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Known and Resolved Issues In ALER 3.0

This chapter describes known problems in ALER 3.0, as well as issues found in earlier versions that are now resolved in version 3.0. Entries include a description of the problem, and a workaround or solution where appropriate.

For instructions on installing ALER 3.0, see Installing AquaLogic Enterprise Repository.

For additional information about the new features and capabilities of ALER 3.0, see What’s New in ALER 3.0.

 


Known Issues

The following section describes issues that were found in ALER 3.0. Entries include a description of the issue, and a workaround or solution where appropriate.

Tracking Number
Description and Workaround
CR361307
ALSB (AquaLogic Service Bus) currently generates WSDLs that incorrectly import XSD using the WSDL import element. This causes a problem in the AL suite due to the fact that these ALSB WSDLs can be parsed and submitted to ALER properly by the AL common Eclipse tooling; however, the ALRR Exchange Utility is not capable of parsing the WSDLs when migrating them back to ALSR (AquaLogic Service Registry).
Workaround or Solution:
For more information, including an example of the proper usage of the XSD import element to import XSD, see the Using the ALRR Exchange Utility.
CR333670
The BEA license.bea file is not found when installing ALER for use with the standalone Apache Tomcat application server.
Workaround or Solution:
To resolve this issue, see the Post Installation instructions in Installing AquaLogic Enterprise Repository.
CR333986
The BEA licens.bea file is not found when installing ALER for use with the WebSphere application server.
Workaround or Solution:
To integrate the License.bea file into the classpath of your WebSphere installation, you must:
  1. In Application servers > server1Arrow symbolProcess DefinitionArrow symbolJava Virtual MachineArrow symbolCustom Properties, create the following custom property:
  2. Name: BEA_HOME

    Value: /opt/IBM61/bea_home

  3. Restart the application server.
CR336586
The -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 JVM parameter is required to support non-US character types within the application data when using a built-in Tomcat installation.
Workaround or Solution:
Although the installer for the built-in Tomcat installation provides the parameter, users should not remove this parameter when modifying JVM parameters.
CR336712
XLST parsing does not function correctly in WebSphere installations.
Workaround or Solution:
WebSphere installations require the following additional JVM parameter in the same location as -Xverify:none:

-Dorg.apache.xml.dtm.DTMManager=org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMManagerDefault

CR334183
The installer fails during database installation on HP-UX Itanium 11i v2.
Workaround or Solution:
Run the database wizard after installation.
CR333239
The SetOperator of Searchterm in the REX API is not sensitive to case and may return more search values than expected.
Workaround or Solution:
None.
CR337340
WorkSpace Studio cannot authenticate to the repository when ALER is configured for J2EE container authentication.
Workaround or Solution:
None.
CR337317
WorkSpace Studio cannot authenticate to the repository when ALER is configured for SSO authentication.
Workaround or Solution:
None.
CR338241, CR337545
When ALER is deployed on IBM WebSphere 6.x and if ALER Event Manager is enabled, the embedded Apache ActiveMQ JMS Server cannot be used due to conflicts in the classes used by ActiveMQ and ALER.
Workaround or Solution:
The WebSphere 6.x customers can use the JMS server that comes with IBM WebSphere 6.x.
CR339154
There is a limitation when configuring the embedded ActiveMQ JMS Server to use MS SQL Server since this database is not supported by ActiveMQ.
Workaround or Solution:
Use the file system to store messages or use an external JMS Provider. When ALER is configured in a cluster, it is important to configure ActiveMQ to use a database to store messages, and due to this limitation, MS SQL user must use an external JMS server in a clustered environment.
CR339155
When publishing JMS messages to IBM WebSphere, the ALER Event Manager will not set the JMS Client ID due to J2EE threading restrictions in setting the ClientID within a Web container.
Workaround or Solution:
CR332787
If AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6 or AquaLogic Data Service Platform 2.5 are installed after the ALER 3.0 plug-in is installed, then Eclipse must be launched using the -clean flag.
CR338849
When uninstalling the ALER plug-ins for Eclipse, WorkSpace Studio will also be removed if WorkSpace Studio was installed by the ALER installer. This may not be desirable if other plug-ins were added to WorkSpace Studio.
Workaround or Solution:
To avoid uninstalling additional WorkSpace Studio plug-ins, deselect the ALER Plug-ins for Eclipse from the list of components to uninstall.
CR338212
The XSLT viewer in ALER's Asset Editor requires the equivalent of a client side JRE version of 1.5.0_09 or later.
CR337596
Project submissions may fail with a Enterprise Repository Connection Busy error when you attempt to re-submit a project within a short time of the initial submission and your submission is in the same Eclipse session and the initial submission is still in progress.
Workaround or Solution:
If the operation fails, close the current Eclipse session and restart. After Eclipse restarts, the operation will succeed.
CR339520
The Advanced Search field Model Producing Product searches over the product name, not the product name and version. When search results are returned, the results table shows both the Name and Version together.
CR337340
WorkSpace Studio cannot authenticate to ALER when ALER is configured for J2EE container authentication.
Workaround or Solution:
Use LDAP or database authentication.
CR337317
WorkSpace Studio cannot authenticate to ALER when ALER is configured for SSO authentication.
Workaround or Solution:
Use LDAP or database authentication.
CR337556
If AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6 or AquaLogic Data Service Platform 2.5 are installed after the ALER 3.0 plug-in is installed, then Eclipse must be launched using the -clean flag.
CR339815
Creating a RAW_SCM with a downloadUri that includes & chars causes the Artifact Store to fail to appear in the list of available stores when creating a new file.
Workaround or Solution:
You must manually 'xml escape' characters. For example, replace & with &
CR339175
ALER creates an Microsoft Excel a spreadsheet for every asset type of an asset being exported. Many ALER asset types use special characters, such as a colon (:) which cause Excel to throw an error message and the Tab name, which should be the asset type name, no longer matches the asset type
Workaround or Solution:
Rename the tabs after the export to Excel so that they match the asset types in ALER.
CR339842
Manually replacing 'xml escape' characters, such as replacing & with &amp prevents downloading of ClearCase ccWeb content. See CR339815.
Workaround or Solution:
Use a RAW_SCM that accesses ClearCase using the ALER file store mechanism.
CR339633
Application server using SUN JDK crashes or throws an out of memory exception.
Workaround or Solution:
Add the following to JAVA_OPTS:
-XX:NewSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
CR338097
SERVER_NAME environment variable is not correctly set by installer on WebLogic Server 9.2.1 installations.
Workaround or Solution:
Remove or properly set the SERVER_NAME environment variable when starting the ALER domain. For example:
For Windows:

set SERVER_NAME=alerServer

For Linux/Unix:

SERVER_NAME=alerServer

export SERVER_NAME

CR339157
When the Advanced Registration Flow tools are installed by the installer, the appropriate execution permission is required for Unix and Linux systems before executing the scripts under BEA_Home/repository30/core/workflow-tools
For example: - chmod 777 *.sh
CR339336
When an Asset is opened, edited in the Asset Editor, and the Advanced Registration Flow processes the asset in the background, the merge capability is not supported by ALER.
Workaround or Solution:
Revert the changes made within the Asset Editor or lose the changes made by the Advanced Registration Flow.You can reduce the probability of this issue occurring by increasing the Event Manager Sleep time to a large value so that the Events are emitted and processed when the traffic to ALER is low.
CR339632
When an Asset is submitted using the Quick Submit feature, there is an issue in processing that asset by the Advanced Registration Flow when:
  • The Asset is opened in the Asset Editor by a Registrar before the Advanced Registration Flow accept the asset
  • Advanced Registration Flow accepts the asset
  • Registrar accepts the asset and is not aware that the Advanced Registration Flow has accepted the asset as the Asset page has not refreshed
  • The ALER Asset Editor update to show that Advanced Registration Flow has accepted the asset
This creates a duplicate asset entry in the Asset Editor tree and the Advanced Registration Flow has issues executing the multi-tier approval process.
Workaround or Solution:
When an asset enters into this condition, manually unaccept and then accept the asset.
CR334366, CR335077
In Workspace Studio, submitting an assembly model to ALER may prevent users from also performing other operations in parallel, such as performing a search, before the submission is completed.
Workaround or Solution:
Avoid performing multiple operations when submitting assembly models.
CR329907
In Workspace Studio, you cannot store and retrieve binary artifacts, such Word docs and JPEG files, for assembly models.
Workaround or Solution:
None.
CR348052
When running the java process during the upgrade installation, larger data sets may run into JVM memory constraints.
Workaround or Solution:
If “out of memory” errors occur while running the migrate.sh or migrate.bat process, increase the memory as follows:
  1. Open the r4.bat/r4.sh file.
  2. Increase the memory by increasing the java -mx192m setting (e.g., java -mx1024m).
  3. Save the changes.
  4. Re-run the migrate.sh or migrate.bat process.
CR348053
When upgrading to ALER 3.0, importing larger data sets may cause available memory issues when running the Import/Export tool.
Workaround or Solution:
Save the impexp.jnlp file locally, and then edit it to increase the default max-heap-size amount to better accommodate the size of the data sets being imported. If the machine importing the data sets has enough available memory, set the max-heap-size as follows:
<j2se version="1.5" max-heap-size="1024m"/>
CR349394
When configuring the ALBPM “FDI User Credentials” while running the ALER 3.0 installation wizard, you cannot use the @ sign as a password character because that value does not get passed into the build.properties file used by the Ant scripts to install ALBPM.
Workaround or Solution:
If you must use the @ character, you’ll need to manually edit the build.properties file and enter the values for a password using the @ sign character, and then manually run the Ant scripts to install ALBPM.
CR360906
Built-in Tomcat application server throws an out of memory exception.
Workaround or Solution:
Add the following to JAVA_OPTS:
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m

 


Changes and Resolved Issues for ALER 3.0 RP1

The following section describes changes and issues that were found in earlier AquaLogic Enterprise Repository and are resolved in release 3.0 RP1

Change Request Number
Description
CR357418
When using the ALER 3.0 built-in Tomcat application server as your application server on Windows Systems, you need to set the JAVA_HOME variable to the location of your supported JDK and update the heap size. For example:
Set JAVA_HOME=BEA_HOME\jrockit90_150_06
PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH% -Xms128m -Xmx256m
where BEA_HOME is the qualified path to the BEA HOME of your installation.
This issue was resolved by a code fix in ALER 3.0 RP1.
CR349201
When using ALER 3.0, the following system property must be set to True when implementing LDAP over SSL on a WebSphere application server:
cmee.ssl.force-sun-provider
This issue was resolved by a code fix in ALER 3.0 RP1.
CR352792
When installing ALER 3.0 in the same BEA_HOME as other BEA products with an external Eclipse installation, the ALER installer overwrites the link files for Workshop. For example:
path=C:/BEA/tools/eclipse_pkgs/1.1/pkgs is overwritten with path=C:/BEA/tools/eclipse_pkgs/1.0/pkgs
Workaround or Solution:
Update the link files for Workshop to the original value of path=C:/BEA/tools/eclipse_pkgs/1.1/pkgs.
This issue was resolved by a code fix in ALER 3.0 RP1 installer.

 


Changes and Resolved Issues for ALER 3.0

The following section describes changes and issues that were found in earlier AquaLogic Enterprise Repository and are resolved in release 3.0.

Change Request Number
Description
CR319276
Date fields in the base data have been changed from strings fields to real date fields.
CR326577
Repository Hosts are renamed to Artifact Stores.
CR332832
A code fix was implemented to allow UUIDs to be released for import after Deleting Asset Types. Set PreserveUUIDs=true in the parameters.properties file located within the import ZIP file’s META-INF directory.
CR334005
All login screens are branded to the current release.
CR333727
Error messages in the REX API have been branded to the current release.
CR336706
A code fix was implemented to prevent Project members from disappearing if the “Create New Project” window is resized in a Firefox browser.
CR333770
A code fix was implemented to enhance the updateCustomDataFromString function of the REX API.
CR331924
A code fix was implemented to provide an exception when the REX API is used to approve or unapprove a tab and the asset is not in accepted state.
CR327842
A code fix as implemented to ensure that the console correctly displays Consumed and Produced Assets in the Navigator.
CR330134
A code fix was implemented to ensure when adding a project to an asset, the content of the list of all projects is consistent with other displays.
CR327083
A code fix was implemented to correctly process multi-byte encoded file names when using the Use-Download button in the Asset Editor.
CR333185
A code fix was implemented to correct an Asset Detail display issue for Project Profiles
CR319024
A code fix was implemented to resolve a search issue for UDDI in the REX API.
CR326611
A XSLT/PDF printing issue was resolved by changing the class loader order in WAS 6.1.05. See the WebSphere Installations section in the ALER Installation Guide.
CR320203
A code fix was implemented correctly update the current user as the Created By user when the ALER Copy/Migrate operation duplicates ALL Asset XML information from one version of an asset to the new asset copy.
CR321918
A code fix was implemented to correctly the Notify Subscriber's link so that it displays the correct subscriber list and/or subscriber information (e-mail address).
CR323355
A code fix was implemented so that a search for any value assigned within that asset from the multi-select field returns the correct values.
CR326136
A code fix was implemented to resolve a Unique Key Constraint Violation error message when adding a note to an asset within the asset editor.
CR328386
A code fix was implemented to allow the Advanced search on a selected policy type to return expected results.
CR328410
A code fix was implemented to resolve an issue where a deleted policy continued to appear in the current policy list.
CR329065
A code fix was implemented to correct an issue with an advanced query on the custom date-field returning inconsistent results.
CR331821
A code fix was implemented to resolve an issue which prevented users from removing a node.
CR331908
A code fix was implemented to resolve an issue where search results for an Advanced Search: Policy Type search fails to populate on the home page.
CR331909
A code fix was implemented to resolve an issue where search results for an Advanced Search: Policy Type search fails to populate in the Asset Editor.


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