July 2015

Informatica ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1

Release Notes

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Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3
New Features and Enhancements ................................................................................................ 3
Additional Platforms Supported ................................................................................................. 3
Required Action ......................................................................................................................... 3
Memory Recommendation for Server ........................................................................................ 3
Installation ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Console-Mode Installation ......................................................................................................... 3
On Windows ........................................................................................................................... 3
On Linux ................................................................................................................................. 4
Installing Designer on Windows 7.............................................................................................. 4
Installing Designer Plugins to an Existing Eclipse Framework .................................................. 4
Migrating to ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1 ..................................................................................................... 5
Upgrading an Existing ActiveVOS Server.................................................................................. 5
Required Action: Upgrade Database Schemas from a Release Prior to 9.2.4 .......................... 5
Migrating an Existing ActiveVOS Designer Workspace............................................................. 5
Reported Issues Corrected ........................................................................................................... 5
ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1 ..................................................................................................................... 5

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Introduction
These release notes contain information about new features and fixed issues for Informatica ActiveVOS.
For information on issues corrected in prior releases, see the Release Notes in the ActiveVOS InfoCenter
located here:
http://infocenter.activevos.com/infocenter/ActiveVOS/v92/index.jsp?topic=/doc.server_install/jboss/html/R
eleaseNotes.html

New Features and Enhancements

Informatica ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1 offers new human task capabilities as described in the section, Reported
Issues Corrected.
Customers are encouraged to review the list of issues corrected, as the enhancements and fixes improve
performance.

Additional Platforms Supported

This release adds support for Red Hat JBoss AS 6.4.0 and AS 7.5.0 Final.

Required Action
A number of defects and enhancements make the upgrade to ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1 highly recommended.
Please refer to the section, Reported Issues Corrected, for more information.

Memory Recommendation for Server

We recommend the following application server memory settings:
-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m

Installation
Before installing ActiveVOS, ensure that you have access to your ActiveVOS Designer or Process Server
licenses. Evaluation customers only need a license for ActiveVOS Designer and can use the embedded
runtime engine for deployments. A link to download licenses was emailed to you or your company shortly
after your purchase or evaluation request.

Console-Mode Installation
You can run the installation from the command line in console mode by using the following commands:

On Windows
start/wait installer.exe -c

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On Linux
installer.sh -c

Installing Designer on Windows 7

ActiveVOS Designer writes to a number of directories within its installation path; for example, the
ActiveVOS embedded Server. Windows 7 implements security mechanisms that can prevent
modifications to files located in Program Files and other folders that are managed by the operating
system. If this is how your system is configured, installing ActiveVOS Designer under Program Files could
result in errors when starting the embedded server and deploying processes to it.
Here are potential workarounds:

Install ActiveVOS Designer in a directory to which you have full permissions such
as C:\ActiveVOS.
Run ActiveVOS Designer using the Run as administrator option.
Turn off User Account Control (UAC) from Windows 7 by setting UAC to Never Notify.
Modify the rights of the following folder to grant modify access to your account. Be sure that the
new permission is copied down the entire directory structure.
C:\Program Files\ActiveVOS\Designer\designer

Copy the Server folder under the following location to a location for which you have permission
to write. When you create a new embedded engine in Designer, select the Add link next
to Server runtime environment to point to this location:
C:\Program Files\ActiveVOS\Designer\designer\plugins\
org.activebpel.enginep_9.2.4.1

Installing Designer Plugins in an Existing Eclipse Framework

You can install ActiveVOS Designer plugins into an existing version of Eclipse 3.7.2 by following these
steps:
1. You must be running Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers. No other version is supported.
2. Download the plugins distribution (designer_update_site_[version nnn].zip) from the
ActiveVOS download site by logging in to: https://mysupport.informatica.com/downloadsView.jsp.
3. In Eclipse, navigate to Help > Install New Software.
4. Select the Add button.
5. Enter the name that will appear in the available-software list.
6. Browse to the location of designer_update_site_[version.nnn].zip on your file system.
7. Select the new item in the list of available software, and click Next.
8. Follow prompts provided in the Eclipse dialogs to complete the installation.

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Migrating to ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1

Upgrading an Existing ActiveVOS Server
There are no database schema updates if upgrading from ActiveVOS 9.2.4.
To upgrade from an earlier version of ActiveVOS Server, review "Migrating from a Previous Release" in
the "Configuration" section.

Required Action: Upgrade Database Schemas from a Release Prior to

9.2.4
Current customers upgrading to 9.2.4.1 from a release prior to version 9.2.4 who are not using
Screenflow but intend to purchase it in the future must execute the following DDL statement:
[installationDirectory]/server-enterprise/
[appsvr]/ddls/create_repository_[yourdb].ddl
Depending on your current patch level, portions of this patch may fail because indexes being created
already exist. You can safely ignore these errors.

Migrating an Existing ActiveVOS Designer Workspace

A simple migration procedure is required to update the path and startup settings for the ActiveVOS
embedded server:
1. In the Designer Servers view, right click on the ActiveVOS Server at localhost and then
click Delete.
2. Right click and select New > Server.
3. Click the Configure runtime environments link in the New Server dialog.
4. Remove the existing embedded server from the Preferences dialog.
5. Click Add.
6. Select ActiveVOS_Embedded_Server, then click Finish.
7. Click Finish on the New Server dialog to add the new server.

Reported Issues Corrected

ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1
Issue

Description

AS-4436

Enhanced human tasks such that you can now set the time in addition to the day when
delegating a task from ActiveVOS Central. This allows for partial day delegation.

AS-5520

Updated ActiveVOS to address a defect that Oracle fixed in jaxws-api 2.2.1, 2.1.8 and made
backwards compatible with 2.1.3.x jars. Previously, when a process was invoked from ESB,
an Internal Server Error was thrown in ActiveVOS. This no longer occurs.

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Issue

Description

AS-5533

Fixed a defect with the JMS Transaction Manager. Previously, under heavy load, the
ActiveVOS server could spawn thousands of threads that were only cleaned up with garbage
collection.

AS-5547

Fixed a problem where XSI Type was not preserved when using SetOutput. The XSI Type is
now preserved for client operations of setOuput, setFault and complete; removed validation
from the people activity when it consumes the message.

AS-5550

Added the ability to specify explicitly headers which should not be sent with the request to
ActiveVOS Central.
To enable this capability, you must modify the web.xml of the Central .war file. Add the
following fragment after the context-param configuration of ae.dont.proxy.headers.
The param-value is a comma-separated list of headers which should not be proxied during
the request submission:
<context-param>
<param-name>ae.dont.proxy.request-headers</param-name>
<param-value>$WSRA,$WSRH</param-value>
</context-param>
Background: Using IBM's IHS load balancer, reference to an IHS authentication event is
done using HTTP Headers $WS* (for example, $WSRA and $WSRH). This informs
application servers where to look for the identity of the request. Because SSO is intended to
authenticate beyond the IHS/WAS environment and a trusted connection in SSL/CLIENTCERT should be used by proxy, these headers must be stripped from Central's proxy
execution.

AS-5551

Fixed a defect where human tasks were faulted if all attachments were not added to a
process request form.

AS-5554

Fixed a problem where Out Of Memory errors were reported when performing a WSHT
GetTask.

AS-5555

Fixed a problem where two versions of a project could not be active at the same time in
9.2.2.

AS-5557

Fixed a defect where an AeCriticalStorageException was returned when performing a

getTasks request.

AS-5571

Fixed a problem when using task operations defined in the WSHT API with Redhat JBoss
EAP 6.x where the following error was reported:
java.lang.IllegalStateException:
The prefix identity is not bound. at
org.apache.ws.commons.schema.SchemaBuilder.getRefQName(SchemaBuilder.java:823)

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Issue

Description

AS-5573

Fixed a problem when using ADMIN API (ae_metro_admin.jar) with Redhat JBoss EAP 6.x
where the following error was reported:
ClassNotFoundException: org.activebpel.rt.metro.jaxws.AeBaseJAXWSServiceImpl

AS-5574

Fixed a problem where an exception occurred during execution of installation db-script

failures with MSSQL, due to case sensitivity errors in the source SQL statements.

AS-5576

Fixed a defect where getAllInvokeMetrics was not returning the correct average time. When
trying to use built-in reports services, incorrect metrics on response time were returned when
the same partnerlink and operation were used more than once. This issue also surfaced in
server performance statistics.

AS-5579

Fixed a problem with a Null pointer exception in ActiveVOS 9.2.1 when deployed to Oracle
WebLogic.

AS-5581

Fixed a defect where non-timeout JMS Connection Errors were masked by a connection
timeout message. Now, if the AeJMSTransactionManager throws an error during a
getConnection, it is always presented to the user as a connection timeout exception.
Note: For HornetQ, which has fine-grained security, the initial connection succeeds but the
underlying access to a specific queue might fail and the error will not be identified in the log.

AS-5585

Changed the WS-HT schema restriction to allow a priority field to be a negative number.

AS-5586

Enhanced human tasks to allow both users and groups to be potential owners of a task. Prior
to this change users and groups were mutually exclusive. Customers making use of the
ActiveVOS SDK should upgrade to the ActiveVOS 9.2.4.1 SDK to obtain the latest binary,
XML schema and WSDL updates.

AS-5600

Fixed a defect to now check if the AeJMSTransactionManager is closing before calling close
on the underlying connectionFactory to avoid deadlock.

AS-5601

Fixed a defect seen when the call failed if using multiple LIKE operands in a WS-Humantask
API call. Multiple occurrences of the LIKE operand with the WSHT API are now supported.

AS-5604

Fixed defect where a task did not appear in ActiveVOS Central if the task had users and
groups, or only groups set as the potential owner.

AS-5606

Updated to handle escape of '_' and '%' characters for task query when using a LIKE clause
with the WSHT API.

AS-5608

Fixed a problem where the server assumed any failure to be a timeout failure when, during
process recovery, executor service tasks are created to encapsulate work being performed.
Error handling now catches and reports errors with more granularity.

AS-5625

Fixed a problem with an unbalanced releaseMutex() call during process recovery.

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Issue

Description

AS-5636

Fixed a problem that sometimes caused a ClassNotFoundException in Redhat JBoss EAP

6.2.

AS-5641

Enhanced support for non-default schemas. Previously, dynamic SQL generated by

AeSQLTaskFilter did not fully support non-default schemas. DML queries now include the
%TABLE_PREFIX%.

AS-5642

Added new MDM Identity Provider.

AS-5645

Fixed a problem where addDelegate and removeDelegate operations were not working as
expected within a JBoss environment.

AS-5648

Improved performance de-serializing XML documents containing many namespaces.

AS-5651

Fixed a defect where customer encountering SQL error during process migration when
configured for an Oracle database under certain situations.

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