Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4.0 Fix Pack 4, 7.4.0-TIV-NCOMNIbus-FP0004

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* Error(s) have been reported against this maintenance vehicle
* that do not cause problems with existing function.
* Please see APAR IV63870 for details.
* Please see APAR IV79815 for details.
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The following defect solutions are included in this fix pack:

IV38674
The event list, which contained over 5k entries, was taking a
long time to display the contents of the service.status list.
This problem has been resolved.


IV53291
In a pre-insert table trigger, if another insert is performed
into the same table then an inconsistency is created during the
the nested table trigger. Any column of type incr will have the
incorrect value available via the new.column-name variable in the
nested trigger. The column value in the resulting row will be
correct.
An example of this is when a trigger inserts a new row into the
alerts.status table and the default new_row trigger assigns
Serial (an incr field) to ServerSerial. When the rows are
committed, the Serial fields are set so that each row has a
unique value but the ServerSerial field retains the original
value. This causes the two rows to have the same ServerSerial
value but different Serial values.
This problem is resolved.


IV54051
Rules files that contain 'IF' blocks with a large number of 'ELSE
IF' clauses can cause a stack overflow in the rules file parser
when a probe starts up. This problem is fixed.


IV59007
The ObjectServer OSLC Interface can now be configured for
validation of a connection via an LTPAv2 token using the Jazz for
Service Management (JazzSM) Authentication Service. This enables
the interface to participate in a Single Sign-On (SSO) set-up.
A new server property, NRestOS.ServerConfigFile, defines a server
interface specific configuration file. The default location of
this file is $OMNIHOME/etc/restos/servercfg.json. In this JSON
formatted configuration file the URL of the authentication
service is defined, along with the appropriate credentials to be
used.


IV54356
The nco_bridgeserv process is unable to establish a connection
and the log shows a timeout error almost immediately after
starting the proxy server. This problem has been resolved.


IV55377
The Netcool/OMNIbus OSLC Provider can now register itself with
the JazzSM Resource Registry via HTTPS in situations where no SSL
context has been initialised for the client request. The
ObjectServer will no longer fail with a general failure error
(-19) when no SSL context is present, as a context will be
created for the operation.


IV55408
The JRE for Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V7.3.1 and V7.4.0 was updated
to IBM JRE 6.0 SR15 FP1 to address possible security issues.


IV54136
The value for the event_flash_time attribute written to the
omnibus preferences files is no longer set to '0' whenever the
'Save' button is selected


IV49796
On Windows operating systems, the ObjectServer was not being shut
down cleanly by the Process Agent. This caused .log and .chk
files to be left behind. This problem has been resolved.


IV52289
The ICU component used by Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus is upgraded to
version 52.1. This is done to address a potential security
problem that is fixed in this version of ICU.


IV57465
ObjectServer gateways would not send bulk SQL (if that gateway
property was enabled) for updates converted to inserts (due to
SET UPDTOINS CHECK). This has been resolved.


IV53567
The regular expression engine provided by libOpl matched strings
that should not match. This problem is resolved.


IV59581
The splash screen for the nco command shows version 7.3.0 when
the locale is Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. This problem has been
resolved.


IV60193
The ObjectServer HTTP/OSLC Interface now uses chunked transfer
encoding to stream large result payloads to HTTP/1.1 clients.
This reduces the amount of memory consumed for these large
responses and improve overall interface performance. Certain
chunking-related features, such as the optimal chunk size, can be
changed if required in the "chunking" section of the server
interface configuration file,
$OMNIHOME/etc/restos/servercfg.json.


IV59634
A timeout can occur between AEN clients and the ObjectServer when
using a firewall bridge. A new trigger, aen_heartbeat, is added
to automation.sql. To resolve the problem, enable this trigger.


IV56609
The primary and backup Object Servers may not resynchronize
properly if the primary Object Server fails again before a
resynchronization is complete. This problem has been resolved.


IV59959
The GSKit component used by Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus is upgraded to
version 8.0.50.20. This is done to address a potential security
problem that is fixed in this version of GSKit.


IV59991
When AEN is used to accelerate inserts to the bi-directional
gateway, performance is not as good as expected. This has been
fixed.


IV53569
The ObjectServer would not bind to an LDAP server if the hostname
in ldap.conf was a list. This problem has been resolved.


IV61642
On shutdown, there was a small chance that the ObjectServer would
dump core. The dump happened after the database files were written,
so there was no risk to data. This problem is fixed.


Date - Summary of Changes
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16 December 2013 - Document created
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25 August 2014 - Updated for:
IV63870: Probe install fails on Windows 2012 and Windows 8
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13 January 2016 - Updated for
IV79815: Problem with messages in Windows Event Log
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