a dynamic agent or a fault-tolerant agent, ensure that the agent name does not start with a number. If the name of the dynamic agent starts with a number, use the -displayname parameter at installation time to specify a different name. If the name of the fault-tolerant agent starts with a number, use the --thiscpu parameter at installation time to specify a different name.
Interoperability notes
IBM Workload Scheduler version 9.5.0 Fix Pack 6 supports all product versions indicated in the IBM Workload Scheduler version 9.5 Release Notes which can be accessed at the following link: Release Notes.
Disk space requirements
For the most up-to-date information about disk space and memory requirements, generate a dynamic hardware requirements report from the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports web site at the following URL: Hardware Requirements
Before starting the Fix Pack installation, ensure that you have the necessary disk space available on the file system. Consider that the disk space check calculated by the installation considers the entire space occupied by the
TWA_HOME directory. The space required by the backup is the sum of the following directories:
TWA_HOME/TWS + TWA_HOME/TDWB + TWA_HOME/wastools + TWA_HOME/properties
In addition to the disk space in the following table, the installation requires an additional 600 MB on the file system where the IMShared directory is located.
Table 3. Disk space requirements for installing a master domain manager or a backup master Fix Pack
| Operating System |
Installation directory |
Temporary directory |
| AIX |
2,5 GB |
1,5 GB |
| Microsoft® Windows |
2 GB |
1 GB |
| Linux® |
1,5 GB |
800 MB |
Table 4. Disk space requirements for installing the Fix Pack for IBM Workload Scheduler fault-tolerant agents
| Operating System |
Installation directory |
Temporary directory |
| AIX |
900 MB |
400 MB |
| HP-UX |
1.3 GB |
400 MB |
| Solaris |
920 MB |
400 MB |
| Microsoft Windows |
700 MB |
350 MB |
| Linux |
720 MB |
350 MB |
Table 5. Disk space requirements for installing the Fix Pack for IBM Workload Scheduler dynamic agents and z/OS agents
| Operating System |
Installation directory |
Temporary directory |
| AIX |
600 MB |
250 MB |
| HP-UX |
920 MB |
400 MB |
| Solaris |
580 MB |
120 MB |
| Microsoft Windows |
800 MB |
400 MB |
| Linux |
600 MB |
250 MB |
Note: Only on HP and Solaris operating systems, the Fix Pack installation requires also 300 MB free disk space in the temporary directory /var/tmp.
Installation methods
Configuring your master domain manager and broker in SSL mode
If you plan to install your master domain manager, Version 9.5 Fix Pack 5 in SSL mode or plan to upgrade to Version 9.5 Fix Pack 5 and set up your master domain manager and broker in SSL mode, perform the following steps:
- Install the master domain manager or upgrade your current master domain manager to version 9.5.0.5
- Replace the values of the following parameters in the localopts file with the following values:
- nm SSL full port = 31113
- SSL key =TWA_home/TWS/ssl/OpenSSL/TWSClient.key
- SSL certificate = TWA_home/TWS/ssl/OpenSSL/TWSClient.cer
- SSL key pwd = TWA_home/TWS/ssl/OpenSSL/password.sth
- SSL CA certificate = TWA_home/TWS/ssl/OpenSSL/TWSTrustCertificates.cer
- SSL random seed =TWA_home/TWS/ssl/OpenSSL/TWS.rnd
- SSL Encryption Cipher = TLSv1.2
For more information about the localopts file, see Setting local options
- Modify the master domain manager and broker using the composer mod command, as follows:
CCPUNAME your_master_domain_manager_workstation
DESCRIPTION "MANAGER CPU"
OS UNIX
NODE localhost TCPADDR 31111
SECUREADDR 31113
DOMAIN MASTERDM
FOR MAESTRO
TYPE MANAGER
AUTOLINK ON
BEHINDFIREWALL OFF
SECURITYLEVEL FORCE_ENABLED
FULLSTATUS ON
END
CPUNAME your_broker_workstation
DESCRIPTION "This workstation was automatically created."
OS OTHER
NODE localhost TCPADDR 41114
SECUREADDR 41114
DOMAIN MASTERDM
FOR MAESTRO
TYPE BROKER
AUTOLINK ON
BEHINDFIREWALL OFF
SECURITYLEVEL FORCE_ENABLED
FULLSTATUS OFF
END
- Modify the Broker.Workstation.PortSSL parameter in the BrokerWorkstation.properties file from false to true.
The Broker.Workstation.PortSSL parameter specifies the port used by the broker server to listen to the incoming traffic (equivalent to the Netman port) in SSL mode. It is first assigned at installation time. This port number must always be the same for all the broker servers that you define in your IBM Workload Scheduler network (one with the master domain manager and one with every backup master domain manager you install) to ensure consistency when you switch masters.
- Stop and start WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base, as described in Application server - starting and stopping.
- Stop and start all IBM Workload Scheduler processes.
- Run
Jnextplan -for 0000
Before Installing
Before installing the Fix Pack using any of the methods described in the following sections, perform the following actions:
- If you have jobs scheduled to run on the instance you are upgrading, make sure that they have completed otherwise some processes, such as
jobmon or joblnch, might still be active.
- Download the appropriate ZIP files for the operating system from IBM Fix Central.
- Extract the content of the ZIP files into a directory, using one of the extraction tools available on your system or downloadable from the Internet. The tool you use must be able to keep the file permissions on the extracted files, for example, infozip.
Note:
- If you want to install the Fix Pack on IBM i, to untar the eImages, see Extract the eImages for the Z Agent and Dynamic Agent on IBM i operating systems.
- To extract the .zip file onto a Windows 64-bit system, ensure that the eImage is not located on the desktop because the Windows operating system extract tool has a problem. Choose another directory into which to extract the Fix Pack eImage.
Creating or updating the IBM Workload Scheduler database schema
Before launching any of the installation methods, create or update the database schema.
Before applying the Fix Pack, create the database schema by following the procedure described in the Creating and updating the database tables chapter in the IBM Workload Scheduler: Planning and Installation guide.
If the database already exists, update the database by running the following command:
On Windows operating systems-
cscript configureDb.vbs --rdbmstype db_type --dbhostname db_hostname
--dbport db_port --dbname db_name --dbuser db_user
--dbpassword db_password --dbadminuser db_administrator
--dbadminuserpw db_administrator_password
- On UNIX operating systems
-
./configureDb.sh --rdbmstype db_type --dbhostname db_hostname
--dbport db_port --dbname db_name --dbuser db_user
--dbpassword db_password --dbadminuser db_administrator
--dbadminuserpw db_administrator_password
If a new version of the database is available, update to it by following the procedure described in the Upgrading the database schema chapter in the IBM Workload Scheduler: Planning and Installation guide.
Extract the Images for the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent and Dynamic Agent on IBM i operating systems
The following packages are available with this Fix Pack:
- 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar: The IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent on IBM iimage.
- 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_AGENT-FP0006.zip: The dynamic agent on IBM i image. This package also contains an extraction tool executable that can be copied to the IBM i workstation.
To untar or unzip the Fix Pack eImages, you can use the PASE shell or the AIXterm.
- Using PASE shell:
-
- Open the PASE shell.
- Run the command:
"CALL QP2TERM"
- Locate the folder where you downloaded the Fix Pack eImage and run the command:
- IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent
- "tar xvf 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar"
- Dynamic agent
- "unzip 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.zip"
- Exit from the PASE shell.
- Using AIXterm:
-
- Start the Xserver on your desktop.
- On the iSeries machine, open a QSH shell and export the display.
- In QSH shell, go to the directory /QopenSys and run the command:
"aixterm -sb"
- A pop-up window is displayed on your desktop. Using this pop-up window, unzip the 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_AGENT-FP0006.zip file, or untar the 9.5.0-IBM-IWS-IBM_I_ZOS_AGENT-FP0006.tar.
Rolling back an applied fix pack
This topic describes how to roll back an applied fix pack to a previous version.
Documentation updates for IBM Workload Scheduler Fix Pack 6 for version 9.5.0
Any additions or changes to the documentation as a result of this Fix Pack have been integrated into the online product documentation available in IBM Documentation.
Contacting IBM Software Support
Before contacting IBM Software Support with a problem, refer to the IBM Software Support site by accessing the following Web address: https://www.ibm.com/support/home/
To access IBM support, click the IBM support link at the bottom right of the page.
If you want to contact IBM Software Support, see the IBM Software Support Handbook at the following Web site: http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/guides/handbook.html
The guide provides information about how to contact IBM Software Support, depending on the severity of your problem, and the following information:
- Registration and eligibility.
- Telephone numbers, depending on the country in which you are located.
- Information you must have before contacting IBM Software Support.
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