ER 4.2 Release Notes

ER 4.2 enhancements include:

Automatically Remove Field Mappings when Recon Entity Fields are Removed

When Recon Entity fields are removed from the data model, Infogix ER will now automatically remove any corresponding Recon Entity Field Mapping from the Recon Entity rule, which helps to prevent runtime errors.

Enhanced Cash Difference Screens Edit Field Display Functionality

Additional formatting options are now available for text fields in the User Interface Definitions for Search Cash Differences, Search Teller, and Search Exceptions screens. They now have the same formatting options as in the reconciliation search screens, such as padding options.

Testing for Cash Differences Workflow Rules

Users are able to test a Cash Differences Workflow Rule for expected results, which will make rule writing easier to troubleshoot. A Cash Differences Workflow Rule can be tested by specifying input data and the expected rule results. The rule is then tested to see if the expected results are achieved.

Key Word Restriction

To avoid processing issues that occur when data model fields names collide with keywords in the application or underlying database, this release includes a configurable reserved words properties file.

This file may be customized; customization of the file requires a server restart to become effective. The file is used at run-time to allow or restrict use of database reserved words and keywords as field names in a component’s model definition.

Keywords for both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server are included by default in the restricted words list.

Updated List of Functions and Operators for Recon Entity Rules

In previous versions of the application, the Functions list and Operators list in the rule building windows had subsets of all standard functions and operators available in the application. In this version, the complete list of both functions and operators are now available in the Recon Entity Edit Aggregation Rule, Recon Entity Edit Calculation Rule, Recon Entity Edit Status Rule, and the routing rules for items, recon entities, and match sets.

Multiple Adjustment Entry Validation Rules

For adjustment entry validation, multiple entry validation rules can now be written that validate an entry field against multiple adjustment entries. This type of rule prevents users from entering invalid information in an entry field when additional entries are added to the adjustment.

Infogix ER SOD Thresholds

The Infogix ER Start of Day Thresholds gives administrators the ability to define threshold limits for new and open items being sent to the system during Infogix Assure processing.

There are two types of thresholds: Alert and Error. Both thresholds are checked at the beginning of SOD processing. If Alert thresholds are violated, an email alert is sent to the configured email addresses. If the Error Threshold is violated, processing stops to allow immediate troubleshooting and correction of the issue.

Configurable Local Letter Output Option

Local letters are letters that are printed locally and not sent to an output queue by adjusters. In this release, local letters can be configured for output at the system level, through the OUTPUT_LOCAL_LETTERS property in ER.properties. Such a configuration can be useful for archiving purposes.

Configurable Letter Attachment Size Limit

Infogix ER administrators can now set limits on the size of individual image files attached to letters.

The MAX_LETTER_ATTACHMENT_SIZE property in ER.properties can be set to the maximum size of individual image files that the users can attach. Users will receive an error if they try to attach image files exceeding the configured size limit.

Letter Output Types

In this release Infogix ER can now support multiple types of letter outputs. In addition to the standard PDF letter output, new letter output plugins can also be deployed to support additional letter output formats.

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.