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   IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact version 4.0 Interim Fix version 
   4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.

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Date:
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   April 11, 2007

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Contents:
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   * Files included in this Interim fix:

      - This README file (4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.README)
      - 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.aix.tar.gz
      - 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.HP11.tar.gz
      - 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.linux.tar.gz
      - 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.solaris.tar.gz
      - 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.win32.zip
      
      The files modified by the Interim Fix 2:
      
      The files modified by the Interim Fix 1:
      
      $IMPACT_HOME/bin/nci_compilewsdl
      $IMPACT_HOME/bin/nci_compilewsdl.bat
      $IMPACT_HOME/bin/nci_ear_editor
      $IMPACT_HOME/bin/nci_ear_editor.bat
      
      $IMPACT_HOME/dsa/XmlDsa/bin/CreateDtdTypes.bat
      $IMPACT_HOME/dsa/XmlDsa/bin/CreateDtdTypes.sh
      $IMPACT_HOME/dsa/XmlDsa/bin/CreateXsdTypes.bat
      $IMPACT_HOME/dsa/XmlDsa/bin/CreateXsdTypes.sh
      
      $IMPACT_HOME/install/propscore/NCI_SNMPGetActionTest.ipl
      $IMPACT_HOME/install/propscore/NCI_SNMPGetNextActionTest.ipl
      $IMPACT_HOME/install/propscore/NCI_SNMPSetActionTest.ipl


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About this Interim fix:
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   This Interim fix addresses problems reported in 
   IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact version 4.0


   * Fixes included in Interim Fix 2:
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048123 -- Where Clause can be optimized if we have same filter expressions.
          If we have more than one filters with the exact similar expression:
          
            Impacted = 0  --> Policy1
            Impacted = 0  --> Policy2

          The where clause of the query would be:

            select <fields> from <table> where ((Impacted = 0) OR (Impacted = 0))

          Although the above query would work, it can be optimized so that we 
          use Impacted = 0 just once.

048275 -- Policy logger file name should be lowercased like 3.1.
          In Impact 4.0, the policy log file is named <server>_PolicyLogger.log 
          instead of <server>_policylogger.log.

048840 -- Self Monitoring: Unable to read Memory Parameter on startup.
          When Self Monitoring Service is started with Memory Monitoring, it 
          throws an exception in the server log file saying that it cannot 
          understand the Max Heap Limit value.

049282 -- Potential security leak when user changes password.
          There is a log message showing user's password, which might be a 
          potential security leak.

049283 -- Would like LDAP DSA able to access arrays within fields.
          Support of arrays has been added to LDAP DSA.

049566 -- Change Password: error when I click ok to submit the new password.
          The URL has been corrected.
          
049617 -- LDAP Data Item Viewer: Links shows java object 
          [Ljava.lang.Object;@8120812.
          The Data Item Viewer: Links have now been corrected. The array type
          will be represented as string.

049618 -- LDAP OrgNodes: always returns "couldn't find CN" when I do 
          log(OrgNodes).
          There has been a problem with getting a key value from the LDAP
          Data Type.

049785 -- Clustering: locks file doesn't get replicated on startup.
          The version control locks file did not replicate across the cluster 
          servers.
          
          NOTE: This is still a problem on HP-UX platform.

049844 -- Version Control locks don't get removed for Default Event Reader and 
          Generic Event Reader.
          The version control locks were no cleared if user clicked OK or 
          Cancle buttons on the Default Event Reader and/or Generic Event 
          Reader.

049883 -- Failback takes long time.
          Data Source with failback enabled, if the primary Database is down, it 
          takes approx 6 mins for Impact to failover to the backup. This is 
          because by default the server.timeout is 120 seconds (2 mins) and 
          Impact tries to connect to the primary three times before failing 
          over.

          This has been fixed. Now Impact pings the primary twice instead of 
          three times. Also the ping timeout by default is 30 seconds instead 
          of 120 seconds. To configure timeout, set the following property in 
          <server>_server.props:

            impact.database.ping.timeout=<time in milliseconds>
            
          NOTE: Solaris and HP-UX may require some OS settings to be changed
          for this to work properly, ie: TCP timeout.

049998 -- Secondary doesn't shutdown properly when files are locked in primary.
          When starting secondary cluster member with a primary cluster that 
          has files locked, the secondary server fails to start and can only 
          be stopped by shutting down WASce and kill -9 <pid>. This has been
          fixed to cleanly shutdown.

050000 -- Some Files remain locked after clicking the Cancel button.
          The following Services in which after clicking the Cancel button, 
          the file remained locked in the <server>_versioncontrol.locks file:

              Policy Activator, Event Processor, Jabber Service

          This has been fixed. Now when you click Cancel, the locks no longer 
          exist.

   * This Interim fix includes the fixes in Interim Fix 1:
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040997 -- DISPLAY OF TABBED INFORMATION GROUPS IN OPERATOR VIEW ON MOZILLA.
          The display of tabbed Information Groups in Operator View on 
          Mozilla 1.7 is not user-friendly.

046762 -- http://host:port/nameserver/docs/api/index.html is a dead link.
          Using http://server:port/nameserver/api/index.html is pointing to 
          the API of nameserver.

048047 -- nci_ear_editor.bat corrupting modified EAR file.
          When running the script on Windows XP, the resulting EAR file is 
          unable to load properly in the WASCE server. It appears that the 
          EAR deployment descriptors are unreadable by the runtime.

048048 -- nci_compilewsdl.bat corrupting modified EAR file.
          When running the script on Windows XP, the resulting EAR file is 
          unable to load properly in the WASCE server. It appears that the 
          EAR deployment descriptors are unreadable by the runtime.


048098 -- [XmlDsa] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError encountered while running 
          both CreateDtdTypes and CreateXsdTypes scripts.
          When attempting to create the data types, running either the 
          CreateDtdTypes.bat or the CreateXsdTypes.bat script throws an 
          exception.

048113 -- [XmlDsa] HTTP Status-Code 404: Not Found - /jaxrpc/impact/SoapResponseServerIfc
          The end-point has been fixed in this interim fix.
          
048115 -- DeployProject policy - optional parameters incorrectly reference 
          Registry instead of Nameserver.
          The DeployProject policy accepts some optional parameters that are 
          incorrectly named to reference the Registry instead of the 
          Nameserver, The properties have been renamed.

048156 -- EAR that fails to start cannot be stopped or aborted; hangs 
          indefinitely in JVM.
          If an error occurs while an Impact server is starting in the 
          application server, such as a failure to properly initialize 
          the ClusterMember, the Impact server is left in a permanent 
          state of failure. However, there are some threads and services 
          which are started and orphaned and are unable to be shutdown 
          except by a reboot of the application server. This has been
          fixed.

048393 -- Selecting the "Test Conection for ..." button in the Data 
          Sources pane exhausts the pooled connections.
          When the "Test connection for ..." button is invoked in the 
          GUI for an Impact Data Source repeatedly, it will eventually 
          exhaust all of the connections in the pool. This is because 
          once acquired, the connections are not released back into 
          the pool. This has been fixed.

048721 -- CommandResponse action module causes server to run out of memory.
          When the CommandResponse actionmodule is not able to "find" a 
          matching expected command string response, it "times out" but the 
          reading thread will still continue to try to read data and append it 
          to its read buffer even though the system read has returned an EOF 
          indication (-1). This value is continuosly added to the buffer. This
          has been fixed.

048839 -- Service in the Secondary Server does not go into Standby mode.
          Any Impact Service would not go into Stand By mode in the Secondary
          Impact Server. This has been fixed.

048893 -- DatabaseListener: Light stays green when we start with None Filters 
          active.
          In the Filter Mapping if none of the filters are active and we 
          attempt to start the Service, light stays green and it has to be 
          manually stopped. This has been fixed.

048900 -- Clustering: Sometimes the primary fails to clean itself from the 
          nameserver. 
          This has been fixed.

049034 -- After the max connection pool limit is reached, further attempts 
          results in error.
          After the pool limit was reached, any subsequent attempt to get a 
          JDBC Connection from the pool resulted in a Null Pointer Exception. 
          Ideally, a thread should wait till it can get a connection to use.
          This has been fixed.

049050 -- Saved Opviews under Project needs to update Policies task pane as 
          well.
          Saving an Operator View under a specific Project will properly list 
          Operator View under its own pane, but in addition, it will also need 
          to update the Policies pane with the corresponding policy that is 
          generated per Operator View. This has been fixed.

049263 -- Generic Event Reader does not poll consistently.
          The Generic Reader does not consistenly poll for events every 3 
          seconds. This has been fixed.
          
049281 -- Broken link when viewing Hibernation.
          There is a broken link when user clicks the view button when viewing 
          information about Hiberation type. This has been fixed.
          
049308 -- Generic Event Reader: Exception in the GUI when changing Data Types.
          This has been fixed.

049339 -- Inefficiency of ReturnEvent.
          ReturnEvent attempts to get Meta Data for each field that is updated.
          This is very inefficient and rather it should cache the Meta data 
          information. This has been fixed.

049584 -- Patch Installer: Patch Check message should display information.
          This has been fixed.

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Installation, migration, upgrade and configuration information:
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   * Hardware and software requirements:

      Please refer to the 4.0 Release Notes for a full description
      of all the hardware and software requirements of the product.

   * Dependencies:

      IBM Tivoli Netcool / Impact version 4.0
      
   * Special considerations:

      Backup configuration files of Impact Server, before installing this
      interim fix. Just in case there are files that will be overwritten by
      this patch.
      
   INSTALATION ON LINUX, SOLARIS, AIX, and HPUX PLATFORMS:
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   * Extracting this Interim fix:
   
      <ARCH> refers to the platform architecture, it can be one of the
      following: Linux, Solaris, aix, and HP11, for Linux, Solaris,
      AIX, and HPUX respectively.

      1. Copy the file 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0001.<ARCH>.tar.gz to your system
      2. Unpack the file with the command:
           gunzip 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.<ARCH>.tar.gz
           tar -xvf 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.<ARCH>.tar

   * Installing this Interim fix:

      <IF> refers to the directory where this Interim 
      fix resides after you have extracted it from the tar file.

      On the Tivoli Netcool/Impact Server:

       1. Make sure that WASCE Server is running and Impact, and
          GUI Servers are running within it.
       
       2. Run <IF>/setup<ARCH>b552.bin Installer.
       
       3. Follow onscreen instructions of the Installer.
       
    
   INSTALATION ON WINDOWS PLATFORMS:
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   * Extracting this Interim fix:

      1. Copy the file 4.0.0.0-TIV-NCI-IF0002.win32.zip to your system
      2. Unzip the file.

   * Installing this Interim fix:

      <IF> refers to the directory where this Interim 
      fix resides after you have extracted it from the tar file.

      On the Tivoli Netcool/Impact Server:

       1. Make sure that WASCE Service is running and Impact, and
          GUI Servers are running within it.
       
       2. Run <IF>/setupwin32.exe Installer.
       
       3. Follow onscreen instructions of the Installer.
   

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