Product Release Notes

3.5.1

July 5th, 2018

Platform

Fixes:

  1. Dashboards are migrated successfully now (BP-2504).
  2. (Audit Trail) If the audit settings are disabled, data is not written to DB now (BP-2444)
  3. (Auto Schedule) The newly created auto-scheduled/refreshed datastores are now listing in the ‘Schedule Monitoring’ (BP-2412)
  4. (Data Center) Able to create Spark SQL Data Set now (BP-2372)
  5. (Data Center) Datastore refresh request gets delivered to AMQ for specific datastores (BP-2369)
  6. (Data Center) After uploading a file and creating datastore based on the same file, the file data gets written to the elastic search engine (BP-2356)
  7. (Data Center) Able to create MSSQL Data Set now (BP-2339)
  8. (Data Center) Data Restriction works properly in Data Store (BP-1977)
  9. (Data Center) Users can flawlessly create ‘Drill Definition’ in the Datastore Meta Data (BP-1779)
  10. (Data Center) Latest Schedule Status properly displays failure/success message (BP-2348)
  11. (Google Sheet API) Decimal Numbers are displayed properly now (BP-2398)
  12. (MailChimp API) Users can flawlessly create MailChimp Data Connector now (BP-2346)
  13. (Google Analytics API) Dynamic Date Type works properly while creating a Google Analytics Data Set (BP-2344)
  14. (Home UI) Users cannot open a document from the open doc with an old API Token. (BP=2351)
  15. (Forgot Password) Users assigned to the Admin Role can reset the password using the ‘Forgot Password’ option (BP 1029)
  16. (Windows AD Authentication) Windows AD ‘User Groups’ lists under Sync configuration, after configuring the same from the ‘Admin’ module (BP-2347)
  17. (Play) The ‘Exports to PPT’ option works flawlessly for the Play plugin (BP-2361)

Data Preparation

Fixes:

  1. Nulls out the variables and object references for the garbage collector to resolve the memory issue (DAPR-585)

Business Story

Fixes:

  1. (Sort) Manual sort works flawlessly now (BP-2349)
  2. (Filter) Users can successfully apply a combination of the global and local filter (BP-2340)
  3. (Alert Center) Alert triggers correctly (BP-2355)

Survey

Fixes:

  1. (Data Mart) Users can successfully create Data Mart in Survey (BP-2368)

Dashboard Designer

Charting

Enhancements:

  1. (SDK Methods) SDK methods are updated for handling exceptions (BDD-380)

Data Pipeline

New Features:

  1. The BDB Data Pipeline framework supports the following list of features:
    1. SFTP
    2. S3
    3. HDFS
    4. Cassandra
    5. JDBC (MYSQL, MSSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRE)
    6. Elastic Search
  2. Data Writers
    1. S3
    2. HDFS
    3. Cassandra
    4. JDBC (MYSQL, MSSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRE)
    5. Elastic Search
  3. Transformation
    1. Aggregation
    2. Date Formatter
    3. Date Formatter
    4. Replace Text
    5. Join
  4. ML Model Runners
    1. R Model
    2. Spark Model
  5. Ingestion:
    1. SFTP Monitoring
    2. Web Socket Listener
    3. API Ingestion
  6. Web Socket Broadcast
  7. Custom Component Support
  8. Job Deployment Processes/Type
    1. Streamed
    2. Scheduled
    3. Invoked
  9. Dynamic Component Update
  10. Data-lake:
    1. At present HDFS and S3 are supported with various file formats such as CSV, Parquet, JSON, Avro
Note: The Data Pipeline Plugin is currently in beta.

Predictive Workbench

Enhancements

  1. Predictive Settings are updated in the Admin panel (BPR-840)
Fixes:
  1. (Data Preparation) Column converted with Data Type Definition works for ‘Operator’ option in R Formula (BPR-1460)
  2. (R Servers) Multiple R servers can be configured in Scheduler (BPR-1467)
  3. (Summary) Component summary now displays from the left side (BPR-1476)
  4. (Algorithms) Enhancement is done on the ‘Summary’ of the R Decision Tree (BPR-1477)
  5. (Data Preparation) Missing Values replacement can work with Outlier algorithm (BPR-1478)
  6. (Data Source) Enhancement is done on advanced SQL queries (BPR-1480)
  7. (Data Writer) The Internal Data Writer now supports Saved Models of Data Type Definition (a Data Preparation component), Regression, Forecasting (R Double Exponential Smoothing), Classification, Association, and Outliers (BPR-1483)
  8. (Algorithm) Number of outlier values change by changing fence co-efficient in Outlier (BPR-1493)
  9. (Data Preparation) R Normalization displays proper values for the ‘Zero-Score’ option (BPR-1511)
  10. (Data Preparation) The ‘Result’ tab displays proper column headers for R Formula (BPR-1530)
  11. (Live Job Status) A warning message displays while deleting a job (BPR-1538)
  12. (Algorithm) XG Boosting of Regression algorithm works with Apply Model component (BPR-1548)
  13. (Data Writer) Data Store Writer supports parallel workflow (BPR-1553)
  14. (Algorithm) The ‘Result’ of Association algorithm is realigned (BPR-1502)

Recommendations

Product Description
Data Pipeline
Following are the basic requirements to deploy Data Pipeline on-premises:
1. Kubernetes Master – 8 GB RAM 4 Core
2. Kubernetes Slave – 32 GB RAM 4 Core (Min: 3 Slaves)
3. Kubernetes 1.9 or Higher

Known Limitations:

Product Description
Predictive Workbench
The ‘Share’ option does not work for predictive workflows without selecting Admin role and Viewer role (BPR-1731)
In R and JAVA workspaces, MSSQL writer does not support special characters. (BPR-1728)
The parallel process supports up to 2 threads in concurrent (BPR-1661)
Workflow does not support any other algorithm after Apply Model if Saved Model is connected to that Apply Model component (BPR-1611)
(Data Preparation) The ‘String’ column data type lists as ‘Double’ for the Data Type Definition saved model (BPR-1545)
(Live Job Status) The ‘Status’ tab becomes blank while clicking the ‘Refresh’ button (BPR-1537)
(R Workspace) Data with the format YYYY/MM/DD and DD/MM/YYYY are not supported in R (BPR-1301)
(Data Preparation) The ‘BLANK’ option does not work for the R Formula component (BPR-511)

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