WhereScape is pleased to announce that WhereScape RED 10.5.0.0 is now available.

This release of RED is compatible with WhereScape 3D 9.0 versions and up.

Before upgrading, review the Important Messages when Upgrading for more information.

Go to https://www1.wherescape.com to see available product versions and release notes for older versions.

Log into the WhereScape Support Portal to access downloads.

New Features and Improvements 

Upgrade Process

A new scheduler upgrade wizard has been developed which streamlines the upgrade process and reduces the number of manual steps required during scheduler upgrades.
Authentication profiles are now created automatically when upgrading from a version of RED which does not include the advanced connect feature. Refer to the Upgrade on Windows guide for more information.

Installation

Metadata databases and DSN's for RED and the Azkaban Scheduler can now be created using the installation wizards, reducing the number of manual steps required during new installs. For more information refer to the metadata installation and scheduler installation guides.

Profile Maintenance

A new scheduler profile maintenance wizard has been developed with an enhanced UI. For more information refer to the Scheduler Maintenance documentation.

Increased limits

The maximum number of projects and groups can now be configured, allowing for over 1000 projects and groups in a single repository. This can be changed on the Other Options window.
Increased the character limit on FROM/WHERE clause for views to 65344 characters.

RED med.exe (RED UI)

When starting med.exe (RED UI) from a command line with all the required metadata connection elements provided, you can now provide and additional switch '--auto-connect' which will skip the interactive login screen to RED.

Added RED UI ODBC connection resilience, idle connections are tested before use and recovered if broken. Idle time before testing and test response time can be fine-tuned via user preferences. Visit the med.exe Client Command Line documentation for this and other available options.

Scheduler

RED's job plugin for Azkaban now accepts the legacy RED 9 script output protocol when executing stand-alone scripts via a scheduler job, this feature eases migrations to RED 10 by reducing script refactoring and testing.


Detailed Changes in RED 10.5.0.0

The following changes have been implemented since 10.4.0.2

Improvements

JIRARelease Note
RED-12100Authentication profiles are created automatically when upgrading from a version of RED without the Advanced Connect feature.
RED-11462Jobs stuck in the running state can now be aborted in the RED UI.
RED-12256On hold jobs are no longer retained when processing objects via the scheduler interactively.
RED-4786The maximum number of projects and groups can now be configured, allowing for over 1000 projects and groups in a single repository.
RED-5905Increased the character limit on FROM/WHERE clause for views to 65344 characters.
RED-12278Added RED UI ODBC connection resilience, idle connections are tested before use and recovered if broken. Idle time before testing and test response time can be fine-tuned via user preferences.
RED-12130Improved performance of object properties storage tab initialization when using a Teradata target.
RED-12285The Connection field 'Database Link Name' is now available to scripts as an environment variable 'WSL_LOAD_DBLINK' so that scripts can build the appropriate source SQL statements at run-time.

New Features

JIRARelease Note
RED-10686New Scheduler upgrade workflow automating many of the manual steps that were required.
RED-12257The WhereScape RED metadata database and DSN can be automatically created using the RED Setup Wizard.
RED-12102The Scheduler metadata database can be automatically created during the Scheduler installation process.
RED-12103New RedSchedulerProfileMaintenance.exe for maintaining the Schedulers authentication profiles.

Fixes

JIRARelease Note
RED-12293Fixed a metadata insert failure when defining Reusable Transformations in RED 10.
RED-12274Fixed an issue deploying the default 3D entity types Dim View and Retro to RED, now these entity types are correctly mapped during deployment.


Important Messages When Upgrading