What's New in Syniti Solutions 8.0.7

Release Date: 08/07/24

This release contains:

Product Certification

Refer to the Product Certification Matrix for the versions of third-party products that this release has been certified against.

INSTALLATION NOTES FOR Stewardship Tier 7.4.8 AND LATER

The SAP transports for Stewardship Tier installations are now split into 2 packages and are documented separately.

  • Core—contains the functions and programs required by Stewardship Tier to extract data via RFC and load via BDC. These transports are distributed with the Stewardship Tier installation in versions 7.4.8 and later.

  • Supplementary—miscellaneous functions, programs, and utilities for supporting SAP-based projects. Contact Syniti Support and raise a support ticket to get this transport.

The code in the Core transports has been modernized to adhere to latest ABAP coding standards. Both the Core and Supplementary transports are compatible with SAP installations of EHP 7 FOR SAP ERP 6.0 [SAP_APPL 617] (based on SAP NETWEAVER 740 [SAP_BASIS 740]) or higher.

NOTE: Customers using older versions of SAP can contact Syniti Support who will assist in locating versions of the required programs and functions that are compatible with their SAP Instance.

Refer to Support Article SAP Transports for 7.4.8 and Above for SAP Transports available when running version 7.4.8.

IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTES

NOTE: SQL 2022 no longer supports SQL Server Native Client. If using any data connections that rely on this Data Provider, you must switch to a new provider, such as MSOLESQLDB. Refer to SQL Server Native Client for more information.

NOTE: If psaCollate is installed on the instance you are upgrading, you must uninstall it before upgrading to this version. The collation technology is included in the product in 7.4.5 and later. To uninstall psaCollate refer to the Knowledge Base article psaCollate Incompatible with SST 7.4.5+.

NOTE: When upgrading to Stewardship Tier 7.4.5 AND LATER, data sources are automatically assigned with the Collation Type of General Latin Case-insensitive. This ensures that the ADM AutoGen continues to create SQL tables whose text columns have a case-insensitive collation.

NOTE: When upgrading to Stewardship Tier 7.4.6 AND LATER, open a support ticket with Syniti Support to request a new license in order to use Entity Validation and Migration Reports. If using Entity Validation, you must also request a Melissa license.

NOTE: When upgrading to Stewardship Tier 8.0.5 AND LATER, open a support ticket with Syniti Support to request a new license in order to use Remediate, which is part of Master Data Management.

NOTE: A new, critical step has been added to the Post Upgrade section of the Installation process. After an upgrade to Stewardship Tier, users must re-create their BAPI templates. Failing to do so will cause the posting of a BAPI template to fail. Refer to Re-create BAPI Templates in the Install Manual for more information.

NOTE IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM 7.0.6 OR BELOW: You may need to migrate your security settings to use centralized security. Users of Data Quality (formerly dspMonitor), Master Data Management (formerly dspConduct), and Mass Maintenance (formerly dspCompose) must update security roles when upgrading to this version. Refer to the Syniti Solutions Centralized Security Migration Manual for important information about using security in the Stewardship Tier in this version and later. Consult this manual BEFORE updating to this version, as an analysis of current security assignments must be completed before the Stewardship Tier can be updated.

NOTE IF YOU ARE UPGRADING TO 7.4.2 OR HIGHER: Please be aware that any JavaScript content added is stripped away and any remaining, safe HTML is displayed to users. In Stewardship Tier versions 7.4.1 and earlier, users were permitted to enter HTML and have it rendered in the UI or included in file downloads from the UI. There were no restrictions in place on what HTML/JavaScript text was permitted, leading to potentially dangerous cross-site scripting attacks. Refer to the Knowledge base article Unsafe HTML/JavaScript removed in Stewardship Tier 7.4.2 for more information.

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.

WARNING: In Mass Maintenance, the External Request Scenarios and the External Data Processing with an External Data Role functionalities are no longer supported and will be deprecated in a future release. Both of these features utilize External Data Email Account which is currently dependent on Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.0. This version of TLS is being disabled across major platforms, including AWS, Windows and Google, and mail servers are now requiring TLS 1.2 and above.

Since Mass Maintenance is no longer available to new Customers, and these two functionalities are not widely used by existing customers, per our Delivery stakeholders, we have opted to deprecate these functionalities rather than invest in the resources required to upgrade the Stewardship Tier to support TLS 1.2 or above.

New Features

Replicate version 10.7 is now supported with Stewardship Tier 8.0.7.

Enhancements

Master Data Management

  • Additional logging has been added for the creation of a Mass Change page for a Master Data Management Category.

  • Validations have been added for the Late Summary Notification message for formatting and missing parameter values.

  • We updated the auto-inserted task comment to end with a hardcoded value of ‘Compare’ instead of ‘Approve’.

  • The following messages have been added when creating a Base Table Structure on the Create New Task From Integrate Template page:

    • Pre-event Message: This will use the existing table’s column definitions to populate the base structure for use in creating the new task page.

    • Post-event Message: Base table structure has been populated.

  • We updated the logic to create Audit tables with clustered primary keys when created on the Audit Tables page at Admin > Data Sources > Audit Tables. This change does not affect AuditColumn and AuditProcedure tables.

  • The Rebuild/Reorganise Fragmented Indexes Service page has been added to rebuild and reorganize fragmented indexes in the application database on a nightly basis. This improves the performance of the application when large amounts of Scenarios, Roles, and Pages are present.

  • We updated the validation message on the Create New Task From Existing Table page to reference ‘Reserved’ instead of ‘boa’. The message now reads “One or more standard reserved columns…” instead of “One or more standard boa columns…”.

Mass Maintenance

  • The External Data Role role type and the ability for Mass Maintenance to read incoming email out of a mailbox has been removed.

Resolved Issues

Master Data Management

  • Fixed an issue with the capture of error messages in the Inherit Validation process if a page column was marked as a key. [SST-351]

  • When creating a base table structure on the Create New Task pages, the Rejected Checkbox column property now displays as a checkbox instead of a text box with a value of 0 or 1. [SST-377]

  • Fixed an issue where ViewType displayed as “V” instead of “Vertical” in the Default WebApp Request Table Columns page. [SST-376]

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