These release notes contain important information available at the time of the version 4.5 release of the iPlanet Market Maker software. New features and enhancements, installation notes, known problems, and other late-breaking issues are addressed here. Read this document before you begin using the iPlanet Market Maker software.
An electronic version of these release notes can be found at the iPlanet documentation web site:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/
Check the web site prior to installing and setting up your software, and then periodically thereafter to view the most up-to-date release notes and manuals.
These release notes contain the following sections:
The following developments have occurred in this release:
Seller catalogs are similar to the buying club catalogs created by the marketmaker. Through a configuration option, sellers are now allowed to create views containing their own products. When the seller browses the master catalog selecting categories and items for the view, the master catalog is filtered showing only items available to that particular seller. During the last step of creating a view, the seller can assign buying companies to the view. In this way, sellers can offer their items, or a subset of their items, to a set of buyers without having to consult the marketmaker.
After a seller assigns a buying company to a view, the buying company administrator sees the view in his list of views. At this point, the buying company administrator can assign company roles to the view.
A buying company may be offered several catalogs from different sellers, but may choose to allow his company to buy only from certain catalogs.
The ability for buyers and seller to create views is controlled by two separate configuration parameters in the CatalogConfiguration.properties file, as shown below:
The values above will implement the standard iPlanet Market Maker configuration, where buyers can create views and sellers cannot.
Another common configuration is to allow sellers to create views, but not buyers. This prevents buyers from having access to the master catalog. (If buyers can create views, they can see all items from all sellers.)
Setting both values to false means that only the markermaker can create views.
All combinations of values are allowed.
The following additions and updates have been made to the iPlanet Market Maker documentation for the 4.5 release:
The Market Maker documentation can be found at the following location:
Documentation for other iPlanet products can be found at the following location:
The following software supports the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 product:
Patches may be required for some of the supporting software products. Before installation, it is important to check the release notes for the supporting software to see if patches are required and how to get them.
iPlanet patches can be downloaded from the following web site:
Release notes for iPlanet products can be found at the following web site:
The Solaris 2.6 patches listed in the Table 2 are required or recommended for iPlanet Market Maker 4.5. There are no patches required or recommended for Solaris 8.
The number in the Version column is the output from running the uname -r command on that version of Solaris. The number following the dash in each Patch ID is the revision of that patch. The table lists the minimum patch revisions required by this release of the JDK and JRE; later revisions are acceptable.
Patch ID and level
Patch ID and level
Patch ID and level
Patch ID and level
Patch ID and level
JDK 1.2.2_07 + JDK patches for Solaris available at:
In addition to the patches listed in the table, you may also want to install the latest patch cluster for your version of Solaris that includes additional recommended appropriate links starting at:
Patches can be obtained from your service provider or can be downloaded from the web. To download the patches, start at the following location and follow the links to download the JDK (the patches are available on the same page as the JDK):
For more information, refer to:
Follow the instructions in the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 Installation Guide to do a full installation.
The following minimal configuration can be used for development as well as product demonstrations (this is not a recommended deployment configuration):
For the 4.5 release of iPlanet Market Maker, there have been schema changes to the iPlanet Directory Server (LDAP) database which will require data migration if you are upgrading from a previous versions of iPlanet Market Maker. Procedures will be provided in the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 Upgrade Guide.
Any new installation should use version 5.0 SP1 of the iPlanet Directory Server, since it is richer in features than previous versions.
Note
The following sections address any limitations and known problems that are associated with the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 release:
To get blacklisted companies, use:
To run the iPlanet Market Maker software on the iPlanet Application Server in non-US locales, set the following variables in the iasenv.ksh file, located in the <$IAS_HOME>/ias/env directory:
These variables are mandatory for handling character conversion across various character sets.
Users of Netscape Communicator 4.x who use a language represented in a character set which is not Latin1 (which means all users except US and Western Europe) will need to install the Bitstream Cyberbit font on Windows before using iPlanet Market Maker, and modify the font selection setting for unicode as follows:
Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts
For the encoding unicode, the following fonts will be selected if you installed Bitstream Cyberbit:
There are 3 radio buttons under that:
By default, option 3 is selected.
By default 7-bit check is ON in case of IDS5.X
There are two ways to set 7-bit check value as OFF, as follows:
#plugin preoperation off "7-bit check" "C:/Netscape/Server4/lib/uid-plugin.dll" NS7bitAttr_Init "uid" "mail" "userpassword" "," "o=red.iplanet.com"
In the above example, UTF-8 settings were enabled for only two attributes: uid and mail. You will need to include any other attributes you want to store as UTF-8.
By default, the iPlanet Market Maker installation does not include sample Korean currency conversion values. To see Korean currency, you need to run the sql query that appears below after installing the iPlanet Market Maker software:
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(110,'KRW','FRF',.00565,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(111,'KRW','CAD',.0012,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(112,'KRW','USD',.00077,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(113,'KRW','EUR',.00086,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(114,'KRW','DEM',.00168,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(115,'KRW','GBP',.00053,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(116,'KRW','NLG',.0018,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(117,'KRW','ITL',1.669,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(118,'KRW','CHF',.0013,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(119,'KRW','MXP',.0073,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(120,'KRW','JPY',.095,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(130,'FRF','KRW',165.70098,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(131,'CAD','KRW',839.20647,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(132,'USD','KRW',1286.0,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(133,'EUR','KRW',1086.92719,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(134,'DEM','KRW',145.80499,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(135,'GBP','KRW',555.73705,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(136,'NLG','KRW',493.22606,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(137,'ITL','KRW',0.5991611,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(138,'CHF','KRW',769.23076,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(139,'MXP','KRW',140.08715,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
insert into pri_exch_rate values
(140,'JPY','KRW',10.79493,'T','20-MAR-02','20-MAR-02');
Location of set used for command line:
Location of set used by iPlanet Application Server applications:
Problem: JSP's do not render fully in Netscape 6.2.
On some pages a warning message appears:
"The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK.Otherwise, click Cancel".
One solution is to click the OK button when the warning message appears, and the page renders properly.
Another solution is for the user to click Reload on the menu bar, and the page renders properly.
The LDAP sampledata has two workable passwords.
VortexConfiguration.properties and some other files are located in two different locations:
Make sure to update both places when making any changes.
The following describes the product bugs that may affect your experience installing or using iPlanet Market Maker 4.5. Bugs are listed in numeric order.
4648661 Auctions: Search by String does not return an auction.
4651229 As a root user, only full uninstall is available.
4666610 Some sample image files do not display.
4666662 An incorrect file name displays if an attachment has a Korean file name.
4675583 iMM 4.5 English version cannot be installed on ko locales.
4648661 Auctions: Search by String does not return an auction.
The search by string in the Auctions module does not return any auction details (English and Japanese versions).
This problem occurs if the property CFG_USE_INTERMEDIA in the CatalogConfiguration.properties file is not set to true during the loading of the catalog data.
Solution: After altering the indexes, the Catalog search works correctly and the problem is solved. The format for altering the indexes is as follows:
# Set to true when intermedia is to be used for searching, false otherwise
4651229 As a root user, only full uninstall is available.
4666610 Some sample image files do not display.
4666662 An incorrect file name displays if an attachment has a Korean file name.
4675583 iMM 4.5 English version cannot be installed on ko locales.
When installing the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 English version under the ko locale, it fails.
Solution: Install the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 English version under the `C' locale. Switch back the OS to the ko locale. Install the ko package and run the iPlanet Market Maker 4.5 software on the ko locale.
If you have problems with your iPlanet Market Maker software, contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
So we can best assist you in resolving problems, please have the following information available when you contact support:
Useful iPlanet information can be found at the following locations:
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Last Updated April 30, 2002