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Connect 2019.3 Release Notes

New Features

  • Management of old versions was implemented in Connect. You can now delete old versions by selecting Clean Up in Admin Menu and manage deleting of old versions by setting various parameters.

  • Run metadata loaders directly in Connect by selecting Connections in the Admin Menu. Added support for other technologies, including MySQL, Impala, Hive, Spark, and PostgreSQL.

  • Metadata loading and entry creation are optimized, resulting in increasing speed of metadata loading.

  • Upload metadata to Connect from HP Vertica.

  • The Alteryx loader performance is now 8 times faster.

  • Post SQL statement to suspend warehouse after metadata harvesting was added for Snowflake loader.

  • Impala loader now supports ODBC and DSN connection strings.

Known and Fixed Issues

ID

Description

Issue Status

XF-6882

Parsing of the ODBC connection string and objects in the QlikView loader.

Fixed

US51489

Profiling of CSV files in the Filesystem loader.

Fixed

US50918

PowerBI lineage parsing from reports.

Fixed

DE19682

Data type harvested incorrectly in the MSSQL loader.

Fixed

XF-6778

Inserting a link in Internet Explorer works incorrectly.

Fixed

US50971

The Tableau loader fails SSL validation when the SSL is used for the connection between the client (Browser, Designer, loader, etc) and the load balancer.

Fixed

DE19199

Setting the number of child objects in Nexus is broken. If the value is changed, no child objects were shown.

Fixed

XF-6748

The Connect installer does not close in the Japanese environment.

Fixed

XF-6922

When Connect was installed somewhere else than under the standard path, it may cause problems during the upgrade.

Fixed

DE20562

Search does not work as expected when using certain Japanese symbols.

Fixed

DE19441

It is not possible to add a custom field to Application type if there is an ampersand in the dropdown options.

Known