PM18715; 7.0.0: Cumulative fix for WebSphere eXtreme Scale 7.0

Download Description

WebSphere eXtreme Scale Version 7.0 cumulative fix 4 resolves the following problem:

ERROR DESCRIPTION:
This APAR is a cumulative fix of several problems found by customers and the WebSphere eXtreme Scale development team. Refer to the Problem Summary section for a detailed list of all of the fixes that are included in this APAR.

LOCAL FIX:

PROBLEM SUMMARY

USERS AFFECTED:
All users of WebSphere eXtreme Scale Version 7.0.0.0.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
This APAR is a cumulative fix of several problems. The Problem Summary section lists all of the included fixes.

RECOMMENDATION:
None

The following items are the field APARs addressed in this cumulative fix.

*PM10844: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM10844
*PM10882: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM10882
*PM11665: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM11665
*PM12076: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM12076
*PM12989: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM12989
*PM14327: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM14327
*PM16333: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM16333
*PM17689: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM17689
*PM17772: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM17772

The following items are the additional fixes included in this cumulative fix:

1. Fixed processing of timeout annotation for OpenJPA level 2 cache implementation.
2. Fixed MapRangeIndex to correctly process attributes on composite keys for non-entity maps.
3. Fixed several problems and improved performance with the WebSphere eXtreme Scale dynamic cache provider.
4. Provided configuration options for setting the listener host and port for eXtreme Scale clients to allow the AgentManager and ObjectMap.clear APIs to work properly in virtualized or multi-homed networks.
5. Fixed the AgentManager and ObjectMap.clear APIs to work correctly when SSL is enabled.
6. Fixed MapIndexInfo.getTransactionChanges to include invalidated entries.
7. Fixed the xsadmin sample to work when integrated with WebSphere Application Server on the Windows operating system.
8. Fixed MBean ObjectNames so that property values are set correctly.
9. Packaged Hibernate level 2 cache implementation in an independent oghibernate-cache.jar library when integrated with WebSphere Application Server.
10. Fixed the AgentManager API to use the CredentialGenerator provided when creating a Session.
11. Added additional capabilities to Spring namespace support.
12. Improved server shutdown to avoid deadlocks and prevent the System.exit() method from being called.
13. Added encoding of credentialGeneratorProps value instead of leaving it in plain text.
14. Added JVM Shutdown hook to stop the server when it is killed.
15. Fixed replication to not have transactions time out on a replica when it is replicating.
16. Fixed exceptions that are seen when security is enabled and the COPY_TO_BYTES CopyMode or template maps are used.