WhereScape is pleased to announce that WhereScape 3D Version 9.0.5.0 is now available. The Version 9.0.5.0 release notes document details the changes since the last release.

To review the Release Notes for older versions, visit WhereScape Documentation.

 Important notes when upgrading

In order to improve WhereScape 3D’s support for satellite current views; a new entity type should be added to the business vault category, after a repository upgrade. This new entity type allows for query templates to be efficiently assigned to Satellite current views during the model conversion process. The new configuration also allows for straightforward handling of naming conventions.
The required entity type configurations are as follows:

Detailed list of changes in Version 9.0.5.0

The following changes have been implemented since Version 9.0.4.0

New Features

BLUE-3194    New and enhanced online documentation available for WhereScape 3D.

Improvements

BLUE-3197    Enhanced Pebble template capabilities when using conversion properties of type 'Pebble template'.
BLUE-3123    Information related to the discovery and profiling methods used is now included in the model import and export process.
BLUE-3178    The category settings import and export process now includes the entity type query template and DW query template configurations.
BLUE-3229    All Queries and DW Queries are now included in the auto generated documentation regardless of whether data transformations have a source set defined.
BLUE-3223    Data transformations with no source set defined can now be included in the auto generated Microsoft Word documentation.
BLUE-3176    UX enhancements to the Create Conversion set workflow.
BLUE-3175    The row count profiling metric is now available in all profiling results and Pebble template profiling outputs.
BLUE-3174    Enhanced error reporting for the advanced copy CLI functionality.
BLUE-3172    Improved export to RED process when load table UI configurations need to be deployed.
BLUE-3019    The PostgreSQL tools packaged with WhereScape 3D have been upgraded to version 16.
BLUE-3090    Improved error handling in the 'ws3d_rvls - Housekeeping' conversion set when users forget to add entity level source mappings.
BLUE-3141    Consistent naming of PIT tables regardless of the case conversion settings used.
BLUE-3106    The standard Pebble templates packaged with WhereScape 3D have been updated to provide support for more complex join conditions.
BLUE-2897    Updated 'ws3d_rvls - Create loads' conversion set to support multiple data vault design attributes referencing the same source column.
BLUE-3113    Stage table attributes are now consistently ordered by the 'ws3d_rvls - Housekeeping' conversion set.
BLUE-3062    The 'WhereScape RED Export Preparation' conversion set has been updated to remove a wider range of invalid characters.
BLUE-3034    Improved readability of Pebble templates contained within the standard conversion sets packaged with WhereScape 3D.
BLUE-3116    Improved handling of WHERE clauses in the 'ws3d_query_dw' Pebble template packaged with WhereScape 3D.
BLUE-3173    Improved handling of SQL HAVING clauses in the ws3d_rvls - Create initial stages model conversion set.
BLUE-3198    Duplicate data type mapping names have been adjusted.

Bug Fixes

BLUE-3230   Fixed an issue creating snapshots when executing model conversion sets.
BLUE-3182   Fixed an issue with the create data vault design wizard.
BLUE-3136   Fixed an issue adding an attribute on the source mapping tab that has an attribute type which is not present in the category settings of the parent entity.
BLUE-3200   Fixed an issue with source system discovery when certain repository level discovery settings were defined.
BLUE-3137   The 'ws3d_query_dv_sat_curr_view' template is now correctly assigned to satellite current views in the 'ws3d_bvls - Prep Model' conversion set.
BLUE-3169   Fixed an issue displaying ER diagrams when using custom entity icons.
BLUE-3168   Fixed an issue viewing entity profiling metric results.