4.2.2 Fix Pack 3 (October 2012) for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

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* A change introduced by this fix pack might negatively affect existing function.

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*Please refer to APAR IC87284 for a description of the problems and corrective actions.
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*Evaluate these APARs for the potential impact in your environment.
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This fix pack shows up as Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2.2.143 and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.2.2.3. Both versions are part of 4.2.2 fix pack 3.

The following APARs are addressed with this fix pack. An updated APAR Fix List with detailed descriptions is available.

IC84079 IC83193 IC83434 IC83459 IC83750 IC83751 IC83857 IC83978 IC84794 IC84836 IC84960 IC85092 IC85502 IC85593 IC85642 IC85713 IC85813 IC86089


What's New?
The following items are supported starting with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center v4.2.2 fix pack 3 (version 4.2.2.143).

• AIX on POWER7+ for Storage Resource Agents and the Server
• Brocade Network Advisor 11.1.2, 11.1.3, 11.1.4
• Cisco NX-OS 5.2(2)
• Database monitoring for DB2 databases configured with LDAP/AD authentication
• DB2 9.7 fix pack 6
• DS8000 R6.3 including Storage Optimizer
• Storage Optimizer for DS8000 R6.2
• Storage Optimizer for SVC 6.3
• Storage Optimizer for Storwize V7000 6.3
• Storage Optimizer for XIV Gen3 11.0
• Storwize V7000 6.4
• SVC 6.4
• XIV Gen3 11.1 including Storage Optimizer

The 4.2.x supported products pages will reflect these updates.

The following items were added for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.2.2 fix pack 2.

• Firefox 10 support
• DS8000 R6.3 support
• Storwize V7000 6.4 support
• SVC V7000 6.4 support
• Performance enhancements for practice session "Flash" command while connected through the DS8000 HMC

Language pack updates have been provided with the fix pack and are available to download.


Notes:

• Some users have encountered problems downloading fix pack files in the past. Larger images may not download successfully through your web browser due to their size. Use an FTP client, rather than a web browser, to download files if you encounter this. A file containing the checksum values of the images is available in the Installation Instructions section below. The non-licensed fix pack files can be found in the following location.
  
  public.dhe.ibm.com

/software/tivoli/products/TPC/fixes/V4.2.2/4.2.2-TIV-TPC-FP0003/

• Use the GNU tar program (1.14 or higher) rather than the native AIX tar program to extract files from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation images. The AIX tar program can truncate long file names, which may cause errors with the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center application.
  
  The GNU tar file archiving program can be found from the following link. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html

This is a full version of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication and can be applied as an upgrade to any IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2.x system (or earlier back through 3.x).

All fix packs are installed using the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center upgrade procedure covered in Chapter 4 of the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Installation and Configuration Guide. Please review the limitations and known issues technote prior to applying this fix pack. It contains last-minute information and changes that could not be included in the final product documentation.