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APAR Fix List - IBM Spectrum Control v5.3.x and IBM Storage Insights

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Question

What APAR fixes are included in the IBM Spectrum Control v5.3.x maintenance releases and updates to IBM Storage Insights?  For IBM Spectrum Control, this information covers all licensed variations.  For IBM Storage Insights, this information covers the free and subscription versions.

Answer

  • 5.3.7 / 2Q 2020
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2020 May 21 (5.3.7-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2020 May 29

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.7

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT32043 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-15606, CVE-2019-15604 AND CVE-2019-15605   Yes  
    IT32458 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-1551   Yes  
    IT32459 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-12406   Yes  
    IT32460 SECURITY APAR FOR X-FORCE VULNERABILITY REPORT 177835   Yes  
    IT32461 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-17573   Yes  
    IT32901 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2020-1967 Yes
    IT27885 MULTIPLE SPECTRUM CONTROL PROBE JOBS MAY RUN AGAINST 1 STORAGERESOURCE AGENT      
    IT29592 DUPLICATE DATABASE ENTRIES AND REQUESTS CAUSE EXCESSIVE LOAD INDB2 TRANSACTIONS.      
    IT29606 APPLICATION AGGREGATION FOR RESPONSE TIME METRICS ARE NOTAGGREGATED CORRECTLY      
    IT30505 BPCUI0434E DATA SOURCE X.X.X.X COULD NOT BE FOUND.      
    IT30765 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL INSTALLER FAILS WITH ERROR BPCIN0029E AT PRE-INSTALL VALIDATION.      
    IT31114 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL UPGRADE FAILS DURING THE SRA UPGRADE ATREGISTRATION STEP      
    IT31476
    ENCLOSURE HEALTH STATUS, INCLUDING THE STATUS OF PSUS, IS NOT PROPAGATED UP TO THE STORAGE SYSTEM LEVEL
    WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM.
         
    IT31544 EXTENT POOL CAPACITY SIZING USES WRONG DS8K CKD EXTENT SIZE      
    IT31651 INFORMATIONAL MESSAGE HWNPM2112I DISPLAYS STORAGE IP INSTEAD OFDATA COLLECTOR IP      
    IT31775 ALL STORAGE PROBES FAIL [MAX VALUE REACHED WITH AUTOIDS]     MDVPARTL
    IT31798 ALERT 'SERVER DELETED PATH' DOES NOT ILLUSTRATE ANY DETAILS REGARDING THE 'SERVER DELETED PATH'.      
    IT31811 IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS INCORRECTLY DISPLAYS FIBRE CHANNEL PORTSTATUS FOR AGENTLESS SERVER.      
    IT31812 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL INSTALLATION MAY FAIL WHEN THE HOSTNAMECONTAINS AN UNDERSCORE.     MDVREGR
    IT31853 SPECTRUM CONTROL NOT DISPLAYED ALL SUBSYSTEM IPS FOR EMC      
    IT31890
    STORAGE INSIGHTS CUSTOM ALERTS WITH MULTIPLE CONDITIONS MAY NOTTRIGGER DEPENDING ON THE ALERT
    SEQUENCE
         
    IT31922
    SPECTRUM CONTROL INSTALLATION FAILED ON LINUX: BPCIN0053E ANERROR OCCURRED WHEN CREATING THE
    DATABASE TPCDB.
         
    IT31927 HWNPM4191W WARNING MESSAGE SHOULD NOT BE DISPLAYED IN THEPERFORMANCE JOB LOG      
    IT31932 ALERT SERVER ERRORS PREVENTS IT FROM STOPPING SUCCESSFULLY.      
    IT31994
    DEVICE DOES NOT DISPLAY TICKET INFO IN DASHBOARD, ERROR: 'AN UNEXPECTED RESPONSE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE
    SERVER.'
         
    IT31997
    PROBE FOR SPECTRUM SCALE FAILS WITH ERROR HWN020103E -THE EXTERNAL PROCESS EXCEEDED THE TIMEOUT LIMIT
    AND WAS CANCELED.
         
    IT32062
    ONE-MINUTE PERFORMANCE SAMPLING INTERVAL INCORRECTLY CONFIGUREDWITH 1Q2020 STORAGE INSIGHTS
    RELEASE
         
    IT32100 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL USE 100% CPU  AFTER UPGRADE TO 5.3.5.1      
    IT32192 HWNPM4187W FOR SPACE EFFICIENT VOLUMES CAUSES PERFORMANCE MONITOR TO BE RUNNING WITH PROBLEMS      
    IT32224 WHEN OPENING SOFTWARE TICKETS FOR V5030 AND V3700 DEVICES THEY ARE OPENED AS V7000.      
    IT32265 PERFORMANCE DATA COLLECTION VIA STORAGE INSIGHTS MAY FAIL IF MISMATCHED DATA COLLECTOR HOSTNAME     MDVREGR
    IT32270 DATA COLLECTOR SERVICE STOPS UNEXPECTEDLY DUE TO CORE DUMPS. PROBES HANG. [OUTOFMEMORY]     MDVREGR
    IT32274
    STORAGE INSIGHTS DOES NOT REFRESH DEVICE CONFIGURATION/CREDENTIALS WHEN AGENT IS MARKED
    NON-OPERATIONAL
         
    IT32384
    ON WINDOWS, CREATESRACERTS.BAT MIGHT FAIL WITH "THE SYSTEMCANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED. OPENSSL
    BINARY NOT FOUND"
         
    IT32385 IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS PROBE FAILS TO COLLECT THE DS8K RANKS ON FIRMWARE EARLIER THAN 7.7.30.252      
    IT32423 DATA COLLECTION FOR ESS STORAGE NOT WORKING - PROBES AND PERFORMANCE MONITORS FAIL      
    IT32456
    IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL PROBE FAILS FOR DELL EMC UNITY: HWN021601E THE OPERATION(S) HOST_CONNECTIONS
    FAILED.
         
    IT32462 IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS GUI SHOWS ALL THE STORAGE SYSTEMS      
    IT32518 THE PERFORMANCE DATA ARE COLLECTED 1 HOUR BEHIND SINCE STORAGEINSIGHTS WAS UPGRADED IN 5.3.6      
    IT32531 STORAGE INSIGHTS MANAGED CAPACITY IS INCORRECTLY REPORTED FOR FS9100 DEVICES.      
    IT32540
    NO PERFORMANCE DATA COLLECTED WHEN STORAGE DEVICE PASSWORD CONTAINS $ SPECIAL CHARACTER. 
    [DEGRADED DATA COLLECTION]
         
    IT32550 BPCUI0381E MODIFYING HISTORY RETENTION SETTING FAILS     MDVREGR
    IT32584 UPDATE STORAGE INSIGHTS AUTHENTICATION FOR GBM SUPPORT PERSONNEL      
    IT32734 DATA COLLECTOR SERVICE STOPS UNEXPECTEDLY DUE TO CORE DUMPS. PROBES HANG. [OUTOFMEMORY]     MDVPARTL
  • 5.3.6 / 1Q 2020
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2020 Feb 27 (5.3.6-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2020 Mar 8

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.6

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT30506 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-16869   Yes  
    IT31119 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-2989   Yes  
    IT31486 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-17571   Yes  
    IT31487 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4663   Yes  
    IT31488 SECURITY APAR FOR X-FORCE VULNERABILITIES 171569, 170971   Yes  
    IT31489 SECURITY APAR FOR X-FORCE RECORDS 173111, 173110, 173108   Yes  
    IT31786 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4720   Yes  
    IT31805 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2020-2593 AND CVE-2019-4732   Yes  
    IT30571
    IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL STORAGE RESOURCE AGENTS AND DATA SERVER DO NOT SUPPORT CUSTOMIZED 3RD PARTY
    SSL CERTIFICATES
         
    IT30572 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL DEVICE SERVER CERTIFICATES RENEWAL PROCEDURE REQUIRES CLARIFICATION UPDATE      
    IT23391 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL PROBES MAY FAIL IF SC IS INSTALLED ON AN OS WITH DIFFERENT LOCALE THAN ENGLISH      
    IT29934 ALERTS GENERATED FOR "STORAGE SYSTEM NEW NODE" AFTER EACH PROBE EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO NEW NODES      
    IT30139 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL UNABLE TO ADD CLOUD OBJECT STORAGE DEVICE      
    IT30164 IBM FLASHSYSTEM FS900 MODEL 9843 IS WRONGLY REPORTED AS MODEL 9840 IN SPECTRUM CONTROL GUI      
    IT30298 SPECTRUM CONTROL REPORTS 0 CAPACITY ON VMDKS BUT VM SHOWS CAPACITY      
    IT30435 INCORRECT DATA COLLECTOR CHOSEN FOR STORAGE SYSTEM HARDWARE LOG COLLECTION ACTIONS      
    IT30509 DATA COLLECTOR UPGRADE STATUS NOT REFLECTED IN THE STORAGE INSIGHTS GUI      
    IT30537 STORAGE INSIGHTS SHOWS THE WRONG VOLUMES FOR THE FLASHCOPY COLUMN ON THE CAPACITY TAB      
    IT30626
    SPECTRUM CONTROL REST API DEFAULT RESPONSE NEEDS TO BE CLEARER REGARDING OBTAINING PERFORMANCE DATA
    FOR A VOLUME
         
    IT30627 LICENSE COMPLIANCE PANEL REMAINS EMPTY FOR BROWSER'S NON-ENGLISH LOCALE      
    IT30648 LICENSE COMPLIANCE PANEL FAIL TO DISPLAY STORAGE SYSTEMS      
    IT30709
    PERFORMANCE MONITORING SHOWS "NOT SUPPORTED" WHEN THE SCALE CLUSTER IS CONFIGURED WITH SUDO
    WRAPPER
         
    IT30734
    IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL LICENSE COMPLIANCE PANEL DISPLAYS TOO HIGH MANAGED CAPACITY FOR SVC IN
    COMBINATION WITH XIV
         
    IT30748 VIEW OF BACKEND STORAGE BEHIND SVC STILL SHOWS REMOVED DEVICES      
    IT30766 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL LICENSE COMPLIANCE PANEL DOES NOT SHOW ALL DEVICES      
    IT30767 IBM STORWIZE STORAGE DEVICE PROBE COMPLETED WITH 'SQLDATAEXCEPTION' ERRORS      
    IT30907 EMC UNITY PROBE FAILED AFTER THE FIRST TWO PROBES      
    IT30939 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL PROBE FAILS FOR SOME FLASH 900 SYSTEMS      
    IT30956 CANNOT OPEN A TICKET WITH STORAGE INSIGHTS DUE TO INVALID COUNTRY CODE      
    IT30962 ERRONEOUS SOFTWARE UPDATE WARNING HAS BEEN DETECTED REGARDING SVC SOFTWARE LEVEL      
    IT30968
    SPECTRUM CONTROL STORAGE_POOL TABLE NOT CORRECTLY MAPPED FOR DATA REDUCTION POOLS AFTER FIRMWARE
    UPGRADE
        MDVREGR
    IT31024 DEGRADED DATA COLLECTION STATUS      
    IT31029 IP ADDRESS FOR SVC AND STORWIZE SUBSYSTEM IS NOT DISPLAYED      
    IT31046 IBM STORWIZE V5030 "2072" IS INCORRECTLY SHOWN AS M/T "2078" IN STORAGE INSIGHTS GUI      
    IT31096 CANNOT SAVE NEW ALERT POLICY      
    IT31107 WRONG UNITS SHOWN ON NOC DASHBOARD TILES      
    IT31179 STORAGE INSIGHTS INSTABILITY      
    IT31188 ACTIVE DIRECTORY USER AUTHENTICATION FAILS IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL WITH ERROR CWIML4001E      
    IT31220 EXPORTING THOUSANDS OF ALERTS TO CSV FAILS TO EXPORT ALL OF THE ALERTS      
    IT31327 FAILED TO ADD NETAPP STORAGE SYSTEM IN IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS USING A DOMAIN USER      
    IT31365
    WARNING FLAG DISPLAYED IN STORAGE INSIGHTS FOR NETWORK SHARED DISK (NSD) ON IBM ELASTIC STORAGE SERVER
    SPECTRUM SCALE VDISKS
         
    IT31409 PERFORMANCE STATISTICS FOR ISL TRUNK IS NOT AVAILABLE     MDVREGR
    IT31433 DATA COLLECTOR HOST NAME CHANGES CASE AFTER REBOOT AND CREATES A DUPLICATE WITH DISCONNECTED STATUS     MDVREGR
    IT31465 BLANK NOTIFICATIONS FOR CALL-HOME EVENTS IN STORAGE INSIGHTS      
    IT31468
    STORAGE INSIGHTS 5.3.5 SHOWING 0 GIB CAPACITY UNDER CONFIGURATION > MANAGED CAPACITY FOR V7000 GEN3
    STORAGE
        MDVREGR
    IT31469 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL THE VOLUME UTILIZATION METRIC IS MISSING FOR SVC IN GUI     MDVREGR
    IT31519
    CISCO SWITCH PROBE FAILURE DUE TO NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION FOR FCADDR TYPE ZONE MEMBERS
    [BTADS0024E, BTADS0102E]
        MDVPARTL
    IT31596 POOR GUI PERFORMANCE DUE TO ALERT SERVER CPU CONSUMPTION      
    IT31606 PROBE FAILURE AND NO PERFORMANCE FOR SPECTRUM SCALE WITH ESS 3000      
    IT31611 STORAGE INSIGHTS TICKET VIEW LIST CASE FOR WRONG PRODUCT      
    IT31728 THE FLASHSYSTEM'S NOTIFCATION PANEL IN STORAGE INSIGHTS GUI DISPLAYS "CALL HOME ISN'T ENABLED"      
    IT31810
    IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS PROBE FAILED ON EMC UNITY WITH ERROR HWNEP0135E EXTERNAL PROCESS FAILED WITH
    ERROR CODE 0
         
    IT31906 UNABLE TO PROBE NETAPP ONTAP 9 DEVICE WITH VMDISK IN IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS      
  • 5.3.5.1 / 4Q 2019
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2019 Nov 19 (5.3.5.1-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2019 Nov 23

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.5.1

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT30918 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL 5.3.5.0 UPGRADE FAILS DURING DB SCHEMA UPGRADE WITH INS2070E SQL ERROR  Yes Yes 
    IT30907 EMC UNITY PROBE FAILED AFTER THE FIRST TWO PROBES
  • 5.3.5 / 4Q 2019
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2019 Nov 7 (5.3.5-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2019 Nov 16

    Withdrawn - Superseded by 5.3.5.1

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT29921 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-1552   Yes  
    IT30285 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-1547,CVE-2019-1549,CVE-2019-1563   Yes  
    IT30508 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4441   Yes  
    IT30510 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4305   Yes  
    IT30511  SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4304   Yes  
    IT30598
    SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-9518,CVE-2019-9517,CVE-2019-9515,CVE-2019-9514,CVE-2019-9513,
    CVE-2019-9512
      Yes  
    IT30586 SECURITY APAR FORCVE-2019-15138,2019-10745,2019-10744,2019-10747,2019-10746   Yes  
    IT30355 CANNOT ADD A CISCO SWITCH USING A PASSWORD THAT CONTAINS < OR > CHARACTERS      
    IT30440
    UPGRADE TO SPECTRUM CONTROL V5.3.4 FROM VERSION 5.2.13 OR OLDER IN A WINDOWS DOMAIN BREAKS 
    AUTHENTICATION OF DOMAIN USERS
         
    IT28232 ALERTS FOR PROBE FAILURES SEEN BY CUSTOMER; NO FAILED PROBE APPARENT IN THE LOGS OR GUI      
    IT29012
    STATUS AND CONDITION ARE SHOWN AS NORMAL FOR FLASH DEVICES ALTHOUGH THE DEVICES CAN'T BE
    CONNECTED TO ANYMORE
         
    IT29190 LICENSE COMPLIANCE PANEL DOUBLE COUNTS SVC SCUS AFTER UPGRADE TO 5.3.2 VS. PREVIOUS 5.2.X      
    IT29230 LARGE LEVEL 4 LOGS FAIL TO UPLOAD DUE TO TIMEOUT WHILE UPLOADING      
    IT29459
    IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL PHYSICAL ALLOCATION PERCENTAGE VALUE IN THE VIEW CAPACITY GRAPH IS NOT
    ACCURATE FOR FLASHSYSTEM STORAGE
         
    IT29548 STORAGE INSIGHTS DOESN'T CLEANUP AUTOMATICALLY THE SNAP FILES WHEN THE UPLOAD FAILS      
    IT29862 TOP CONTRIBUTING VOLUME TAB MISSING FROM ALERT PANEL IN V.5.3.2+     MDVREGR
    IT29939
    THE SPECTRUM CONTROL DEVICE SERVER IS OUT OF MEMORY WHEN 50 HYPERVISOR PROBES OR MORE ARE
    RUNNING IN THE SAME TIME
         
    IT30322
    PROBES FAIL FOR CISCO SWITCHES DUE TO NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION [BTADS0111E, BTADS0024E, BTADS0102E]
        MDVPARTL
    IT30334
    SPECTRUM SCALE VERSION 5.0.0.0,PROBES FOR FILE SYSTEMS ARE FAILING WITH ERROR HWN021503E
    REPORTED IN GUI
         
    IT30386
    FAIL TO ADD SPECTRUM SCALE DEVICE IN IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS WHEN MORE DATA COLLECTORS ARE ACTIVE
         
    IT30478 UPGRADE TO SPECTRUM CONTROL 5.3.3 FAILS AT DEVICE SERVER UPGRADE ON RHEL      
    IT30523 DS8870 PROBE FAILURES IN STORAGE INSIGHTS     MDVREGR
    IT30701
    SPECTRUM CONTROL 5.3.4 UPGRADE ON AIX FAILED WITH BPCIN0108E AN ERROR OCCURRED DURING THE
    UPGRADE OF THE NODE.JS
         
  • 5.3.4 / 3Q 2019
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2019 Sept 19 (5.3.4-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2019 Sept 29

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.4

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT29010 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-2684   Yes  
    IT29922 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-14439    Yes  
    IT29929 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-2786,2019-2766,2019-11771,2019-7317,2019-2769,2019-2762,2019-2816,2019-11772,2019-11775,2019-4473   Yes  
    IT30020 SECURITY APAR CVE-2019-14379    Yes  
    IT30063 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-9516, 2019-9515, 2019-9518, 2019-9517, 2019-9512, 2019-9511, 2019-9514, 2019-9513   Yes  
    IT30118 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-12402    Yes  
    IT29864 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4285   Yes  
    IT30197 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9515,CVE-2019-9518   Yes  
    IT29852 SECURITY APAR FOR MIGRATION TO OPENSSL 1.1.1 Yes
    IT29056 SPECTRUM CONTROL REST API KC NEEDS TO BE CLEARER REGARDING GETTING PERFORMANCE DATA FOR A VOLUME      
    IT29069 IMPROVE DOCUMENTATION FOR IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS USER ROLES/PERMISSIONS      
    IT20995 STORAGE SYSTEM CAPACITY REPORT SHOULD DISPLAY A CHART WITH MAXIMUM 20 DEVICES      
    IT23299 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL SVC PERFORMANCE DATA COLLECTION MAY FAIL AFTER NODE REPLACEMENT      
    IT25866 MISLEADING ERROR MESSAGE PRESENTED IN SPECTRUM CONTROL GUI WHEN THE USER IS UNABLE TO LOGIN BECAUSE DB2 PASSWORD HAS EXPIRED      
    IT27441 INCONSISTENT RESULTS WHEN RUNNING PORT PERFORMANCE REPORTS.      
    IT28793 SPECTRUM CONTROL UPGRADE FAILS WITH ERROR" BPCIN0004E AN ERROR OCCURRED DURING THE INSTALLATION OF THE DEVICE SERVER COMPONENT"      
    IT28904 DRILL DOWN TO VOLUME PERFORMANCE IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR FS91XX STORAGE SYSTEMS      
    IT29079 CREATING A NEW PERFORMANCE REPORT  GOT BPCUI0209E ERROR      
    IT29136 SPECTRUM CONTROL PRE-UPGRADE FAILS WHEN THE SERVICES FILE CONTAINS A COMMENTED LINE STARTING WITH #      
    IT29148 FLASHCOPY CAPACITY DATA IN STORAGE CONSUMPTION AND CHARGE BACK REPORTS CALCULATE INCORRECTLY.      
    IT29162 IBM FLASHSYSTEM A9000 MODEL 425 IS WRONGLY REPORTED AS MODEL 415  IN SPECTRUM CONTROL GUI      
    IT29235 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL ALERT POLICIES COMPONENT SELECTION IS LOST      
    IT29260 DUPLICATE NAMED CUSTOMIZED ALERT DEFINITIONS ARE NOT VISIBLE IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL WEB UI.      
    IT29288 USERS CANNOT ACCESS STORAGE INSIGHTS.  "YOUR IBM ID IS VALID, BUT YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE STORAGE INSIGHTS."      
    IT29291 NO PERFORMANCE DATA DISPLAYED FOR SECONDARY MIRROR COPY1 VDISKS.      
    IT29292 INCORRECT AGGREGATION OF VOLUME DATA TO POOLS WHEN MIRROR COPY VOLUMES MEMBERS OF THAT POOL.      
    IT29373 CUSTOMER NOT RECEIVING DATA COLLECTOR CHANGE OF STATUS EMAILS       
    IT29406 JOBS REMAIN IN RUNNING STATE      
    IT29485 ANY PRE-EXISTING PORT PERFORMANCE ALERT DEFINITIONS DO NOT DISPLAY IN WEB UI POST UPGRADE TO V.5.3.2      
    IT29496 LOG UPLOADS TO BLUE DIAMOND HARDWARE PMRS FROM STORAGE INSIGHTS FAIL      
    IT29541 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL COGNOS REPORT SHOW INCORRECT VIRTUAL MACHINE FILE CAPACITY      
    IT29596 SPECTRUM CONTROL CREATE DUPLICATE ARRAY SHOWN FOR FLASHSYSTEM STORAGE.      
    IT29766 ADDING A STORAGE SYSTEM IN STORAGE INSIGHTS USING THE FQDN MAY FAIL WITH ERROR HWN021907E      
    IT29788 "LOG PACKAGE FOR TICKET XXXXX,YYY,ZZZ FAILED TO UPLOAD" FROM STORAGE INSIGHTS      
    IT29790 DS8K PERFORMANCE COLLECTION FAILS WITH NULL POINTER EXCEPTION NPE      
    IT29821 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL DEVICE LOG FILES FILL UP THE SERVER DISKS      
    IT29824 ADD THE ABILITY FOR IBM SUPPORT REPRESENTATIVES TO VIEW CLOUD OBJECT STORAGE DEVICES IN STORAGE INSIGHTS.      
    IT29843 EVENTS LOGGING FILE IN /OPT/IBM/TPC/DEVICE/LOG IS INCREASING RAPIDLY AND CONSUMING A GREAT DEAL OF SPACE      
    IT29855 THE "ENABLE CALL HOME FOR MORE INSIGHTS" MESSAGE IS NOT CLEARED IN STORAGE INSIGHTS EVEN IF CALLHOME IS ENABLED  ON THE STORAGE      
    IT29884 SPECTRUM CONTROL WEB GUI BECOMES UNREACHABLE - WEBSERVER OUT OF MEMORY      
    IT29934 ALERTS GENERATED FOR "STORAGE SYSTEM NEW NODE" AFTER EACH PROBE EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO NEW NODES      
    IT29964 INCORRECT ROLE RECOMMENDATION SHOWN FOR FS9100 IN ADD DEVICE WIZARD WINDOW      
    IT29990 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL PERFORMANCE GRAPH POP-UP WINDOW RENDERING REQUIRES SCROLLING TO VIEW ALL AVAILABLE DATA.      
    IT30113 ALERT DEFINITIONS NO LONGER ACCEPT DECIMAL POINTS AS PART OF THE VALUE ATTRIBUTE WHEN SETTING ALERT DEFINITION THRESHOLDS.      
  • 5.3.3 / 2Q 2019
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2019 May 23 (5.3.3-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2019 June 2

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.3

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT27912 IT27912 TLS 1.0 & TLS 1.1 CANNOT BE DISABLED FOR PORT 9562 (EXPORTSERVER) Yes
    IT28676 IT28676 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4046   Yes  
    IT28730 IT28730 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4138   Yes  
    IT28731 IT28731 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4137   Yes  
    IT28786 IT28786 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-1559   Yes  
    IT28791 IT28791 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-1902   Yes  
    IT28814 IT28814 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-2426 CVE-2018-12547 CVE-2018-1890   Yes  
    IT22856 SHOW NO DATA FOR IBM SPECTRUM SCALE IN COGNOS.      
    IT23415 CAN CONFIGURE WRONG AGENT FOR SWITCHES AND FABRICS      
    IT24099 UNEXPECTED PORT STATUS CHANGES FOR SVC WITH FLASHSYSTEM BACK-ENDSTORAGE      
    IT26068 ALERT DEFINITIONS CANNOT BE SAVED IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL GUI      
    IT26654
    HWNPM2133WPERFORMANCE DATA COULD NOT BE COLLECTED FOR DEVICE <DEVICE> DUE TO AN UNKNOWN
    ERROR. THE
    CURRENT SAMPLES ARE SKIPPED.
         
    IT27160 THE STORAGE INSIGHTS ALERT SERVER MAY RUN OUT OF MEMORY WHENCUSTOM'S ALERT IS SETUP.      
    IT27233 LICENSE COMPLIANCE - XIV BEHIND SVC DOUBLE COUNTS CAPACITY UNTILIT IS ALL VIRTUALIZED      
    IT27678
    IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL GUI EXPORT PERFORMANCE DATA MAY DISPLAY'PERFORMANCE DATA
    UNAVAILABLE FOR THE TIME
    INTERVAL'
         
    IT27792 PERFORMANCE DATA COLLECTION FAILS FOR SPECTRUM SCALE -HWNPM4303E AN AGENT API CALL
    (RUN QUERY) FAILED
         
    IT27818
    IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL USED CAPACITY AND AVAILABLE CAPACITY FROMTHE DEVICE'S OVERVIEW
    SHOW INCORRECT
    VALUES
         
    IT27979 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL THE STORAGE SUBSYSTEM PORT NUMBER ISMISSING IN WEB GUI      
    IT28232 ALERTS FOR PROBE FAILURES SEEN BY CUSTOMER; NO FAILED PROBEAPPARENT IN THE LOGS OR GUI      
    IT28274 LOG UPLOAD FAILURES FOR DS8000 FROM STORAGE INSIGHTS      
    IT28336 XIV PROBE FAILS      
    IT28463 BROCADE FABRIC PROBE FAILS DUE TO ZONE DATA SOURCE [BTAFM5015E DATA SOURCE COULD NOT
    BE RETRIEVED]
         
    IT28502 SVC PERFORMANCE METRIC: "OVERALL HOST ATTRIBUTED RESPONSE TIMEPERCENTAGE" IS COMPUTED
    INCORRECTLY
         
    IT28508 CISCO SWITCH MODIFY/TEST CONNECTION SHOWS AN ERROR IN SPECTRUM CONTROL GUI.      
    IT28509 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL UPGRADE TO 5.3.2 FAILS AT DATABASE SCHEMA UPGRADE TIME      
    IT28515 PRE-DEFINED COGNOS REPORTS ARE MISSING VOLUMES AFTER RUNNING SVCVOLUME MIGRATION TASKS.      
    IT28536 INVALID DESCRIPTION DISPLAYED WHEN CREATING AN HARDWARE TICKETUSING STORAGE INSIGHTS.      
    IT28577 FAILED TO COLLECT THE SUPPORT PACKAGE IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL      
    IT28594 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL DB2SYSC PROCESS USED CPU UP TO 100%      
    IT28651 NPE DURING SRA CERT CREATION      
    IT28695 DATA COLLECTORS FAIL TO UPGRADE DUE TO LOCKED FILES      
    IT28735 (IT24287 FIX COMPLETION) - WEBSERVER CORE DUMP DUE TO MEMORY LEAK      
    IT28770 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL UPGRADE FROM 5.2.15 TO 5.3.2 FAILS ATDATABASE COMPONENT      
    IT28889 SPECTRUM CONTROL CAPACITY NOT BEING DISPLAYED OR IS INCORRECTFOR NETAPP ADDED AS FILER      
  • 5.3.2 / 1Q 2019
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2019 Feb 28 (5.3.2-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2019 March 3

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.2

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT28151 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4071   Yes  
    IT28150 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2019-4072   Yes  
    IT28104 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-10237   Yes  
    IT27939 VULNERABILITY FOUND DURING PENETRATION TEST   Yes  
    IT27938 VULNERABILITY FOUND DURING PENETRATION TEST Yes
    IT27383 COGNOS ANALYTICS 11 AND MULTIPLE IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL SERVERS.      
    IT25327 DEVICE SERVER OUTOFMEMORY ERROR, CORE DUMP      
    IT25668 SQL ERRORS OCCURRING DURING AN UPGRADE OF DATABASE SCHEMA, WITH ALTERVERSION EXECUTIONS,
    MAY RESULT IN AN INCONSISTENT STATE.
         
    IT26148 DATABASE REPOSITORY FAILS TO UPGRADE TO DUE TO INOPERATIVE DB PACKAGES.      
    IT26237 ADDITIONAL TRACING FOR FABRIC PROBE FAILURE - HWN021899E SWITCH <WWN> HAS NO
    ASSOCIATED FABRIC.
         
    IT26392 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL EMAILED REPORTS AN RETURN ERRONEOUS 'INTERNAL ERROR' MESSAGE.      
    IT26411 INCORRECT VALUES FOR A9000 IN STORAGE SYSTEMS CAPACITY PREDEFINED COGNOS REPORT      
    IT26448 ALERT SERVER CRASHES ON STARTUP INSIDE THE JVM LIBRARY (-XVERIFY:NONE INCORRECTLY SET)      
    IT26573 CHANGE SERVICE SCRIPT TO TRACE MORE WHEN CREATING FOLDERS AND USE NETSTAT -AN, INSTEAD OF
    NETSTAT -A
         
    IT26735 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL 5.3.0, AFTER SOMETIME THE DATA COLLECTOR CORE DUMPS WITH OUT OF
    MEMORY ERROR (UNRECOVERABLE) AND CRASHES.
         
    IT26755 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL CUSTOM REPORT THE CONTENT OF THE COLUMN MIRROR IS SHOWN EMPTY.      
    IT26757 THE GROUPS CREATED IN SPECTRUM CONTROL ARE NOT DISPLAYED IN COGNOS IF THESE GROUPS HAVE
    NO HOST CONNECTIONS.
         
    IT26822 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL FAILS TO AUTOMATICALLY UPLOAD LOGS TO TICKETS.      
    IT26864 LOCAL AIX SRA INSTALLED FAILED WITH AGT0304E ERROR: FAILED TO SEND AGENT REGISTRATION      
    IT26925 DB2 TRANSACTION LOG FULL ERRORS OCCUR DUE TO DS8L NIVOLUMECREATEDEVENT WITH POOL -1      
    IT27380 LICENSE COMPLIANCE PANEL MAY DISPLAY INCORRECT DATA OF DS8K STORAGE DEVICES.      
    IT27679 THE REST API DOES NOT RETURN ANY DATA FOR STORAGE SYSTEM PORTS      
  • 5.3.1 / 4Q 2018
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2018 November 15 (5.3.1-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2018 November 18

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.1

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT26467 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-8039   Yes  
    IT26468 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-1683   Yes  
    IT26838 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE 2018-1851    
    IT26840 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2014-7810    
    IT25180 V7000 UNIFIED FAILS TO ADD AS FILE STORAGE SYSTEM PRESENTING ERROR BPCUI0246E      
    IT25246 V7000 UNIFIED ADDED TO IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL AS FILE STORAGE SYSTEM DOES NOT SUPPORT
    PERFORMANCE MONITOR FUNCTIONS.
         
    IT23112 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL TPCTOOL AUTHENTICATION MAY CRASH THE WEBSERVER.      
    IT23334 PERFORMANCE OF COMPUTER ROLLUP QUERY IS TOO SLOW      
    IT25216 AUTO PROVISIONING OF STORAGE SPACE FROM DS8800 DOES NOT WORK FOR SPECTRUM CONTROL WITH
    SUBSYSTEM FIRMWARE < 7.4
         
    IT25505 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL APPLICATIONS GROUPS WHICH CONTAIN VOLUMES FROM NETAPP
    STORAGES ARE NOT UPDATED PROPERLY
         
    IT25718 RECOVERY FOR IT24025 PROBES FAIL WITH BTADS0102E DUE TO MAXVALUE REACHED WITH AUTOIDS      
    IT25720 THE FLASH DISK CAPACITY DS8000 IS NOT REPORTED      
    IT25803 MISSING FILESET INODE ALERTABLE ATTRIBUTES      
    IT25843 ALERT FOR DELETED VIRTUAL MACHINE IS NOT TRIGGERED.      
    IT25875 TRANSACTION LOG FULL ERRORS ( DB2 SQL ERROR: SQLCODE=-964,SQLSTATE=5701 ) DURING DS8000
    PROBES.
         
    IT25918 SPECTRUM CONTROL REPORTING 2 DIFFERENT VALUES FOR COMPRESSION SAVINGS FOR SVC STORAGE.      
    IT25923 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL DB2 CPU USAGE RAISES UP TO 100%      
    IT25979 NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION DURING SWITCH PERFORMANCE MONITORING FOR SOME CISCO
    SWITCHES - HWNPM4303E
         
    IT26061 ERROR "USERNAME OR PASSWORD IS INVALID" WHEN LOGIN TO SPECTRUM CONTROL WEB GUI USING A
    DOMAIN USER.
         
    IT26153 FILESET SIZE GREATER THAN WHAT IS SUPPORTED IN DATABASE      
    IT26475 SVC TIMEZONE CAUSES PERFORMANCE MONITORING DATA COLLECTION FAILURE - HWNPM4303E      
    IT26522 LOG SERVICE (SERVICE.BAT) COLLECTION FAILS WITH NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION.      
    IT26620 UNPROTECTED VOLUMES AND REMOTE RELATIONSHIP COUNTS DON'T MATCH      
    IT26702 FALSE NEW VIRTUAL MACHINE ALERTS TRIGGERED IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL      
    IT2370 7 SPECTRUM CONTROL REPORTING VOLUME DELETION ALERTS REFERENCING THE INCORRECT STORAGE
    SUBSYSTEM

     
  • 5.3.0.1
    5.3.0-IBM-SC-FP0001
    Availability: 2018 Nov 19

    Download IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.0.1

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT26468 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-1683   Yes  
    IT26467 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-8039   Yes  
    IT26231 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-1656 AND CVE-2018-12539   Yes  
    IT26230 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-0732   Yes  
    IT26229 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-0737   Yes  
    IT25216 AUTO PROVISIONING OF STORAGE SPACE FROM DS8800 DOES NOT WORK FOR SPECTRUM CONTROL WITH
    SUBSYSTEM FIRMWARE < 7.4
         
    IT25923 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL DB2 CPU USAGE RAISES UP TO 100%      
    IT25979 NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION DURING SWITCH PERFORMANCE MONITORING FOR SOME CISCO
    SWITCHES - HWNPM4303E
         
    IT25926 CISCO SAN SWITCH PROBE FAILS WITH NULL POINTER EXCEPTION      
    IT25316 PROBE FOR DS8K FAILS IN SC 5.2.17 WHEN PERSISTING THE CHUNKINFORMATION.      

     
  • 5.3.0 / 3Q 2018
    Availability:
    • IBM Spectrum Control: 2018 Sept 6 (5.3.0-IBM-SC)
    • IBM Storage Insights: 2018 Sept 9

    Withdrawn - Superseded by 5.3.0.1

    APAR Abstract HIPER Security Integrity Special Attention
    IT25729 SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2018-1621   Yes  
    IT22898 IMPROVE LOGGING WHEN PERFORMANCE COLLECTION FAILS IF UDP PORT 161 BLOCKED      
    IT23087 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL POOL PERFORMANCE DATA SHOULD DISPLAY (N/A) INSTEAD OF ZERO VALUE
    IF THE  POOL HAS ONLY COPY 1 VDISKS
         
    IT24395 DOCUMENTATION: HOW TO DISABLE SINGLE SIGN-ON IN JAZZSM FOR UPGRADED ENVIRONMENT IN
    SPECTRUM CONTROL 5.2.14 AND LATER.
         
    IT25474 THE DOCUMENTATION WILL BE CHANGED FOR "DISABLING TLS 1.1 AND 1.0 FOR IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL
    PORTS"
         
    IT22851 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL SRA DAEMON DOES NOT START AUTOMATICALLY AT SYSTEM REBOOT ON
    RED HAT LINUX 7
         
    IT20696 UPGRADE FAILS AT DATABASE REPOSITORY WITH ERROR BPCIN0108E DUE TO "TSRMINSUDB (NOT FOUND
    IN JAVA.LIBRARY.PATH)"
         
    IT21270 SPECTRUM SCALE PROBE FAILS WITH TIMEOUT DUE TO LONG SSH-LOGIN BANNER      
    IT21339 CAN'T CONNECT TO THE SPECTRUM CONTROL WEB GUI WITH LDAP USERS AFTER UPGRADING SPECTRUM
    CONTROL FROM 5.2.12 TO 5.2.14
         
    IT22955 STORAGE RESOURCE AGENT INSTALLED ON AIX CLUSTER NODE FAILS DUE TO DUPLICATE IP WITH THE
    CLUSTER RESOURCE GROUP
         
    IT23769 SVC PROBE FAILS BECAUSE ONE IS ALREADY RUNNING      
    IT24405 SRA PROBE FAILS WHEN SRA IS INSTALLED WHEN LOGGED IN TO SC WITH A DOMAIN USER ACCOUNT      
    IT24726 AFTER A SUCCESSFUL PROBE THE "UNREACHABLE" CONDITION IS NOT UPDATED TO NORMAL IN T_SERVER      
    IT24893 CPU UTILIZATION INCREASE UP TO 100% WHEN ISL PERFORMANCE VIEW IS ACCESSED IN WEB UI      
    IT25071 CANNOT UPDATE AN EXISTING STORAGE CIMOM CONNECTION, THE ERROR BPCUI0000E DISPLAY IN
    WEB UI
         
    IT25148 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL RECURRING ERRORS BPCUI0032E IN WEBUI WHEN PERFORMANCE VIEWS
    ARE ACCESSED
         
    IT25275 SPECTRUM CONTROL TRACECHANGEPASSWORDSTOOL_0.LOG IS OVERRIDDEN AT EACH EXECUTION OF
    THE SPECTRUM CONTROL CHANGEPASSWORDS TOOL
         
    IT25316 PROBE FOR DS8K FAILS IN SC 5.2.17 WHEN PERSISTING THE CHUNK INFORMATION      
    IT25437 FIX VOLUME USED SPACE FOR VOLUME CAPACITY CHARTING      
    IT25472 THE ALERT NOTIFICATION BY SNMP EVENTS IS SENDING THE ALERT PARAMETERS NOT IN THE CORRECT
    ORDER
         
    IT25506 A9000 STORAGE DEVICE DOES NOT PRESENT ALL ASSIGNED VOLUMES IN WEB UI      
    IT21670 FALSE ALERTS FOR MISSING SWITCH PORTS RECEIVED WHEN CIMOM IS UNREACHABLE      
    IT25616 IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL COGNOS REPORT FOR SOME STORAGE TYPES      
    IT25858 SOME ALERT NOTIFICATIONS FOR SVC DELAYED SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL THE NEXT PROBE      
    IT25664 IBM SC IS UNABLE TO CONFIGURE CLOUD OBJECT STORAGE.      
    IT24813 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL POOL CAPACITY CHARTS DO NOT SHOW EASYTIER AVAILABLE      
    IT23064 IN IBM SPECTRUM CONTROL THE STORAGE CIMOM TEST CONNECTION SHOWWRONG STATUS IN WEB GUI      
    IT25761 EMAIL REPORTS IN WEB UI DO NOT GENERATE.  ERROR BPCUI0032E WHENTRYING TO GENERATE PREVIEW      

     

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