AIX 7.3 certification for XCOM

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - Linux PC

Issue/Introduction

Please confirm ASAP whether AIX 7.3 has been certified. If not, when will it be certified ? 

Environment

• XCOM™ Data Transport® for AIX 11.6  SP1
• XCOM™ Data Transport® for UNIX/Linux PC
• IBM AIX 7.3

Cause

OS certification

Resolution

Broadcom supports XCOM for AIX 11.6 SP1 with AIX 7.3

See AIX RS/6000 SUPPORT FOR XCOM DATA TRANSPORT FOR AIX

The notes below address installation and StandaloneUI.sh related problems caused by the JRE supplied by the current install file.

For installation

1. The XCOM 11.6 SP1 installation requires gzip. If for some reason gzip is not available, one method to obtain it is via the IBM AIX toolbox.
   See "DNF is now available on AIX Toolbox" on how to install gzip using dnf.
   
   
2. Link to a IBM java 8 fixes.
3. For our tests we used
   /usr/java8_64/jre/bin/java -version
   java version "1.8.0_301"
   Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.6.36 -
   pap6480sr6fp36-20210824_02(SR6 FP36))
   IBM J9 VM (build 2.9, JRE 1.8.0 AIX ppc64-64-Bit Compressed
   References 20210824_12036 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
   OpenJ9   - 7bb9176
   OMR      - 820a5aa
   IBM      - dc8f23e)
   JCL - 20210806_01 based on Oracle jdk8u301-b09
4. To install with the above java or similar, rather than the one which comes with InstallAnywhere use the following command line

               /home/xcom/XCOM.bin LAX_VM /usr/java8_64/jre/bin/java

         Note: Make sure to specify the correct path for the Java installed on the system on the above command.

For a Fix

1. Use 

     /home/xcom/XCURS6_XCOMPATCH_r11622066_64.bin LAX_VM /usr/java8_64/jre/bin/java

To uninstall

1. Use 

      /opt/CA/XCOM/UninstallPatch/UninstallPatch LAX_VM /usr/java8_64/jre/bin/java
   
   

For the base product uninstallation

   /opt/CA/XCOM/Uninstaller/Uninstaller LAX_VM /usr/java8_64/jre/bin/java

Set environment variable

• XCOM_JAVA_HOME=/usr/java8_64/jre

• In /opt/CA/XCOM/config/xcom.glb point to the IBM AIX java version:

        XCOM_JVM=/usr/java8_64/jre/bin/j9vm/libjvm.so
  
        XCOM_LIBPATH=/usr/java8_64/jre/lib/ppc64:/usr/java8_64/jre/lib/ppc64/j9vm