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- Oracle 12c or later
- SQL Server 2012 or later
- MariaDB (MySQL) 10.0.14 or later
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Features / Improvements
General
CenterView has changed its name to PhixFlow
Installation
Actions
Forms
Streams
In-memory Streams
Analysis now applies limits on the number of items cached in in-memory streams in order to avoid grabbing too much memory (which causes excessive garbage collection and/or system failure). The Limits can be controlled on per stream basis or via a In memory cache size default in system configuration. Warnings are reported when in memory stream has reached 90% of its size. If limits are enforced, then analysis will stop when the limit is reached, otherwise only warning messages are reported in the console logs.
Views
Formatting rule expressions may now refer to _current (the current row) and _this (all rows). This allows you, for example, to compare values on the current and previous rows in order to determine the style.
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Email Accounts
File Collectors
Scripting
Export / Import
The built-in limit on the size of files that can be imported / uploaded has been increased to 1Gb to allow for larger exported configuration files.
Login
A message can now be set on the PhixFlow home screen which is displayed prior to log in when the application starts up. The location of a file containing HTML can be specified in the SystemConfiguration. If this file is set then the contents will be displayed on the home screen.
The Reset Password button on the login form is now disabled if any other domain than local is selected.
The username is now included in a failed login attempt message for failed login using active directory.
A new checkbox has been added to system configuration window - 'restrict non admins only' . When ticked - it restricts login privileges from any non admin user. Only admin users will be able to login. Default value is set to false (unticked checkbox), this allows for every authorised user to login.
User Groups, Roles & Privileges
A new 'Standard App User' role has been added; this has the privileges needed to run a simple Application.
System Administration
System Configuration
In the System Configuration - Advanced tab - the 'Schema Version' field can display longer version numbers containing additional label information
Change name of System Configuration parameter from 'Max Page/Chart Size' to 'Maximum Download Size'
Active Directory Integration
When logging into PhixFlow as a Active Directory (LDAP) user, the user groups for that user are used to determine which user groups are available in the application. Now exclude any groups provided by active directory if they don't exist in PhixFlow as there are too many user groups provided.
The Reset Password button on the login form is now disabled if any other domain than local is selectedWhen an Active Directory user logs in, a user is created in PhixFlow using details taken from the Active Directory server. The user's first name is populated from the AD givenName field. The user's phone number is set from the first of the following AD fields (telephoneNumber, mobile, or ipPhone) that is set.
Active Directory integrations can now directly specify the rootDN within which to search for user records.
Email Integration
We have revised the layout of the Email Account form to make it more usable.
Diagnostics
Now task initialisation failure message contains more details about the failure itself and in case of stream attribute expressions failures - it contains the details of stream name which failed, stream attribute name which failed, as well as the actual expression that failed.
Processing Statistics
Performance statistics are recorded in the 'STATS' table. Time duration statistics are now all standardized to be stored in seconds.
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The STATS_RECORD table has been renamed STATS.
Reset Configuration
Performance
Stream Actions and Task Plans are now compiled the first time they are run, and the compiled versions are saved so that they can be re-used in subsequent runs. This can result in significant performance improvements, particularly for Actions that are run frequently.
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The Stream statistics now include the total time write time.
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Activity statistics collected now include - Actions/TaskPlans started, Actions/TaskPlans finished, Actions/TaskPlans still running and the total duration of Actions/TaskPlans
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Pipe Lookup statistics are now recorded. These included the cache size count(records), cache records added(count), cache records removed(count), lookup - cache hits (count), lookups - cache misses (count), lookups - cache parallel misses (count).
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Pipe Queue statistics are now recorded which include the enqueue times (sum(time)), enqueue count, dequeue times(sum(time)) and dequeue count
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Pipe read statistics are now available. These include the read times ( total count, sum(time), max(time) ) and also read counts ( sum(records) )
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The statistics recorded now store the full context information when they are written. and the process that initiated the activity. Eg. the Iniator could be "TaskPlan X", with a context of "stream A" with the statistical data recorded for "INSERT_COUNT" (Total count of records inserted for the Stream intiated by Task X). The Initiator context Id's and context Id's are stored should the original name of the Stream/object be modified since having recorded the statistics.
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Reset Configuration
Performance
Stream Actions and Task Plans are now compiled the first time they are run, and the compiled versions are saved so that they can be re-used in subsequent runs. This can result in significant performance improvements, particularly for Actions that are run frequently.
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| Attribute names returned by collector queries are now in the natural case for the database (previously they were forced to upper case). |
| It is no longer possible to create a new user without also setting a password, and this avoids a number of secondary issues arising from users that have no password set. |
| Way of ensureing client runs apropriate version of client appliction has been implemented now. |
| Streams used to wait for stream sets being generated by connected streams, even if type of pipe was "static" and "allow incomplete stream sets" flag was set.. This is now improved and streams in the newest version of the software do not need to wait for stream sets generation. |
| Perfomance of all analysis tasks in terms of their speed was effectively improved. |
| My User Details now records an Organisation for each user. For users logging into PhixFlow where Active Directory has been configured; when logging into a non local Domain the Organisation value is set to the Company / Department fields from the Active Directory record. |
| Report the current cache size when running analysis on In Memory Streams to the console logs. e.g. to detect cases where a very large number of items are loaded. |
| Report the current cache size when running analysis on In Memory Streams to the console logs. e.g. to detect cases where a very large number of items are loaded. |
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Bug Fixes
Graphical User Interface
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Importing a dashboard that had a background filter set to reference a driving view could cause the filter to fail at runtime.
Views
Streams
Filters
Filters that contained empty sub-clauses sometimes generated invalid sql.
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