WebSphere Application Server
FixPaks and fixes
WebSphere Application Server Version 3.5 FixPak 5
Installation
Administration
Security
Web server plug-in
Servlet support
JSP support
EJB support
XML support
Database support
Workload management
Documentation
National language support
Miscellaneous

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
PQ51768	    Authentication failure for user names having trailing embedded spaces in their Active Directory LDAP server 
PQ52698	    Disable some LDAP server communications steps with the WebSphere Application Server to improve performance
PQ53051	    Performance problems with trust association authorizations
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

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
PQ47386     Inserting certain script tags in URLs may allow unintended execution of scripts
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

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()

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

Documentation

See the InfoCenter Web page for a detailed summary of What's New in the InfoCenter.

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