FNCM 5.6.0-IF002

Release Note:

FileNet Content Manager 5.6.0-IF002

Published: Feb 3rd 2025

Updated: Feb 3rd 2025

Overview:

Welcome to the IBM FileNet Content Manager Operator 5.6.0.0-FNCM-OPR-Container-IF002 release.

Use the following information to learn about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in this release.

Release Highlights:

For all new feature and enhancements, see the topic: FileNet Content Manager 5.6.0 What's New.

For installation, maintenance, and upgrade information, see the FileNet Content Manager 5.6.0 Documentation.

Key Highlights:

1. Product Updates: Interim fix release for all components. Please see attached component READMEs for more details.
2. Prerequisite Checks: Logic overhaul to check all defined LDAP connections before deployment, with multi-certificate support.
3. Script Updates: Many improvements to FNCM DevOps scripts -- See ChangeLog for details¹.

Fix List:

Known Issue	Description
N/A	FNCM Operator will check all defined LDAP connections before deployment.
N/A	Allow the scaling down of deployments by setting replica_count: 0 in custom resource.
DT422434	Init-Containers missing resources limits.
DT400185	Egress network policy generated with incorrect IP if there are multiple database servers.
DT419243	FNCM Operator cannot use multiple certificates for LDAP SSL connection
DT400536	CPE Object store database configuration missing the maxIdleTime attribute for type db2HADR.

Download Details:

The container images are available in the IBM Open Registry and the IBM Entitled Registry.

Component	Tag or Digest
Operator image repo/name:tag	icr.io/cpopen/icp4a-content-operator:5.6.0-IF002
FNCM Catalog Source repo/name:tag	icr.io/cpopen/ibm-fncm-catalog@sha256:f9b94bed28ed637c907eb82d04bbe3f67a7ec5615c982ae92a25810f0a57b817
CASE package version	5.6.4

See the IBM Entitled Registry for more information on obtaining an IBM Entitlement Registry Key.

Airgap Save Command:

oc ibm-pak config repo 'IBM Cloud-Pak OCI registry' -r oci:cp.icr.io/cpopen --enable
export CASE_NAME=ibm-cp-fncm-case
export CASE_VERSION=5.6.4
oc ibm-pak get ${CASE_NAME} --version ${CASE_VERSION}

Component Image Tags:

Review the following table for the list of component images and their respective tags.

Component	Image Repository	Image Tag	Build Version
CPE	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/cpe	ga-560-p8cpe-if002	5.6.0-2-177
CPE-SSO	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/cpe-sso	ga-560-p8cpe-if002	5.6.0-2-177
CSS	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/css	ga-560-p8css-if002	5.6.0-1-11
GraphQL	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/graphql	ga-560-p8cgql-if002	5.6.0-31
External Share	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/extshare	ga-310-es-if003	5.6.0-0-115
CMIS	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/cmis	ga-307-cmis-la702	307.008.0127
TaskManager	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/fncm/taskmgr	ga-310-tm-if003	310.003.358
Navigator	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/ban/navigator	ga-310-icn-if003	310.003.200
Navigator-SSO	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/ban/navigator-sso	ga-310-icn-if003	310.003.200
IER	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/ier/ier	ga-5218-if006-ier-2400-if004	570.005.700
ICCSAP	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/iccsap/iccsap	ga-4004-iccsap-if018d	4.0.0.4
Keytool-Init	cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/common/dba-keytool-initcontainer	24.0.0-IF004	24.0.0-IF004
Operator	icr.io/cpopen/icp4a-content-operator	5.6.0-IF002	5.6.0-IF002

See the FileNet P8 Fix Pack Compatibility Matrices
for more information on the compatibility of the interim fix with other FileNet P8 components.

Note

When installing using the FileNet Content Manager Standalone Operator, the image digest is used.

Note

For more information on loading images to a private repository, following the instructions in Getting access to images from a local image registry.

To use an Airgapped OCP installation and image mirroring, follow the instructions
in Preparing your cluster for an air-gapped (offline) deployment on OCP.

Base Image Details:

Component	Version
IBM Java Semeru	17.0.12.1
IBM Liberty	24.0.0.6
Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)	8.10-1161

Installation Instructions:

Important

If you are deploying this version of the FileNet Content Manager containers for the first time, you must deploy the
container as described in the IBM Docs topic Deploying a new P8 domain by using containers.

If you are updating your deployment to this version, follow the procedures in the Performing a major version upgrade

Note

When updating your Custom Resource (CR), take note of the following changes:

• The spec.appVersion must be 24.0.0, to use this version of the Operator.

Uninstall Instructions:

To uninstall FileNet Content Manager, follow the procedures in Uninstalling components.

References:

IBM

1. FNCM DevOps Scripts ChangeLog ↩