Installation and Configuration

The following are known issues in installation and configuration of WebFOCUS:

If you are installing WebFOCUS Release 8.0 Version 04 with Oracle® WebLogic 11gR1 or 12c, you must perform the following steps after you install WebFOCUS, but before you deploy within the WebLogic Application Server:

Create a new file called weblogic.xml in the WEB-INF/lib directory for the WebFOCUS web app. It must contain the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<wls:weblogic-web-app
xmlns:wls="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd
http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app
http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.4/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
  <wls:container-descriptor>
    <wls:prefer-application-packages>
     <wls:package-name>org.eclipse.persistence</wls:package-name>
    </wls:prefer-application-packages>
  </wls:container-descriptor>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>

Recreate the webfocus.war web application and deploy, using the instructions in the WebFOCUS and ReportCaster Installation and Configuration manual for your platform.

When the user accesses WebFOCUS through IIS, the WebFOCUS favorite icon is not sent to their web browser. This results in users not getting the WebFOCUS branded icon in their web browser favorite list, address bar, and tabs.
The workaround is to copy the favicon.ico file from the WebFOCUS installation directory. For example, ...\ibi\WebFOCUS80\webapps\webfocus\ to the IIS C:\InetPub\wwwroot\ directory.
For existing WebFOCUS installations using Apache Tomcat™ 7.0.29, you may encounter Java® heap size errors that prevent you from using WebFOCUS. As a workaround, install a later version of Apache Tomcat.
On some 64-bit Windows machines, the Derby service for WebFOCUS 8, with a 32-bit Java configuration (version 1.7x), fails to start.
As a workaround:
1. Copy msvcr100.dll from <JAVA_HOME>(32 bit)\bin to <DERBY_HOME>\bin.
2. Start Derby.
3. Manually create the repository tables.
4. Start the Distribution Server.
WebFOCUS Release 8.0 Version 03 and higher is packaged with a newer version of the jackson-all-1.9.11.jar file, which includes updated classes. To avoid conflicts with the current version of the jackson-all-1.9.11.jar that is included and used by IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8.0 and 8.5, you must define a container-wide shared library that can be used by deployed WebFOCUS applications. For more information, see the WebFOCUS Upgrade Considerations manual.
When installing on iSeries, an incorrect value for the IBI_Repos_DB_URL parameter is written to the webconfig.xml file. The correct value is:
```
<parm-name>IBI_Repos_DB_URL</parm-name>
<param-value>jdbc:as400://{system_name}/{db_name} </param-name> 
```
where:
system_name
Is the system hosting the database.
db_name
Is the database used for the WebFOCUS repository.

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