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New Features and Improvements 

WhereScape presents RED 10.4 a new version of RED with new features that ease RED 10 migrations and continue to enhance scheduling capabilities. The features implemented in this version are mainly focused on enabling RED 10 migration pathways for traditional RED customers on SQL Server, Oracle and Teradata inbuilt targets3rd party integrations with external tools like GIT, but also enhances the UI  and enables the ability to add scripted workflows based on the current context in the RED UI. 

Workflow Scripts

Workflow scripts, when defined, will appear in the context menu throughout the RED UI.  When clicking on them in any context menu, the underlying script will be executed and provided with the complete object list contained by the context. This allows for integration scripts to be written that can perform actions on lists of objects, such as: creating deployment applications, checking items in and out of GIT, running external tests on the objects selected, exporting data to catalog tools, backing up scripts to disk and more!

The following changes have been made to support this new feature:

  • A new Host Script Language category has been added for Workflow scripts:

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  • Host Script Objects assigned to a Workflow script type will appear in most context menus in RED and when selected will execute the script and provide a file containing the objects contained by the context:

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  • Host Script Languages can now have specific icons assigned (via Host Script Language maintenance):

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Improvements for 3rd Party Integrations

  • CheckIn/CheckOut feature will now trigger execution of a script, if present, to support GIT integrations. Add script names of wsl_workflow_checkin and wsl_workflow_checkout to enable this feature.
  • Added new endpoints to the RED metadata service, objectsExportByName and jobsExportByName, that export metadata in a GIT friendly format.
  • Deployment Application Creation via command line now accepts a specific set of objects to deploy based on the JSON structure that RED Workflow scripts produce.
  • RedCli commands on script, procedure and templates now support an 'export-all' option, useful for GIT integrations. Additionally single export allows specifying a directory for auto creation of the filename and extension for the object.

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’

  • Replaced: [Default] Replaces the entire Source Mapping Set (Source Mappings can be removed in this mode)
  • Merged using Application: Merges the Sets, resolving conflicts by deploying Source Mappings from this Application - Add and Update.
  • Merged using Repository: Merges the Sets, resolving conflicts by retaining Source Mappings in the Repository - Add only.

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.

Other Improvements and Fixes

In addition to the major improvements above please see the following Detailed Changes section for the full list of customer fixes and improvements in this release.

Detailed Changes in RED 10.4.0.0

The following changes have been implemented since 10.3.0.1

Improvements

JIRARelease Note
RED-11947

A new script category 'Workflow' has been introduced, these script types will show up in context menus and when executed provide the containing context to the script in a JSON format.

RED-11951

Host Script Object names can now contain spaces and hyphens, this supports human readable display of Workflow scripts in context menus.

RED-11950

Host scripts can now have individual icons set per host script type, particularly useful for Workflow scripts. New icons have been added to the installer for working with this feature.

RED-11957

CheckIn/CheckOut feature will now trigger execution of a script, if present, to support GIT integrations. Add script names of wsl_workflow_checkin and wsl_workflow_checkout to enable this feature.

RED-11953

Added new endpoints to the RED metadata service, objectsExportByName and jobsExportByName, that export metadata in a GIT friendly format.

RED-11959

Deployment Application Creation via command line now accepts a specific set of objects to deploy based on a JSON structure that RED Workflow scripts produce.

RED-11955

RedCli commands on script, procedure and templates now support an 'export-all' option, useful for GIT integrations. Additionally single export allows specifying a directory for auto creation of the filename and extension for the object.

RED-11759Updated the built in Java JRE version to openjdk 11.0.25
RED-11556

Added merge mode to application deployment for Source Mappings when deploying from WhereScape 3D

RED-11942

Add Scheduler API environment variables to all script executions to support actions like releasing another job via scripts.

RED-12036

Azkaban to RED metadata resilience feature now logs the failure reason during reconnection scenarios.

RED-11958

RED UI now accepts the Scheduler Script Output Protocol as well as the traditional script output protocol.

Fixes

JIRA

Release Note

RED-11641

Fixed Azkaban Unsupported Object Type error when scripts have [TABLEOWNER].TABLE_NAME references to Retro Objects.

RED-12029

Fixed issue where Windows and Linux loads were going through legacy load methods through the UI.

RED-12028

Prevent legacy GetKey function popups for dimensional models.

RED-12054

Teradata TPT Routine Load Table setting now exposed via templates.

RED-12043

Fixed issue where bulk regenerate load scripts fails for Named Targets when load type is not Script Based Load.

RED-11932

Fixed Azkaban NullPointerException when running loads from Windows or Linux source connections.

RED-11974

Fixed issue where interactive processing via scripts could fail with "<work_dir> contains an incorrect path" in some repositories.

RED-11887

Fixed issue with remapping Filegroups during application deployment with RedCli

RED-11994

RedDeploy and RedCli now transfer relationships metadata to to RED from 3D exports.

RED-12004

Table properties Update/Custom Type drop-downs now default to the correct type, script or procedure, based on the assigned default template type.

RED-11935

Fixed RedSetupWizard Target Connection page auto-scrolling issues.

RED-12015

Fixed UI issues when converting existing Facts to Partitioned Facts in RED 10.3

RED-12016

Fixed issue where Optional Create Clause was not persisted for Load table objects.

RED-12047

Vulnerability fix in Azkaban for CVE-2024-53677

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