What's New in 4.0.1 Auto Update

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1. General

  • Memory leak fixes in various plugins especially in the policy editors and version control plugins
  • Fix to provide separate package types for the supported databases
  • Separate JDBC package for each supported database type such as DB2, Informix, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server and Sybase.
  • Fix for proper trace output during Simulation
  • Fix for proxy settings to be functional during the check for Designer auto update
  • Performance improvements.
  • Improved performance with policy editing
  • Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.

2. Configuration

  • The following applications were added to the Designer Palette:
    • Bi-directional eDirectory driver
    • Blackboard
    • Google Apps
    • RSA

3. Packages

    Auto Import feature :

    Currently we need to click on the Package Catalog of the respective project to import any packages. The package feature has been enhanced to support auto import of packages. So with this feature enhancement, from Designer, when a driver is being created from the pallette in the modeler view, the corresponding packages and it's dependent packages are automatically selected for import.

4. Provisioning

  • Resource Request Activity now available in the Workflow Builder.
  • Changes in provisioning view are at Provisioning bug fixes

5. Version Control view changes

    To the Version Control view, as part of the fixes for memory build and memory leak issues, there are some UI changes. The Designer > Window > Preferences > Novell > Designer > Version Control page has been updated with a check box to enable/disable the Version Control viewer refresh option. This is disabled by default. Another parameter is an existing field for setting the time period which determines how often the viewer is to be refreshed. This field has been updated to change the default value from 60 seconds to 5 minutes and the unit has been changed from seconds to minutes.

NOTE for "Linux platforms" only

After running the Designer Auto-Update, do the following steps to complete the Designer updates:
  1. Exit Designer.
  2. Go to <Designer_install_location> and execute "sh ./features/com.novell.idm.feature.patch_xxxx/autoUpdate.sh", where xxxx is the latest plugin version
  3. Start Designer by executing <Designer_install_location>/StartDesigner.sh