Insight 8.1 Release Notes

Insight 8.1 enhancements include:

 

Reflect correct Control View name after editing

Previously, when a user opened the Control View in the edit mode, and changed the Control View name after adding sub-views and control groups; the name change was not reflected in the Control View immediately.

Handle ActionScript error

Previously, when a user dragged the Open Custom View popup beyond the application layout, “ActionScript error” occurred.

Control Point based Control Data filtering in the IVA component

Previously, in the Item Value Analytics component, Insight retrieved control data for a Control Entity irrespective of the Control Point that had touched the control data.

This issue has been fixed so that control data is retrieved for the specific Control Point.

IVA group by column sort

Previously, the group by column sorting in the Item Value Analytics component was alphanumeric irrespective of the column contents.

This issue has been fixed so that the column sorting is numeric when the column data is numeric.

Display correct source result in the Custom View search filter

Previously, the control view filter displayed data related to all the source types (ACR/Detail. ACR/Summary, External, etc...) irrespective of the source type search filter selected by the user.

This issue has been fixed so that the control view filters and displays data specific to the source type selected by the user.

Handle XML reports with new OOB type summary report

Previously, Insight could not handle the ACR XML control reports that had the new OOB type summary report; and threw an error message “Error inserting report.For input string:"" ""”.

The code has been enhanced to handle the error message. However, the OOB type summary report is not supported by Insight.

Handle ACR XML reports with zero value Date field

Previously, Insight could not handle the ACR XML reports with zero value in the Date field; and threw an error “Error inserting report.For input string:"" ""”.

This issue has been fixed so that all ACR XML reports with zero value in the Date field can be loaded successfully into Insight.

Handle duplicate Control Group names during Assure Control execution

Previously, when a user executed an Assure Control Point that invoked multiple Control Points in the AUTODETECT mode; duplicate control group names were seen during the execution.

This issue has been fixed so that the duplicate Control Group names are removed.

Open the Control Menu by clicking the Picker button

Previously, in the Control View > ACR Reports, the Control Menu opened when a user clicked anywhere on the Control Picker panel. This issue was seen in the Assure Results page.

This issue has been fixed so that the Control Picker menu opens only when a user clicks on the Control Picker button.

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.

With the new release, the enhancement is done at platform level in Insight by adding additional properties in the Advance.properties file. However, the mobile devices do not support single sign-on.

Store the Incidence and Overview Chart in the workspace

Previously, when a user opened/viewed multiple components in the User Preference landing page, in certain instances, upon user session expiry, the Incidence and Overview Chart were not available in the Default Landing page.

This issue has been fixed so that a user can view the Incidence and Overview Chart in the User Preference Default Landing page.

Return Code Chart by Key displays data results for expected number of days

Previously, the Return Code Chart by Key did not display the current day data when Current week/Previous week/Current Year was specified in the filter.

This issue has been fixed so that the Return Code chart displays the data results for the expected number of days.

Handle inconsistency in attaching multiple reports to a Note

Previously, when a user attached multiple reports in the Control Note, clicked Okay and opened the Note; some of the attached reports were not available in the Note.

This issue has been fixed so that there is consistency in attaching multiple reports to a Control Note.

Time stamp is one hour ahead in the Job History and Key History reports

Previously, the time stamp of the auto loaded Job History Report from ACRS 4.2 and the Key History Report from ACRD 4.2 were one hour ahead of the expected control start time.

This issue has been fixed so that the time stamps in the reports are same as the expected control start time.

Discard changes in the Severity Override pop-up window

Previously, when a user opened a Control Group to edit the rules under the Severity Override section; the changes were saved when the user clicked Cancel to discard the changes.

This issue has been fixed so that the changes are discarded when a user clicks Cancel to discard the edits.

Allow hyphens in the hostname field of Information Sources

Previously, during Information Source creation, a user was not allowed to type hyphen in the Hostname field.

With the new release, this issue has been resolved.

Render Severity Override pop-up window correctly

Previously, at the Control Group level, the Severity Override pop-up window did not render the conditioning rules correctly when the control names were very long.

This issue has been fixed so that conditional rules are rendered and displayed correctly when the control names are very long.

 

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.