IBM Installation Manager 1.8.4 has been made generally available and contains a critical fix for a security issue identified in version 1.8.3 and client-reported fixes.
The Change history section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable.
The How critical is this fix section provides information related to the impact of this release to allow you to assess how your environment may be affected.
Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions.
Review the Installing overview topic in the IBM Knowledge Center. The installation topics contain information about downloading the Installation Manager installation files.
Installation Manager versions are released as both installer packages and fix packs.
Use the installer packages when you are installing Installation Manager for the first time.
Use the fix pack or the installer packages when you are updating Installation Manager.
Package
File Name
Action
Operating System
Installer
agent.installer.platform_version
Install or update Installation Manager
The .zip file is specific to a platform. In the file name, platform indicates the operating system and version indicates the version of Installation Manager.
Fix Pack
com.ibm.cic.agent.offering_version.zip
Update Installation Manager
All supported platforms. In the file name, version indicates the version of Installation Manager.
The fix pack package is significantly larger than the platform specific installer packages. If you are updating Installation Manager on one platform, consider using the installer package, agent.installer.platform_version, to update Installation Manager.
The following sections provide detailed information related to this release.
Click the FC link below to obtain the release from Fix Central.
How critical is this fix?
Impact Assessment
Impact
Description
Critical
This is a service release. It contains a critical fix for a security issue identified in Installation Manager version 1.8.3. This release also contains any fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.
Regression: An error in the Maintenance Delivery Vehicle (MDV) that produces incorrect or unexpected behavior causing a supported feature to stop functioning as designed.
This includes:
Coding errors that cause a regression
Documentation or packaging problems that cause a regression
Errors reported in a new function delivered in a MDV that cause a regression
Incomplete: An error in the MDV has not regressed, but does not work as designed.
This includes:
Fixed APARs which did not solve the original problem but did not break anything new
APARs reporting documentation errors, such as readme errors, that cause problems applying an MDV but do not lead to a regression
Notes:
Regression and incomplete APARs are considered fix-in-error or MDV-in-error
Definitions above apply only to valid APARs that result in product fixes (APARs returned as working-as-designed are not assessed for being fix-in-error)
Issues in major releases due to new functionality do not apply in this definition
Click the "FC" link in the Download Options column to obtain the IBM Installation Manager Installer and Fix Pack package downloads.
Note: Selecting the FC link takes you to IBM Fix Central. You will be presented with two or more downloads of varying sizes. At minimum, you will see the Installer and Fix Pack download and more downloads if there are hardware variants.
On
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