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Summary of fixes included in the IBM InfoSphere Information Server, Version 11.5 Fix pack 2
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The following list contains APARs included in InfoSphere Information Server, Version 11.5.0.2 (fix pack 2).
Please note that although the fix pack itself is cumulative, this fix list only includes those fixes added new in fix pack 2. For a list of APARs included in the base 11.5 release and in 11.5 fix pack 1, refer to the following documents:
InfoSphere Information Server, Version 11.5.0 fix list
InfoSphere Information Server, Version 11.5.0.1 fix list
Fix pack 2 can be downloaded from Fix Central via the following download document:
IBM InfoSphere Information Server, Version 11.5.0.2 (Fix Pack 2)
*Fixes that have an asterisk by the Fix ID may require post-install steps to activate. Please refer to the following document for details on how to activate those fixes:
InfoSphere Information Server Version 11.5 fixes that require post-installation steps
- Connectivity
- DataStage Core
- DataStage Engine
- DataStage Parallel Engine
- Information Analyzer
- Information Governance Catalog
- Information Server Framework
- Information Server Tool
- Metadata Server
- Stewardship Center
- XML
In addition to individual APAR fixes, fix pack 2 also contains the following rollup patches:
Rollup Patch Name |
Governance Rollups 1-7 |
ISF Rollups 1-6 |
Data Integration Rollup 1 |
Connectivity
APAR | Description |
Multiple Information Server Components may be affected by a vulnerability in the XML4C parser for DataMasking Stage | |
Connector import wizard for Oracle CC fails with "user must specify a RAC name while connecting to RAC server" | |
'#' as first character in password is causing 'Test' connection and 'View Data' to fail when the password is a parameter. | |
Memory leak observed while extracting BLOB data for connectors on server canvas. | |
MySQL Datadirect ODBC Driver is not detecting column types properly when reading or writing | |
Connector Migration Tool incorrectly migrates ORAOCI9 Prefetch memory setting | |
Security vulnerability in Apache POI affects Information Server | |
Upgrade of DataDirect OpenSSL libraries to version 1.0.2j | |
ODBC Connector jobs abort with "invalid column name" when '?' is used in a column name | |
Add capability to read multiple files (having the same-schema, but having random file names) present in a folder concurrently. | |
Teradata Common Connector fix to select the column whose length greater than 30 characters from database | |
Certification of Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse with ODBC Connector | |
Connectors on server canvas generates a conversion warning while handling a timestamp datatype | |
Sybase Enterprise Stage does not support columns with name starting with underscore character | |
Reject Link on Java Integration Stage re-orders the data but keeps the columns in the same order | |
Connectivity Plugin Infrastructure generates a conversion warning while handling a timestamp datatype | |
DB2 connector partitioning option does not distribute data properly across DB2 nodes when DB2 and DataStage servers have different endiannes | |
Correction to the AuthenticationMethod parameter with Impala ODBC Driver | |
File Connector job reading ORC or Parquet files aborts when the number of files is less than the number of nodes | |
Connector Migration Tool does not migrate the part of WHERE clause: 'COLUMNNAME=?', that is generated by lookup operation | |
IMAM DB2 Connector import from iSeries fails | |
Connectors on server canvas fails with SIGSEGV if the lookup string has an empty value. | |
Informix Connector returns "DSTAGE-INFCLI-0027: SQLExecDirect: Error Executing statement: " when Before/After SQL statement contains trailing empty lines | |
Incorrect Column Length and Characters when reading from MySQL with non-generic UTF-8 | |
Designer client crashes when editing reference table properties in DataMasking stage. | |
Informix Connector hangs. Informix CLI returns SQL state 24000 and error -285 | |
Error connecting to MS SQL Server using Windows NTLM authentication | |
STP plugin connecting to MSSQL Server in source context doesn't throw the error message seen after partial procedure execution | |
Migrating DRS Plugin to DRS Connector (Oracle Flavor) cannot drop unmatched fields | |
Long running ODBC Connector read jobs might fail with socket closed or connection dead errors | |
ODBC Connector MSSQL Server SSL authentication jobs intermittently abort with SSL Handshake error | |
FTP Enterprise Stage in the get mode aborts while reading file names with wildchar from Windows 2012 FTP Server | |
Support for View Expression in Hive Connector | |
ODBC Connector jobs execute query twice on Sybase IQ when SelectMethod=1 is set | |
Detect proper table partition count | |
Unstructured Data connector fails to read an encrypted excel file after migrating to APACHE POI 3.14 |
DataStage Core
APAR | Description |
Exporting a job fails after placing an unknown character in a column description | |
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Range lookup expression being deleted after job compile | |
Incorrect calculation of Start and End Columns when COBOL Sub-Groups are processed by DataStage for IGC integration. | |
DataStage is vulnerable to a Cross-Frame scripting issue | |
Wrong port numbers on DataStage client logons when engine tiers are on differing ports | |
Setting project permissions in DataStage Administrator fails for users with backslash in their names. | |
Add functionality to 'dsadmin' to report on whether the project is protected | |
Localized text shown on DataStage admin client for user roles even though English language was selected at client install time. | |
Disable compilation of Jobs from Protected Projects using DSCC | |
Literal double-byte double quote in transformer is replaced by single-byte double quote (parallel) | |
Operations Console not able to scroll beyond the page on some dialogs | |
First job in the WLM queue blocks all other jobs from running | |
Director connection can crash with 81002 when performing job scheduling operations. | |
Job containing a previous active stage with a connector resets the job locale to the engine one on a subsequent active stage | |
Daily purge option no longer works after applying JR56264 patch | |
ResMonApp does not recover when database goes down and comes back up | |
Renaming a file is not keeping the old name but dropping all objects in main folder | |
dsjob running with jobstatus option returns 99 when numeric invocation IDs are used | |
Unable to export job dependencies due to short REST timeout | |
Compiling a job sequence with loops gives an error relating to missing EndLoops | |
Following installation of fix JR55898, date and time job parameters give an error at job run time. | |
Cross project comparison does not come back with any results | |
Sequential metadata importer does not handle characters in the upper half of single byte character set | |
Users passwords exposed in restartable sequences when executed activities are skipped on restart | |
Reserved characters in DataStage job parameters are wrongly escaped when delivered to IGC runtime lineage | |
dsjob commands intermittently abort. |
DataStage Engine
APAR | Description |
DataStage client logins fail with 81002 on Windows 2012 |
DataStage Parallel Engine
APAR | Description |
Null handling doesn't work as expected in UStringToString() | |
Sequential file import pattern issue with consecutive slash characters | |
Parallel Engine Lookup stage can sometimes hang during job shutdown | |
The aggregated logs for DataStage jobs on HDFS are empty | |
Cannot run PX hadoop job with user ID greater 8 characters | |
Transformer derivations generate incorrect results when columns are null. | |
JR57228 | Limit Locale ID length to avoid ICU security issue |
PX on Hadoop has connection leaks on the client side when PXYarnClient interacts with HDFS | |
MantissaFromDecimal() may cause parallel job crash due to memory error when processing huge number of records. |
Information Analyzer
APAR | Description |
Empty distinct value for DB2 CHAR column being evaluated to [EMPTY] in 11.3.1.2 as opposed to being evaluated to [SPACES] in 9.1.2 | |
addmonthsdate and addmonthstimetamp data rules function converts to last invalid day of month (cpp operator) | |
Performance Issue using IAAdmin for deleteoutput table option where IADB is DB2 | |
JR57521 | UI reports wrong status when Key and Cross Domain Analysis is run on a selected MCPK. |
JR57584 | Support JDBC Connector to run Information Analyzer Analysis against Hive |
Val() function gives incorrect result if value has leading spaces, i.e.: Val( 3).(with Java operator) | |
Data rule job with SQL virtual table fails |
Information Governance Catalog
APAR | Description |
The attribute "Steward" is mistranslated in French | |
Security vulnerability in Apache POI affects Information Server | |
Deadlock exceptions during parallel publishing of terms | |
Node ISNULL is not considered for MainObject.Name when used with OR in VRQuery | |
The results of "Run as Test" option for DataRule Execution should not be visible in other tools, in this case IGC. | |
Custom attribute Terms not saved in Draft Assets | |
Searching by REST API takes too much time | |
Custom Relationship defined between Term and Asset does not display for Development Glossary | |
SQL parse error when parsing sql with quoted schema name | |
BeforeSQL and AfterSQL entries are not presented for DB connector stages | |
Parsing of SQL in a connector stage failed due to an array subscript operator during job lineage analysis. | |
Hive-HDFS lineage does not work properly - linking thru schema instead of table | |
DataClassService changes to overcome DataClass read performance problem | |
IGC not able to set blank header and welcome text | |
Unable to unset custom attribute values of type Date with REST API | |
Business glossary XML export file has validation errors | |
Term search does not work correctly* | |
Unable to delete data connections in Lineage Administration | |
Sub-selects in MERGE query are not handled correctly | |
Glossary Anywhere config.ini is being overwritten after the installation process |
Information Server Framework
APAR | Description |
Inadvertent error message displayed by DirectoryAdmin after successful execution setting attribute mapping configuration | |
IIS 11.5.0.1 installation hangs on systems with large number of cores/CPUs | |
Port code change from 11.3 to 11.5: Information Server 11.3 services startup extremely slow with Oracle metadata repository | |
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability with IIS Admin Console | |
Upgrade Apache HttpComponents version to address Apache HttpComponents vulnerabilities | |
Change GSKit usage to be in FIPS compliant mode | |
Security vulnerability in Apache Taglibs affects Information Server | |
Security vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload affects Information Server | |
Security vulnerability in Apache Struts affects Information Server | |
InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to a response splitting vulnerability | |
Information Server is vulnerable to a Cross-Frame scripting issue | |
Information Server is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) | |
Security vulnerability in Apache POI affects Information Server | |
Information Server contains a Path-relative stylesheet import vulnerability | |
AppServerAdmin not updating credentials in domain-security.xml files on WAS cluster | |
Change J2EEProvider to cache the attribute mapping properties. | |
View Data and Metadata import operations do not work after SAML usage has been turned ON. | |
SyncProject sometimes shows warning message "Invalid cookie header" when it finishes | |
Upgrade DataDirect Hive driver to version 5.1.4.000145 and Hive Connector Driver to version 5.1.4.000132 |
Information Server Tool
APAR | Description |
Information Server Manager client shows import and export invalid character errors | |
istool deploy package does not deploy latest build | |
ISM does not import isx files exported by istools | |
istool export of DataStage User routine in the Before/After folder fails if the Engine port is specified | |
Information Server Manager client doesn't use custom non-default engine port number |
Metadata Server
APAR | Description |
IGC Queries performance issue | |
Usage issue in Repository management | |
Bridge upgrade for governance patch locking all the import areas | |
IGC custom import value CSV imports take a long time. | |
Provide (enable) audit logging for istools export and import, including failed attempts | |
Unable to edit custom attributes in IGC UI | |
JR57635 | Upload the MITI 9.1 to archive and modify the pom.xml to pick latest version |
Models - modify delete rules for views_DataField/views_DataCollection to 'restrict' to rollback APAR JR57237 | |
IMAM re-import fails with "Can't resolve proxy for URI" error caused by PhantomObjectException | |
JR57718 | IMAM import tab is not loading for IE11 |
Import areas display error in IMAM UI for non-admin users. |
Stewardship Center
APAR | Description |
The exception stage fails to send notification event when used with stages implemented in Java |
XML
APAR | Description |
Information Server is vulnerable to XML external Entity Injection (XXE). | |
Hierarchical Stage job aborts with IllegalStateException when performing orderjoin. | |
Assembly Editor not opening on enabling TLSv1.2 Protocol |
For Searchability, here are the APARs included in FP2 which originated in prior, superseded maint levels:
APARs from 11.5 Fix Pack 1:
JR48631, JR48939, JR50355, JR51555, JR52040, JR52547, JR52764, JR52812, JR52837, JR53269, JR53278, JR53285, JR53300, JR53337, JR53353, JR53534, JR53572, JR53615, JR53615, JR53663, JR53685, JR53721, JR53759, JR53781, JR53784, JR53797, JR53815, JR53825, JR53834, JR53855, JR53863, JR53877, JR53911, JR53973, JR53980, JR53992, JR54006, JR54014, JR54045, JR54056, JR54058, JR54059, JR54067, JR54088, JR54091, JR54131, JR54137, JR54147, JR54166, JR54171, JR54183, JR54186, JR54204, JR54206, JR54220, JR54224, JR54239, JR54281, JR54297, JR54300, JR54301, JR54302, JR54302, JR54304, JR54328, JR54356, JR54375, JR54384, JR54385, JR54392, JR54406, JR54407, JR54414, JR54417, JR54423, JR54424, JR54429, JR54434, JR54436, JR54445, JR54453, JR54472, JR54477, JR54482, JR54501, JR54504, JR54515, JR54527, JR54539, JR54541, JR54557, JR54562, JR54570, JR54587, JR54609, JR54615, JR54635, JR54663, JR54665, JR54666, JR54677, JR54719, JR54724, JR54750, JR54755, JR54756, JR54763, JR54766, JR54767, JR54771, JR54779, JR54781, JR54787, JR54792, JR54803, JR54804, JR54807, JR54814, JR54826, JR54839, JR54842, JR54845, JR54851, JR54871, JR54877, JR54881, JR54882, JR54885, JR54912, JR54913, JR54914, JR54930, JR54938, JR54942, JR54947, JR54950, JR54951, JR54957, JR55014, JR55017, JR55026, JR55026, JR55026, JR55038, JR55040, JR55050, JR55056, JR55057, JR55059, JR55081, JR55085, JR55096, JR55101, JR55153, JR55172, JR55189, JR55201, JR55212, JR55222, JR55226, JR55234, JR55239, JR55251, JR55272, JR55308, JR55340, JR55341, JR55342, JR55350, JR55354, JR55400, JR55459, JR55824, JR57169
APARs from 11.5 Data Integration Rollup 1
JR46994, JR53589, JR53989, JR54016, JR54076, JR54163, JR54190, JR54358, JR54409, JR54544, JR54701, JR54927, JR55023, JR55041, JR55054, JR55176, JR55202, JR55214, JR55231, JR55234, JR55254, JR55265, JR55285, JR55313, JR55314, JR55328, JR55366, JR55390, JR55397, JR55441, JR55453, JR55455, JR55483, JR55484, JR55485, JR55496, JR55511, JR55512, JR55514, JR55516, JR55529, JR55530, JR55553, JR55566, JR55577, JR55638, JR55692, JR55721, JR55723, JR55731, JR55767, JR55825, JR55885, JR55886, JR55898, JR55908, JR55911, JR55922, JR55923, JR55938, JR55955, JR55971, JR55981, JR55989, JR56013, JR56016, JR56019, JR56028, JR56035, JR56039, JR56043, JR56054, JR56063, JR56070, JR56075, JR56086, JR56097, JR56112, JR56129, JR56142, JR56155, JR56158, JR56160, JR56161, JR56164, JR56167, JR56197, JR56218, JR56241, JR56264,
JR56269, JR56278, JR56303, JR56324, JR56328, JR56342, JR56377, JR56379, JR56397, JR56417, JR56418, JR56467, JR56476, JR56514, JR56525, JR56541, JR56558, JR56559, JR56634, JR56651, JR56651, JR56659, JR56688, JR56695, JR56703, JR56715, JR56731, JR56760, JR56774, JR56778, JR56784, JR56798, JR56822, JR56822, JR56861, JR56862, JR56908, JR57011, JR57087
APARs from 11.5 Governance Rollups 1-7
JR45988, JR48631, JR48939, JR50364, JR50505, JR51557, JR53278, JR53285, JR53685, JR53784, JR53825, JR53980, JR54014, JR54059, JR54131, JR54183, JR54239, JR54301, JR54302, JR54385, JR54407, JR54414, JR54445, JR54472, JR54482, JR54512, JR54515, JR54527, JR54531, JR54541, JR54663, JR54663, JR54666, JR54750, JR54781, JR54831, JR54842, JR54914, JR54966, JR55017, JR55032, JR55080, JR55081, JR55085, JR55101, JR55117, JR55117, JR55153, JR55184, JR55189, JR55219, JR55222, JR55225, JR55226, JR55239, JR55249, JR55251, JR55251, JR55272, JR55283, JR55308, JR55322, JR55340, JR55341, JR55342, JR55350, JR55354, JR55391, JR55400, JR55455, JR55462, JR55472, JR55477, JR55481, JR55491, JR55494, JR55515, JR55559, JR55577, JR55615, JR55627, JR55634, JR55650, JR55664, JR55702, JR55704, JR55709, JR55745, JR55753, JR55778, JR55812, JR55813, JR55827, JR55852, JR55874, JR55883, JR55883, JR55905, JR55913, JR55916, JR55925, JR55939, JR55940, JR55957, JR55964, JR55974, JR55985, JR55996, JR55999, JR56025, JR56050, JR56080, JR56126, JR56133, JR56163, JR56206, JR56240, JR56304, JR56335, JR56346, JR56380, JR56382, JR56382, JR56385, JR56394, JR56401, JR56424, JR56472, JR56478, JR56481, JR56485, JR56487, JR56490, JR56499, JR56555, JR56571, JR56573, JR56581, JR56596, JR56596, JR56615, JR56630, JR56635, JR56645, JR56652, JR56657, JR56658, JR56667, JR56678, JR56690, JR56728, JR56732, JR56734, JR56739, JR56745, JR56745, JR56766, JR56803, JR56825, JR56839, JR56850, JR56854, JR56859, JR56874, JR56875, JR56886, JR56898, JR56900, JR56914, JR56918, JR56933, JR56949, JR56960, JR56979, JR56986, JR57008, JR57020, JR57048, JR57051, JR57053, JR57071, JR57072, JR57089, JR57090, JR57091, JR57098, JR57099, JR57119, JR57122, JR57123, JR57140, JR57190, JR57191, JR57206, JR57207, JR57237, JR57263, JR57265, JR57270, JR57305, JR57315, JR57318, JR57319, JR57333, JR57385, JR57456, JR57485
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