What's New in Syniti Solutions 6.7.1

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WARNING: Any additions or changes users have made to CTS configuration (Admin > CTS >Configuration) may be lost when upgrading from DSP 6.6.x or earlier.

Prior to any upgrade backups should be taken of all databases. Once the upgrade is complete, if any custom CTS configurations are found to be missing, then the backup of the CranSoft database should be restored to a new database (DO NOT restore it to the CranSoft database). The missing custom configurations can be merged into the CranSoft.dbo.CTSConfig% tables from the restored backup.

Please contact Syniti Support if you would like assistance with this activity.

New Feature

In dspMonitor™, the Business Value dashboard has been added to track the costs of data quality issues. Users configure the Business Value dashboard by entering the Cost Per Failure for each report, and, if needed, setting the currency to a value other than US dollars. Refer to View the Business Value Dashboard for more information.

Enhancements

dspConduct™

The Final Finish Admin WebApp group has been added to dspConduct. Users in this group receive workflow notifications when a final finish package is created but fails to run successfully. Refer to Send Workflow Notifications when a Final Finish Package Fails for more information.

Data Stewardship Platform (DSP®)

  • The Description field was added to the Archive Manifest Keys page in System Administration.
  • Online Help

    • The Report Delivery section in Transform has been updated and restructured for accuracy and clarity.
    • Various topics in Console were renamed and combined for clarity.

    Resolved Issues

    dspConduct™

    The Disable and Enable icons were removed from the Page toolbar of the Category Workflow Message page. The functionality around these icons is redundant. The same icons are available on the Category Workflow Language Message page and are used to enable or disable messages. [DSP-10234]

    dspMonitor™

    • Data displayed incorrectly on the Your Metrics page for users in existing groups with historical data when a new user was added to the group. The page displayed the same number of duplicate records as there were group members. For example, a group had 4 members and reports were processed. A new user was then added to the group. The Your Metrics page displayed correctly for new users, but displayed 5 duplicate records for existing users. With the fix, the Your Metrics page displays the correct number of records for all users in the group.

      NOTE: The resolution of this issue also corrected an issue with the amount of data that displayed on the Your Group Metrics chart. In previous versions, this chart did not use the Display Metrics Duration parameter to determine the number of days to display on the chart. The value was hard coded in the chart as 8 days. With the fix, the chart uses the correct parameter, and the chart is now aligned with Your Report Metrics and Your Metric Reports pages and charts. [DSP-10321]

    • An issue occurred that prevented users who only belonged to the dspMonitor User WebApp Group from accessing dspMonitor. Security settings were updated for the Data Quality dashboard, and users in the User WebApp Group can now access dspMonitor. [DSP-10228]

    • The data on the Your Report Metrics chart did not display correctly for users assigned to existing groups with historical data. The chart displayed duplicate records and did not display records in chronological order after reports were processed. Users who belonged to the group when it was created and before reports were initially processed were not affected by this issue. With the fix, the Your Report Metrics chart displays data as expected for users added to existing groups. [DSP-10361]

    dspMigrate™

    Map

    • While mapping a field with the Default action, depending on the data type length of the field, users creating a placeholder to create output values for empty and null values got the error, "Default Value exceeds the length allowed for Target Field." With this fix, users can create Default rules when adding empty or null as the value for the field, regardless of the data type length. [DSP-9495]
    • An issue occurred when adding System Type joins that caused Target Sources with over 500,000 records to take over a minute to save. With this fix, Target Sources with System Type joins save quickly. [DSP-9807]

    Target Design

    When users marked Append Utility Columns as Target Append only (as in, Source Append is unchecked), these columns would still appear in the Target Source Schema and on the auto-generated Target Source table. With this fix, Append Utility Columns marked Target Append only do not appear in the Target Source Schema or on the auto-generated Target Source table. [DSP-9587]

    Transform

    • An issue occurred with Target reports, Target Source reports and Target Data Services reports where pages with high record volumes required 10 or more seconds to load. With this fix, pages with high record volumes load quickly. [DSP-9289]
    • Page performance has been greatly improved on the Transform reports and charts accessed when a user clicks My Reports in the Navigation pane. Page load times that took 2 minutes or more now take a few seconds. [DSP-9190]

    Data Stewardship Platform (DSP®)

    • The Data Source ID for the object has been added to the CTS Packing List By Config Item page. [DSP-10306]
    • An issue occurred in Excel Integration where the AddedBy, AddedOn, and AddedVia fields were being updated when an Excel import changed an existing row. With this fix, these columns are populated when the Excel import creates rows, not when it updates rows. [DSP-9380]

    Collect

    • When users would create a Target registered with a Data Services repository against the Target, then add a Target Source with a connection type of SAPAPPSERVER and add a Table to the Target Source choosing the "Manual Data Services" package type, they would receive an error when they clicked Refresh for the Table. With this fix, in the same situation, users can refresh the selected Table/DS job without errors. [DSP-9030]
    • The Synchronous setting at the package level was only being applied for the SAP Data Services package type, and it was not being applied in the SAP Data Services using RFC or Manual SAP Data Services package types. With this fix, the Collect / DS integration now uses the Synchronous setting for all Data Services package types including: SAP Data Services, SAP Data Services using RFC and Manual SAP Data Services. [DSP-9658]

    Common

    An issue occurred when users added a multitude of data sources to the DSP causing processing times to be adversely affected. The cause of the issue was the SourceTrack - Auto Activate DataSource service page running every 15 minutes. This would duplicate jobs that did not finish running within 15 minutes and overload the system. With this fix, this stored procedure runs every 15 minutes, as before, but now checks to see if the previous execution is still running. If it is, no action is performed and the service page will check again at its next scheduled execution. [DSP-6893]

    dspCompose™

    Certain validations in dspCompose took over three hours to run. The issue has been corrected by an updated stored procedure, and the validations now run in a few seconds. [DSP-9543]

    WARNING: Customizations made to any component of the delivered Syniti Solutions will be overwritten in the next upgrade. To preserve customizations, make a copy of the customizations prior to applying any upgrade.

    A customization is a change to the underlying source code, which differs from configuration – normal setup of the software, such as setting up workflows and defining parameters via the configuration pages.

    Previous Versions

    NOTE: 6.5.4 and 6.5.5 versions of Syniti Solutions were not released. The immediately prior release to 6.5.6 was version 6.5.3.

    NOTE: A 6.4 version of Syniti Solutions was not released. The immediately prior release to 6.5 was version 6.3.1.

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