How clean log4j-core with powershell

Product:
Cognos Analytics 11.1.7

Microsoft Windows 2016

Issue:

How remove the JNDI call from the log4j-core file?

Suggested solution:

(Test this first in your LAB environment)

Ensure where you have 7zip installed. https://www.7-zip.org/

Find out what file to clean. (Take a backup of the files to clean).

For cognos controller, we guess it is this file:

C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\ccr_64\fcmweb\wlp\usr\servers\fcm.reports\apps\fcm.reports-rest.war\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-core-2.5.jar

For cognos analytics, it is several files, maybe this:

C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\analytics\bin\log4j-core-2.7.jar
C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\analytics\wlp\usr\servers\dataset-service\workarea\org.eclipse.osgi\88\0\.cp\log4j-core-2.7.jar

Create a new folder e.g. c:\fix

Create a text file, where you list the files to clean on this server e.g. c:\fix\filetofix.txt

Create a new powershell file, jarupdate.ps1, with this content:

# set location of 7z program
$7zip = "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"
# run the script on the source machine
# get files from list to clean
$file2fix= Get-Content -Path "c:\fix\filetofix.txt" 
foreach ($thefile in $file2fix) 
{ 
Write-Host "Currently the script is cleaning " $thefile 
& $7zip d "$($thefile)" "org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/JndiLookup.class"

}

Get approval to do the update on the Cognos server.

Stop all IBM Cognos services.

Check that no JAVA process is still around.
Start POWERSHELL as administrator