Fix pack Notes for
WebSphere Interchange Server (WICS) version 4.2.0.3

 

The patch notes contain the following sections:

Completed Change Requests

Upgrade Instructions

Additional Discussion

Unistall Instructions

Completed Change Requests

This patch contains fixes for the following CRs based on customer reported and internally discovered issues.

Problem tracking numbers

As of Version

Problem

23797 4.2.0.3

Problem Description: When the connector agent connects to the server, encrypted properties are not downloaded properly for example application password. This might cause malfunction in the functioning of the application connector. This is fixed in 4.2.0.3

24071 4.2.0.3

CwDBConnection class returns values with wrong datatypes  (a decimal field is returned as Integer instead of BigDecimal). It is fixed.

23816 4.2.0.3

When binding a map in the connector configurater, allow <None> to be used with explicit binding. 

23164 4.2.0.3

 Connector optimized recovery failed. This has been fixed

22566

4.2.0.3

Previously, you could not upgrade from 3.1.2 directly to 4.2.0 when using IBM DB2 or SQLServer. This has been fixed.

22694

4.2.0.2

This fix creates proper map names for dependency checks when deploying a map with custom code.

16416

4.2.0.2

Previously multiple ICS servers sharing the same DB2 instance (repository) did not work properly. This has been fixed.

22845

4.2.0.2

Fixes the problem where some collaborations did not appear on the Monitor tool even though they were successfully deployed to the server.

22844

4.2.0.2

This fix addresses how the log messages gets printed when a SOAP envelope is received.

22860

4.2.0.2

Previously, the server did not store sub-map dependecies properly; To fix this, redeploy the server in design mode and then reboot the server in production mode.

22772

4.2.0.2

Previously, deployment of collaboration templates with long names failed. This has been fixed.

22799

4.2.0.2

This fix adds the High Availability (HA) samples for AIX.

17420

4.2.0.2

This fix enables filtering (Filter.class) of child business objects with single cardinality at the child level; This had previously worked in 3.1.2.

21757

4.2.0.1

Using Microsoft SQL Server, this fix allows you to upgrade from 4.1.1 to 4.2. Note, upgrading from 3.1.2 to 4.2 using SQL Server may still have problems. The fix should be in the next Fix Pack. For now, you can upgrade from 3.1.2 to 4.1.0 first, and then upgrade from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0.

22202

4.2.0.1

Beginning with the 4.2 release, the Oracle thin driver is no longer embedded in the product. The database connectivity drivers for Oracle and Micrsoft SQL Server are the IBM JDBC drivers. If you use the Oracle thin driver, this fix pack will automatically convert it into the supported JDBC driver.

22430

4.2.0.1

Fixes repository exports from the server. The server now includes message files when exporting a single collaboration template or map.

 

Upgrade Instructions

To upgrade to WICS 4.2.0.3,

  1. Upgrade to the most recent maintenance release if you have not already done so.
  2. Apply the changes prescribed in each table below, beginning with the entries at the bottom of each table and working up to the most recent fix pack

If you are currently using either 4.2.0.0 or 4.2.0.1:

  1. back up your data by doing a repos_copy out
  2. manually drop database tables and schemas (repos_copy -d will only drop the contents of the tables)
  3. apply the changes prescribed in each table below.
  4. start the WICS server
  5. repos_copy in your backup data

After backing up the listed files, add, replace, or remove the following files and directories as indicated:

For WICS Version

Platform [Win32;Solaris;AIX]

Add / Replace / Remove

File (Starting from %CROSSWORLDS%/$CROSSWORLDS)

4.2.0.3

Win32:Solaris:AIX

Replace

lib/CrossWorlds.jar

4.2.0.3

Win32:Solaris:AIX

Replace

lib/CollabUtils.jar

4.2.0.3

AIX

Add

samples/HA/HACMP (all files)

Prerequisites

1. You must have version 4.2.0 of WICS installed in order to install this fix pack.

 

Additional Discussion

 

Uninstall Instructions

When installing the fix pack, you need to back up all the old files that are being replaced in this patch (for example,  back up CrossWorlds.jar file). When you want to revert to the previous patch release, you replace the new files with the backed-up files.

  

 

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