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For those who may have missed the news, IBM has released FP2 for 9.5.2. The release notice can be found here.

The download can be obtained through Fix Central, a link to which will be found here. One change is that you now have to log in under your IBM account to download from Fix Central. The downloads for both 32 and 64 bit are around 650-700 Meg.

The "release notes", if one may bestow a "page with a random set of links" with such a grand title, will be found here. Why there is no .pdf with all relevant information contained in it (you know, like release notes used to be) is an unknown, but the absence of such could explain why the page currently has an average rating of 1 star from 2 users. After all, this whole "being able to read a topic from start to end in a logical sequence" is sooooo last century. Far better to have people jumping all over the place looking for nuggets of information.

In a separate release, there are also interim fixes available for 9.5.2, 9.5.1 and 9.4.1 which "address a potential issue with the TM1 Admin Server, which may result in a "Buffer Overflow" attack against the server running this software".

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Edit: I removed the link to the Download Page from the text above. The reason is that whoever created the link from the release notice to the download page pointed it to the FP1 download page rather than the FP2 one. Not that either are particularly useful so I changed the link to point straight to the Fix Central page.

The real FP2 Download page does also mention that:

Unix and Linux based installs are not available for download but can be requested through Customer Support.

I installed FP2 Excel client on my PC. The TM1 server is still running FP1. I'm able to login using FP2 Server Explorer to the FP1 server without issue.

I thought the client version can never be later than the server version?

harrytm1 wrote:I installed FP2 Excel client on my PC. The TM1 server is still running FP1. I'm able to login using FP2 Server Explorer to the FP1 server without issue.

I thought the client version can never be later than the server version?

I don't think an extra fix pack makes it a later version. It's supposed to patch bugs, not change the underlying code base. Now had you upgraded the client to 10.1, that might be a whole other thing...

harrytm1 wrote:I installed FP2 Excel client on my PC. The TM1 server is still running FP1. I'm able to login using FP2 Server Explorer to the FP1 server without issue.

I thought the client version can never be later than the server version?

check out ClientVersionMaximum & ClientVersionMinimum in the help files, its these that control what can/can't connect to a server.

Steve Vincent wrote:

harrytm1 wrote:I installed FP2 Excel client on my PC. The TM1 server is still running FP1. I'm able to login using FP2 Server Explorer to the FP1 server without issue.

I thought the client version can never be later than the server version?

check out ClientVersionMaximum & ClientVersionMinimum in the help files, its these that control what can/can't connect to a server.

Up to a point. However you can't just set them to whatever you like and use any late version client with earlier version servers. The reason for this obviously being that as later clients support new features, an older server would have no idea how to serve up those features. Even if you set the config parameters to a higher client than the server, the odds are (not necessarily in every version but probably most) you'd still get an error message. This isn't an issue with FPs which should not, in theory, change functionality.

Hello,

tried to install 9.5.2 FP2 64bit on the server, which - as a result - caused TM1Web to not run any longer due to an IIS error.
I was wondering about FP2 being installed directly to a system directory (on C) without 'change dir' option. Unlike 9.5.2 basis installation, which allows to change installation to a custom directory, as well as the inetpub dir for the TM1Web components. Actually my 9.5.2 had been installed on a D partition according to company's policy.

I even deinstalled 9.5.2 basis and reinstalled it on the preset drive on C, with TM1 and TM1Web running perfectly. Then proceeded with FP2 installation, and the TM1Web issue occured again (even when calling TM1Web homepage at localhost). Unfortunately I am not familiar with these IIS things, but simply expected the FP upgrade to both check the basis installation drive and not to touch respective IIS configurations. I don' t have the IIS error screenshot here, but can deliver it in case of need.

Has anyone an idea what went wrong with the FP2 installation? Any proposals on what to check on IIS to make TM1Web running again with FP2 installed?

Thank you and kind regards!
Helmar

Kinda depends on what the error is, but one thing to note about updates to the TM1 Web installation is that any changes you have made to the web.config file will get overwritten by the update process.

I would compare the FP2 copy of web.config to your backup (you did take a backup before you updated didn't you? If you didn't you may find that you now have a directory called TM1Web.1 (or .2 or .3 depending on how many upgrades you've done) and your old files should be in there.) and get the two files back in sync. Note that you should leave the FP2 line that specifies the version number of the Applix.TM1.API.

If there are no differences, and if you are using an older copy of IIS then check that the default document is set to TM1WebLogin.aspx. If you are using a newer version of IIS (I think anywhere from 7 onwards) then the default document change would have been in the web.config anyway.

Hi Andy,

thanks for your advice. I've found an IBM note on that issue meanwhile, see
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg27024528

(and for whom it may concern as well).
I will have a try on it and hope for the best. Indeed we are running ASP.NET v4, so I see a chance to fix the problem with this note.

Kind regards!
Helmar