WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x Fix Pack Defects

WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x Fix Pack Defects

The following is a list of all the defects fixed in the WebSphere Application Server 5.0.1 though 5.0.2 Fix Packs.

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Fix Pack 5.0.2

WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0 FixPak 2
Last updated: 01/12/2004

Apar/ Description Defect List

PQ64399 The Internet Information Services Web server locks up and receives 404 errors on Windows 2000 platforms with WebSphere Application Server when AddHeader and SetHeader fails PQ68213 The 200 code is returned in the Internet Information Services log PQ69817 Different versions of XERCES in the WAR file causes a ClassCastException PQ69904 The bean-managed transactions session bean has an incorrect transaction status PQ70093 A ClassCastException is thrown when restarting the access bean application, but not the application server PQ71167 A long redirect URL string returns a blank page in the browser instead of the correct HTTP redirect response PQ71223 The error "lib_htrequest: htrequestWrite: Failed to read the first line of the continue response message" is harmless PQ71554 The configurator role does not have access to the redeployed application that causes a configurator user to fail to deploy secured applications PQ71663 A verification error is thrown in the Application Assembly Tool when a user attempts to verify a JAR file PQ71730 The $AdminConfig required MQQueue script does not return all the required attributes PQ71918 The key store has a bad serialized object PQ71950 A large amount of memory is consumed in the WAS.FFDC component PQ72073 The WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 InfoCenter needs documentation about the UDDI registry GUI, including how to publish a service and the difference between t-model category types PQ72196 The Japanese Windows service does not properly start or stop the servers PQ72257 The IBM HTTP Server Apache plug-in is not setting the request_time variableApache 2.0 plug-in does not set the request_time variable PQ72263 The generic Java Messaging Service provider custom properties are ignored PQ72349 Modification on the connection manager is needed to prevent a ThrowingNullPointerException PQ72386 The StaleConnectionException cleanup might result in an SQL exception with the message text "Invalid Transaction state" PQ72390 The Windows service 1052 timeout error occurs when you start and stop the application servers PQ72428 Intermittent 500-type errors are returned to the browser PQ72451 The prepared statement is not properly closed if the duplicate exists using the WebSphere Application Server prepared statement cache feature PQ72570 A ClassCastException is thrown in the memory to memory mode with the low performance option selected on the session manager service PQ72586 A new component added that allows the Nagano (Lotus Messaging) project to access WebSphere Application Server transaction and the connection management PQ72597 The WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 heap gets consumed when the performance monitor service is enabled and a Performance Monitoring Infrastructure client repeatedly uses it PQ72658 The MANIFEST.MF class path entry in a shared library JAR file is not resolved PQ72666 The line continuation "\" does not work in the wsadmin command utility PQ72692 The fix pack installer cannot be used to update the Web server plug-in if the plug-in is installed by copying it from the WebSphere Application Server machine PQ72703 The WebSphere plug-in attempts to read the content body of a HEAD request PQ72718 A WTRN0063E message is thrown after a one-phase resource is updated but a two-phase only performance is selected PQ72719 A template space cannot be changed once the installation wizard is started PQ72756 UTF-8 text, for example, Japanese text, which is retrieved from a JavaServer Page input field or passed as a jsp:param, gets corrupted PQ72832 A CHKW5001E error occus when verifying the application package in the Application Assembly Tool PQ72869 Configuration options are needed to disable the TCP nagling PQ72877 The performance monitoring servlet fails when security is enabled PQ72919 Importing the pkcs12 key into a key store file fails PQ72938 A servlet exception is thrown in the administrative console on the shared libraries tab while changing the scope if cell is used in the cell name PQ72951 The installation fails on the Solaris Operating Environment when checking prerequisites PQ73004 The changes are not saved to the ibm-application-bnd.xmi file when updating the mapping of the users for an application in the console PQ73005 Performance degrades if the response body is large because the plug-in reads data in chunks of 64K PQ73036 DebugAppServerComponentImpl needs to be built with debug PQ73071 Step 2 in the InfoCenter topic "Running server as non-root using the console" is not correct PQ73120 The IBM HTTP Server Version 1.3.26 cannot be installed for the second time with the WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 installation PQ73130 The TSX:REPEAT tag does not work properly PQ73181 A chained EJBException for a remote client is missing PQ73254 The role mapping screens are missing during the WAR deployment PQ73258 A marked down server is never retried because the logic to retry a server that is marked down is wrong PQ73288 The wsadmin command utility runs out of memory when trying to deploy large applications PQ73294 The setting up and configuration subsections in the Readme file for the update installer are incorrect for the UNIX script execution PQ73381 The fix pack does not prerequire the proper version of the fix pack installer PQ73493 The update installer does not handle the missing Document Type Definition files gracefully, claiming WebSphere Application Server is not installed when attempting to apply the fix pack PQ73494 The Document Type Definition files are not created during the installation when you are only installing a plug-in PQ73521 The WASService.exe file throws a "Failed to stop service" error when stopping a server even when the server is properly stopped PQ73523 Setting the connection autoCommit value to false does not work correctly in a global transaction or a local transaction when the DB2 universal JDBC provider driver is used PQ73525 An error occurs but the command is completed PQ73529 A ClassCastException might be thrown if you use a different XML parser from the one included in WebSphere Application Server Version 5 PQ73574 The Log Analyzer component is always installed in a silent installation PQ73595 The TSX:REPEAT tag does not work properly PQ73611 The content is missing when the HTML comment precedes Edge Side Include tag PQ73644 Cannot dynamically add a HTTPSessionListener and start the servlet on demand in the IBMServletContext PQ73683 Problems exist with configuring the multiple cache instances programmatically PQ73701 A ClassNotFound Exception is thrown while creating a Sybase data source on WebSphere Application Server PQ73791 The Please Wait icon does not work on Mozilla PQ73896 Superceded fixes cannot be used to satisfy the corequisites PQ73915 The repeat tag generates incomplete elements that should be discarded PQ73929 $AdminConfig -List ServerTarget does not return a list of the configured objects PQ73966 Unable to store the J2EE Connector Architecture connection in the HTTPSession object PQ73970 The arrays are incorrectly deserialized when running through the Web services gateway using generic classes PQ73975 Using a non-root user ID to run the deployment manager and node agent servers PQ74131 The update installer fails with a NullPointerException when changing the file permissions PQ74155 An IllegalStateException is thrown when you create two related container-managed persistence beans PQ74185 A Java Naming Directory Interface client running on a workstation cannot look up an object on zOS if the lookup name contains dots PQ74218 The plug-in regeneration does not work and identifies that the parsing of the plugin-cfg.xml file fails PQ74316 A NullPointerException occurs in WebAppRequestDispatcher when the dynamic cache is enabled PQ74323 Generating the appropriate SQL strings for the custom finders when you use DB2 390 PQ74334 A JavaServer Page fails to compile in WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 but works in Version 3.5 and Version 4 PQ74350 The EJBStore() method is called unnecessarily after a rollback has been issued PQ74400 How to add the support of an infrastructure to make the vendor-specific calls to WebSphere Application Server PQ74401 The application server hangs and a Java thread dump shows a deadlock between the servlet and the transaction timeout thread PQ74402 License Verification Errors show up in the Windows Event Viewer PQ74403 The request fails with an error 404 but a status of 200 is logged in the Internet Information Service access log PQ74405 If a distinguished name contains a special character number, you might not be authenticated or authorized properly PQ74406 The duplicate key exceptions are thrown in the compliance mode when an existing session is requested PQ74407 The administrative console fails to work properly with the Java virtual machine setting UTF-8 on non-English machines PQ74408 The connection is not enlisted in the current transaction because preInvoke is not called when GetMetaData calls on the connection PQ74409 The unexpected connection is closed by the orphan alarm thread before the execute statement and application gets a StaleConnectionException PQ74410 WebSphere Application Server does not accept the requests with more than 100 headers PQ74417 Full synchronization fails when the Enable Distribution feature has been unchecked for an application PQ74418 The Edge Side Include processor does not get removed from the list of the processors, hanging the application PQ74488 The HTTP transport does not accept multi-line headers PQ74492 Template invalidations are not passed to the Edge Side invalidation servlet PQ74493 prepareForCacheAccess is modifying the EntryInfo object PQ74501 The autoRequestEncoding() and autoResponseencoding() methods do not work PQ74517 Calling the GetSession() method after calling the session.invalidate() method causes a performance slowdown PQ74538 The WebSphere Application Server deployment manager administrative console hangs on the Solaris Operating Environment PQ74539 The wsadmin command tool lacks the support for the native integer types PQ74544 The invalidation thread goes to sleep causing invalidation delays when the ValueUnbound() method causes a run-time exception PQ74545 The plug-in only markes the application server that is down PQ74546 The WebSphere Application Server InfoCenter installation instructions do not include the instructions for the remote Web server or the plug-in installation PQ74547 The response buffer is not properly flushed on the call to flush() PQ74590 The connection manager allocates more than the maximum connections PQ74668 The slow startup of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition client is due to the overhead of WebSphere Common Configuration Model PQ74684 Appending values to the SHLIB_PATH variable on HP platforms does not work PQ74774 The securityCollaborator.postInvoke() method call has to be deferred after all the necessary components have completed their postInvoke processing PQ74797 The version number is incorrectly reported in the BASE.product file after Fix Pack 1 is installed and then uninstalled PQ74834 The keys are translating to the short form instead of the full name when checking the encryption level of the browser PQ74842 Support added for Web services line items PQ74857 Support added for the performance enhancement line items PQ74865 Support added for the security line items PQ74878 Support added support for the usability and serviceability line items PQ74887 The installation shield shows the available space is smaller than 74MB PQ74897 Authentication or authorization fails intermittently due to search failure with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol PQ74923 Support added for the database line items PQ74944 Support added for the systems management line items PQ74967 Softlinks get deleted from the EAR file when you update the EAR file PQ74986 After installing Fix Pack 1, a Precondition violation in TriStateArray exception is thrown PQ75036 The integrals of the percentUsed and percentMaxed parameters for the top level of the connection pools decrease PQ75040 Support added for the Solaris Operating Environment Version 9 PQ75042 Support added for the zLinux platform PQ75053 The uninstallation and installation do not detect the running MQ series interactive problem control system PQ75057 The Java Naming Directory Interface lookups of any non-context objects on the WebSphere Application Server, Version 3.5.x or the non-WebSphere server fail with a NamingException PQ75148 Support added for the Windows operating system line items PQ75149 Support added or the Linux Intel operating system line items PQ75150 The updateSilent.sh -usage and the updateSilent.sh -help scripts are inconsistent PQ75164 Creating variables on a new server causes a Error 500 message and a RepositoryException PQ75169 WebSphere Application Server incorrectly instructs the update installer to update the config.templates component on the plugin-only installations PQ75205 Support added for the PowerPC operating system PQ75296 Information added to WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 InfoCenter for tuning com.ibm.CORBA.FragmentSize PQ75346 Intermittent ConcurrentModificationExceptions might be encountered in environments where the dynamic reloading is enabled PQ75416 An exception is displayed when you browse from the administrative console in the left panel PQ75521 Application servers can get overloaded with many connections PQ75685 The odmclean.sh link is missing in the manual installation on the AIX machines section in the InfoCenter PQ75789 Cannot create a new application server using the administrative console in the Brazillian version of WebSphere Application Server, Version 5.0.1 PQ75816 The dmgr node take over 70 minutes to start when a lot of clusters are configured PQ75988 The plug-in truncates the parameters on an Edge Side Include URL PQ75992 The usage of the WASService.exe command and the restart option requested for removal from the usage PQ76165 Upon restarting the deployment manager, some nodes stop communicating PQ76336 The security cache timeout for WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 cannot be set below 600 seconds PQ76478 Fix for a potential security hole in the binding info for ConnectionFactories

IBM HTTP Server Defects

APAR List Description

PQ68216		The Common Gateway Interface script has three seconds delay  
PQ71646		Third party modules are listed incorrectly in the IBM HTTP Server administrative console   
PQ71734		ap_bpushfd enhancement for SiteMinder  
PQ73029		Denial of service exposure in all releases of IBM HTTP Server Version 2.0 up to Version 2.0.42.1 

												


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Fix Pack 5.0.1

WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0 Fix Pack 1
Last updated: 01/12/2004

APAR List Description

PQ68501 Fix pack installation fails space checking with long file system name PQ68400 The 4.0 data source counters are not correct under heavy workload PQ68483 The user ID and password fields for an Oracle data source are changed to be non-mandatory PQ68500 The JSPBatchCompiler fails to search the inside of the WEB-INF directory for JavaServer Pages PQ68502 Add extended document root capability for Web applications PQ68503 Improving the performance for JSPBatchCompiler by creating only one compiler per directory in a WAR file PQ68510 Java Naming Directory Interface lookup fails in workload management if distribute application on 2 clusters PQ68703 A null pointer exception occurs due to superior and subordinate timeouts PQ69075 WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 installation puts the incorrect loadmodule in the HTTPD.conf file when IBM HTTP Server 2.0 is already installed on UNIX platforms PQ69278 XML-type JavaServer Pages 1.2 do not properly display double-byte character set PQ69282 JavaServer Pages compiler resolves conflicting classes in the Web-INF lib directory first, rather than the class in the WAS_HOME directory PQ69364 An IndexOutOfBoundsException occurs in countParameters method of WSJDBCPreparedStatement when preparing a statement with more than 32 parameters PQ69448 The SetupDB2UDDI.jar wizard does not accept the DB2 user ID and password on traditional Chinese Windows 2000 machines PQ69571 The DistributedException class utilizes too much CPU when creating an exception PQ69572 CacheableCommandImpl declares the reset() method as final PQ69629 WebSphere Application Server incorrectly wraps the response and requests objects for each dispatch to a resource PQ69728 Unable to get National Language Support strings for custom performance monitor interface counters PQ69730 The Tivoli Performance Viewer fails without the optional Mbean PQ69817 Different versions of Xerces in the WAR file causes a ClassCastException PQ69846 A WTRN0086E exception received when trying to enlist a J2EE connector architecture resource adapter connection in a transaction PQ69903 WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 MQ settings are not saved in the administrative console PQ70031 A POST request with a query string to a servlet does not retrieve parameters in a query string by Req.GetParameter() PQ70055 An HTTP HEAD request does not pass parameters to receive a servlet running in WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 PQ70072 A first session ID is created incorrectly after session database recovery PQ70073 Cumulative replication domain and replicators fix PQ70093 A class cast exception occurs when you restart your access bean application, not the application server PQ70095 A NullPointerException is thrown for an EJB 1.1 access bean if the ejb-ref is null in the narrow method of the AbstractEntityAccessBean class PQ70286 A RemoteException is thrown when attempting to connect to an enterprise bean or when trying to load a delegate for an unconnected stub PQ70347 The topic "Setting up version 5 coexistence" in the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment InfoCenter PQ70395 The LoginContext does not contain the authentication information after login PQ70412 A StringIndexOutOfBoundsException is caused by an empty value for a cookie name in WebSphere Application Server PQ70459 WebSphere Application Server throws 500-type errors when attempting to handle requests PQ70461 WebSphere Application Server fails to handle POST requests when the POST data is sent in time intervals greater than the connection timeout PQ70528 Silent installation fails with no error message PQ70620 The plug-in considers Web URLs to be case sensitive while the URLs should not be case sensitive PQ70656 WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 servlet filters defect with incorrect usage of wrappered response and request objects PQ70760 Automatic regeneration of the Web server plug-in overwrites the manual entries PQ70770 The session manager retries data source lookup during one-time setup if the lookup is not successful PQ70772 A deadlock condition occurs in the session manager under heavy load conditions PQ70773 The session manager does not properly unwrap the object type javax.naming.context when getting it from persistent database PQ70787 The content of a client can be seen by other clients when static content is included in a servlet or JavaServer Pages PQ70834 Filters are not being invoked when calling the root URL PQ70866 The application client installation panel displays the incorrect amount of memory needed to install the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and Java thin application client PQ70879 User specific cookies are served to other users from the cache PQ70921 Denial of service through the use of the Document Type Definition part of an XML document where the WebSphere XML parser can consume 100% of CPU resources PQ70939 Web Container attempts to read post data after the input or output timeout PQ70971 The HTTP session terminates when data exceeds 64K if you use Domino as the Web server PQ70978 The activity log cannot be read in a Spanish - ES install. PQ71038 The replication service does not work on a server configured to run in the server-only mode for storing sessions PQ71069 A StaleConnectionException is not thrown for 08S01 SQLcode for the DataDirect driver PQ71078 Globally setting socks proxy fails in WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 PQ71130 The exception PLGN0006E: Illegal use of OSEListenerDispatcher by plug-in is written in the stdout file PQ71151 When Websphere Studio Application Developer calls JasperUtil.jspToJava(...), any taglib.jar files used by a JavaServer Pages become locked PQ71236 The CacheableCommandImpl.execute should detect ClassCastExceptions PQ71279 Clients cannot retrieve detailed error messages from the WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 custom registry PQ71399 The retry flag in the security.xml and sas.client.props files does not take effect PQ71449 The number of parameters in a callable statement is checked regardless of whether the parameter is marked as input or output PQ71497 Setting the host to "*" for the HTTP transport of the DMGR server causes the FailTransfer.ear file to fail PQ71511 WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 administrative application or console does not accept the full distinguished name as login user ID PQ71530 Java API client for WebSphere Application Server Version, 5 InfoCenter needs modifications to clearly explain the usage PQ71539 The WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 InfoCenter has the wrong class name listed for custom service PQ71542 The HttpSession information in various client-server mode settings cannot be retrieved PQ71669 The discovery fails when the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment or WebSphere Application Server is installed on a machine with multiple network interface cards and the primary network interface card is not used PQ71675 Displaying a list of applications from the administrative console takes a long time PQ71782 WebSphere Application Server ignores attempts to set header fields after using a request dispatcher to include another resource PQ71825 The Web Services Gateway documentation in WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 Getting Started documentt should say that Base installation is required PQ71826 When deploying an EAR file with enterprise beans and Web module pointing to different cluster members, the plugin-cfg.xml file is incorrectly updated PQ71958 The JavaServer Pages variable declarations are written twice within the same variable scope PQ71994 When a JavaServer Pages includes another JavaServer Pages, the result from WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.x is different from that from WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 PQ72012 The fix installer needs to create the $WAS_ROOT/properties/version/DTD directory when changing the fix installer for a remote Web server PQ72049 The application server locks up with threads in socketWrite PQ72070 The request object is not reset when it comes back from forwarded page to the forwarding page PQ72173 "Mapping roles to users" does not migrate "AllAuthenticated" PQ72184 Handles cannot be persisted without the subclass of ObjectInputStr PQ72198 The update installer fails to apply a fix to a plug-in only WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 installation PQ72287 An invalid error number reported by OSE plug-in on Solaris operating systems PQ72324 An error message is thrown in the application log when starting the Apache Web server from the service console PQ72325 The plugin-cfg.xml file must have Property Name=CacheLibrary at the top of the file to load the cache library PQ72326 When keep alive is exceeded and shuts down internal connections, it is propagating out to the external client Web server PQ72327 The ActiveX Bridge throws a java.lang.arrayIndexOutOfBoundException using zero length arrays PQ72328 Intermittent errors occur in user authentication PQ72329 Extra logging is needed for connection manager orphaned connections PQ72332 System.out.println() is extremely slow PQ72333 The plug-in does not fail as expected when a proxy firewall is set between the plug-in and the application server PQ72335 java.lang.NullPointerException occurs during server startup after the security cumulative fix is installed PQ72336 HttpSession information cannot be retrieved in various client-server mode settings PQ72523 The classpath is not appended when the java.library.path is set PQ72572 A transaction timeout exception is not reported to the EJB client PQ72575 Transaction timeout exception is not reported to the EJB client PQ72596 WebSphere Application Server fails to persist key fields that can be modified or added manually after the plug-in regeneration PQ72819 In a browser, adding a second slash after the context root does not get normalized when going to a JavaServer Pages. PQ72821 Removing the EJB method causes foreign keys to be nulled PQ72928 The Tivoli Performance Viewer in WebSphere Application Server, Version 5.0.x process does not shut down properly PQ72929 Changes made to error reporting when you disconnect during post a 500 to 400 error message PQ73028 Using wsOptimistic update gets a com.ibm.ws.ejbpersistence.utilpm.OptimisticUpdateFailedException PQ73219 The /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/mqjms.trc directory grows large without any trace setting PQ73288 The utility wsadmin runs out of memory when trying to deploy large applications PQ73529 After installing Fix Pack 1, the application throws a ClassCastException when using the non-IBM Xerces files PQ73611 Missing content when the HTML comment preceeds the Edge Side Includes tag PQ74420 Using the KEEP_ALIVE_ENABLED custom property for HTTP transport settings prevents the application server from starting PQ74656 The automatic regenaration of the Web server plug-in overwrites manual entries PQ74678 The location of the plug-in configuration file is changed to the directory under the installation root TRUE

IBM HTTP Server Defects

APAR List Description

PQ67461     	Fast Response Cache Accelerator chunked responses greater than 64K bytes fail
PQ67486		The error "Start request failed! Check error logs" displays in the administrative console interface
PQ68697		Blue screens occur on the Windows NT and Windows 2000 machines if the Fast Response Cache Accelerator is enabled 
		in IBM HTTP Server when Norton Realtime Protection is enabled
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