Maintenance Packs for Incorta 4.7

Incorta encourages customers to upgrade to the most recent release. Here are maintenance packs notes for this minor release.

Maintenance Pack 4.7.5

What’s New?

Implemented an API to force stop schema loading
For export to XLSX in pivot tables, enhanced cell formatting and merging
YARN cluster manager support for the Apache Spark SQLApp

Issues fixed

After leader election, resolved an issue with a late start for loading
Resolved some loading issues due to unhandled null cases
Fixed a case where aggregate report data when downloaded to excel shows 1/1/1970 for null date values
With an Informix connector, resolved an connection issue resulting in a loading failure
Fixed an issue with Google Drive to address rows not being fully loaded
Fixed a SFDC OutOfMemory exception issue
Fixed a case where Incorta table fails to be materialized
Resolve a problem where prompts did not update based on an applied filter
Resolved a corner case where Notebook autocomplete feature was not functioning
Fixed Request-URI Too Large issue when Querying the Incremental Timestamp Columns by using POST instead of GET
Fixed a case in SQLi where remote tables were not accessible from external tools such as Tableau, MicroStrategy, and Power BI.
Fixed a case for handling longs in filtering that caused abnormal results and behavior, and in certain instances, a systems crash

Maintenance Pack 4.7.4

What’s New?

Enhanced accessibility features for search
Added supported for the caseContains() functions to the Formula Builder
Improved insight layouts for a dashboard
Added an option to disable or configure auto-clean for crash history logs folder
Added support for measure tooltips for merged groups
When embedded, added a loading icon for pre-loading dashboards

Issues fixed

Fixed issues with Business View caching causing some insights on a dashboard to show incorrect data
Fixed an issue with file extension case sensitivity allowing users to upload data files with either .csv or .CSV file extensions
Resolved an issue for schema locking that could occur under high utilization
Fixed an issue with dependent schemas loading in parallel
Resolved an issue causing schema and table loads to fail due to the presence of temporary files
Fixed an issue that showed table sizes as 0 after an initial schema load
Fixed an issue causing join calculations to fail during startup
Resolved an issue that randomly skipped processing scheduled jobs for schema loads
Fixed an issue that caused the dashboard send scheduler to reset the selection of the HTML checkbox upon save
Resolved an issue with XML attribute size limits and improved the related error message
Fixed an issue with Runtime Security Filters affecting runtime dashboard filter results
Fixed a problem with downloading an insight that resulted in an empty result
Fixed the blank file issue when a user downloaded a chart visualization insight
Fixed the corrupt .xlsx file issue when a user downloaded a Pivot Table insights as an MS Excel file
Resolved internal issues with SQLi query parsing
Resolved an issue that caused newly added schema tables to not appear in a table list as exposed by the SQLi interface to external applications such as Power BI
Optimized SQLi logs to reduce unnecessary messages leading to very large log files
Resolved Hadoop library conflicts causing some Notebook materialized views to fail

Maintenance Pack 4.7.3

What’s New?

Enhanced contains() function to accept comparing multiple values and support case sensitivity
Optimized formula calculation performance by applying the filter before calculating formula columns

Issues fixed

Fixed an upgrade metadata issue when loading duration of any table is 0 sec
Fixed an issue blocking opening dashboards when there’s a failing session variable
Fixed an issue where insights based on business view shows incorrect data when caching is ON
Fixed an issue where SSO users over LDAP can’t connect to BI-TOOLS
Fixed a case where an invalid record would cause incremental loads to fail, if using the max value incremental strategy
Fixed an issue with viewing a dashboard in iframe, toggling filters on and off results in dashboard display issues
Fixed an issue where premature EOF causes loads to hang for Oracle Cloud connector
Fixed insight title alignment when printing or exporting Insights
Fixed a performance issue in LOV drop down on insight filters using an Incorta view column
Fixed an incremental load issue where it pulls same data again from Azure Blob storage
Fixed an issue with format date function when using date mask containing “MMM” in session variables
Fixed a deadlock condition on Analytics that caused some performance issues
Ignored extra parameters (automatically added by SSO provider) in the Dashboard URL that used to cause an error
Fixed a corner case where schema post load fails due to formula/join depending on an empty column
Enhanced error handling in parallel join calculations
Fixed some sync issues and removed sync extra logging
Fixed a measure filter issue when using an Incorta view column
Enhanced SQLi logging and removed extra log messages
Removed extra unnecessary logging messages

Maintenance Pack 4.7.2

Issues fixed

Fixed an issue where missing sync was not excluding Business Schema, that is not needed in detecting missing sync issues.
Resolved a few other internal issues.

Maintenance Pack 4.7.1

What’s New?

Added support for SQLi authentication through LDAP.
Enhanced analytics query logs with more details about query processing.
Improved accessibility support for using VoiceOver.
Improved accessibility support through keyboard access and a visually strong focus indicator for Incorta users with motor impairments.
Improved dashboard’s responsiveness after incremental load.

Issues fixed

Fixed an issue where the analytics service was missing its sync.
Resolved an issue that was failing some dashboards’ rendering with an SQLi error.
Fixed an issue that was causing a schema that was loading for longer than usual for one of our customers.
Resolved an issue where the joins were being incorrectly calculated.
Resolved the error thrown when validating the load filter.
Fixed an issue where the schema schedule jobs were not being returned to the UI.