ITDT-SE/GE Version – List Of Changes

Last update: 2017-12-04

ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20171204

Maintenance&Diagnostic

Copy Services

Log Files

ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20170921

Maintenance&Diagnostic

ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20170828

Maintenance&Diagnostic

Log Files

ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20161006

(changes after build 20160926)

ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160902

(changes after build 20160825)

ITDT-GE

ITDT-SE


ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160825

(changes after build 20160818)

ITDT-GE

  • Fix: Copy Services: Abort Button did not work.
  • Fix: FixCentral: Old service providers could not be updated and therefore the connection to IBM FixCentral could not be established.

ITDT-SE

  • Fix: Firmware update for TS4500 disabled based on the transfer time and size.
  • Fix: Scripting commands: "logpage" and "logsense" did not work for pages > 128 bytes.
  • Fix: [N] NEXT was missing after a device has been opened.
  • Fix: TS3500/TS4500 differentiation in scripting "scan".

ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160818

(changes after build 20160801)

Diagnostic/Maintenance

  • Fix: Library and Drive are not associated when scan the system.

Tapeutil

  • Fix: Weird symbol is displayed after DD information.
  • Fix: Write command failed with Exit code 5.
  • Fix: ITDT GE got hang while listing the tape contents.
  • Fix: Blank space is missing in message in rwtest command.

ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160801

(changes after build 20160722)

Diagnostic/Maintenance

  • Fix: ITDT scan option is only displaying the generic info from the devices

ITDT-GE

  • Fix: Log File Viewer: Event Panel - Application crashed by issuing an ENTER/RETURN command.
  • Fix: Log File Viewer: Report Panel - Application crashed toggling and having an entry in the search field..
  • Fix: Tapeutil: the sand clock status never stops.
  • Fix: ITDT version displayed in "About ITDT" is wrong.
  • Fix: Log File Viewer: Progress indicator realigned, button FSC removed.

ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160722

(changes after build 20160614)

ITDT-SE

  • Fix: Firmware update: 'DIR OK' field did not get updated after status false.
  • Fix: ITDT-SE online help: changed partition option for readattr and writeattr from 0|1 to 0|1|2|3.
  • Fix: Field Problem: ITDT cored when persistence name was direct under /dev/.

ITDT-GE

  • Fix: Windows 2016 installer did work.
  • Fix: Electronic Customer Care Common Client - bios files were missing.


ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160614

(changes after build 20150914)

Diagnostic/Maintenance

  • New: Added [-cqs Memorysize ] as parameter for tapephcp and ltfsphcp.
  • New: Added Support for partial scan.
  • New: Added exlude parameter for partial scan.
  • New: TS3500/TS4500 differentiation added - "HARDWARE VERSION" string set to "2" for TS4500.
  • New: ltfsphcp added VOL1 as optional parameter.
  • New: tapephcp/ltfsphcp added support for LTO-7.
  • New: Fullwrite, selection of default block size.
  • New: Write/Read/Verify and Write Test added Max Transfersize warning message.
  • New: Physical Copy, added progress bar and copy service completed notification dialog.
  • Fix: REWIND for SYSTEM test added.
  • Fix: Fix for Field problem: Physical Copy - reported value for data transfered and data rate are not correct.
  • Fix: Fix for Field problem: Fullwrite was not working as expected.
  • Fix: Issue reported by customer: data overrun for larger data in the Write and Write/Read/Verify Tapeutil tests.
  • Fix: Physical Copy: The RLL table contains multiple repeatable elements with the same length.
  • Fix: 'tapephcp' and 'ltfsphcp' did not support blocksize from 1MB.
  • Fix: Added Online help for Specify Device Manually.
  • Fix: Clean up of configuration file to avoid error messages during load.

ITDT GE

  • New: Switched to Eclipse 4.5.2 Rich Client Platform.

Log & Dump File Viewer

  • New: Common Format of all Log Sense Pages, dynamically parsing.
  • New: Log Page 0xC added description of Parameters 4,5,6,7and 8.
  • New: LogSense pages for TS3100/3200 and TS3500 added.
  • New: Add Persisted State function.
  • New: ECC is using now the "edge" - that's the replacement of serviceProviderIBM.xml
  • New: Added support for FCR 3316 - LTO7 increase counter sizes.
  • New: Added validation check for descriptor based decoding, new offset should include data type BINARY with length of 0 as valid entry.
  • New: Added support for z Level based Dump files.
  • New: CM Cartridge MFG, CM Cartridge EOD Information added support for LTO7.
  • New: Added Logsense Page decoding for 3573.
  • Fix: Sense page 0x31 changed ACL for Page Length field
  • Fix: Added FSC descriptions for 0x1055 and 0x7381.
  • Fix: Field Formatting Key/Value pair was not working (Log sene 3D and others).
  • Fix: Empty SCSI Trace tab was shown.
  • Fix: Search Function - scroll to position and Scrolling issue in Formated Text.
  • Fix: NullPointer Exception during File/Dump Open.
  • Fix: HW-Config was not decoded correctly for LTO-6 and LTO-7.
  • Fix: WriteReadVerify data overrun, xferSize member variable was of type 'long'.
  • Fix: CM Tape directory was not shown correctly.
  • Fix: Drive/Model detection based on LinkLevel and EC Level.
  • Fix: ITDT does not Extract dumps.

Tapeutil Functions

  • New: Added new function Read/Write Attribute.
  • New: Added new function Force Channel Calibration.
  • New: Check LTFS readiness added new operating system supoport for OS X Mountain Lion and Maverick.

Others

  • New: Operating System Support for RHEL 7, SUSE12, Windows 2016 and Linux PPC64 Little Endian
  • New: Microcode Online Update refresh list of prepocessed data.
  • New: Microcode Online Update added support for TS4500.
  • New: Microcode Online Update replaced ECC Common Client to version v2r2m0
  • New: Add Drive Physical Location to Read Element Status Descriptor.
  • New: Improved URL handling of updatesite_feature and updatesite_product.
  • New: Update Help for Scan, Partial Scan and Add Device Manually.
  • Fix: Min Max Window resize button causes redraw problem for shared elements within eclipse 4.5.2 environment.
  • Fix: Issue when About Dialog is called twice.
  • Fix: Handling of corrupted SETTING.xml configuration file.
  • Fix: Java memory optimization, removing of memory leaks.

ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150914

(changes after build 20150729)

Log & Dump File Viewer

  • New: Added support for LTO-7 link levels starting with mf and mh.
  • New: ITDT-GE Help: Program Overview /Supported Devices - TS2370 and TS2270 added.

Diagnostic/Maintenance

  • New: Manual Record: Model LTO-Gen7 and 3592E08 added

ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150729

(changes after build 20150609)

ITDT-SE User Interface

  • New: Limited device list to 10 rows (used to be 12) to get more space on the page.
  • New: gz file extensions removed in help screens; added .dump. extension.
  • New: Realigned the expert functions to the bottom; removed "S+Enter ...", "Q+Enter ...", and "H+Enter ..." lines.
  • New: Extended "Expert Functions" with " for known devices"; added "Add Device Manually" to the help screen.
  • New: Added delay to message for the cleaning status checking.
  • New: Message for blz: adding info for blz.
  • New: Moved Cleaning Statistics to first Menu page

Others

  • Fix: ITDT-SE/GE: System Test - Issue a Rewind after each blocksize to prevent degrading numbers.
  • New: ITDT-GE: Added icons to help toolbar.
  • New: For scripting command "write" changed maximum length of parameter -c from 7 to 10 characters.
  • New: ITDT-GE: Extended ECC behavior: download and install firmware files.
  • New: ITDT-GE: Reviewed and edited text of help contents. Moved content to separate pages (scan, dump, and update).
  • New: ITDT-SE: New installer, which does not require scrolling to read the installation disclaimer
  • Fix: ITDT-SE: Online help for FULLWRITE; parameter -percent was missing, parameter -pattern does not require "=".
  • Fix: ITDT-SE: Reviewed and edited text of install-disclaimer.txt
  • Fix: ITDT-GE: Updated ECC service provider.
  • Fix: ITDT-SE Library screening test passed but the library reported an issue

ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150609

(changes after build 20150514)

Diagnostics

  • New: Added new feature for scripting command write. Once parameter "-c number" is specified the supplied filename will be used as pattern file and the amount of specified data records will be written.
  • New: Write custom data pattern at Full Write to recreate drive related problems.
  • New: Eject Cartridge added to the tests and to the online help.
  • New: Menu entry "Test" replaced with "Health Test".
  • Fix: Online help for Full Write, parameter -percent was missing, parameter -pattern does not require "=".
  • Fix: AIX devices kept open.

Log & Dump File Viewer

  • Fix: Dump will not parse in ITDT V9.0.
  • Fix: Variable timeSince1970 of type int replaced with long to avoid data overrun.
  • Fix: Added missing FSCs for 1189 and 118A.

Others

  • New: Replaced license for SE 9.0.0 - Program-unique Terms (PUT) removed.

ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150514

(changes after build 20141013)

Diagnostics

  • New: LTO-7 diagnostic support
  • New: Keep cartridge loaded in case a test step failed before
  • New: Microsoft Windows: automatically change to administrator rights
  • New: Drive and Host Bus Adapter information will be displayed
  • New: Device Cleaning Statistics information
  • New: Updated IBM Fix Central meta information for new firmware
  • New: blz with drive dump will include the suffix “dump.blz”
  • New: Changed installation folder of ITDT-SE to subfolder ITDT
  • New: Physical Copy: for Unix platforms added detection of max. supported file size
  • New: Physical Copy: added support for hexadecimal input values for H*-B*-T*-L* format
  • New: ITDT-SE: redesign of menus
  • New: ITDT-SE: for Full Write added custom pattern
  • New: ITDT-SE: added additional text information before file extraction
  • New: ITDT-SE: added Eject function
  • New: ITDT-SE: introduced new install file naming scheme
  • New: ITDT-SE: added Cleaning Status check after selection of device
  • Fix: Problem fix for ITDT result code does not match with Tapeutil
  • Fix: Full Write: Block size selection will be re-shown as long as the customer selects a valid BS.
  • Fix: Full Write: Total written kbytes was wrong in BLZ file – data overrun
  • Fix: AIX program abort on VIO's environment
  • Fix: Microsoft Windows scan problem
  • Fix: Aix core dump during scan
  • Fix: logsense added new support for string values
  • Fix: VPD entry was missing on several dumps

Others

  • New: Program Online Update
  • New: Migration to Eclipse RCP 4.4.2
  • New: Java Runtime (IBM JRE 7.1- v7r1SR2FP10)
  • New: Jar signing for each ITDT module
  • New: Runtime verification of product plugins
  • New: Installer based on Install Anywhere 2014SP1
  • Fix: Open the Online Help causes a GUI Error

Log&Dump File Viewer

  • New: Product support for LTO-7
  • New: Dump Decoding: new Media Usage Information
  • Fix: DST (Daylight Saving Time) will now be considered in time calculation
  • Fix: Log Sense Page #11: was truncated
  • Fix: Log Sense Page #17: Added description for value 0x204
  • Fix: Log Sense Page #17: Attributes 0x200 – 0x204 added information for each partition
  • Fix: Log Sense Page #0x18: Second port was missing
  • Fix: CM Application Data is using 5 different IDs within CM Data section
  • Fix: SK/ASC/ASCQ 4/FC/00 in ITDT tool but not dmpview for JAG drive
  • Fix: Opening BLOB files fails
  • Fix: Changed algorithm of dump time calculation for LTO-6 dump time
  • Fix: CM EOD Information for all partitions
  • Fix: Unable to open 3592 E08 Dump
  • Fix: Repeated structures caused exception when string was empty