Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.6.4 Release Notes

Here's list of new and deprecated features of this release:

New Features:

• SSL support in Oracle
• LDAP Adapter configuration to use SSL
• IBM MQ for adapter container communications with ASI
• Stack Updates

For more information, see What'New.

Deprecated Features:

• MESA Studio
• Advance File Transfer
• Manage Layout
• WebDAV client and server
• Internal Active MQ

Deprecated Platforms:

• My SQL
• War files - demosuite, federation, portlets, webproduct, webservices, websuite, webxpord, webxtools, webx, wssd, xforms, communitymanagement, and onboard are not deployed on HTTP Server Adapter.
• IBM JDK 7

Deprecated Ciphers:

The following ciphers are no longer supported for the SFTP adapter:

• TWOFISH128_CBC
• TWOFISH192_CBC
• TWOFISH256_CBC
• CAST128_CBC

For more information, see What's Deprecated.

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4. DISK SPACE REQUIREMENTS AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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This release of Sterling B2B Integrator requires approximately 2.5 GB for the Installation wizard files, 2 GB for the Sterling B2B Integrator JAR file, and 1.5 GB for the Sterling B2B Integrator patch JAR file. 

Additional installation space requirements include:

• Minimum requirement for memory spaces (RAM) 4 GB
• Minimum requirement for disk space 15 GB

For detailed information about hardware and software compatibility, see Sterling B2B Integrator V5.2.6 System Requirements.

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5. INSTALLING IBM STERLING B2B INTEGRATOR
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Check the Sterling B2B Integrator Version 5.2.6 System Requirements before installing or upgrading to ensure that your database and operating system versions are still supported, and update them as necessary. Note that only Java SE Development Kit Version 7 is allowed.

Users who are upgrading from Sterling B2B Integrator Version 5.2.x, who may be accustomed to downloading a smaller jar file to install their upgrades, must now download the large file.

As of V5.2.6.0, you must use IBM Installation Manager to install or update Sterling B2B Integrator on Windows and UNIX operating systems.

For step-by-step installation instructions, see the installation and upgrade documentation in the Knowledge Center.

NOTE:

• You cannot apply this Fixpack release on the 5263_9 iFix release. You can upgrade utmost from 5.2.6.3_8 iFix release.
• While installing Sterling B2B Integrator v5.2.6.4, you may see the following exception in the InstallService.log:

Processing pre service install tasks...Running...platform_ifc_core.scripts.PreServiceInstall
Service pre process, place preinstallfiles into places
java.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format
at com.ibm.crypto.provider.JceKeyStore.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1238)
at com.sterlingcommerce.security.keystoreprovider.SCIKeyStore$FormattedInputStream.load(SCIKeyStore.java:430)
at com.sterlingcommerce.security.keystoreprovider.SCIKeyStore$FormattedInputStream.access$000(SCIKeyStore.java:409)
at com.sterlingcommerce.security.keystoreprovider.SCIKeyStore.engineLoad(SCIKeyStore.java:97)
at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1238)
at com.sterlingcommerce.security.kcapi.PrivateKeyInfo.getCertificate(PrivateKeyInfo.java:2533)
at platform_ifc_core.scripts.PreServiceInstall.doPreInstallTasks(PreServiceInstall.java:145)

This error message is expected if you are upgrading or patching your system to Version 5.2.6.4, as the exiting Certificate keystore is automatically being converted to IBM JKS keystore. This error only happens once to indicate keystore format conversion.

• While unzipping the media using the unzip command on certain operating systems, you may see the following error:

bash-3.00# unzip Media_IM_5020604.zip
Archive: Media_IM_5020604.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of Media_IM_5020604.zip or
Media_IM_5020604.zip.zip, and cannot find Media_IM_5020604.zip.ZIP, peri

If this occurs, use the 'tar -xvf' command to extract the media and proceed with your installation.
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6. UPGRADE IMPACTS
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None

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7. KNOWN ISSUES
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Before you use Sterling B2B Integrator, ensure to understand the known issues that might need you to follow certain workarounds for smooth functioning.

The following table lists the known issues in Sterling B2B Integrator.

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8. APARs
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For APARs fixed in this release, click here.

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9. CONTACTING CUSTOMER SUPPORT
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Contact Customer Support at 1-800-IBM-SERV, or go to the IBM Support Portal.

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