WebSphere® Application Server V3.5 Fix Pack 4 defect list

Technote (FAQ)
Problem
Below is a list of defects fixed in WebSphere Application Server Version 3.5.4
Solution

This list is categorized by components:

Migration tools and issues

90948 Request changes to DBConfig tool

94442 Miscellaneous problems with the DBUpdate tool

Installation and configuration

94162.1 Windows® NT installation for the Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) client

95941 Modify TextBundle_zh_CN.properties to TextBundle_zh.properties

PQ46708 Windows NT/Internet Information Server® (IIS) security exposure

96078 PTF does not update IHS

Administration

84837 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occurs when creating servlet model

86067 Both start and stop icon are active for a stopped model

86758 Don't set -Xbootclasspath for AS400 when debug is enabled

86873 An exception occurs when deleting object
87176 Disambiguate wscp help for arguments

87916 Better error message is needed for Zip exception

88723 Cannot run wscp.sh if current directory is not $WAS_HOME/bin

88961 Lists all the servlets which are running when you try to remove a servlet

89226 Instructions panel for security method groups is one step behind

89735 Exceptions thrown for invalid userID and password when using LDAP

89955 ServletEngine is not listed when you create the web application with web administrator

89973 The Next button is not grayed out on wizard, confusing users

89983 Admin-agent problems occur on network failure

89985 Standalone servlet engine configuration parsing can throw exceptions

90226 Korean: Hard coded English strings remain on some wizard panels after applying new translated resources

90638 Attributes.defaultNodeName alters the case of the node

91458 The Administrative GUI needs to refresh the topology when the object is removed

95416 XMLConfig subsitutes variables with embedded semi-colons

93393 Changes made to VirtualHostPropertySheet
93019 Exception in GUI when creating new servlet inside a model

94349,93712 NullPointerException when deploy EJB - not user-friendly

95515 The Delete action is not supported on the XMLConfig import of node

96309 Duplicate Relation Instance Exception with two enterprise applications

96371 NullPointerException on XMLConfig partial export

97094 Administrative GUI hangs after creating a servlet

98991 XML export of session manager always shows DB2 as default datasouce

PQ40491 Sigkill is sent to a generic server

PQ42731 XMLConfig full export fails with Oracle as repository DB

PQ45279 Unable to change EJBs home-name attribute with XMLConfig

PQ45485 Export of XMLConfig causes share-JNDI error

PQ45602 Need to tune cache sizes for container inside adminserver

PQ45851 XMLConfig fails to export enterprise applications

PQ45977 XMLConfig substitute doesn't work with spaces

PQ46225 Error message is not handled properly for DTD file not found

PQ46540 Deleting enterprise application causes removal of security configuration

PQ46768 DuplicateRelationInstanceException occurs when import is full

Security

PQ41695 Logs created with incorrect UMASK settings when running WebSphere Application Server as a non-root user

92947 Null security name causes system exception in LTPA security context

93324 While using security, error message getgrent_r returns error=0 occurs

94619 Install default properties files for Trust Association

PQ44976 Unexpected security exceptions occur with custom method groups or permissions

PQ45064 Authorization failures occur on the WLM client

PQ38772 WAS LoginHelper.class request_login method allows access to all

PQ44657 HTTPUTIL.PARSEPOSTDATA+URLDECODE.DECODE fails to decode hex data

PQ46616 Cannot log in with WebSphere Domino LTPA Token (92242)

Scalability

90421 Cloned application servers on lost node are not picked up after restart

PQ42671 Under load, the application server shuts down with fatal in test and set affinity

PQ44783 Change ConfigInfoManager to use hashtable instead of cache

PQ44919 Performance degradation occurs with WLM in Version 3.5.2

Personalization

88607 Fail to create new application server with new session manager property

95500 Fix ABR caching for Personalization

PQ39257 Persistent sessions are not stored; raises NullPointerException

PQ44646 HttpSession.getValueNames() throws classcast exception (90519)

PQ47663 Addresses the following defects in Session Manager:
- Session ID generation is more random
- Fixes null pointer exceptions in invalidation path
- Fixes DB2 out of handles exceptions in invalidation path
- Makes authorization association with session configurable using system property
- Fixes creation of multiple session contexts for same webapp under stress start.

Web server plug-in

70410 Fix to packaix.C to perform "AR" of liblpp.a using option "-g"

70886 Mod_rewrite security fix to IBM HTTP Server 1.3.12

71229 Another fix to Mod_rewrite

71363 Fix to "HELLO THERE" message in error.log (Info/DEBUG)

71541 Fix to rotatelogs on Windows NT

71633 Removes /usr/bin from aix inventory file

71691 Adds administrative server files to Windows NT installation

71742 Changes for AIX apxs

88543 OSE remote failover broken when two or more clones are down

89841 Default values for OSE connection retries are too high

93240 iPlanet 4.1.5 fails on AIX 4.3.3
PQ42463 Fix to Afpa denial of service bug

PQ43477 IBM HTTP Server catches a SIGTERM after installation

PQ45148 Cannot use ErrorDocument directive with SSLClientAuth required

PQ45942 Add function ap_custom_response to httpd.exp

PQ46149 The WebSphere plug-in for the IIS server does not perform cleanup when there is no client certificate being used

PQ46189 Empty enumeration not handled properly by container

PQ46392 Authorization for HTML resource doesn't work when using SSL

PQ47372 Enhancement in dispatching algorithm for the Web server plug-in

Servlet support

89105 Using WSCP to create a Web application and a confusing error message occurs

89813 XMLConfigDTDLocation not set for programmatic clients

89871 Exceptions other than ServletException result in ClassCastException

90441 Default reload interval is wrong for WAR converter

94988 File Serving Enabler is broken in newest FixPack 3 driver

95118 Servlet cannot send WWW-Authenticate header

98285 File Serving Enabler is broken in newest ptf 3 driver

99075 All web applications don't appear when using a wizard to add a servlet

PQ35952 WebSphere Application Server tries to recreate repository even if initial.config=false

PQ47871 DBCS passed by GET/POST parameter is displayed as "???" (98812)

PQ42532 XMLConfig - cannot import Web application that doesn't have a classpath defined
PQ42626 Change nativeTranslateID2Message error to debug

PQ42709 Create Web application then servlet, missing association for a servlet

PQ42792 Cannot load PDF in Internet Explorer with WebSphere Application Server file servlet with security on

PQ43304 Sessions cannot be shared using persistence with servlet 2.2 API

PQ44361 Jar files with uppercase extensions (.JAR) can't be loaded

PQ45226 High CPU usage when undeployed servlet requested

PQ45430 Migration problem with EJB's from Versions 3.02 to 3.5

PQ45777 Need to attain an output stream or writer prior to forward

PQ45884 Unable to specify the nanny port

PQ45976 Servlets not reloading properly after jar file is modified

PQ46019 Changing Web application URI requires stop/restart after Version 3.5.2

PQ46032 Trying to customize HTTP Errors 403 and 401

PQ46044 Managed server restart occurred due to memory constraint

PQ47050 Allow Web application classload to load ahead of system classloader


Java Server Pages (JSP) support

79974 Stdout messages placed in stderr log

89671 JSPs that don't compile don't return exception from forward()

89807 JspBatchCompiler takes nameServiceHost etc. but doesn't say so

90363 Need debug support in JSP 1.1 page compiler for Standard Edition or Advanced Edition 3.5.4

92904 Security for JSP on Windows is exposed

93742 JSP java compile errors causes compile thread timeout on reload

93951 JSP 1.0/1.1 source doesn't have ##DEBUG## lines for debugging

94378 Case-sensitive security matching bug

94578 Improve Case-sensitive comparision

PQ41904 Can't filter using Mime types. Trying to filter MHTML types

PQ42160 JSP .91 in Version 2 needs CODE=file.class, Version 3 only accepts CODE=FILE

PQ43584 JSP1.x: PageContext is accessing a session when scope is off (87463)

PQ45800 JSPs that use an include statement with a relative path fail

PQ46735 JSP 1.0 security fix did not handle included resources (97068)

PQ47418 Integrate JSP1.1 fixes for performance, compiler synchronization (94949)

PQ43093 JSP 1.0 page compiler doesn't handle file encoding


Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) support

87936 Unable to open output stream on passivation of EJB

88097,83746 TranLog size grows when administratiave server restarts

88898 Names can't have slashes /

89106 White space at end of attribute list not ignored

89118 Line continuation character does not work
90571 Performance improvement with EJSContainer.getCurrentTx()

90860 Problem with the caching behavior of BMP beans

93387 Update setLoginTimeout to work as stated in JDBC spec

93585 Change ObjectAlreadyClosed exception to StaleConnectionException

94207 Fix PreparedStatement deadlock problem

94646 1000'S Nullpointer exceptions per second

95474 Check for null before wrapping ResultSet in Proxy

95478 Throw StaleConnectionException when getting a New Connection

97042 AdminServer throwing an exceptions error during Services

PQ44098 Change fix for - add 1 then multiply by size of(char)(90939)

PQ46189 empty enumeration not handled properly by container

PQ47037 EJB session does not timeout no matter what timeout value is used

PQ42633 Printing Java.library.path in the servlet's init() method

PQ43006 WSCP enable/disable command functionality does not work

PQ43006 Web application start/stop/restart does not work (88890)

PQ43210 when creating application server, the last panel should not have "next button"

PQ45004 Connection unexpectedly closed (92071)

PQ45324 Interoperability between VAJ and WebSphere - SUID (87420)

PQ44559 Cannot add standalone URI to enterprise application in 3.5.2

PQ44586 Administrative console allows using same name/alias but this feature is not supported

PQ46998 Strange passivation / timeout behavior - incorrect cache count (93981)

PQ47050 Allow web application classload to load ahead of system classload

Object Request Broker (ORB) support

PQ44821 NullPointerException and CORBA_BAD_PARAM exception and deadlock conditions

PQ46573 Client retry logic fails when connections are closed by the server

Databases

94939 Fix copyright statements in the files that are still missing it

95241 Typo at one of the Sample Web pages

95685 XML Sample copyright update (open source)

96624 Merant Sequelink driver for MSSQL SERVER fails to load

99419 Merant Sequelink driver for MSSQL SERVER fails to load

Miscellaneous

PQ47734 YourCo sample application causes a database change between FixPak 2 and 3

88189 Request to select serlvets in Resource Analyzer

88463 NullPointerException occurs at showing Model Property

89070 Fix for jetace start utility

89863 Labels.properties has invalid keys

90003 NLS Translations are escaped

90008 LINUX wlmjar.sh needs to be updated

90050 IndirectLookupFactory behavior incorrect for failed lookup

90179 Replace deprecated method call with one not deprecated

90371 Add a key to the administrative client servlet strings

91253 Initializing build-in contexts with non-empty property list

PQ35952 WebSphere Application Server repository problem due to dbInitialized=true parameter (91520)

91756 CTS: getRemoteHost() from servlet returns null

94253 Problem with remote host not populating

94555 Use response character encoding rather than request for output stream

95467 Need to add message strings for fix to PQ4458

95590 Servlet Cache creates session if it does not already exist

95850 Servlet cache--update properties file with NLS messages

96611 Error 20 on PTF3 installation

97087 Failed to populate database

97090 Update various docs to reflect correct levels

97511 Linux: The JDK needs to be updated in Version 3.5.4 install

97685 Update std readme.txt file

97714 FragmentComposers write data non-optimally

97911 Linux: Java directory is missing in the IBMWebAS directory

98097 Modify Solaris properly install GSkit. Also, chmod .start_xfs(97942)

98174 PTF4 install from PTF2 does not fully upgrade WebSphere

98979 Cannot run examples and samples tests

99373 wscp-related translated files are missing from PTF4 build

PQ37576 Errors when removing application servers and servlet engine from configuration

PQ38251 Entries fail to refresh when reconfiguring a Web application

PQ38417 Web Application Web Path field information differs

PQ42514 Character conversion error about CP1381 and ISO-8859-1 Chinese

PQ47337 3.5.3 build date not updated in product.xml












    Document Information

    Product categories: Software, Application Servers, Distributed Application & Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, General
    Operating system(s): Multi-Platform
    Software version: 3.5.4
    Software edition: Advanced, Standard
    Reference #: 1049392
    IBM Group: Software Group
    Modified date: 2004-11-03