Perceive 3.2 Release Notes

Perceive 3.2 enhancements include:

Format data in the reports extracted in text format

Previously, the reports interface did not provide an option to save the report in the text format. It opened the report in the browser without correct format.

With the new release, the interface provides an option to open the reports in the text editor or save the reports to the local disk.

Manage Report session timeout

Previously, we were having two issues with session timeout in the report management:

1. The session timeout period in the report management, which is configurable in the application server admin console was different when compared to the session timeout period in data management.

2. The session timer was not being updated when a user navigated inside an ad-hoc report or the list repository. The ad-hoc report and the list repository use Ajax to communicate with the server instead of refreshing pages.

This has been fixed in the Infogix Perceive 3.1 release. The session timeout period used by the reports interface is read from the application server settings. Also, the session timeout period is reset whenever Ajax calls are made to the server in the reports management. This keeps the session alive till the user operation is complete.

Enable Data Entity menu based on license

Previously, when the internal and external targets were disabled in the license file, the user was still able to create a Data Entity based on the internal target.

Remove Page/Line breaks in reports extracted in text format

Previously, the Perceive output report was generated with page/line breaks. The two-line-break defect at the end of the report page occurred in the text output reports generated by the Report Event. This issue was caused by the default value of the property BETWEEN_PAGES_TEXT. By default, the property value was set to two-line breaks.

With the new release, the BETWEEN_PAGES_TEXT property value is set to an empty string to resolve the issue.

Extract large amount of data from Assure

Previously, when the amount of data extracted from assure was greater than the available memory in JVM, “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError” occurred.

With the new release, the third party library has been updated to handle large data set.

Support Perceive/Nexix Single Sign-On in JBoss environment

Previously, the Single Sign-On feature was not supported for Perceive and Nexix in the JBoss environment.

Queue auto data extract when Data Entity is in use

Previously, the auto extract process was aborted when a data entity or its outputs were used by other processes.

Allow special characters in email address

Previously, the product failed to register and use an email address if the email address contained special characters.

With the new release, special characters are allowed within an email address.

Jasper Version Upgrade

Infogix Perceive 3.2 is integrated with the latest Jasper version 5.5.0. The Jaspersoft Studio Designer tool is added in the Infogix Perceive 3.2 release.

Set ORACLE_HOME property in the database.properties file

Previously, the bulk loader settings for the Oracle database were read from environment variables.

In the new release, a new property, ORACLE_HOME, is added in the database properties file. The Oracle client software installation path is set as the property value.

Oracle Bulk Loader Environment Setting

Infogix applications now rely on retrieving the value of ORACLE_HOME from Infogix properties file instead of getting it from environment settings.

This new property eliminates issues with Oracle environment variables where it is not set correctly or when the applications are started using a profile that doesn’t have these settings. In past releases, to enable the correct settings required customers to restart the servers; this often required the involvement of an administrator.

A new property, ORACLE_HOME, is now added in the database properties file. You need to specify the path where the Oracle client software is installed.

Infogix Administrative Console: Process & Memory Viewer

The Process & Memory Viewer displays processes that were executed, or are currently running on your system for the selected time interval. System activity information for each node is collected and graphically represented.

For Infogix Assure only, Control Point executions are shown in the Process section.

Multiple Group to Role Mapping

This feature allows multiple roles to be mapped to an Infogix role through the product properties files.

Resource Creation at Cluster Level

Resources like Queues, Connection Factories, and Service Integration Buses are now created at the cluster level in WebSphere. This simplifies the installation process, especially when Infogix applications are deployed manually from the WebSphere administrative console.

Infogix Administrative Console: Diagnostic Package includes Installation Properties

The installation properties like, the appserver.properties, appserver.advanced.properties, database.properties, database.advanced.properties, and the product.properties, are now bundled within the diagnostic package.

Any password related properties are removed during the creation of the diagnostic package.

JBoss Data Source Configuration

In prior releases, it was difficult to manage data sources in JBoss. Users had to edit or create a new <data_source_name>–ds.xml and restart the JVM to pick up the changes. Managing these data source files involved manual steps as these file are removed after running clean.bat (.sh) or deploy.bat (.sh) scripts.

In this release, the configuration of data sources has been simplified in JBoss. You can now define the details of the data source in the properties file: Infogix/config/default/${product}/datasources.properties.

The configuration file also supports password encryption. The command update-datasources.bat (.sh) can be run to deploy data sources to JBoss.

JBoss Single Sign On Support

In prior releases, it was not possible to seamlessly access different Infogix applications. Users now can navigate between Infogix applications without having to provide their login credentials in JBoss. For example, visiting a Control Point Result from Infogix Insight to Infogix Assure does not require re-authentication.

JBoss single sign on ability is limited to Infogix products only, and does not provide ability to integrate with other enterprise applications.

Active Directory Nested LDAP Group Support

Active Directory® is a directory service that stores information about objects on a network and makes this information available to users and network administrators. Organizations may sometimes create nested groups to reflect their organizational structure. Nested groups can have groups as members.

Infogix applications now support the retrieval of users from nested groups. This feature allows customers deploying Infogix applications in WebSphere or JBoss to access user information from nested groups. This eliminates the need to flatten a nested group hierarchy to support Infogix applications.

Cluster Communication Enhancements

Several enhancements have been made to Infogix applications in the areas of cluster communication and discovery. This eliminates the need to enable multicast protocols in your environment to communicate and discover other cluster members. In prior releases, cluster communication and cluster discovery was based on UDP and JGroups ping protocols.

Starting with this release, applications use tcp and fileping for cluster communication and discovery, respectively. These protocols are more reliable for delivery of information as compared to UDP and ping options.

The options, “tcp” and “fileping” are now the default values.

These values are specified for the following properties in appserver.advanced.properties file:

• CLUSTER_DISCOVERY_PROTOCOL=fileping
• CLUSTER_TRANSPORT_PROTOCOL=tcp

Integration Framework Changes

Several fixes were made within Integration Framework to support web services within the IBM Application Server. The Integration Framework now uses standard Java Web services that are bundled with the JDK. Infogix Assure web services are available from both the IBM and JBoss administrative consoles.