ITDT-SE/GE Version – List Of Changes
Last update: 2017-12-04
ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20171204
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: LTO-8 added support for M type media.
- Fix: Synchronized scan button in Copy Services and Diagnostic perspective.
Copy Services
- Fix: Device could not be opened.
- Fix: Unmount message did not disappear.
- Fix: Progress indicator was not shown while loading/unloading a cartridge in a changer environment.
Log Files
- New: LTO-8 added support for M type media.
- New: Added decoding of CM Cartridge Content Data.
- Fix: Dynamically parsing of Log Sense pages.
- Fix: Tape Filling display not correct.
- Fix: Mode page last byte was not shown.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20170921
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: Prompt never returned using option 101 from tapeutil in TS2900 .
- Fix: OS Windows, ucode command was not working in TS4300 library.
- Fix: Configuration not supported'Text displayed while scanning T4300 library.
- Fix: Result code EINVAL (22) was displayed.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20170828
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: New product support: TS2280, TS1155 and TS4300.
- New: ITDT-SE: Little endian for Linux on IBM Power Systems.
- New: ITDT-GE: Support for MacOsX.
- New: New IBM Java JRE bundled 8.0.4.10.
- New: TS4300 HTTP access added to support firmware updates.
- Fix: Physical Copy, progtam issue when using different HBA's.
- Fix: Physical Copy, AIX physical copy memory allocation failed.
- Fix: Wrong output directory was created and used, instead of ITDT directory current working directory was used.
- Fix: Write Protect on Gen 5 cartridge in Gen 7 Drive on ITDT load/unload test.
- Fix: Physical copy added detection of different HBA transfer sizes.
- Fix: Dump file name and blz file name include binary characters, added validation check.
- Fix: ITDT-SE: Debug log file metro.log gets written to install directory.
Log Files
- New: Dump Decoding - Dynamic Runtime Attribute pages added to be visualized.
- New: Common Events stacked.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20161006
(changes after build 20160926)
- Fix: Code update: Refresh drives were handled as TS4500.
- Fix: AIX: FC generic devices could not be opened in VIO environments.
- Fix: Library Media Screening: Additional Error Code when a loaded cartridge could not be unloaded.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160902
(changes after build 20160825)
ITDT-GE
- Fix: Copy Services: Abort Button did not abort copy/verify process.
- Fix: Tapeutil: LogText font changed to monospace system with default height.
ITDT-SE
- Fix: Library Media Screening disabled for TS3500/TS4500.
- Fix: TS3500/TS4500 dump function returned immediately.
- Fix: LTFS Readiness Check and other LTFS related commands are not working.
- Fix: Get Logs TestStep on Linux s390 failed.
- Fix: MacOs: Generic devices could not be opened randomly.
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
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New:
Added support for LTO-7 link levels starting with mf and mh.
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New:
ITDT-GE Help: Program Overview /Supported Devices - TS2370 and TS2270 added.
Diagnostic/Maintenance
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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
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New:
Limited device list to 10 rows (used to be 12) to get more space on the page.
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New:
gz file extensions removed in help screens; added .dump. extension.
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New:
Realigned the expert functions to the bottom; removed "S+Enter ...", "Q+Enter ...", and "H+Enter ..." lines.
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New:
Extended "Expert Functions" with " for known devices"; added "Add Device Manually" to the help screen.
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New:
Added delay to message for the cleaning status checking.
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New:
Message for blz: adding info for blz.
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New:
Moved Cleaning Statistics to first Menu page
Others
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Fix:
ITDT-SE/GE: System Test - Issue a Rewind after each blocksize to prevent degrading numbers.
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New:
ITDT-GE: Added icons to help toolbar.
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New:
For scripting command "write" changed maximum length of parameter -c from 7 to 10 characters.
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New:
ITDT-GE: Extended ECC behavior: download and install firmware files.
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New:
ITDT-GE: Reviewed and edited text of help contents. Moved content to separate pages (scan, dump, and update).
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New:
ITDT-SE: New installer, which does not require scrolling to read the installation disclaimer
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Fix:
ITDT-SE: Online help for FULLWRITE; parameter -percent was missing, parameter -pattern does not require "=".
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Fix:
ITDT-SE: Reviewed and edited text of install-disclaimer.txt
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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.
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New:
Write custom data pattern at Full Write to recreate drive related problems.
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New:
Eject Cartridge added to the tests and to the online help.
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New:
Menu entry "Test" replaced with "Health Test".
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Fix:
Online help for Full Write, parameter -percent was missing, parameter -pattern does not require "=".
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Fix:
AIX devices kept open.
Log & Dump File Viewer
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Fix:
Dump will not parse in ITDT V9.0.
-
Fix:
Variable timeSince1970 of type int replaced with long to avoid data overrun.
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Fix:
Added missing FSCs for 1189 and 118A.
Others
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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
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New:
LTO-7 diagnostic support
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New:
Keep cartridge loaded in case a test step failed before
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New:
Microsoft Windows: automatically change to administrator rights
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New:
Drive and Host Bus Adapter information will be displayed
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New:
Device Cleaning Statistics information
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New:
Updated IBM Fix Central meta information for new firmware
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New:
blz with drive dump will include the suffix “dump.blz”
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New:
Changed installation folder of ITDT-SE to subfolder ITDT
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New:
Physical Copy: for Unix platforms added detection of max. supported file size
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New:
Physical Copy: added support for hexadecimal input values for H*-B*-T*-L* format
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New:
ITDT-SE: redesign of menus
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New:
ITDT-SE: for Full Write added custom pattern
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New:
ITDT-SE: added additional text information before file extraction
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New:
ITDT-SE: added Eject function
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New:
ITDT-SE: introduced new install file naming scheme
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New:
ITDT-SE: added Cleaning Status check after selection of device
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Fix:
Problem fix for ITDT result code does not match with Tapeutil
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Fix:
Full Write: Block size selection will be re-shown as long as the customer selects a valid BS.
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Fix:
Full Write: Total written kbytes was wrong in BLZ file – data overrun
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Fix:
AIX program abort on VIO's environment
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Fix:
Microsoft Windows scan problem
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Fix:
Aix core dump during scan
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Fix:
logsense added new support for string values
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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)
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New:
Jar signing for each ITDT module
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New:
Runtime verification of product plugins
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New:
Installer based on Install Anywhere 2014SP1
- Fix: Open the Online Help causes a GUI Error
Log&Dump File Viewer
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New:
Product support for LTO-7
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New:
Dump Decoding: new Media Usage Information
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Fix:
DST (Daylight Saving Time) will now be considered in time calculation
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #11: was truncated
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #17: Added description for value 0x204
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #17: Attributes 0x200 – 0x204 added information for each partition
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #0x18: Second port was missing
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Fix:
CM Application Data is using 5 different IDs within CM Data section
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Fix:
SK/ASC/ASCQ 4/FC/00 in ITDT tool but not dmpview for JAG drive
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Fix:
Opening BLOB files fails
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Fix:
Changed algorithm of dump time calculation for LTO-6 dump time
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Fix:
CM EOD Information for all partitions
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Fix:
Unable to open 3592 E08 Dump
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Fix:
Repeated structures caused exception when string was empty