Readme file for: IBM® FileNet® P8 Content Platform Engine Container
Update name: 5.5.8.0-P8CPE-Container
Fix ID: 5.5.8.0-P8CPE-Container-IF002
Publication date: 27 July 2022
Last modified date: 27 July 2022
This Interim Fix deploys a new Content Platform Engine (CPE) 5.5.8 container or updates an existing container.
It is a full release of the CPE container.
This Interim Fix can be deployed on IBM Cloud Public, Red Hat OpenShift, or a certified Kubernetes managed container environment.
The interim fix supports the rolling upgrade feature in Kubernetes which enables you to keep your environment up and running while upgrading each of the CPE servers in your configuration.
The following changes are introduced in this 5.5.8.0-P8CPE-Container-IF002 Interim Fix:
The following changes are introduced in this 5.5.8.0-P8CPE-Container-IF001 Interim Fix:
User-based license metrics User Name Hashing can be disabled by FileNetEngine application JVM option.
Application Servers deployed with the FileNetEngine application using the latest listener.jar library can request user names be stored in clear text by disabling user name hashing with the new JVM option "filenet.pch.USERNAMEHASH=disabled". The default mode is "enabled".
Note that data already extracted and stored by the ILMTCollector tool into a local Derby database in hashed form will not be updated to non-hashed form. Only new data extracted from a CPE instance with the JVM option filenet.pch.USERNAMEHASH=disabled will store user names in clear text.
This interim fix requires:
Following are some known problems and restrictions that are related to this Interim Fix:
You can access the container images in the IBM entitled registry (Docker registry) with your IBMid. Follow instructions given later in this readme.
Important: If you are using this Interim Fix as a part of a new deployment of the FileNet Content Manager containers, you must deploy the container as described in the Knowledge Center topic Deploying a new P8 domain by using containers. Additionally review the Interim Fix Update Readme file for other important information that may be required when installing the container deployment. Link to the Interim Fix Update Readme file provided below.
Important: If you are using this Interim Fix as a part of a upgrading an existing deployment, you must deploy the container as described in the Knowledge Center topic Upgrading container deployments. Additionally review the Interim Fix Update Readme file in the ibm-ecm/container-samples GitHub repository for other important information that may be required when upgrading the container deployment. Link to the Interim Fix Update Readme file provided below.
To use this Interim Fix to update a deployment of the container to a new minor version, follow the procedures in the Interim Fix Update Readme file
After the operator processing completes, verify the Content Platform Engine deployment.
Updates to the Content Platform Engine client files must be installed as needed on the Content Platform Engine clients. See the Readme for the Content Platform Engine interim fix 5.5.8.0-P8CPE-Container-IF002 for details.
Updates to the Content Platform Engine client tools must be installed as needed on the Content Platform Engine tools. See the Readme for the Content Platform Engine interim fix 5.5.8.0-P8CPE-IF002 for details.
The following table lists the product fixes included in this interim fix.
Deployment type: T=Traditional application server, C=Containerized, A=All deployment types
APAR |
Deployment |
Description |
|---|---|---|
PJ44426 |
A |
Content Search Services (CSS) unable to find Brazil formatted dates in an excel file. |
PJ46366 |
A |
Content Search Services (CSS) Content Based Retrieval (CBR) Queries failing because space not preserved during PDF text extraction. |
PJ46534 |
A |
Content Search Services (CSS) TextExtraction with OIT fails on MS Word 2003 document with protected text: Search Export reports "file is corrupt (0x0009)" error. |
PJ46581 |
A |
Case Analyzer Database Latency with Oracle Database. |
PJ46762 |
A |
Case History Auditing of a GetObject action under impersonation fails with E_ACCESS_DENIED. |
PJ46770 |
A |
Problem when creating component queues in ACCE. |
PJ46771 |
A |
Process Engine (PE) Eventhandler code for CE subscriptions should do case insensitive check for connection point. |
PJ46785 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) Custom Object creation does not retain the user defined Containment Name. |
PJ46786 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) throws "cannot find object in collection" when updating a property template Description field from blank to a valid new value. |
PJ46794 |
A |
Initial document ingestion with storage area compression enabled causes Null Pointer Exception error. |
PJ46797 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) performance issue it takes 30 seconds to display saved searches. |
PJ46798 |
A |
Content Platform Engine (CPE) fails to properly process username containing Scandinavian characters using SCIM provider. |
PJ46803 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) Security tab is missing in Event Action. |
PJ46815 |
A |
PSIRT ADV0053879 (CVE-2022-21496): IBM Java (JRE) LDAP security vulnerabilities (April 2022 Oracle Critical Update Patch). See security bulletin 6591917. |
PJ46824 |
A |
"The repository is not available" error occurs on first attempt to logon to IBM Content Navigator (ICN). |
PJ46840 |
A |
Process Engine (PE) Process Designer (PD) may start either off-screen or minimized. |
PJ46841 |
A |
Multiple failed logons lock user when standalone Process Engine (PE) Process Designer (PD) tries a bad password. |
APAR |
Deployment |
Description |
|---|---|---|
PJ46568 |
A |
PSIRT ADV0032964 (CVE-2021-31811, CVE-2021-31812): Apache PDFBox security vulnerability. See security bulletin 6467839. Fixed in PDFBox/FontBox v2.0.25. |
PJ46677 |
A |
Content Platform Engine (CPE) S3 Storage URL Encoding implementation not fully compatible with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specs. |
PJ46692 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) display error in the Audit Definitions configuration. |
PJ46694 |
A |
Case Analyzer Events are getting quarantined incorrectly. |
PJ46696 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) plugin is not loading with navigator layout in IBM Content Navigator (ICN). |
PJ46702 |
A |
Administration Console for Content Platform Engine (ACCE) version translations in upper right are incorrect. |
PJ46709 |
A |
FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) - Retrieve connection point half map from deploy data set with workflow definition does not extract Isolated Region. |
PJ46722 |
A |
FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) - Retrieve and convert service data for CmAcmPage/ICMPage objects does not work. |
PJ46727 |
A |
FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) - Reassign of an object store from version 5.5.1 fails. |
PJ46730 |
A |
Process Engine (PE) HTTP date header contains non-English words. |
PJ46742 |
A |
BAI Content Event Emitter does not use correct type for document properties in emitted events. |
PJ46748 |
A |
FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) - Reassign of an object store fails if the directory configurations are in a different order. |
PJ46775 |
A |
FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) - Retrieve principal data for ICN Entry Templates objects does not work. |
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| Date |
Description |
|---|---|
| 27 July 2022 |
Initial interim fix release. |