Secured ibi WebFOCUS Reporting Server Starts Unsecured or Does not Start After Upgrade

A server will implicitly attempt to start unsecured if proper authorization steps have not been completed. Starting the server normally clears edatemp. If prior edatemp files exist (and authorization has not been done), start-up will fail due to an inability to clear the directory. However, if an edastart -cleardir command was issued just before the upgrade, there is nothing to clear, no error occurs, and the server starts. If the server starts and is not inspected after the initial start-up, the server being in the wrong mode may go unnoticed.

The proper solution is to add proper authorizations after an upgrade, as described in Reconfigure Security, and restart the server. A new safety measure has also been added. If the environment variable EDAEXTSEC is set to OPSYS explicitly, and a server lacks authorization, it will not start (see Preventing Unsecured Starts After Upgrades for details).