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IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1 Service Packs 1 & 2 Fix List

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Abstract

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1 Service Packs 1 and 2 contain post-11.7.1 APAR fixes for multiple Information Server components including: Data Flow Designer, Information Analyzer, Information Governance Catalog, Exception Manager, Data Flow Designer and ISALite.

Content

Service packs are cumulative - All fixes included in Service Pack 1 are also included in Service Pack 2. 
 

Fixes Added in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1 Service Pack 2
The following sections list APARs added new to Service Pack 2 for InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.   Although the Service Pack 1 fixes are listed separately, they are also included in Service Pack 2.   Information Server 11.7.1 is a prerequisite for this service pack. 

 

Information Analyzer

APAR Description
JR61131 Information Analyzer Unable to use common table expressions in Virtual table definitions.
JR61239 Information Analyzer Dataquality rule execution slowness.
JR61259 Rules with a join with more than one Virtual table and more than one Database Table don't work after IS 11.5.02 SP5 installation.
JR61308 Save all button is greyed out in the Analysis Settings tab.
JR61312 Wrong IAAdmin return message for the import of project in InfoSphere Information Analyzer.
JR61335 IAJob.sh does not return any error message/return code for rule execution failure due to missing binding.
JR61347 ruleset execution history View Details view takes a long time to load.
JR61348 Add ability for IAAdmin CLI to run tasks synchronously.
JR61414 Data RuleOutput Garbled when imported using Hive Connector for Max String size greater than 128.
JR61517 IGC New (One UI) - No users and groups are shown in the workspace properties.
JR61518 IGC New (One UI) - Downloading data rule / data rule set output results leads to HTTP 500 error / java heap out of memory for huge volume of data.
JR61519 IGC New (One UI) - Problem saving data rule definition when it is using "current date" expression.
JR61520 IGC New (One UI) - Data rules editor does not allow to bind a literal for a data rule.
JR61542 IGC New (One UI) - Data Rule expression details are not showing on output content source column.
JR61596 IA Thin Client - Column Analysis error view is slow to show up.
JR61603 Drill down in Information Analyzer creates connection to the source database and doesnt close.

 

Information Governance Catalog (IGC)

APAR Description
JR60924 Incomplete lineage for mapping with many-to-one relationship between source and target entities
JR60961 Chinese characters garbled on import extension mapping document
JR61034 IGC OMRS messages with Japanese characters garbled
JR61092 IGC New asset type filter does not display all expected asset types when browser language is not set to English
JR61172 IGC does not show enumeration constraints from IDA Logical Data Model
JR61226 Lineage filters does not work correctly
JR61241 Search users by role does not return users that inherited the role when external user registry used
JR61277 Parsing View SQL for lineage fails when cross apply used
JR61333 User search in Stewards Administration page fails to sort or limit results when searching by username or email
JR61370 Duplicate entries in IGC New assets search when workflow is enabled
JR61377 Governance section for assets is incorrectly named Header in the Edit mode
JR61408 Improve display of long names in Enterprise Search graph visualization
JR61412 User with Business Analyst role cannot edit analysis results in IGC New Quality UI.
JR61429 Some types may not be allowed to be assigned to a term.
JR61435 Publish fails with NullPointerException
JR61448 Running lineage fails for large number of objects
JR61455 Job object not listed in Database table Usage section when connected through Shared Container
JR61468 Running lineage fails with NullPointerException
JR61496 Information Server affected by an open redirection vulnerability
JR61531 Security APAR.
JR61548 IGC UI - Disable edit button for labels that have glossary assets assigned to them
JR61551 Support new versions of XStream, BeanUtils and FOP to address various security vulnerabilities
JR61282 Upgrade Solr on services tier to address CVE-2017-3164

 

Information Server Framework (ISF)

APAR Description
JR60965 Upgrade xstream to version 1.4.11.1
JR61140 Cross-site Request Forgery in add/update/delete users
JR61187 Need to handle user Ids that contain backslash-u
JR61241 Search users by role does not return users that inherited the role when external user registry used (REQUIRES post-install configuration change to take effect)
JR61246 Reflected Cross-site scripting vulnerability
JR61290 117 WAS installation folder path contains the ! char, ISD fails to deploy an ISD service


 

Fixes Added in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1 Service Pack 1
The following sections list APARs included in Service Pack 1 for InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.
Information Server 11.7.1 is a prerequisite for this service pack. 

 

Connectivity - Non-IBM

APAR Description
JR60857 Charset in the file formatting options gets set incorrectly during inference

 

Data Flow Designer (DFD)

APAR Description
JR61006 Unable to clone git url in Team Foundation Server (TFS)
JR61096 Default DFD directory ._DFDesigner in engine tier was not created during IIS installation
JR61219 DFD Job Export functionality exposes user's password in the Jetty log

 

Exception Manager, Event Framework, Data Quality Exception Console

APAR Description
JR61031 Apache commons-file-upload library remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2016-1000031 CVE-2016-3092)

 

Information Analyzer (IA)

APAR Description
JR60826 IA reports cannot be viewed in Cluster Environment in IA console
JR60832 Cannot create Data Rules and Data Quality Screen doesn't display assets in thick client
JR60902 View Sample Fails on SQL VT in Data Rule Definition Screen
JR60932 Unable to export project if File connector data connection is used to local file system
JR61010 Project creation using IAAdmin with Virtual Tables results in Out of Memory
JR61033 Data Sets in DAUI and One UI - Unable to access data sets with SQLServer as xmeta and iadb
JR61036 Incorrect Column Analysis Results shown for inplace upgrade from 11.5.0.2 to 11.7
JR61118 Unable to refresh Virtual table creation in IA thick client
JR61134 Saving Data Rules involving joins fails
JR61178 IA desktop client performance issue when an IA project contains many rule executables
JR61181 Include Data rule name in the generated DataStage Job name
JR61244 Information Analyzer thin client slow performance when navigating and working on workspaces

 

Information Governance Catalog (IGC)

APAR Description
JR60005 Parallel import of the same bundle assets can result in duplicates
JR60139 Custom attribute is not correctly updated in extension mapping editor
JR60299 Allow import asset values without context
JR60451 Cannot update OpenIGC bundle using IGC Rest API
JR60579 Custom attributes with glossary and information assets miss some relation after publish
JR60610 The istool's workbench extension mapping import command fails when the root folder name is different than 'root'
JR60695 ldm2bg generates duplicated terms with table name postfixes
JR60700 Term translation information is not correct
JR60782 Missing folders in data lineage context of Data File Records and Data File Fields
JR60785 OutOfMemory can happen when parsing DataStage Jobs for lineage
JR60831 Put restriction for DataFields when parsing lineage for DB View
JR60835 Enable to hide on lineage virtual assets with flows to other assets
JR60860 Operational data not removed from Flows model when purgeOMD used
JR60861 Improve performance of storing Lineage flows through more efficient SQL queries
JR60895 IBM InfoSphere Information Server is affected by a Cross-Frame Scripting vulnerability
JR60938 Glossary export retrieves business terms from categories even if some are restricted
JR60939 CSV report does not contain proper steward user information
JR60970 Incorrect database table parsed for Netezza Views when crossed database queries are defined
JR61045 Batch publish of Rule and its parent Policy fails if the policy was assigned in the Rule creation dialog
JR61057 PSIRT - Unsafe third-party link vulnerability in new IGC UI
JR61058 PSIRT - Missing or insecure "X-CONTENT-TYPE-OPTIONS"
JR61059 PSIRT - Missing or insecure "X-XSS-PROTECTION" header
JR61261 Upgrade Solr service to address CVE-2017-3164.

 

Information Server Framework (ISF)

APAR Description
JR60895 Information Server is vulnerable to Cross-Frame Scripting issue
JR60963 Upgrade Apache Ant to version 1.8.4
JR61135 Upgrade Apache commons-beanUtils to version 1.9.3
JR61139 Upgrade Spring Framework to version 4.1.9

 

ISALite

APAR Description
JR60963 Update use of ant-1.8.2.jar to ant-1.8.4.jar
JR61224 Improvements to ISALite health check

 

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 January 2021

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ibm10957667