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CA Process Automation 04.3.04 CP01 Readme

1.0 Welcome

2.0 Installation Considerations

2.1 Preparation

2.2 Application

2.3 Backing out the Cumulative Patch

3.0 Fixed Issues in 04.3.04 CP01

4.0 Contact CA Technologies

1.0 Welcome

Thank you for choosing CA Process Automation. CA Process Automation provides a comprehensive environment to design, deploy, monitor, control, and audit your IT processes.

This readme describes issues and other information that was discovered after we published the documentation for the 04.3.04 release. For a complete list of known issues for this release and information about how the features and enhancements in this release might affect you, see the Release Notes in the latest CA Process Automation Documentation at docops.ca.com.

Important! You can apply this cumulative patch against CA PAM 04.3 SP04.

Check the CA Process Automation home page on support.ca.com for product news that is published after we finalize this document.

2.0 Installation Considerations

2.1 Preparation

This cumulative patch is intended to be installed against CA Process Automation Release 04.3.04. If the targeted instance of PAM is a version earlier than r04.3.04, then you must first download r04.3.04 from support.ca.com. After you download, upgrade your PAM instances to r04.3.04 by following the instructions provided with r04.3.04.
Applying this cumulative patch will typically require an hour or less maintenance window where PAM is unavailable. Time for this maintenance window should be coordinated with the end users to minimize impact.
Before you apply the cumulative patch, perform the following tasks:
- Shutdown CA Process Automation.
- In a clustered environment, shutdown all CA Process Automation Domain Orchestrators.
- Take a backup of the PAM_Install_dir\server\c2o folder for each Orchestrator instance. If you want to back out the cumulative patch, you can use the backup of each orchestrator instance to revert to previous state of CA Process Automation.

2.2 Application

Note: Consider that the databases of CA PAM (Library, Runtime and Reporting) do not have the DBO permissions. Then, provide the DBO permissions for the databases of CA PAM until you start CA PAM. When you apply the DBO permissions, the patch is applied properly and CA PAM works as expected. Later, you can downgrade the DBO permissions to dbwriter or dbreader.

You must install this cumulative patch using the same account as was used to install PAM on the machine(s) containing your Domain Orchestrator. If your Domain Orchestrator is clustered, you must install this cumulative patch on all nodes of the cluster.
You need to backup PAM_Install_dir\server\c2o folder to a location outside the PAM_Install_dir folder. This is needed if you want to back out the patch.
When installing the cumulative patch on Windows, run:
Update_Installer_windows.exe
When installing on UNIX or Linux, run:
sh Update_Installer_unix.sh
You will be asked to accept a License, and then specify the directory where PAM is installed. Once these inputs are provided, the installer will update your PAM instance with the new binaries containing the fix.
This patch installs the jars signed with the new certificate. If you are using z/OS connector, you must install the latest z/OS connector(r04.3.04) along with this patch.

2.3 Backing out the Cumulative Patch

In the unlikely event problems are seen after applying this cumulative patch, and a usable backup was taken of the c2o folder please do the following. Please note that you should not restore a backup taken of PAM_Install_dir\server\c2o, if after the backup was taken, changes were made to the configuration of the PAM instance, or other PAM updates were applied.

Shutdown all PAM Orchestrators.
For each Domain Orchestrator, copy PAM_Install_dir\server\c2o\log folder to another location for later examination by CA Support.
If a backup was taken of the c2o folder restore this to PAM_Install_dir\server\c2o and then restore PAM_Install_dir\server\c2o\log folder from backup taken in the previous step.
Restart all PAM Orchestrators.
In all cases contact CA Support for assistance in determining the cause of your failure.

Note: For more information on the Platform Support and Hardware requirements, see the Getting Started section in CA Process Automation Documentation .

3.0 Fixed Issues in CA PAM 04.3.04 CP01

The following issues are fixed in 04.3.04 CP01:

REST API enhancement to retrieve all run-time instances with pagination and filtering support.

Defect ID	Defect Description
DE411126	Run Javascript behaves differently between 4.3 SP03 to 4.3 SP04 Custom ports are not working as expected with 434 and addressed it. Not able to connect oracle db using jdbc thin client operator. Javascript boolean evaluations on custom port misbehaving.
DE414995	Process Automation SOAP response limitation Operator response default threshold value increased from 2 MB to 4 MB. To customize further, use the config property "oasis.response.payload.size.threshold". Minimum value: 1MB and Maximum value: 10MB. Note: To configure, use the Configuration tab, Orchestrators, Configuration Properties. Server restart is not required.
DE394541	File read operator throws access denied error on Touch Point To customize further, use the config property "pam.file.xcopy.ignore.slashX". Boolean value true or false is accepted. Note: To configure, use the Configuration tab, Orchestrators, Configuration Properties. Server restart is not required.

Defect ID

Defect Description

DE411126

Run Javascript behaves differently between 4.3 SP03 to 4.3 SP04

Custom ports are not working as expected with 434 and addressed it.

Not able to connect oracle db using jdbc thin client operator.

Javascript boolean evaluations on custom port misbehaving.

DE414995

Process Automation SOAP response limitation

Operator response default threshold value increased from 2 MB to 4 MB.

To customize further, use the config property "oasis.response.payload.size.threshold".

Minimum value: 1MB and Maximum value: 10MB.

Note: To configure, use the Configuration tab, Orchestrators, Configuration Properties. Server restart is not required.

DE394541

File read operator throws access denied error on Touch Point

To customize further, use the config property "pam.file.xcopy.ignore.slashX".

Boolean value true or false is accepted.

Note: To configure, use the Configuration tab, Orchestrators, Configuration Properties. Server restart is not required.

4.0 Contact CA Technologies

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