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IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.4

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Abstract

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.4 contains all APAR fixes addressed after 11.7.1.0 for components of InfoSphere Information Server. This document lists the fixes that were addressed after 11.7.1.3 Service Pack 4.

Content

The following sections list APARs fixed in 11.7.1.4 for InfoSphere Information Server. 11.7.1.4 contains all fixes from 11.7.1.3 SP4.
Fixes in 11.7.1.3

Fixes added in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.4

Connectivity IBM/BigData

APAR Description
JR64803 Kafka Connector does not inherit Kafka server's secure connection settings for schema registry with SCRAM-SHA-256/512
JR64872 Db2 Connector executes unnecessary queries to DB2 for z/OS when operating in read mode
JR65098 Db2 Connector fails with error SQL0581N: The data types of CASE expression or DECODE function are not compatible

Connectivity Non-IBM

APAR Description
JR64032 DRS connector is not working as expected (no default commit) when connector has 'Before SQL' statement
JR64043 Crash seen in ODBC Trace binary when SQL statement contains number of characters
JR64063 JDBC Driver for MongoDB gives connection failure when there are special characters in the database name
JR64074 ODBC connector does not return back SQL query error when array size is small
JR64067 Allow creation of 0-byte files in AWS s3 using S3 Connector
JR64085 File Connector Read jobs give warning while reading file in ORC Format
JR64153 Support LDAP authentication in IBM DataDirect JDBC Driver for MongoDB
JR64117 IGC Parsing errors when Teradata connector converts invalid xml chars to question mark
JR63818 Stored procedure job that works on IS 11.3 fails on IS 11.7 with Invalid cursor state
JR64105 Read Delimited file correctly when escape character Is used just before delimiter
JR64109 Test connection fails if password has even number of pound characters
JR64185 Upgrade of DataDirect OpenSSL libraries to version 1.1.1l
JR64089 Oracle connector job aborts with failure code 139 if the value for username or password job parameter is empty and CC_ORA_NLS_LANG_ENV=TRUE
JR64259 Handle public synonyms in case of cross schema references
JR64297 Support Reject links for Parquet File Format in the File Connector
JR64329 Disable batch errors mode during piecewise write operation in PL/SQL statements
JR64187 Provide option in File Connector that uses Native HDFS FileSystem to pass config options to HDFS Native Client
JR64366 SCAPI Bridge patch to support parallelism in merge modes of BigQuery connector
JR64367 Support parallelism for merge modes in BigQueryCC
JR64368 Support Load, Custom SQL and Before/After SQL in Redshift CC
JR64336 Exception reading Excel files having NOTE/Comments with xmlbeans 3.0.0 and Apache POI 3.14
JR64400 Optimize select statement used during metadata import of Redshift Connector
JR64409 ADLS Connector read jobs that use Excel and JSON file formats fail with property mismatch error
JR64467 Oracle Connector is creating invalid control file for Manual Load mode for Parallel Jobs
JR64488 IBM DataDirect JDBC Driver for Cassandra Upgrade of Jackson databind jar in DataDirect Cassandra JDBC Driver
JR64576 Log warning when Oracle connector cannot describe the user defined select statement
JR64670 Extend SCAPI Bridge to add GenericS3 Connector Support
JR64674 Implement GenericS3 Connector
JR64688 Oracle connector is not able to resolve cross schema private synonym to the corresponding table name
JR64706 SCAPI Bridge patch to support part size properties in GenericS3 Connector
JR64721 ODBC Connector insert then update jobs abort connecting to PostgreSQL database
JR64768 Salesforce Connector Bulk API 2.0 Support
JR64880 Improve performance of metadata import when using Snowflake Connector
JR64845 Upgrade of DataDirect OpenSSL libraries to version 1.1.1n
JR64891 TDMLoad load jobs are failing when run in concurrent mode
JR64900 Salesforce Connector with OAUTH 2.0 Authentication and proxy server gives Connection timed out error
JR64916 Map binary columns in the table to binary fields in the Datastage job
JR64940 Oracle Connector generates incorrect select statement when doing partitioned reads
JR64945 Data loss reported when multiple BigQuery connector stages are used in the job
JR64989 DataDirect odbc driver for Sybase ignores legitimate error database and just hangs
JR64999 Parquet file created with FileCC, datatype decimal, precision 18 or less gives error when Hive uses it to create a Hive Table
JR65023 ODBC-CC read jobs fails after upgrading IIS 11.7.1.3.SP4
JR64973 Hierarchical Stage: REST step throws invalid xml error when xml response body contains fewer than 4 characters in the first line
JR64854 REST step fails with java.lang.nullpointerexception when logging is disabled
JR64776 Hierarchical Stage: Job aborts with "error instantiating class com.ibm.e2.util.logging.jul.E2JULLogger"
JR64855 Hierarchical Stage intermittently drops records without throwing any error message due to timing issues in Task Scheduler
JR64873 Hierarchical Stage: In REST Step, provide an option to stop automatic redirection of a REST call
JR65015 New warning message is observed in Oracle Connector after upgrading to 117FP3+ SP4.
Data Flow Designer
 
APAR Description
JR64911 Issues with insecure direct object references
JR63610 DataStage Flow Designer affected by OS Command Injection
DT134319 DataStage Flow Designer affected by JQuery vulnerabilities
DT134303 CSRF issue with Flow Designer
DT160842 Jetty vulnerability in DFD

DataStage

APAR Description
DSCore
JR64679 Job status fixes and improvements
JR64932 Project location checks on admin client
JR64832 SyncProject.sh -Restore doesn't work on UNIX
R64806 In the Operations Console, the month part of a date is displayed incorrectly on charts, in "Engine started" information and in the calendar picker
JR60749 Job runs sort improvements
JR62407 Cross Project Comparison not showing difference in Expression values for User Variables Activity stage
JR64957 Job Sequencer GUI stages in Designer fail following installation of 11.7.1.3 SP4
JR64990 DB2 script templates for DSODB registered incorrectly
JR64775 While using XMLInput plugin on parallel canvas, the job is aborting with SIGABRT
JR64772 Tracing and code improvements for column table reference setting
DT139683 Characters removed from dsjob -ljobs output
DT133806 DataStage Designer crashes when a job is printed, with no default printer available
DT139296 PSIRT 372046 Stack traces in ops console API reported as a vulnerability
DSEngine
JR64175 Sequence jobs can't be compiled
JR64251 Sequence jobs abort with WRITE failure from check point routine
JR61572 DSEngine on Windows would use global namespace for shared memory segments
JR64975 After Engine Tier Reboot, Unable To Login To Datastage, Receive 81002 Error

Information Analyzer / Auto Quality

APAR Description
JR64140 Incorrect row counts for numeric data type violations in Information Analyzer Thin Client
JR64371 Column Analysis Failure on DB2 xml datatype formats
JR64161 Information Analyzer Data rules exported to CSV file show incorrect format
JR65033 Unable to retrieve users and groups in Information Analyzer when the list is huge
JR64677 Unable to rules from command line when the rule name has a comma (,) in it
JR65008 Fix the missing BenchMark Settings Issue on importing Information Analyzer Project
JR64253 Column Analysis and Data Quality Analysis failing for huge parquet files having maximum columns with Heap size errors that use the file connector
JR64903 Information Analyzer Thin Client (Classic) is using an older version of "jquery-ui.min.js"
JR65017 Information Analyzer Data Rules fail with error - "decimal(38,0)" is not valid
DT142886 Hadoop data rule bundles not executing in bundle format
DT148708 Vulnerability with moment.js
DT143723 Vulnerability CVE-2022-33980 in usage of Apache Commons
DT145201 Data quality threshold in card is inconsistent with that in the detail tab of analysis (Data Quality)

Information Governance Catalog (IGC)

APAR Description
JR65022 IGC Classic UI not working after navigation to main page through IGC title banner click
JR64839 Data file asset is incorrectly parsed when imported from OMD and path contains forward slashes and file name contains backslashes
JR64970 Steward cannot be edited when Workflow is enabled
JR64673 Unable to see domain reference for relevant ERWin entity attribute
JR64948 Rest API flows import is slow

Information Server Framework and Installation

APAR Description
JR65074 InfoSphere Information Server is affected by an improper access control vulnerability
JR65048 Administration console is vulnerable to stored cross site scripting
JR65003 A vulnerability in JDOM affects InfoSphere Information Server
JR64998 A vulnerability in Apache Ant affects InfoSphere Information Server
JR64991 A vulnerability in Apache Commons collections affects InfoSphere Information Server
JR64978 Administration console hangs while opening Users and Groups
JR64675 Multiple vulnerabilities in Eclipse Jetty affect IBM InfoSphere Information Server
JR64311 Unable to access Workflow details in the Administration tab of Information Governance Catalog
JR64347 In some installation sequences, while patching to 11.7.1.3 the customer's configuration information in WebSphere Liberty is lost
JR64377 During a Fix pack or Service pack installation, execution of the iisAdmin script fails as characters are misinterpreted. For example, /a is erroneously changed to /7.
JR64476 Information Server is affected by a vulnerability in Dojo Toolkit CVE-2021-23450
JR64529 Insecure path attribute in Information Server cookie
JR64743 Information Server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting
JR64760 Upgrade Spring used in Information Server
JR64765 Information Server is vulnerable to privilege escalation
JR64468 A vulnerability in Apache log4j affects InfoSphere Information Server (CVE-2021-44832)
JR64446 A vulnerability in Apache log4j affects InfoSphere Information Server (CVE-2021-45046 CVE-2021-45105)
JR64358 A vulnerability in Apache log4j affects InfoSphere Information Server (CVE-2021-44228)
JR64083 Information Server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in XStream
DT160237 InfoSphere Information Server is affected by a session management vulnerability
Microservices Tier
APAR Description
DT188781 Information Server Microservices tier components are vulnerable to openssl (CVE-2022-1292, CVE-2022-2068 and CVE-2022-2097)

PX Engine

APAR Description
JR64663 Add one more character to get a unique file name when cannot create a regular file name
DT13987 Disable dangerous Jobmon XML parsing options
JR65027 Add retry logic for transformer checksum and binary files

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Document Information

Modified date:
29 November 2023

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ibm16618799