Merative Social Program Management 7.0.11.0 iFix7

Merative ™ Social Program Management is now Cúram ™ by Merative™

Release Notes

Abstract

Welcome to the Merative Social Program Management 7.0.11.0 iFix7 release.

Content

Introduction
System Requirements
Download
Installation
Improvements, Resolved Issues and Third Party Updates
Known Issues
Notices

Introduction

Welcome to the Merative Social Program Management 7.0.11.0 iFix7 release.

This is a cumulative release which incorporates the Improvements, Resolved Issues and Third Party Updates contained in all previous 7.0.11.0 interim fix releases. Details of these Improvements, Resolved Issues and Third-Party Updates are included separately in the release notes for each of the previous interim fix releases. For the latest version of the release notes, see https://curam-spm-devops.github.io/wh-support-docs/spm/release-notes.

Full product documentation can be found in the Product documentation and PDFs.

System Requirements

For information about the supported software and hardware for this release, see the Merative Social Program Management Prerequisites.

Download

See the download instructions for this release at /support/curam.

Installation

Before running the installer please ensure all files in your Merative Social Program Management installation are writable.

The installation steps are as follows:

• Extract the contents of the .zip file to a local drive location.
• Run the Merative Social Program Management installer, which can be found in the INSTALLER folder at that location.
• After installing, the appropriate build targets must be run as necessary for your installation.

Additional installation instructions can be found in the Development Environment Installation Guide.

Upgrading

If you are upgrading from a previous version, the Merative Social Program Management Upgrade Helper contains documentation and tooling to help you to upgrade your Merative Social Program Management application codebase and database to work with your new version of Merative Social Program Management. The Merative Social Program Management Upgrade Guide describes a recommended process for performing application and database upgrades. The Upgrade Helper contains tools to assist you with implementing the upgrade, including tooling to produce a schedule of required migrations for your upgrade, tooling to provide information about database schema changes and tooling to generate initial SQL scripts for applying changes to your database.

To download the appropriate version of the Merative Social Program Management Upgrade Helper, see the download instructions at /support/curam.

Improvements, Resolved Issues and Third Party Updates

WorkItem: 275536 - The version of the logging framework used by the SPM product has been updated from Log4j-ibm-1.2.17 to Log4j-ibm-1.2.17.2

Apache Log4j is a Java-based logging utility that is used as the logging provider for the Social Program Management (SPM) product.

The JAR file log4j-ibm-1.2.17.jar is an IBM version of Log4j which was derived from Apache Log4j-1.2.17.
A class in this JAR file was found to be incompatible with some logging configurations and could not be shipped. Therefore the jar has been updated to remove the affected class. The classes which have been removed from the JAR file are:

• org.apache.log4j.net.JMSAppender
• org/apache/log4j/net/JMSSink.class
• org/apache/log4j/jdbc/JDBCAppender.class
• org/apache/log4j/chainsaw/
• (8 classes)

As a result of this upgrade, the following changes have been made in the Java Development Environment deliverable:

• CuramSDEJ/lib/log4j-ibm-1.2.17.jar - This JAR file has been removed.
• CuramSDEJ/xmlserver/log4j-ibm-1.2.17.jar - This JAR file has been removed.
• CuramCDEJ/lib/ext/jar/log4j-ibm-1.2.17.jar - This JAR file has been removed.
• CuramSDEJ/lib/log4j-ibm-1.2.17.2.jar - This JAR file has been added.
• CuramSDEJ/xmlserver/log4j-ibm-1.2.17.2.jar - This JAR file has been added.
• CuramCDEJ/lib/ext/jar/log4j-ibm-1.2.17.2.jar - This JAR file has been added.

It should be noted that any references in custom scripts and other artifacts to the old 'log4j' JAR file should be updated to point to the new version of that JAR file as specified above. References to the JAR file which is no longer part of the JDE deliverable should be removed.

WorkItem: 276016 - Introduction of Db2 11.5.5 support and revised SPM license terms

Db2 11.5.5 support is now introduced. See the associated database prerequisites for this version of the product for further details of this support.

SPM license terms have been updated to allow the Db2 Standard Edition that is available for download as a Supporting Program with Merative Social Program Management 8.0.0 (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6438545), to also be used as a Supporting Program with Merative Social Program Management 7.0.11.0 iFix7 and subsequent 7.0.11.0 interim fix releases.

Permission is granted to install and use this Merative Social Program Management 7.0.11.0 interim fix, based on your acceptance of the Merative Social Program Management Platform V7.0.11.0 interim fix and Merative Social Program Management Platform Professional V7.0.11.0 interim fix license terms, displayed at download and also included in the <license> folder of the 7.0.11.0 iFix7 and subsequent 7.0.11.0 interim fix distributions.

The revised license terms are also available to view online at 
https://www40.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/displayLIs/BED716C9
209CF120002587DB0037EE9E?OpenDocument

WorkItem: 276150 - Update the Google gson JAR file to the latest version

Google Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. A number of areas in the Social Program Management (SPM) product utilize this library. These include Advanced Evidence Sharing (AES) administration screens, the Timeline Calendar and the Smart Navigator feature.

The version of the Google Gson library has now been updated from 2.2.2 to 2.8.9. The new version contains some defect fixes and minor enhancements. As a result of this upgrade, the following changes have been made in the SPM deliverable.

• EJBServer/components/core/lib/gson-2.2.2.jar - old JAR removed.
• EJBServer/components/core/lib/gson-2.8.9.jar - new JAR added.

It should be noted that any references in custom scripts and other artifacts to the updated JAR files listed above should be updated.

Known Issues

See the Known Issues section in the 7.0.10.0 release notes.

Notices

Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in "Notices"