What's New​

Attachments​

Users now have the ability to attach files to Projects, Bookings, Environment Events, and Service Requests via forms. The maximum file size allowed is 2 MB.

Blueprints​

Introducing the ability to create environment blueprints and personalized environment process diagrams.

Pipeline​

A new feature in DevOps Manager empowers users to create custom visual automation pipelines

DevOps Addons​

Pre-built integration addons are now available to enhance your DevOps library.

Homepage Themes​

Users can now personalize their homepage view by selecting from a variety of themes such as Classic, Release, and TDM

My Business Unit​

This feature enables users to associate themselves with their respective business units, providing filter options on reports that allow viewing data specific to their business units.

Changes & Enhancements​

Connectivity View​

System Dependency view option has been added in this report to allow users to view system to system relationship.

Project Environment View​

Project Filter has been added to provide more filter options.

Enhanced Reports​

Several reports have been revamped with a fresh new look, including:

• Manage WorkItems (Project Management >> Management)
• Access Management (Configuration Management >> Add Data)
• Booking Approval Queue (Booking Management >> Management)
• Runsheet Activity (Event Management >> Reports)

Analytics Sub Module​

A new submodule has been introduced in the Environment Management module, and the following reports have been moved to this module:

• Deployed Versions
• Environment Drift
• Environment Cost (Renamed from IT Proliferation)
• Tag Matrix

CSV View (Data Brick)​

Support for column search has been added to the CSV View, enhancing the usability of this data brick.

Service Dashboard​

The Service Dashboard has been enriched with new widgets and a date range capability.

Implementation Insight​

This report has been moved to Implementation node

Report Renamed - The following reports has been renamed​

• Manage PI Plans -> Manage PI Milestones
• Manage Project Plans -> Manage Project Milestones
• Environment Insight -> Insight - Environment
• System Insight -> Insight - System
• Instance Insight -> Insight - Instance
• Component Insight -> Insight - Component

Post Implementation Review​

PIR Module has been redesigned for Release and Projects.

Table View in Gantt Reports​

Gantt reports now include a table-style view option for the following reports :

• PI Master Plan
• Project Milestones
• PI Bookings
• Project Bookings
• Environment Bookings
• System Bookings -Component Bookings
• Project Events

Column Selection​

Various reports have been enhanced with the ability to select and hide columns, providing users with more flexibility in customizing the view. Reports with the column selection feature include:

• Configure Environments
• Manage Blue Prints
• PI Activity
• Manage Release Trains
• Manage PI Milestones
• Manage Release Implementation
• Project Activity
• WorkItem Insights
• Manage Projects
• Manage Project Milestones
• Manage Project Implementation
• Manage Workitems
• Manage Project PIR
• Booking Activity
• Booking View
• Manage Bookings
• Booking Approval queue
• Event Insights
• Manage Events
• Event Activity
• Runsheet Activity
• Service Activity
• Service Request Insights
• Manage Servie Requests
• Access Management
• Organisation Management
• Location Management
• CMDB Management
• Lab Configuration
• Information Template Management
• Data Booking Insights
• Profile Configuration
• Mask Configurations
• Validate Configurations
• Data Generator
• Data Source Management
• Manage Scripts
• Manage Pipeline

3.1 Major Release Items​

What's New​

Pause/Start/Cancel​

• Database Masking executions can now be paused, resumed, and cancelled.

Kerberos Implementation​

• Now supports Kerberos authentication for MSSQL.

New Classes​

• Now supports JSON profiling and masking.
• Now supports Parquet profiling and masking.

Data Generator Regex Functions​

• Data can now be generated using user-generated regex functions.

Advanced REST API​

• New API to obtain data such as:
  • Logs
  • Reports/Outputs
  • Metrics
  • And more

Masking Function​

• New function to mask all strings in a fullname. For example, "James Bob Smith" → "Peter Thomas Jane".

Changed​

File Masking​

• Mismatch in row count between input and output file will now be logged. Since row counts can differ due to bad lines, empty lines, etc.
• Logs now use ASCII text to clearly display breaks such as pauses and restarts.

Database Masking​

Oracle

• Will now utilize a chunking feature to break data inserts into blocks of data to increase performance and reduce transaction log.

File Masking - Delimited​

• Enhanced performance when masking multiple large files, along with optimized memory usage.

Fixed​

Database Masking​

Redshift

• Fixed issue where string values were being skipped if they included quotes.

Decommissioned​

• Nothing has been decommissioned.

What's New​

Service Request Form (Notification List)*​

With this new feature, users can now enable input for a notification list that will receive updates regarding any changes made to a ticket.

Booking Request Form (Booking Name)*​

This feature allows user to provide their own booking name.

Changes & Enhancements​

Project Request Form​

The Business Unit field is now optional, and no longer mandatory.

Booking Request Form​

The start date will now be automatically set to the current date when selecting a project, instead of a past date.

Configure Environments​

Enabled Labels for System Interface Listing.

Package Deployment Tracker (Data Brick)​

We have added support for the deployment of packages across multiple system instances of different systems.

Shared URL​

Shared URLs for reports can now be bookmarked, and will no longer auto-resolve.

Project Plan​

The issue with project creation for projects not linked to PI has been resolved.

Connectivity View (System View)​

The incorrect version information has been fixed.

Environment Insight​

The report was showing all events for the environment. It has now been fixed to show current events only.

2.9.3​

Release Date: 1st April 2023

What's New​

Masking Function​

• New function to mask all strings in a fullname. For example, "James Bob Smith" → "Peter Thomas Jane".

Changed​

File Masking - Fixed Width​

• Fixed issue where malformed first rows were not being masked.
• Fixed issue where unique ID masking was not working for all pattern types.

File Profiling - Fixed Width​

• Fixed format of output file to match other file types.

Masking - Lookup​

• Changes to obtain TFN lookup more effectively.

DataConnection - Redshift​

• When editing the connection, previously saved information was not being displayed or the save was corrupted.

Validation​

• Fixed issue where CSV export for validation reports was displaying 'undefined patterns' when not found.

What's New​

Information Template​

This feature allows you to design input forms to capture additional information as part of user requests.

DevOps Manager​

• GIT Integration- New Feature allowing you execute scripts directly from your GIT repository.
• Folder Management - New Feature allowing you to create or manage folders and files within your scripts in file explorer.

Webhook DevOps Integration​

This new feature allows you to call DevOps Script on a webhook call.

Project PI Planning​

This feature allows projects to plan and track their activities for the release train.

Package Deployment Tracker​

This new data brick allows you to keep track of all the package deployment status across your different environments.

Release Milestone Tracker​

This new report will allow release manager to track how projects are progressing with their release activities.

Changes & Enhancements​

Connectivity View​

System view has been enhanced to use different symbols for systems, instances and components.

Enhanced Reports​

These reports have been revamped to support new fresh look.

• Configure Environments (Environment Management >> Management)
• Environment Activity (Environment Management >> Management)
• PI Activity (Release Train Management >> Reports)
• Manage Release Trains (Release Train Management >> Management)
• Manage PI Plans (Release Train Management >> Management)
• Project Activity (Project Management >> Reports)
• Project Demand (Project Management >> Reports)
• Manage Projects (Project Management >> Management)
• Booking Activity (Booking Management >> Reports)
• Booking Queue (Booking Management >> Reports)
• Manage Bookings (Booking Management >> Management)
• Event Activity (Event Management >> Reports)
• Manage Events (Event Management >> Management)
• Service Activity (Service Management >> Reports)
• Manage Service Requests (Service Management >> Management)

Booking Gantt Reports​

Additional Filter to view data by System Instance Assigned To

User Groups​

Ability to send emails to user group email address

Bulk Upload​

Added feature to automatically remove unsupported characters from CSV

Deployed Version Dashboard​

• Ability to see multi instance details in the same environment on hover.
• Added ability to view data by"Environment" & "Environment Type"

Environment Connectivity (System Instance View)​

This view was showing decommissioned objects which has been fixed now.

Decommissioned​

Release Train Management >> Management​

• PI Editor

Project Management >> Management​

• Project Editor

2.9 Major Release Items​

What's New​

Base DCS - Redshift Support​

• Added support for Redshift in Base DCS.

File Masking​

• Conditional masking has been added for all file types.
• Optimizations made by using chunking when masking delimited files.

Data Compliance Insight​

• View your data operation execution reports across different data sources and types.

Data Connection Insight​

• Centralized view to monitor your data source status and execute different data operations from a single view.

REST API​

• Ecosystem API endpoints for DCS jobs.

Data Bricks​

• New data widgets in custom dashboards.

Changed​

Data Source Management​

• The "Link with System Components" option has been removed and replaced with labels.

PII Splatter Board​

• The redesigned view allows users to search for PII compliance across different data sources.

Execution Queue​

• View the current status of all data operation executions.

Fixed​

Global​

• Extended global timeout for database type Couchbase.

Database Masking​

• Fixed issue where Oracle tables might not be compressed correctly.
• Altered Oracle queries used in masking to allow for larger DDL queries to be saved.
• Resolved bug where masking an empty column did not display the correct error.

File Profiling​

• Log updates for delimited file type now work correctly in all scenarios.

File Masking​

• Fixed issue with delimited files where quotes were not retained if the value contained a comma (e.g., "hello, world").
• Resolved bug where an incorrect engine was used to read delimited files.
• Fixed issue where result count could be incorrect for delimited and fixed-width file types.
• Added better handling for delimited file masking when dealing with bad inputs.

Decommissioned​

• Data Compliance
• Compliance Dashboard
• Profile Dashboard
• Validate Dashboard
• Masking Dashboard

2.9.1​

Release Date: 1st October 2022

Changed​

File Masking - Delimited​

• Enhanced progress updates for delimited file masking. The process now incorporates folders and the size of a file to report an accurate percentage of completion.

File Masking​

• Improved chunking algorithm to strengthen performance. Masking is now based on distinct values found: if greater than 1 million, masking is based on distinct values; otherwise, it is based on row count.

AWS Redshift​

• Reworked logic involving vacuums to maximize performance on masking.

Fixed​

Database Masking​

• Performance improvements for databases with large counts of distinct values. The reworked algorithm constitutes improvements for the following database types:

  • MSSQL
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS Redshift
  • Teradata

• Resolved a rare bug when masking full names where many-to-one masking returned an index error.

File Masking - XML​

• Improvement in the file gathering process when conducting a folder mask.
• Revised algorithmic changes to update recursion when failing on edge cases.

File Masking - Delimited​

• Resolved issues related to breaking due to unique characters, such as certain Chinese characters.
• Resolved a TFN masking bug on RedHat 8.1 systems.

Masking - Oracle​

• Improvements to masking diagnosis to resolve merging conflicts with special characters.
• Enhanced trigger enabling/disabling when multiple correlated triggers are attached to one table.

Profiling - AWS Redshift​

• Now only retaining tables of the required "type" and excluding types such as views.

DCS Base​

• Fixed temporary table logging issues when failing in rare cases.

2.9.2​

Release Date: 1st February 2023

Changed​

File Masking - Delimited​

• Enhanced performance when masking multiple large files, along with optimized memory usage.

Database Masking - Oracle​

• Will now utilize a chunking feature to break data inserts into blocks of data to increase performance and reduce transaction log.

File Masking​

• Mismatch in row count between input and output file will now be logged. Since row counts can differ due to bad lines, empty lines, etc.

Fixed​

Database Masking - Redshift​

• Fixed issue where string values were being skipped if they included quotes.

File Masking - Delimited​

• Fixed issue where empty space values were being masked.
• Resolved issue where values starting with escape characters or empty space were being skipped.
• Fixed reporting structure to accurately convey when a column is masked multiple times in one scan.

Profile Scanner - Oracle​

• Fixed wildcard functionality to incorporate rules to abide by include/exclude table functionality.

Decommissioned​

• Nothing has been decommissioned.

What's New​

Insights​

• Addition of Data Bricks and Data Booking Insights views.

DataView​

• New Action forms for View Windows and View Configuration that allow bookings to be added and viewed.
• Addition of Manage Data Booking view.

Queue Manager​

• All DCS scripts will now be placed in a queue if the queue manager is enabled.

Profiling, Masking, Validation, Data Fabrication​

• Config Comparison feature added.
• Other minor UI adjustments.

Fixed​

Masking​

• Resolved permission issues when accessing/creating folders for output and logging.
• Fixed issue where masking could fail on compressed tables for database type Oracle.
• Addressed issue when merging tables during masking for database type MySQL.
• Fixed issue where masking could fail when using some functions for type File - Delimited.

Validation​

• Fixed issue where validation patterns could not be created due to incorrect date format.

Data Generator​

• Resolved issue when generating fake credit card numbers.

Exec Scan​

• Fixed script failure under certain conditions for database type Oracle.

What's New​

Masking​

• Support for nullable CLOB and BLOB masking has been added for Oracle.
• Added DCS widgets to custom dashboards.
• Introduced a Meta-only scan, which is triggered if the configuration list is left empty.
• The SQL Server 'Windows Authentication' login method is now available for Windows-hosted instances.
• Data configurations can now be exported and imported as CSV files.

Fixed​

Data Fabricator​

• Improved functions for generating random credit card numbers.

Profiling​

• Enhanced logging for errors, such as failed schema collection.
• Resolved issue where profiling was attempted on 'unprofilable' columns (e.g., Raw and Long Raw types in Oracle).
• Fixed issue where include/exclude rules failed due to mismatched letter cases.

Masking​

• Masking functions with large value lookups now dynamically trim values to fit the column definition.

What's New​

Meta Scanning​

• Meta scanning now displays the matched category instead of "found."

Import/Export Configurations​

• Import and export of configurations are now available, facilitating faster bulk updates.

Reporting​

• Added filters to various reports.
• Included row count in profile reports.

Fixed​

MSSQL​

• Resolved issue with column collection when columns contained special characters (e.g., $ or [).

General​

• Fixed bug where values were not correctly replaced with NULL fields.
• Corrected Teradata .csv report issue related to decimal data lengths.
• Fixed issue where CLOB and NCLOB types could be profiled in Oracle.
• Addressed bug where cancelling profiling did not stop the process under certain conditions.
• Fixed issue where disabling triggers did not affect all existing triggers.

What's New​

File Masking and Profiling​

• File masking and profiling now support multiple files and directories.

DCS Masking and Profiling​

• Can now handle multiple headers and footers in a single file.
• Allows the choice of delimiter within quotes.

Memory Management​

• Added memory limit for obtained table data and the ability to skip large data types in profiling.

Database Triggers​

• Database triggers can now be disabled prior to masking.

Fixed​

General​

• Large profiles could previously fail to generate a report.
• Include/exclude rules could incorrectly read tables from other schemas if a table name was duplicated.

XML File Masking​

• Configurations could not be edited for XML file masking if the file path contained backslashes.

DCS Configuration​

• Fixed timeout issue within DCS configuration windows.

Teradata​

• Resolved minor defects in Teradata masking.

MongoDB​

• Profiling and validation could fail when MongoDB was used as the data source.

Data Sources​

• Corrected response issue with the Check Connection function for data sources.

Changed​

Profile Execution Filter​

• The Profile Execution Filter has been changed from a dropdown menu to a calendar widget.

Empty Tables Reporting​

• When removing empty tables in profiling, the number of empty tables is now reported.

Pattern Search Status​

• The Execute Pattern Search Status now refreshes automatically.