Last update: 2022-07-18
ITDT-SE/GE 9.5.4 build 20220718
ITDT-GE - Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: Windows Server 2022, Problem during device scan .
- Fix: Performance Test disabled timeout.
ITDT-GE - Log Files
- Fix: LIB Messages, added new column TAG.
- Fix: Updated FSC database.
- Fix: Changed timezone to PST.
- Fix: 3592 DumpTime issue.
- New: Added Log Sense Page decoding for TS4300 and TS4500.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.5.3 build 20220315
General
- Fix: System Test: compression data fixed.
- Fix: Erase command: Windows intermediate command used for large timeouts.
- New: Erase command: Option: short added.
- New: Scan command: added additional serial number formating information.
- New: Fullwrite command: Option: 100compressible added.
- New: Added new scripting command qryhba to show host adapter information.
ITDT-GE
- Fix: Program Online Update - Spawnhelper access issue fixed.
- New: Tapeutil Erase command: Option: short added.
- New: Hot Keys added.
- New: FixCentral Interface: Pre-processed datasets updated; Components naming extended by description.
ITDT-GE - Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: Dump From Tape issue for LTo7+ fixed.
ITDT-SE
- New: New installer for IBM System i.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.5.2 build 20211117
General
- New: TS4500 RestOverSCSI - added work around for incorrect reported length.
- Fix: Load/unload tests showed incorrect file name.
- New: New scripting function erase tape.
- New: Add Media Optimization Information.
ITDT-GE - Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: Full WRITE introduced different compression ratios: 1.5x, 2.5x and 5.0x.
- Fix: LTFS Readiness check, cartridge identifier for LTO9 was missing.
- Fix: FULLWITE wrong filename shown in result list.
ITDT-GE - Log Files
- New: Dump - SCSI commands added for Lun 0 and Lun 1.
ITDT-GE - Tapeutil scripting
- Fix: List command changed update interval to 10000.
- Fix: Tapeutil perspective re-aligned items to support large fonts.
- Fix: Tapeutil Result List limited to 1000 lines.
ITDT-SE 9.5.1 build 20210723
General
- New: JRE update to AdoptOpen JDK j9 11 v0.26.0 .
- New: InstallAnywhere 2021.
- New: : Switched to Eclipse 4.19 Rich Client Platform..
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: Add test engine support for LTO-9.
- Fix: Physical copy - check of available memory at start.
Log Files
- New: LTO-9 dump decoding.
- Fix: CM Tape Control, adjusted data type for signed values.
ITDT-GE 9.5.0 build 20210517
ITDT-SE, ITDT-GE
- New: CSS introduced for common font handling.
- New: JRE update to OpenJDK J9 8.0.20.0.
- New: Installer, changed to InstallAnywhere 2020.
- Fix: IBM System i, launcher script file was missing.
- Fix: Fix for Rendering issue with large Fonts.
- Fix: Added support for large fonts.
- New: Realigned GUI to avoid rendering problems.
- New: Command line checking via regex improved - load time shorten for library.
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: Dynamic timeout-handling for SCSI commands based on 0xA3 timeout command.
- New: JSON output file - successor of the TXT file.
- New: When dump file(s) have been attached to BLOB file, the suffix will be changed to .dump.blz.
- New: Added Firmware field to TestViews and Info field column.
- Fix: Changed layout of test result tabs, including System Tab.
- New: AIX: for larger file transfers > 1MB writex() and readx() will be used.
Tapeutil scripting
- New: Added JSON output for inquiry(inqj), logsense(logpagej) and scan(scanj) command.
- New: Added format unit command.
- Fix: Scripting command qrypos does not report the current position in decimal.
- Fix: Scripting commands checking for invalid commands.
Log Files
- New: Add ITDT Parsing message if CM is empty.
- New: Updated FSC database.
- New: Added Log Sense Page 0x0C.
- New: Log Sense Pages, added additional column showing parameter id in hexadecimal.
- New: SCSI Sense Data, detailed description of each sense byte.
- New: Added decoding of Log Sense Page 0x18.
- New: Added decoding of Log Sense Page 0x16 TimeStamp from hex to d/h/m/s format.
- New: New CM event: Manufacturers Information.
- New: New CM event: Cartridge Content.
- New: New CM event: Usage Information.
- New: simplify column headers on VPD SCSI log.
- Fix: Dump Header: LTO relative time handling issue fixed.
- Fix: LogSense pages parsing issues fixed.
- Fix: Fixed Field Formatting for repeatable structures.
- Fix: Log Sense Page 0x02 added missing parameter descriptions.
- Fix: Event Data: removed multiple empty lines.
- Fix: Event Data: removed empty heading line for repeatable data.
- Fix: Fixed Eclipse/SWT redraw problem within formatted text.
- Fix: Missing SCSI command D2 WRITE DYNAMIC RUNTIME ATTRIBUTE added.
- Fix: Fixed blz file decoding of VPD read buffer page for LTO-6 ff.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.4.0 build 20200108
ITDT-SE, ITDT Library
- Fix: Parsing of scripting command HTTP shown unexpected console messages.
- Fix: AIX scripting, unexpected DATA when running physicalcopy drive to drive.
Fix: Windows scripting ROS commands in TS4300 library are failing with 'invalid parameter'.
Fix: Blocksize for generic devices limited to 1 MiB.
ITDT-GE
- New: Linux - only GTK3+ support, GTK2 discontinued!.
Log Files
- Fix: 359260F added decoding of VPD SCSI log.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.4.0 build 20191202
ITDT-SE, ITDT Library
- New: Diagnostic: EoL (End of Life) Cartridge validation during mount.
- New: Scripting: TS4500 Rest over SCSI (RoS) support.
- New: Scripting: TS4300 RESTFul integration.
- New: Diagnostic: TS4500 code update.
- New: ALL: Scan improvement - range, show all paths.
- New: Max Block Size adapted to up to 8MiB on LTO and 2 MiB on Enterprise drives.
- Fix: Linux S390x block-size limit of 512k removed.
- Fix: ITDT-SE - help is not shown.
- Fix: RoS improved parameter handling, allow spaces, file transfers, exit code etc..
- Fix: Output filename (dump, blob, txt) - validating VPD content.
- Fix: TS4300 RESTful: PI update for code load.
ITDT-GE
- New: New JRE bundling - 8.0.5.037.
- New: Windows 2019 support with InstallAnywhere.
- New: New signing of shared library, install image and JAR plugins .
- New: Drag and Drop of Dump-files.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.3.1 build 20190326
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: 3592E08 was failing performance test.
- Fix: Firmware discovery on FixCentral causes hang.
- Fix: Firmware discovery on FixCentral skipped LTO7 and LTO8.
- New: Linux support for up to 1024 sg devices.
Copy Perspective
- Fix: Hang during device discovery.
Tapeutil
- Fix: "Tapeutil with changer option 59 is failing in Read Cartridge Location.
- Fix: "Tapeutil is failing erase command on LTO7.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.3.0 build 20181029
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: ITDT-SE: Strings for the the dump file names are being shown.
Tapeutil
- New: "Archive Mode Unthread" test failed changing the settings SE.
- Fix: "resetdevice/resetdrive" scripting command failed.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.3.0 build 20181024
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: Library Firmware Update is failing with ITDT-GE for TS4300 library.
Tapeutil
- New: for TS4300 library added tapeutil support for ucode.
- Fix: "resetdevice" scripting command failed.
- Fix: Scripting command is passing even when it doesn't exist "turvpd".
- Fix: Scripting command "cartridgelocation" is failling".
- Fix: Scripting command load is showing exit code 5.
Log Files
- Fix: SCSI CDA Additional Info, FC parameters reported on SAS drive.
- Fix: Out of memory exception.
Others
- Fix: Text overlap when using large fonts.
- Fix: Strings for the the dump file names are being shown.
- Fix: Copy Service, Abort button is not working.
- Fix: Linux x86, installer is not working.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.3.0 build 20181005
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: Adjust build environment, wrong shared libraries are shipped.
- Fix: Fullwrite exerciser, Abort button was not working.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.3.0 build 20180927
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: Added support for Archive Mode Unthread in getparm/setparm/load/unload
- Fix: Updated ECC preprocessed file.
Tapeutil
- Fix: TapeUtil option 31 "write Filemarks" is accepting letters as parameter.
- Fix: TapeUtil option 31 "write Filemarks" displays only two digits.
Log Files
- Fix: Widget disposed message, after a Window has been closed.
- Fix: Out of memory exception.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.3.0 build 20180829
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: Added product support for 359260F.
- New: Check for Updates, added support for 359255F.
- New: Save log file settings permanently.
- New: Device dependent command timeout beginning with LTO-5 and 3592E07.
- New: LTO-8 media added support for capacity adjustment proposal from Fuji Film and Sony.
- New: ITDT-GE added TCP/IP based Firmware update for TS4300 library.
- New: Capacity checking is based on new LogSense 0x17 attribute.
- Fix: LTO-M8 Media Verification. Check if an LTO-7 media is eligible to be converted into a LTO-8M cartridge.
- Fix: LTO-M8 Media Verification validate just LTO-8 drives.
- Fix: Reset device: The test step will be skipped if the drive is within a library environment.
- Fix: Check for Updates, updated Digital Certificates.
- Fix: Operating System Linux, using special devices files without rewind during device scan.
Log Files
- New: FSC matchlist data were aligned to FSC lookup table.
- New: FSC matchlist separated for 3592 and LTO.
- New: Added product support for 359260F.
- Fix: HW Config - L7/L8 Dip Switches decoding reworked.
- Fix: Log Sense page 14, 'Drive MFG Serial Number' and 'Drive Serial Number' were shown as hex values.
- Fix: FID severity number was not correct.
- Fix: Operating System Windows: shared samba folder could not be accessed.
- Fix: Tape Directory, added extended Tape Directory event to graph.
- Fix: Fix for Lun X.
- Fix: Time stamp set by library was not decoded correctly.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20171204
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: LTO-8 added support for M type media.
- Fix: Synchronized scan button in Copy Services and Diagnostic perspective.
Copy Services
- Fix: Device could not be opened.
- Fix: Unmount message did not disappear.
- Fix: Progress indicator was not shown while loading/unloading a cartridge in a changer environment.
Log Files
- New: LTO-8 added support for M type media.
- New: Added decoding of CM Cartridge Content Data.
- Fix: Dynamically parsing of Log Sense pages.
- Fix: Tape Filling display not correct.
- Fix: Mode page last byte was not shown.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20170921
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- Fix: Prompt never returned using option 101 from tapeutil in TS2900 .
- Fix: OS Windows, ucode command was not working in TS4300 library.
- Fix: Configuration not supported'Text displayed while scanning T4300 library.
- Fix: Result code EINVAL (22) was displayed.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.2.0 build 20170828
Maintenance&Diagnostic
- New: New product support: TS2280, TS1155 and TS4300.
- New: ITDT-SE: Little endian for Linux on IBM Power Systems.
- New: ITDT-GE: Support for MacOsX.
- New: New IBM Java JRE bundled 8.0.4.10.
- New: TS4300 HTTP access added to support firmware updates.
- Fix: Physical Copy, progtam issue when using different HBA's.
- Fix: Physical Copy, AIX physical copy memory allocation failed.
- Fix: Wrong output directory was created and used, instead of ITDT directory current working directory was used.
- Fix: Write Protect on Gen 5 cartridge in Gen 7 Drive on ITDT load/unload test.
- Fix: Physical copy added detection of different HBA transfer sizes.
- Fix: Dump file name and blz file name include binary characters, added validation check.
- Fix: ITDT-SE: Debug log file metro.log gets written to install directory.
Log Files
- New: Dump Decoding - Dynamic Runtime Attribute pages added to be visualized.
- New: Common Events stacked.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20161006
(changes after build 20160926)
- Fix: Code update: Refresh drives were handled as TS4500.
- Fix: AIX: FC generic devices could not be opened in VIO environments.
- Fix: Library Media Screening: Additional Error Code when a loaded cartridge could not be unloaded.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160902
(changes after build 20160825)
ITDT-GE
- Fix: Copy Services: Abort Button did not abort copy/verify process.
- Fix: Tapeutil: LogText font changed to monospace system with default height.
ITDT-SE
- Fix: Library Media Screening disabled for TS3500/TS4500.
- Fix: TS3500/TS4500 dump function returned immediately.
- Fix: LTFS Readiness Check and other LTFS related commands are not working.
- Fix: Get Logs TestStep on Linux s390 failed.
- Fix: MacOs: Generic devices could not be opened randomly.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160825
(changes after build 20160818)
ITDT-GE
- Fix: Copy Services: Abort Button did not work.
- Fix: FixCentral: Old service providers could not be updated and therefore the connection to IBM FixCentral could not be established.
ITDT-SE
- Fix: Firmware update for TS4500 disabled based on the transfer time and size.
- Fix: Scripting commands: "logpage" and "logsense" did not work for pages > 128 bytes.
- Fix: [N] NEXT was missing after a device has been opened.
- Fix: TS3500/TS4500 differentiation in scripting "scan".
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160818
(changes after build 20160801)
Diagnostic/Maintenance
- Fix: Library and Drive are not associated when scan the system.
Tapeutil
- Fix: Weird symbol is displayed after DD information.
- Fix: Write command failed with Exit code 5.
- Fix: ITDT GE got hang while listing the tape contents.
- Fix: Blank space is missing in message in rwtest command.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160801
(changes after build 20160722)
Diagnostic/Maintenance
- Fix: ITDT scan option is only displaying the generic info from the devices
ITDT-GE
- Fix: Log File Viewer: Event Panel - Application crashed by issuing an ENTER/RETURN command.
- Fix: Log File Viewer: Report Panel - Application crashed toggling and having an entry in the search field..
- Fix: Tapeutil: the sand clock status never stops.
- Fix: ITDT version displayed in "About ITDT" is wrong.
- Fix: Log File Viewer: Progress indicator realigned, button FSC removed.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160722
(changes after build 20160614)
ITDT-SE
- Fix: Firmware update: 'DIR OK' field did not get updated after status false.
- Fix: ITDT-SE online help: changed partition option for readattr and writeattr from 0|1 to 0|1|2|3.
- Fix: Field Problem: ITDT cored when persistence name was direct under /dev/.
ITDT-GE
- Fix: Windows 2016 installer did work.
- Fix: Electronic Customer Care Common Client - bios files were missing.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.1.0 build 20160614
(changes after build 20150914)
Diagnostic/Maintenance
- New: Added [-cqs Memorysize ] as parameter for tapephcp and ltfsphcp.
- New: Added Support for partial scan.
- New: Added exlude parameter for partial scan.
- New: TS3500/TS4500 differentiation added - "HARDWARE VERSION" string set to "2" for TS4500.
- New: ltfsphcp added VOL1 as optional parameter.
- New: tapephcp/ltfsphcp added support for LTO-7.
- New: Fullwrite, selection of default block size.
- New: Write/Read/Verify and Write Test added Max Transfersize warning message.
- New: Physical Copy, added progress bar and copy service completed notification dialog.
- Fix: REWIND for SYSTEM test added.
- Fix: Fix for Field problem: Physical Copy - reported value for data transfered and data rate are not correct.
- Fix: Fix for Field problem: Fullwrite was not working as expected.
- Fix: Issue reported by customer: data overrun for larger data in the Write and Write/Read/Verify Tapeutil tests.
- Fix: Physical Copy: The RLL table contains multiple repeatable elements with the same length.
- Fix: 'tapephcp' and 'ltfsphcp' did not support blocksize from 1MB.
- Fix: Added Online help for Specify Device Manually.
- Fix: Clean up of configuration file to avoid error messages during load.
ITDT GE
- New: Switched to Eclipse 4.5.2 Rich Client Platform.
Log & Dump File Viewer
- New: Common Format of all Log Sense Pages, dynamically parsing.
- New: Log Page 0xC added description of Parameters 4,5,6,7and 8.
- New: LogSense pages for TS3100/3200 and TS3500 added.
- New: Add Persisted State function.
- New: ECC is using now the "edge" - that's the replacement of serviceProviderIBM.xml
- New: Added support for FCR 3316 - LTO7 increase counter sizes.
- New: Added validation check for descriptor based decoding, new offset should include data type BINARY with length of 0 as valid entry.
- New: Added support for z Level based Dump files.
- New: CM Cartridge MFG, CM Cartridge EOD Information added support for LTO7.
- New: Added Logsense Page decoding for 3573.
- Fix: Sense page 0x31 changed ACL for Page Length field
- Fix: Added FSC descriptions for 0x1055 and 0x7381.
- Fix: Field Formatting Key/Value pair was not working (Log sene 3D and others).
- Fix: Empty SCSI Trace tab was shown.
- Fix: Search Function - scroll to position and Scrolling issue in Formated Text.
- Fix: NullPointer Exception during File/Dump Open.
- Fix: HW-Config was not decoded correctly for LTO-6 and LTO-7.
- Fix: WriteReadVerify data overrun, xferSize member variable was of type 'long'.
- Fix: CM Tape directory was not shown correctly.
- Fix: Drive/Model detection based on LinkLevel and EC Level.
- Fix: ITDT does not Extract dumps.
Tapeutil Functions
- New: Added new function Read/Write Attribute.
- New: Added new function Force Channel Calibration.
- New: Check LTFS readiness added new operating system supoport for OS X Mountain Lion and Maverick.
Others
- New: Operating System Support for RHEL 7, SUSE12, Windows 2016 and Linux PPC64 Little Endian
- New: Microcode Online Update refresh list of prepocessed data.
- New: Microcode Online Update added support for TS4500.
- New: Microcode Online Update replaced ECC Common Client to version v2r2m0
- New: Add Drive Physical Location to Read Element Status Descriptor.
- New: Improved URL handling of updatesite_feature and updatesite_product.
- New: Update Help for Scan, Partial Scan and Add Device Manually.
- Fix: Min Max Window resize button causes redraw problem for shared elements within eclipse 4.5.2 environment.
- Fix: Issue when About Dialog is called twice.
- Fix: Handling of corrupted SETTING.xml configuration file.
- Fix: Java memory optimization, removing of memory leaks.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150914
(changes after build 20150729)
Log & Dump File Viewer
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New:
Added support for LTO-7 link levels starting with mf and mh.
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New:
ITDT-GE Help: Program Overview /Supported Devices - TS2270 added.
Diagnostic/Maintenance
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New:
Manual Record: Model LTO-Gen7 and 3592E08 added
ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150729
(changes after build 20150609)
ITDT-SE User Interface
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New:
Limited device list to 10 rows (used to be 12) to get more space on the page.
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New:
gz file extensions removed in help screens; added .dump. extension.
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New:
Realigned the expert functions to the bottom; removed "S+Enter ...", "Q+Enter ...", and "H+Enter ..." lines.
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New:
Extended "Expert Functions" with " for known devices"; added "Add Device Manually" to the help screen.
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New:
Added delay to message for the cleaning status checking.
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New:
Message for blz: adding info for blz.
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New:
Moved Cleaning Statistics to first Menu page
Others
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Fix:
ITDT-SE/GE: System Test - Issue a Rewind after each blocksize to prevent degrading numbers.
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New:
ITDT-GE: Added icons to help toolbar.
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New:
For scripting command "write" changed maximum length of parameter -c from 7 to 10 characters.
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New:
ITDT-GE: Extended ECC behavior: download and install firmware files.
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New:
ITDT-GE: Reviewed and edited text of help contents. Moved content to separate pages (scan, dump, and update).
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New:
ITDT-SE: New installer, which does not require scrolling to read the installation disclaimer
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Fix:
ITDT-SE: Online help for FULLWRITE; parameter -percent was missing, parameter -pattern does not require "=".
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Fix:
ITDT-SE: Reviewed and edited text of install-disclaimer.txt
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Fix:
ITDT-GE: Updated ECC service provider.
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Fix:
ITDT-SE Library screening test passed but the library reported an issue
ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150609
(changes after build 20150514)
Diagnostics
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New:
Added new feature for scripting command write. Once parameter "-c number" is specified the supplied filename will be used as
pattern file and the amount of specified data records will be written.
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New:
Write custom data pattern at Full Write to recreate drive related problems.
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New:
Eject Cartridge added to the tests and to the online help.
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New:
Menu entry "Test" replaced with "Health Test".
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Fix:
Online help for Full Write, parameter -percent was missing, parameter -pattern does not require "=".
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Fix:
AIX devices kept open.
Log & Dump File Viewer
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Fix:
Dump will not parse in ITDT V9.0.
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Fix:
Variable timeSince1970 of type int replaced with long to avoid data overrun.
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Fix:
Added missing FSCs for 1189 and 118A.
Others
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New:
Replaced license for SE 9.0.0 - Program-unique Terms (PUT) removed.
ITDT-SE/GE 9.0.0 build 20150514
(changes after build 20141013)
Diagnostics
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New:
LTO-7 diagnostic support
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New:
Keep cartridge loaded in case a test step failed before
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New:
Microsoft Windows: automatically change to administrator rights
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New:
Drive and Host Bus Adapter information will be displayed
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New:
Device Cleaning Statistics information
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New:
Updated IBM Fix Central meta information for new firmware
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New:
blz with drive dump will include the suffix “dump.blz”
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New:
Changed installation folder of ITDT-SE to subfolder ITDT
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New:
Physical Copy: for Unix platforms added detection of max. supported file size
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New:
Physical Copy: added support for hexadecimal input values for H*-B*-T*-L* format
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New:
ITDT-SE: redesign of menus
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New:
ITDT-SE: for Full Write added custom pattern
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New:
ITDT-SE: added additional text information before file extraction
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New:
ITDT-SE: added Eject function
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New:
ITDT-SE: introduced new install file naming scheme
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New:
ITDT-SE: added Cleaning Status check after selection of device
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Fix:
Problem fix for ITDT result code does not match with Tapeutil
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Fix:
Full Write: Block size selection will be re-shown as long as the customer selects a valid BS.
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Fix:
Full Write: Total written kbytes was wrong in BLZ file – data overrun
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Fix:
AIX program abort on VIO's environment
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Fix:
Microsoft Windows scan problem
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Fix:
Aix core dump during scan
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Fix:
logsense added new support for string values
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Fix:
VPD entry was missing on several dumps
Others
- New: Program Online Update
- New: Migration to Eclipse RCP 4.4.2
- New: Java Runtime (IBM JRE 7.1- v7r1SR2FP10)
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New:
Jar signing for each ITDT module
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New:
Runtime verification of product plugins
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New:
Installer based on Install Anywhere 2014SP1
- Fix: Open the Online Help causes a GUI Error
Log&Dump File Viewer
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New:
Product support for LTO-7
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New:
Dump Decoding: new Media Usage Information
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Fix:
DST (Daylight Saving Time) will now be considered in time calculation
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #11: was truncated
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #17: Added description for value 0x204
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #17: Attributes 0x200 – 0x204 added information for each partition
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Fix:
Log Sense Page #0x18: Second port was missing
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Fix:
CM Application Data is using 5 different IDs within CM Data section
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Fix:
SK/ASC/ASCQ 4/FC/00 in ITDT tool but not dmpview for JAG drive
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Fix:
Opening BLOB files fails
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Fix:
Changed algorithm of dump time calculation for LTO-6 dump time
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Fix:
CM EOD Information for all partitions
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Fix:
Unable to open 3592 E08 Dump
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Fix:
Repeated structures caused exception when string was empty