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New Features and Improvements 

WhereScape presents RED 910.0 2 a new version of RED with new capabilities and features to enhance the user experience. This version includes Advanced Authentication Methods, an improved 3D Integration for Source Mapping Objects, and increased DDL Limits. In addition, over 50 customer-requested improvements and fixes are included in this release. 

Advanced Authentication Methods

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Advanced Connect is enabled through the properties screen of connections, once enabled by default in RED 10.2 and therefore a connection string must be defined which will for every ODBC, Database and applicable Extensible Source Connections in RED. The connection string will always be used when establishing a connections from this release onwards, RED will provide suitable default connection strings when not provided by the user.

Here is the RED Login Screen showing the new Logon Methodfields 'Profile' and 'Connection String':

RED Connection Properties Screen showing the new Connection MethodAdvanced Connect Parameters:

This feature is designed with security in mind and adds even more ways for enterprises to secure their metadata, sources, and targets for a wide variety of authentication methods such as OAuth, Azure Active Directory, and multifactor authentication (depending on vendor driver capabilities). Please see the User and Installation Guides for more details.

This feature is only available for SQL/Azure SQL targets and Enablement Pack target platforms, refer to your specific Enablement Pack platform on the WhereScape downloads page for compatibility.

3D Integration - New Merge Settings for Source Mappings

When deploying Objects with multiple Source Mappings via 3D Export to RED you can now control the merge behavior when updating existing Objects Source Mapping Sets. There is now a new option with three settings when deploying from 3D to RED.

Option: ‘Existing Source Mapping Sets will be’

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This feature will be particularly useful to organizations with multiple development teams or projects affecting the same objects in RED, allowing them to deploy only the new Source Mappings that they have added and avoid deploying out-of-date changes to existing Source Mappings.

Stand-alone Script Improvements

Stand-alone Windows scripts can now be associated with Database/ODBC and Extensible Source Connections providing access to the associated connection settings and Credentials in your scripts.

This feature is particularly useful for “High Water Mark” scripts that require access to target connection properties. When combined with Advanced Connect this provides a secure way to run scripts directly against source and target connections in RED. Previously you could only associate a Windows connection to a script.or Linux connections to scripts.

Online Documentation

The WhereScape product family is moving towards online product documentation which allows us to keep the documentation more up to date outside of traditional release cycles and continue to make improvements that enable our customers to use our products to their full potential. 

From this release onwards when using the in-product help you will be redirected to our documentation website hosted on https://wiki.idera.com/category/ws. Contextual product help buttons are not yet linked to the relevant pages and instead take you to the landing page, contextual based help links will follow soon. 

For offline documentation requirements you will still be able to download the full user guide PDF's. 

WhereScape 3D Compatibility

This release of RED is compatible with WhereScape 3D 8.6. 9.1 0 versions and up for 3D exports to RED but it is recommended to use the latest version 9.0.2.1 of 3D to provide all feature capabilities.

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