WebSphere® Application Server Version 3.5 Fix Pack 5 Defect List

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Problem
List of defects fixed in WebSphere Application Server Version 3.5.5.
Solution
This list is categorized by components:

Installation
PQ44331 Missing .tcl scripts, for example, for wscp tool

PQ48350 3.5 Sun WAS_ROOT/uninstall.sh does not delete all information

PQ49457 FixPak installation fails with not enough disk space in file system

Administration
PQ42426 Problems stopping an enterprise application

PQ43751 Partial exporting with substitution string fails in wscp

PQ43906 SE_Table is unable to set parameters to trim the table size

PQ44586 Duplicate aliases are allowed during creation of virtual hosts

PQ44624 Application servers do not reassociate after Nanny process restarts

PQ44913 Changing the virtual host name changes all web applications under all application servers

PQ44936 Content type of a custom error page is always text/html

PQ46460 Cannot run Startupserver.sh outside of the bin directory

PQ47031 Changes in a model session manager tuning tab do not take affect

PQ47273 Application server cannot be selected in GUI after create with wscp

PQ47363 Query string parameters are not passed on a post from MS Internet Explorer

PQ47419 URI specified already exists for the resource web application

PQ47453 Remote client will not start if the client etc/hosts has wrong case

PQ47464 Errors occurring when deployed jar file is changed, re-deployed

PQ47528 Missing or corrupt jar file in application server classpath - warning

PQ47674 Error in Windows NT event log has no description

PQ47893 Class cast exception

PQ47894 Unexpected ConfigInfoManagerNotInitializedException

PQ47895 New class definition for ClientClosedConnectionException

PQ47892 getResourceAsStream not 2.2 compliant -- needs to use docroot

PQ47924 Administrative console does not save multiple information

PQ48130 Both request and response headers returned to the client w/ mime filter

PQ48698 EJSW0052W message received in WebSphere

PQ48816 WebSphere Application Server is not clearing request attributes for includes

PQ48933 WebSphere is parsing the URL query string incorrectly

PQ49074 WebSphere Application Server run as a service, NT's system path 1st, then WebSphere Application Server dll name

PQ49102 Different behavior results from creating a Web application using menu or right-mouse

PQ49188 URIs do not appear associated to the correct virtual host

PQ49368 Cannot find the resource com.ibm.ejs.resources.dynacache

PQ49758 Memory leak in WebSphere

PQ49774 Memory leak in WebSphere - EJS

PQ49929 Virtual host name does not accept a hyphen

PQ50276 createLock signature change

PQ50381 Mime filtering sets the default content type to text/html

PQ50795 Unable to run administrative server as non-root

PQ50881 Virtual host name cannot contain a dot or period ('.')

PQ50922 Web application URI is not added to the virtual host when creating a model with security

PQ52564 Object locked after transaction did not terminate correctly

85899 A space in a Web application name breaks ServletEngineConfigDumped

89852 Restarting Web application process does not complete for mentioned details

97547 Deliminate unnecessary ClassCastExceptions in jts.ControlSet

97637 URLs appended with "/$/foo" (or equivalent) bypass security

98744 Exception raised by clicking Add/Remove button on default_host

101788 Memory leak if cache IDs continously change

102775 DefaultIdGenerator should not append null if character encoding is null

104535 Add support to get EPM data cross domain

110764 EPM: cannot handle a name with "."

110773 Unable to modify a Web application with a Web application Web path of "/"

111088 Refresh does not occur across multiple administrative consoles

111135 Error message returned when deploying a jar file with a large number of beans

Security
PQ47486 SSO cookie persisted by Internet Explorer 5.0 should have been deleted by browser

PQ48364 Performance issues using MS Active Directory LDAP

PQ48947 WASReqURL cookie does not keep the POST parameters

PQ49703 RemoteExcpetions during authorization

PQ49739 Can access protected resource without a login challenge

PQ49796 Security for external resources broken in WebSphere Application Server 3.5 FixPak 4

PQ50031 Secure application does not work after upgrading to WebSphere Application Server 3.5.3 from 3.5.2

PQ50592 Problem with Trust Association Interceptors

PQ51294 WebSphere Application Server 3.x does not allow LDAP special characters

110556.1 Invalid handling of invalid LTPA password when importing XML

Web server plug-in
PQ46910 Threads hung in NativeServerConnection.Write

PQ46970 Web server error logs are not written to trace.webserver.* tracefile

PQ47055 For WebSphere Application Server 3.02.3 NES 3.63, when the WebSphere application server is down, expect error 500, 502, 503

PQ47523 Cookie header corruption

PQ47590 Dlopen of libns40.so failed for WebSphere Application Server 3.02.4 on AIX

PQ47975 Query string never returns more than 2K of data with Domino

PQ49240 Special characters dropped from the remote user name

PQ50202 2K cookie causes the application server to crash

PQ50664 MS IIS plug-in does not reply error 500 to client, can't customize

PQ51789 When sending data from HTML form to Domino query string gets truncated

Servlet support
PQ47136 Data is not passed to the mime filtering servlet when sendRedirect is used

PQ47194 Servlet URI is lost if you import XML without a URI path

PQ47469 ChainerServlet fails on concurrent accesses

PQ47895 Exceptions of type ServletException are not written properly to WebSphere logs

PQ48452 Running servlet engine in compliance mode fails loading servlets with StackOverflowError

PQ48846 JSP calls to request getServletPath() returns null

PQ49754 pageContext.removeAttribute fails with ServletException

PQ49993 Servlet URI is not updated when Web application path changes

PQ50156 Disable servlet is only valid until the Web application is restarted

PQ50758 Changing the virtual host for a Web application truncates the servlet path

100928 getServletPath() appends /* on path-mapped servlets

102769 As to servletcachemonitor.ear, when viewing a cache entry side effects should display meaningful information instead of the object's ID

105176 A servlet's output should not be cached if an exception is thrown

110691 ServletManager.java fix references cache directly (109659)

111787 Correctly read automatically loaded and GUI-defined servlets

JavaServer Pages™ (JSP) support
PQ44636 Batch compiling feature gets the error "could not load class x"

PQ46693 With JVM Debug flag turned on, JSPs fail to compile

PQ47627 Java <repeat> block code catches exceptions and then continues looping

PQ48079 JSPWrite in JSP 1.1 does not flush per specification

PQ48133 <%=getServletName%> in a JSP page returns a NullPointerException

PQ48386 Using getRemoteAddr and getRemoteHost causes a JSP to fail with a null value

PQ48883 Allow path mapped URIs to server JSP, HTML, and other resources

PQ48989 Compiling several JSPs using custom actions or tags, causes indexes to cross over

PQ49167 JSP 1.0 and 1.1 throw ClientClosedConnectionException

PQ49394 JSP 1.0 with tsx:getproperty returns a table with a carriage return

PQ49834 JSP reloading problem after deleting a temporary directory without restarting the Web application

PQ49986 JSPWriter methods return results in characters as opposed to bytes

PQ50029 Need batch compiler for JSP 1.1

PQ50437 JSP 1.1 inner classes do not work with WebSphere Application Server 3.5 FixPaks 3 and 4

PQ50453 JSP 1.0 compiling fails if the path and file name total more than 199 characters

PQ50786 Web application error page is displayed instead of the JSP error page

PQ50801 JSP security issue on WebSphere Application Server 4.0 and 3.5.4

PQ52372 <JSP:USEBEAN ID="BLAH" CLASS="MYCLASS"></JSP:USEBEAN> causes a NullPointerException

88065 Adding a JSP file does not associate it with the specified Web application

88763 JSP reloading problem if there are two clones on the same machine

104670 JSPs throw an exception if OutputStream is already obtained

110929 Modifying JSPs in packages with clones is not working

111787 Correctly read automatically loaded and GUI-defined JSPs

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) support
PQ48694 EJB throws an extended RemoteException but rollback does not occur

PQ48819 Handle persistent file name for bean with imbedded / in the bean name

PQ48833 Problem running EJB CMP program with DB2/390 as backstore

PQ49522 If an EJB has more than 21 methods, read-only boxes are checked for too many methods in the Deployment properties dialog for the bean

PQ50159 EJB unloads in random order in ejbStore()

Extensible Markup Language (XML) support
PQ46483 XMLConfig changes LTPA timeout values when exported

PQ46618 Bad data source definition in XMLConfig causes database corruption

PQ47541 XMLConfig fails with ClassCastException when imported

PQ47730 Enables XMLConfig to choose virtual host for URI security

PQ47809 When XMLConfig is imported, a Web application description is updated as a servlet

PQ48125 XMLConfig partial exporting does not complete the locate model

PQ49279 XMLConfig partial exporting specifies only the enterprise application

PQ49459 XMLConfig importing adding cloned EJBs does not differentiate among EJBs with the same name

PQ49528 XMLConfig exporting of a cloned environment returns an AttributeNotSetException

PQ49936 XMLConfig can import invalid session bean inc. database parameter

PQ50239 XMLConfig runs slowly when updating EJBs

PQ52036 Method-group-mapping-all on EJB XML security returns a null pointer

Database support
PQ43427 Broken pipe and no more data to read from socket

PQ46885 WebSphere repository develops inconsistencies

PQ47339 SQLException "Communication link failure" using Merant SequeLink

PQ47404 DB2Exception CLI0614E not thrown as StaleConnectionException

PQ48194 Connection manager is non-parity for SQLState 58004 database error

PQ48307 Close XA connection that has an error

PQ48412 Cursor remains open when using prepareStatement with data

PQ48877 Need to map TNS: ORA-12541 to StaleConnectionException

PQ49464 Merant OEMID is not being set during
recovery in WebSphere Application Server 3.5

PQ49895 Oracle exception to mapping to StaleConnectionException

PQ50076 Map Merant connection closed to stale connection

PQ50276 Administrative server will not start without schema ownership of the database on Oracle

PQ50372 Unrecognized database or driver error using Sybase

Workload management
PQ47144 Possible loss of session between clones with caching enabled

PQ51576 Creating a clone that has 400 servlets requires over 18 hours

PQ59242 As to workload management, use DesiredState instead of CurrentState for server

111157 On Windows 2000, workload management is not being enabled properly when deploying EJB

National language support
PQ41913 java.lang.NullPointerException with Hebrew locale when running a JSP

PQ44605 Greek characters are not converted to Unicode during JSP compilation

PQ46818 Enabled on servlet definition does not work in Japanese

PQ47161 JSP 1.0 cannot interpret character set in directive in Chinese

PQ52750 Double-byte character set (DBCS) for servlet chaining and filtering fails as to the stored response

Miscellaneous
PQ47998 Allow for the option of having an HttpSession transaction











Document Information

Product categories: Software, Application Servers, Distributed Application & Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, General
Operating system(s): Multi-Platform
Software version: 3.5.5
Software edition: Advanced, Enterprise, Standard
Reference #: 1049393
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: 2003-12-16