Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 Fix Pack 3, 8.1.0-TIV-NCOMNIbus_GUI-FP0003

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Known issues and workaround

alm00315486 / IV70431
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Short Description: UNABLE TO UPDATE WEB GUI BASE AND EXTENSION FIX PACK SIMULTANEOUSLY ON WINDOWS

Summary:

For Windows environments, you cannot perform an update of the Web GUI base and the extension offerings simultaneously using the fix pack. An error message is displayed for this known defect when an old Web GUI extension offering with version 1.2.0.0 released in 2014 is detected.

Workaround:

You must first perform an update of the Web GUI base offering and then follow up with an update of the Web GUI extension, in two separate steps. Another option is to uninstall the old Web GUI extension version 1.2.0.0 released in 2014 and reinstall with its new version 1.2.0.0, release in 2015. There's no issue with future fix pack updating from FP2 and NOI v1.3 simultaneously on windows.


alm00315488 / IV70434
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Short Description: UNABLE TO ROLLBACK WEB GUI BASE AND EXTENSION FIX PACK SIMULTANEOUSLY

Summary:

When you perform the roll back of Web GUI base and its extension offerings simultaneously, to their v8.1 FP1 or GA state. The execution was successful, but Web GUI continues to use the fix pack version, rather than the roll back version as expected.

Workaround:

You must first perform a roll back of the Web GUI extension offering and then follow up with a roll back of the Web GUI base, in two separate steps. Another option is to uninstall the old Web GUI extension version 1.2.0.0 released in 2014 and reinstall with its new version 1.2.0.0, release in 2015, prior to updating to v8.1 FP2 and NOI v1.3. There is no issue with future fix pack roll back to FP2 or NOI v1.3.


alm00315480 / IV70435
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Short Description: UNABLE TO APPLY FIX PACK TO WEB GUI BUILD 493 - JUNE 2014 VERSION

Summary:

For Linux/AIX environment using the June 2014 version, you cannot perform an update using this fix pack. An error message will be displayed for this known defect.

Workaround:

You can verify your installed Web GUI version by navigating to the "Troubleshooting and Support" icon, and clicking on "System Information for Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI". If you have installed the June 2014 version, please refer to section 1.2(c) below for instructions.


alm00318602 / IV75549
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Short Description: IE ONLY:"DOWNLOAD" BUTTON MISSING WHEN USING "DASHBOARD HUB" FOR DATA EXPORT

Summary:

The "Download" button is missing when using "Dashboard Hub" for data export, IE only. This issue is fixed in JazzSM 1.1.2.1.

Workaround:
If there is a need to "Download" custom pages, follow these steps using
Firefox instead of IE:
- Login to webgui and go to Console Settings -> Dashboard Hub,
- Click current Console then select and custom page for download.
- Locate the "Download" button and click on it.


IV75562
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Short Description: JazzSM11x - UNABLE TO LOAD WebGUI's EVENT USING TABLE WIDGET

Summary:

DASH Table Widget fails to load WebGUI dataset in JazzSM 1.1.2 when the supplied data contains icon-based data (e.g. Severity field). This issue is fixed in JazzSM 1.1.2.1.

Workaround:

There are 2 workaround options, based on whether a user has (at any time) configured the Event Viewer's user preference or not:

1) For user who never updated their Event VIewer's user preference, set the AEL's user preference Event List Icons property to "Show With Text".

2) For user who had updated their Event VIewer's user preference (for any setting change at lease once), setting only AEL's Event List Icons to "Show With Text", does not fix the issue. The user is also required to set the Event VIewer's User Preference "Icon Display" to "Show Icons and Text" to work around the Table Widget loading issue.


alm00318856 / IV76072
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Short Description: WEBGUI RIGHT CLICK TOOL IS AVAILABLE FOR TABLE WIDGET

Summary:

Table widget if using WebGUI dataset, when selecting an event, right click tools are available for execution. The tool actually executed successfully but table widget doesn't refresh with correct data in the table after the update.

Workaround:
There is not refresh button for table widget itself. But, dragging a TWL refresh widget onto the page, the table widget is then able to refresh table data with the correct information on a periodic basis. The minimum refresh time of the TWL refresh widget is 1 minute!


alm00319221 / IV76664
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Short Description: WIRING FROM MAP WATCH LIST TO EVENT VIEWER DOESN'T HANDLING VIEW DROP DOWN LIST PROPERLY.

Summary:

This issue happen when wiring from map watch list to an event viewer page, user will either see empty selected view or error message:
HEMDP0195E : The specified view 'Default' of category 'user' does not exist. Select an alternative view.

Workaround:
To rectify this error, select the view on the Event Viewer drop down menu.


PM84207 (WebSphere Application Server APAR)
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Short Description: SYNCHRONIZATION FAILURE OF LDAP USERS WITH OBJECTSERVER

Summary:

A Web GUI synchronization from LDAP to ObjectServer for the ncw_admin or ncw_user role groups will fail if the group's uniqueName is in normal case or lowercase. Currently, only groups with a uniqueName in uppercase can replicate to the ObjectServer.

Workaround:
For more information and workaround, visit:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg1PM84207


Enhancements and support components

1 IBM Installation Manager (IM)

IBM Installation Manager is used to install, uninstall, update, roll back, and modify the Web GUI offering.
IBM Installation Manager is expected to be backward compatible. It is, therefore, recommended to use the latest released version.

alm00315482 / IV70436
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Short Description: Enable to support Web UI installation using IM1.8

Summary:

The Installation Manager v1.8 has a new feature for handling Web UI installation. This fix pack has been enhanced to support this feature.

2 IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)

IBM WebSphere Application Server is required by Jazz for Service Management. Please refer to Jazz for Service Management release notes for details of supported versions.

3 IBM DB2 (DB2)

IBM DB2 is a database server and may be used in cluster environments, to support load balancing architecture. Please refer to Jazz for Service Management release notes for details of supported versions.

4 Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM)

The user interface (UI) from Jazz for Service Management provides the framework for Web GUI. Please refer to product release notes for details of certified versions.


Issues and Enhancements addressed in 8.1.0.1 FP1

1 Enhancements

alm00310801 / IV63108
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Short Description: ADDITION OF A NEW DYNAMIC WATCH LISTS ENHANCEMENT

Summary:

There should be a way to easily move alerts into a temporary filter directly from the event viewer. This should support the following features:

1. Creating watch list filters based on existing alerts (i.e. based on node, alert group, summary) which include all future alerts of a similar form.

2. Display of all accessible watch list filters on a dynamically generated map.

3. Ability to delete watch lists from the event viewer.

4. Ability to create watch lists on a user or group level.

5. Ability to set an expire time for watch list filters.

This enhancement request originates from an RFE submitted to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=25368


alm00310799 / IV63104
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Short Description: ADDITION OF AN ALERT QUICK FILTERING ENHANCEMENT TO THE EVENT VIEWER

Summary:

There is currently no way to quickly filter or search the currently displayed event list based on a custom search string. A feature should be implemented which allows the operator to instantly filter the event list based on an entered string of text.


2 Defects

alm00308847 / IV61062
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Short Description: WEBGUI TABLEVIEW SMARTPAGE COMMAND DOES NOT USE THE DATASOURCE PARAMETER

Summary:

When a smartpage is created using the TABLEVIEW command the parameter to specify the datasource is ignored.

If there are multiple datasources the default datasource is used and changing this setting does not change the used datasource.

If the default datasource is NCOMS and there is a datasource called RSCOMS the following will not use this datasource, while this is what should happen and is desired.

<!-- insert:TABLEVIEW[filtername="AllEvents",filtertype="global",datasource="RSCOMS",maxrows="2"] -->


alm00311747/ IV64569
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Short Description: EVENT DASHBOARD ERROR WHEN TRY TO DISPLAY FILTER FROM GROUP NAME WITH SPACE

Summary:

Event Dashboard error when try to display filter from group name which space


alm00312192 / IV65075
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Short Description: FILTER BUILDER BUTTONS MISSING IF USING IE11

Summary:

Filter Builder buttons ("Save and Exit", "Save", "Cancel") are missing when browser IE11 is used.


alm00295723 / IV43485
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Short Description: SQL PARSER IN WEBGUI ISSUE

Summary:

There is an issue with the SQL parser in Web GUI which is easily reproducible by executing the following GET requests:

1) Register the filter
https://localhost:16411/ibm/console/webtop/TransientFilterRegisterServi… IN (123,345))&forceoverwrite=true&type=filter&format=xml

2) Get the filter status https://localhost:16411/ibm/console/webtop/EventDataService?filtername=…

alm00301979 / IV52572
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Short Description: NEWLY CREATED USER CAN'T EXECUTE SQL TOOLS IN AEL UNTIL OS RESYNC HAPPEN.

Summary:

Newly created Web GUI User (with all role) unable to Acknowledge or any other SQL tools on events in AEL although Web GUI is using Object Server as users repository. Unless OS-resync happen via waapi or auto re-sync happen.


alm00305114 / IV56253
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Short Description: UNABLE TO HANDLE FIELD="" FOR RIGHT-CLICK TOOL

Summary:

When AlertGroup="" and try to launch keyword count tool, an error will occur: An error occurred during parameter conversion. The same error happens if we customise the tool with additional field where the field is also empty. The above issue affected 2 tools (Keywords with search filter, Search for similar events).


alm00307650 / IV59986
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Short Description: TRANSIENT FILTERS NOT HANDLING INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS WHEN USING INTERNET EXPLORER

Summary:

When an AEL is launched with a transient filter (not pre-defined in the Filter Builder) using the IE browser, any international characters in the string will not be handled/matched. This could be seen, for example, by creating a Javascript tool that launches a new TIP page containing an AEL and specifies a filter that the AEL should load.


alm00308904 / IV61098
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Short Description: FIRST AND LAST NAMES ARE NOT DISPLAYED CORRECTLY IN USER LIST WHEN COMMA IS PRESENT

Summary:

When customer creates a new user on TIP GUI and includes comma character in the first or last names, the names are not displayed correctly in TIP user list. The user repository used is ObjectServer.


alm00309393 / IV61617
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Short Description: WEB GUI DATA PROVIDER SHOULD HIDE UNSUPPORTED TOOL TYPES

Summary:

In the Web GUI (CURI) data provider, all "events" datasets contains task definitions, which results in a right-click menu appearing when the dataset is populating a TWL widget in DASH, such as a table widget. The right-click menu represents the Web GUI "alerts" menu.

However, TWL table widgets do not support all the different tool types which Web GUI Event Viewer supports. Examples of tools which will not work in a TWL widget are command tools, and prompted tools. Such tasks should be removed from the menu so that they are not available, unless using Event Viewer.


alm00309395 / IV61622
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Short Description: UNABLE TO DISPLAY GAUGE WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE METRICS

Summary:

Gauge page displays an error message: An error occurred during processing of Metric Data Service Request: null.

When one of the Metrics defined was using "Weighted Average" function and the Gauge portlet is configured with Multiple Data Source Function.


alm00309397 / IV61623
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Short Description: FIXED CHOICE PROMPT WITH NON-UNIQUE LABEL/VALUE CHOICES RESULTS IN UNEXPECTED OUTPUT

Summary:

When configuring Fixed Choice prompt with non-unique values provided for either the label or the value choices, the resulting output in the Event Viewer shows a single menu item for the non-unique label at the bottom of the choices list.


alm00309552 / IV61742
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Short Description: THREAD COUNT KEPT INCREASING WHEN WEBGUI FAILS TO CONNECT TO FAILOVER OBJECTSERVER PAIR

Summary:

Web GUI thread count kept increasing when Primary and Backup ObjectServer pair are both unreachable. netstat output does not show any connection in TIME_WAIT state.

The issue does not occur if either ObjectServer is up or in a stand-alone ObjectServer configuration.


alm00309813 / IV61999
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Short Description: EVENTVIEWER.JSP URL DECODING OF QUERY PARAMETERS DOES NOT CORRECTLY DECODE '+' CHARACTERS TO SPACES.

Summary:

In order to close a JavaScript injection issue with the eventViewer.jsp page (and other JSP pages for the AEL, etc) a change has been made in the extraction and decoding of query parameters.


Issues and Enhancements addressed in 8.1.0.2 FP2 and Netcool Operations Insight 1.3

1 Enhancements

alm00315484 / IV70437
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Short Description: NEW EVENT VIEWER CAPABILITY IN WEB GUI BASE OFFERING

Summary:

The Event Viewer has been enhanced to provide the following features:

- Ability to integrate and display events from multiple data sources.
- Operators may now apply any of their views using a selector on the toolbar.
- Operators may edit the applied filter and view in situation using new options on the toolbar and menubar.
- Improved selection support to allow information and journals to be viewed concurrently for all selected events.
- All selected rows may now be copied to the system clipboard.
- Ability to execute custom tools by clicking a row in the event viewer.
- Ability to configure a transient filter in the portlet preferences.
- A new menu bar option to provide access to commonly used features and custom tools.
- Information and journal windows retain their size and position when closed and re-opened.
- Column heading alignment is now based on the view configuration.
- Reduced latency via an improved refresh algorithm so that only new and changed events are requested from the ObjectServer rather then the entire data set.


alm00315463 / IV70427
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Short Description: NEW EVENT ANALYTICS CAPABILITY IN WEB GUI EXTENSION OFFERING

Summary:

Netcool Operations Insight Extensions for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI has been enhanced to add an analytical capability to be able to identify correlated events and group them as parent-child in the Event Viewer.

Related Event Analytics uses statistical analysis of IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus historical event data to determine which events have a statistical tendency to occur together.
The results of this analysis are output on a scheduled basis as event groups. You can use the related events UI to analyze these event groups. Validated event groups can be deployed with a single click as Netcool/Impact correlation rules, without the need to write any code. Correlation rules that are generated in this way act on real-time event data to show a single synthetic event for the events in the event group. All events in the group are presented as children of this synthetic event, with that decreasing the number of events that are presented to your operations staff in the Event Viewer.


2 Defects

alm00282822 / IV30477
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Short Description: WEBGUI731 : AEL DOES NOT RESPOND TO TIP FAILOVER AS EXPECTED

Summary:

The AEL client did not recognise the TIP server failover when configured in a high-availability configuration.

Sometimes the client would recognise the failover, but usually it would not, and the whole interface was stalled until the session timeout of 30 minutes was reached


alm00294671 / IV41869
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Short Description: PREUPGRADE.SH PICKS UP BACKUP DIRECTORIES AND FILES

Summary:

The preupgrade.sh script is picking up backup files and directories not actually in live use by WebGUI and exporting them to upgradeData.zip. This is increasing the likelihood that the upgradeData.zip will be much larger than necessary, which can in turn lead to problems when running upgrade.sh to import the data


alm00297157 / IV45221
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Short Description: COLUMN NAMES IN AEL ARE NOT TRANSLATED

Summary:

Column names in AEL are not translated to other languages. This is because the columnheadings files of all languages have only english and there are no translations to respective languages in those files.


alm00302270 / IV53005
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Short Description: CGI SCRIPT FAILS TO TRANSFER FULL PDF FILES

Summary:

Invoking the CGI/perl script that downloads a binary file through the browser (typically by using the "attachment" header and a binary MIME type) will download a corrupted file, missing the first 8kb approximately.

The same behavior applies for any content declared as binary in the headers, even if the file is actually text.


alm00302545 / IV53460
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Short Description: MISLEADING ERROR MESSAGE IF JUSTIFY ATTRIBUTE IS ADDED FOR ELEMENT BUTTON IN WAAPI CREATEMAP

Summary:

Invoking a WAAPI method call for a Map, containing an element (e.g. a button) with a non-compliant attribute (e.g. "justify") will display the following ambiguous WAAPI error message:

WAAPIClient: Invalid XML - line [x]. Attribute [attribute name] must be declared for element type [element name].


alm00304094 / IV55075
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Short Description: USE OF THE RESTRICTPASSWORDS PROPERTY IS NOT POSSIBLE WHEN USING USER SYNCHRONIZATION WITH WEBGUI AND LDAP

Summary:

WebGUI VMMSYNC to ObjectServer failed with
"ERROR=Password does not meet the restriction requirements." error when RestrictPasswords was turned on at ObjectServer.


alm0000308521 / IV60657
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Short Description: CHANGE THE AEL ERROR MESSAGE WHEN APPLYING A NON-EXISTING FILTER

Summary:

Opening AEL using unregistered or non existing filter will result "Filter 'TestFilter' of category '{1}' not found." error (as per designed). However the 2nd parameter ('{1}') was not resolved to display category of the filter. The reason is the current message formatting doesn't not support formatted message with more than one parameters.


alm00308846 / IV61062
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Short Description: WEBGUI TABLEVIEW SMARTPAGE COMMAND DOES NOT USE THE DATASOURCE PARAMETER

Summary:

When a smartpage is created using the TABLEVIEW command the parameter to specify the datasource is ignored.

If there are multiple datasources the default datasource is used and changing this setting does not change the used datasource.

If the default datasource is NCOMS and there is a datasource called RSCOMS the following will not use this datasource, while this is what should happen and is desired.


alm00311692 / IV64503
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Short Description: NOT POSSIBLE TO LOAD A NEW EVENT DASHBOARD WITHOUT ALL GLOBAL FILTERS

Summary:

Event Dashboard is having performance issue when loading big number of filters (e.g. more then 700 filters) depend on clients environment capability. The Event Dashboard seems hang and the CPU usage is continuously high. While RFE 55292 have been submitted to get higher performance Event Dashboard, there is no easy workaround for existing user that already have huge number of filters to configure the newly created Event Dashboard to load filters lower than recommended number (i.e. 700 filters).

Note, the newly created Event Dashboard will load all global filters, hence caused user not able to proceed to edit mode.


alm00311970 / IV64825
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Short Description: ALARMS ARE NOT ABLE TO SHOW IN EVENT VIEWER IF THE VALUE OF A FIELD HAS CHINESE CHARACTERS

Summary:

Initiating an EventViewer request whose condition contains non-ASCII characters will not display any result even if the condition should match a set of events.

For instance, when the location for a subset of events is in Chinese and those events are grouped by location, clicking on the location in the left pane of the EventViewer will not display any event ("no events found" in the right pane), where it actually should.


alm00311990 / IV64891
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Short Description: DO NOT RESYNC WHEN USER LIST DOES NOT CONTAIN LDAP USERS

Summary:

DO NOT RESYNC WHEN USER LIST DOES NOT CONTAIN LDAP USERS


alm00312075 / IV64987
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Short Description: CREATING A MAP USING WAAPI CONTAINING SYSTEM AND GLOBAL FILTERS WITH A SINGLE MISSING FILTER CAUSES MULTIPLE FILTERS TO FAIL

Summary:

A Map containing a widget referencing the Active Event List with a filter that does not exist (i.e. either incorrectly referenced through WAAPI or erased) will gray out a number of non-problematic widgets, or even all of them according to order in which the widgets were created.

The console at the bottom of the Map will display the following message:
"An error occurred during processing of Event Summary Data Service Request:'null'".


alm00312286 / IV65304
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Short Description: CREATEORREPLACECGI ADDS FULL CGI FILE PATHWAY TO THE CGI REGISTRY INSTEAD OF JUST THE FILE NAME

Summary:

Modifying an existing CGI script through WAAPI while referencing it with an absolute path will cause subsequent attempts to execute the CGI script to fail with a "file not found" error message.


alm00313667 / IV67094
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Short Description: COLUMNS NOT IN THE DATASET FOR WIDGETS

Summary:

Web GUI view. However, this can happen if the user configures a DASH table widget based on a particular Web GUI view, and then later on removes a column from the view. In this instance, the DASH widget continues to request information for the now-missing column.

This results in Web GUI throwing an exception, resulting in many stack traces in the DASH/TIP log file - potentially hundreds per minute, depending on how much data is in the dataset, for which the widget requires data.

If there are thousands as there can be then there is a slim chance of a performance degradation.


alm00313639 / IV67079
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Short Description: THE AEL APPLETS FAIL TO LOAD WHEN OPENING A PAGE CONTAINING MULTIPLE AEL APPLETS

Summary:

AEL applets not able to run and error message printed when multiple applets configured on the same Start-Up page. Java Console reported IllegalStateException at the first line of the trace log.


alm00311204 / IV63370
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Short Description: WEBGUI7.4.0.3(FP): SHOW/HIDE SYSTEM FILTER SHOULD BE CONSISTENT FOR ALL AEL

Summary:

Currently the AEL and Event Viewer provide users the ability to show/hide system filters via a checkbox in the portlet preferences edit page. However this functionality does not affect AELs that are loaded from Event Dashboards or Maps. Users require the same functionality across all AEL so that admin users may choose whether or not to display system filters in the filter drop down list in the toolbar.


alm313594 / IV67035
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Short Description: SELECT MULTIPLE EVENTS IN AEL NOT WORKING CORRECTLY

Summary:

When holding down the CTRL Key and clicked on multiple events (more then three) to selected them, only three events highlighted and Information windows open up by it self without double click on the event.


alm00313896 /IV67435
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Short Description: INEFFICIENCIES IN DATASOURCE CONNECTION POOL WORKFLOW

Summary:

Inefficiencies in the workflow of the datasource thread connection pool are leading to hung threads when WebGUI issues a sustained high number of queries to the object server. Two issues have been identified:
1) The retry logic. Threads are trying twice to make a connection to the datasource primary before failing over. The second try is doubling the waiting time and is unnecessary.
2) Synchronisation. Closed connections to the object server are sometimes neither being returned to the connection pool nor passed to waiting queries.


alm00313932 /IV67438
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Short Description: AEL - INFO - FIELD AND VALUE VALUES ARE NOT ALIGNED WHEN SELECTING THE FIRST FIELD AND USING THE ARROW DOWN KEY

Summary:

When an AEL Information window is open, on the Fields tab if the Field column (first column) is selected and the user scrolls down using the arrow keys from keyboard, only the Field column will move. The Value column does not move.


alm00313932 /IV67980
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Short Description: WEBGUI SCRIPT TOOL DOES NOT HONOUR THE DEFINED DATASOURCES WHEN MULTIPLE DATASOURCES ARE IN AEL

Summary:

When the syntax $selected_rows is used as part of the command syntax in a Script Tool and run on rows of events in AEL comprising from multiple datasources, the Script Tool will only return data from the first serial from one datasource only, effectively ignoring all other rows.


alm00314524 / IV68659
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Short Description: FILTER.ADDFILTER FAILS TO EXECUTE WHEN THE FILTER AND VIEW ARE BOTH OF TYPE 'USER'

Summary:

Waapi user cannot add filter when viewtype is user and type is user.

An error exception thrown as below:
WAAPIClient: 0 method returned errors during execution:filter.addFilter: Failed to invoke method addFilter in class com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.waapi.FilterWAAPIHandler: null
********************************************************************
WAAPIClient: 0 method was fully executed.


alm00314902 / IV69287
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Short Description: WEBGUI8.1 : FIX PACK 1 CREATES UNEXPECTED EMPTY WINDOWS DIRECTORY

Summary:

The installer creates a log directory during install/update, in a strange location based on the default "windows location" value in OMNIbusWebGUI.properties in <omnibus_webgui>/bin is created on Unix system. Although, no functional impact, but this looks untidy.


Issues and Enhancements addressed in 8.1.0.3 FP3 and Netcool Operations Insight 1.3.0.1

1 Enhancements

alm00318890 / IV76152
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Short Description: NEW ENHANCEMENTS TO EVENT VIEWER CAPABILITIES IN WEB GUI BASE OFFERING

Summary:

The Event Viewer has been enhanced to provide the following features:

- Keyboard shortcut support for right-click tools
- Quick filtering based on individual columns or cell values
- Ability to combine multiple quick filters
- Ability to deactivate and reactivate individual quick filters
- Shortcut keys to provide easy access to quick filtering functions
- Workspace preferences, to allow operators to configure the appearance
of Event Viewer, including items such as font, row padding, row
coloring, icon display, date/time format and time zone
- Ability to show or hide visual component of the Event Viewer via
portlet preferences and via workspace preferences
- Additional status information on the status bar, including countdown
refresh timer and message history panel
- Ability for administrators to disallow event interaction for
individual users


alm00318892 / IV76113
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Short Description: NEW ENHANCEMENTS TO EVENT ANALYTICS CAPABILITY IN WEB GUI EXTENSION OFFERING

Summary:

Netcool Operations Insight Extensions for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI has been enhanced to provide 3 main features.
- Single UI for configuring Seasonal and Related Event Configurations Until previous release the user would have to create 2 separate configurations for seasonality and related events. This Fix Pack merges the 2 UIs and hence it, making it possible to create both configurations from a single UI. This provides simplicity and consistency.

- Integration between Seasonal and Related Events. This feature provides a way of viewing whether the seasonal event does have a related event associated with it.

- Define set of automated actions when the seasonal/related events occur in the live environment. This feature provides a capability to create a rule to take some predefined actions when the seasonal event occurs in the live environment. Additionally, it is also possible to drill into the historical events behind the seasonal event, which is very useful for investigation purposes.


2 Defects

alm00294034 / IV40232
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Short Description: WEBGUI STORING FULLNAME='FIRSTNAME LASTNAME LASTNAME' WHEN USING ACTIVE DIRECTORY AUTHENTICATION

Summary:

Fullname contain twice firstname in object server when authenticate user using LDAP


alm00294734 / IV42167
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Short Description: REALTIMEDYNAMICCHOICE PROMPT WINDOW DISPLAYS STRANGELY IF IT DOESN'T RETRIEVE ANY ROWS.

Summary:

During AEL tool execution, if a DynamicChoice or RealTimeDynamicChoice prompt is displayed which contains no choices, a validation error is displayed. Instead, either a prompt window displays an empty frame or shows the window behind or no list or buttons greyed out.


alm00299613 / IV50072
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Short Description: WAAPI.DTD ATTRIBUTES DOESN'T MATCH WEBGUI SERVER IMPLEMENTATION

Summary:

Some attributes of WAAPI user.modifyUser method are not up-to-date comparing to waapi.dtd.


alm00305476 / IV56743
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Short Description: LDAP GROUP NAME BEGIN WITH "#" DOES NOT DISPLAY IN WEBGUI TOOL PAGE

Summary:

LDAP group names that begin with "#" do not display in WebGUI Tool page (with ncw role type assigned), but it do display in Manage Group.


alm00306288 / IV58690
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Short Description: THE JAVA MAP EDITOR DOES NOT LOAD THE APPLIED CHANGES WHEN THE MAP OBJECT PROPERTIES ARE CLOSED AND RE-OPENED

Sumary:

The java map editor does not load the applied changes when the map object properties are closed and re-opened. The map object properties loads the original properties value instead.


alm00315887 / IV65954
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Short Description: EVENT VIEWER IS UNABLE TO DISPLAY TRANSIENT FILTERS (810 FIX PACK 1)

Sumary:

When using "Update Event List (using wires)" across two Event Viewer portlets, the filter drop down on the receiving portlet shows a red (error) background and does not list the specified filter.


alm00314045 / IV67763
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Short Description: DYNAMIC PROMPT TOOL RETURNS NULL VALUES AS RESULT WHEN NOT SELECTED VIA AEL DIRECT

Summary:

A dynamic prompt based tool does not return the correct values from the dynamic prompt when an event is not selected first in the AEL. If selected via a menu bar, the tool does not populate the values that the dynamic prompt had defined.


alm00314342 / IV68283
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Short Description: AEL TOOL ERROR CAUSED BY IMPROPER ESCAPE HANDLING FOR SINGLE-QUOTE AND CURLY BRACE

Summary:

AEL SQL tool fails if the value contains special characters such as "'" (single quote) or "}" (curly bracket). The following error occurs at the time of executing the AEL SQL Tool: "Failed to execute tool.
1. You do not have permission to modify the selected events. Contact the administrator for further details.".


alm00314772 / IV69071
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Short Description: USERS UNABLE TO VIEW JOURNAL

Summary:

The Journal window opened from AEL is missing add Journal field. When users open the Journal window, the AlertSummary will check and get the historic event command of the user's session before proceeding with the Journal response creation. If there is a historic command present, the AlertSummary will respond with the historic command instead of the Journal response. When the command is not meant for the Journal response, the Journal fails as the response is unexpected.


alm00314908 / IV69337
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Short Description: DEPENDENT FILTERS DISAPPEAR FROM LIST AFTER RESTARTING WEBGUI

Summary:

Newly created 'advanced' or 'basic' filters added as part of a pre-existing dependency filter's list, disappear from the Selected filters list in the Filter Builder after restarting WebGUI, although they do persist in 'filter.xml'


alm00315359 / IV70112
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Short Description: SESSION LOGOUT : JOURNAL AND OTHER PERSISTENT POP-UPS ARE NOT HANDLED FOR NEW USER LOGIN

Summary:

Users of Web GUI applets employing the same browser session across different user sessions may be able to access the prior user's floating applets (if left open by prior user).


Alm00315695 / IV70809
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Short Description: SYNCHRONISATION BLOCKED EVEN WHEN THE OBJECT SERVER REPOSITORY IS NOT A PARTICIPATING BASE ENTRY

Summary:

Having an object server repository configured in wimconfig.xml blocks synchronization of LDAP users to OMNIbus, even when the object server repository is not a participatingBaseEntry.

Synchronization should only be blocked when the object server repository is a participatingBaseEntry.


alm00315994 / IV71260
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Short Description: IN A TOOL PROMPT CONFIGURATION A '+' SIGN IS
REPLACED BY A BLANK.

Summary:

Modifying an existing tool prompt that contains a formatted string (i.e. a regular expression) will replace any "+" quantifier from that string with a whitespace, hence compromising the validation of values for the end user.


alm00316074 / IV71414
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Short Description: EVENT LIST SLOW WHEN USING EXTERNAL REPOSITORY SOURCE WITH MANY USERS AND GROUPS ASSIGNED NCW* ROLES

Summary:

Loading or manipulating the Event Viewer when a number of VMM users have "ncw_user" or "ncw_admin" roles performs very poorly.


alm00316077 / IV71420
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Short Description: SRVE0216E EXCEPTION GENERATED BY EXECUTION OF TOOLS.

Summary:

An SRVE0133E exception is generated in SystemOut.log upon each execution of a SQL tool from the AEL.


alm00316310 / IV71817
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Short Description: JAVA.LANG.NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION WHEN LOADING SMARTPAGE (IE11 ONLY)

Summary:

AEL applet fail to load via SmartPage on IE 11 only. The AEL applet is loaded successfully on Firefox and lower version of IE. The issue caused by the "componentOrientation" parameter set as empty on default GUI Orientation. On IE 11, the parameter with empty value was returned as null and cause Applet initialization failed with java.lang.NullPointerException when it retrieve and use the "componentOrientation" parameter.


alm00316540 / IV72156
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Short Description: DARK THEME DOESN'T APPLY TO FLOATING EVENT VIEWER?

Summary:

The Event Viewer opened in a floating window (e.g. from a Map) does not display with the Dark theme on - it stays with the default theme.


alm00316622 / IV72367
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Short Description: AEL DISPLAY OCCASIONALLY TURNS GREY

Summary:

When the applet is initialized with a transient filter, a new event data refresh thread is spawned as part of the update of the filter drop down. Usually. this takes longer to complete than the rest of the applet initialization, but under certain conditions it does not. Under this condition, the internal list of sort columns does not get updated until the next refresh, which causes a disconnect between the incoming data and the column names.

The visible result is that the event list will appear grey and double clicking an alert with either:
1. Open the details for a different alert which has a serial matching the severity of the original
2. Give an error (if there are no alerts with a serial matching the severity of the original)


alm00316714 / IV72646
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Short Description: SELF MONITORING PAGE SHOWS INCORRECT SELECTIONS AFTER SAVING CHANGES.

Summary:

Self monitoring page shows incorrect selections after saving changes.


alm00316973 / IV72958
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Short Description: NETCOOL WEB GUI TAKES LONG TIME TO LOAD EVENT DASHBOARD

Summary:

Performance issue from Web GUI on Event Dashboard. Loading 450 filters caused several minutes delay.


alm00316985 / IV73015
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Short Description: AEL HANGS WHEN CLOSED AND OPENED A NEW WITHIN 5 SECONDS

Summary:

Closing a tab or floating window with AEL, and then opening it again may cause AEL to:

* freeze without fully loading
* lag
* display a number of unrecoverable errors in the client Java logs


alm00317000 / IV73086
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Short Description: SECONDARY OBJECT SERVER CONNECTION REPORTS UNAVAILABLE EVEN WHEN CONNECTED

Summary:

When Web GUI connects to a failover ObjectServer, the secondary ObjectServer will always be labeled as "not available" in the Web GUI system report, unless the primary ObjectServer is down at the time when the report is being generated.


alm00317100 / IV73258
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Short Description: ENABLE BOOLEAN DATATYPES IN PAYLOAD FOR REGISTERING TRANSIENT FILTER

Summary:

Using a TreeTable DASH widget with TBSM and Web GUI 8.1's Active Event List (AEL) will not register required transient filters, thus preventing the widget and AEL from communicating correctly.


alm00317117 / IV73303
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Short Description: DATASOURCE TEST BUTTON FOR SSL CONNECTION TO EVENT FEED CAUSES ERROR

Summary:

Testing a datasource with SSL will always label it as unavailable, even if the connection actually works (i.e. in event lists).


Alm00317339 / IV73541
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Short Description: ERRORS DURING VIEW AND FILTER PERSISTENCE PREVENT CLOSING VIEWBOX/FILTERBOX TAGS TO BE WRITTEN TO FILE

Summary:

Corrupted request payloads sent by the View builder form through the back-end are detected, but persistence of the corrupted view is not prevented. In turn, this can lead to Web GUI persisting malformed XML representing views in the local file system.


alm00317350 / IV73564
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Short Description: TOOLS IN THE ACTIVE EVENT LIST ARE NOT INVOKED WHEN NO EVENT IS CLICKED

Summary:

If a tool is selected from a menu without an event selected (rather than by selecting an event and right-clicking for the Alerts Menu), the tool is not invoked at all. The scenario resembles the previous fix IV67763, but in this case instead of the tool being invoked with incorrect values it is not invoked at all.


alm00317437 / IV73647
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Short Description: CANNOT CREATE GROUP FILTERS OR VIEWS

Summary:

When a group name contains characters found in the illegal character file, the filters and views assigned to that group disappear from the builder menus.


alm00317700 / IV74047
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Short Description: DEPENDENTCY FILTER DIDN'T DISPLAY IN THE DEPENDENT FILTER

Summary:

In certain cases (e.g. importing dependent filters from a Web GUI to another), the order of persistence between a dependent filter and its dependencies does not allow to resolve the dependencies for that dependent filter, as the dependencies are persisted after the dependent filter. This causes a failure at de-serialization, where the dependencies cannot be resolved. Both the dependent filter and any dependency will be loaded, but the relationship between the dependent filter and its dependencies is lost.


alm00318025 / IV74468
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Short Description: UNABLE TO CREATE OR MODIFY VIEWS IN IE9

Summary:

Clicking buttons (except "Save and Close", "Save" and "Close" buttons) in View builder will result premature form submission and returned error. In some cases, it will cause persistence view box (view.xml) corruption. This issue only happen on IE9.


alm00318269 / IV75034
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Short Description: SQL PARSER IN WEB GUI CAUSING LEXICAL ERRORS.

Summary:

The Web GUI SQL parser is currently failing to recognize multiple valid types of filter syntax.

e.g. (NmosEntityId in (181734,42346,42347,184638)) is resulting in the error:

"HEMFV0086E=The advanced SQL statement '(NmosEntityId IN (181734,42346,42347,184638))' is invalid for the following reason: Lexical error at line 1, column 1. Encountered: "(" (40), after :"


alm00318356 / IV75219
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Short Description: EVENT GROUPING DOESN'T WORK

Summary:

The Grouping Function of the EventViewer doesn't work on JazzSM 1.1.2/DASH 3.1.2.

The Event Grouping (left pane) of the Event Viewer is empty (No items to display)