<font size=2 face="Courier New">IBM is pleased to announce that patch
2 for IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis 2.2 is available.</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New">Site version updated: 44</font>
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<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>APARs fixed in this patch</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Symptoms</b></font></div>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Behavior after applying
the patch</b></font></div>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">IV48876</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Scan
results cannot be uploaded because a wrong date of running the Upload Scan
Results fixlet is chosen. The problem might occur if the fixlet is run
when the upload of scan results is already in progress.</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Scan
results are uploaded because the correct date of running the fixlet is
chosen.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">IV49935</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">When
you export the Contract Usage report to a CSV file, some columns are empty
even though they are filled on the user interface. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">All
values that are visible on the user interface are also reflected in the
CSV file.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">IV50348</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">As
a consequence of daily imports, the size of Software Use Analysis tables
increases indefinitely. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
is updated to contain information how to set up data retention period.
You can use this option to specify the period after which historical data
from previous imports is removed from Software Use Analysis.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">IV50680</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
does not provide scalability recommendations that concern MSSQL.</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
is updated to contain recommendations that concern MSSQL.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">IV51245</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
does not provide information about how to back up and restore the Software
Use Analysis database.</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
is updated to contain the backup and restore procedures. Additionally,
information is how to check the version of Software Use Analysis to which
you are attaching the database is provided. </font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">IV53740</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 0px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
relevance for checking prerequisite libraries for the Common Inventory
Technology and software inventory tool scanners are not correct. It causes
that the fixlets are sometimes not applicable to computer to which they
should be applicable. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 0px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
Software Scanner Applicability fixlet is introduced to check whether all
prerequisites for installing the Common Inventory Technology and software
inventory tool scanners are fulfilled by the target computer.</font></table>
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<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Internal defects fixed in this patch</b></font>
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<td width=9% style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Defect
number</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Symptoms</b></font></div>
<td width=46% style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;">
<div align=center><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Behavior after applying
the patch</b></font></div>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">93785</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">When
you create a role that has the View Raw Data permission and assign it to
a user, the user should not have access to the Unrecognized Files report.
However, the report is visible to the user. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
Unrecognized Files report is not visible to the user who is assigned a
role with the View Raw Data permission only.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">94039</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
does not provide clear information about where to look for installation
logs. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Documentation
is updated to contain information about the location of installation logs.
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">94415</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
response file for silent uninstallation contains references to products
other than Software Use Analysis and some irrelevant parameters. It might
suggest that the response file is not to be used for the uninstallation
of Software Use Analysis but of different products. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">References
to other products and the irrelevant parameters are removed from the response
file. </font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">97183</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Imports
run for a long time due to inefficient relations in the data model. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Data
model for usage and file rule matching is reworked so that imports take
less time.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">97966</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
current version of the software inventory tool scanner requires the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
library that is not compatible with the common setup of SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Fixlets
that are related to the software inventory tool scanner are updated so
that they use the latest version of the scanner. This version has extended
compatibility with Linux x86 libraries. </font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">98205</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Exposure
to known security vulnerabilities. The details are not provided in this
readme file because of security best practices.</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
known security vulnerabilities are resolved.</font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">99235</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
size of the Software Use Analysis database increases after each import.</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
problem occurs because database entries for deleted computers are incorrectly
removed. After you install the patch, the database entries are properly
removed and the database size does not increase so significantly. </font>
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<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">99236</font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 1px 0px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">The
default logging mode does not provide information about which scan XML
file was not incorrectly parsed. To see this information, it is required
to set the DEBUG mode. </font>
<td style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:1px 0px 0px 1px;padding:5px 5px;"><font size=2 face="Courier New">Information
about incorrectly parsed scan XML files is logged when the default logging
mode is set.</font></table>
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<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><b>Installing the patch</b></font>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New">To obtain the upgrade installer, log
in to the Endpoint Manager console, and click Sites > External Sites
> IBM Software Inventory > TEM SUA Upgrade (2.2 patch 2).</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New">To obtain a fresh installer for Software
Use Analysis that already contains the fixes that are introduced in the
patch, log in to the Endpoint Manager console, and click Sites > External
Sites > IBM Software Inventory > Dashboards > Software Use Analytics.</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New">Software Use Analysis patches are cumulative.
To see the list of APARs and internal defects that were fixed in patch
1, see the attached sua_2.2_patch_2.html readme file. </font>
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<p><font size=2 face="Courier New">IEM Software Use Analysis Team</font>
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