December, 2011

Version 7.1 Release Notes

New Features

• Elements License Information is now stored in the database, it is no longer stored on the Web Server file system. This change means that licenses are included directly in disaster recovery backups.
• Externally authenticated users (CAC and LDAP) are now shown a greeting page once per session prior to viewing their home page.
• For systems with appropriate Oracle licenses, Elements can now be dynamically exposed as Semantic Triples.
• A new Detail report for semantic 'Subjects' is available. You can navigate through the triple-store using the new SDR Relationship section.
• A Semantically Assisted Search is now available.
• Filters can now contain SPARQL queries.

Improvements

Portal Pages

Web Server

• Improved error and warning messages that may occur during user log in.

New Filters / Reports

• Average Wait Time per Request
• Buffer Cache Block usage
• Concurrent Read Only License usage
• Concurrent Read/Write License usage
• Current Email Activation Status
• Current Sessions
• Database Parameters (All)
• Database Parameters (Non-Default)
• Datafile Usage
• Discussions by User
• eCalendar Details
• Email Status Distribution
• Email by Recipient Summary (All)
• Enqueue Statistics
• File IO Summary
• File IO Statistics
• General Email Metrics
• Highly Parsed SQL
• Invalid DBA Objects
• Locks by Holder and Waiter
• Oracle Control File Details
• Overall Portal Hierarchy
• Parameters (All)
• Parameter Type Distribution
• PGA Statistics
• PGA Target Advice
• PGA Target Advice Graph
• PGA Usage
• Post Time to Send Time Delay (Minutes)
• Project Task Status Distribution
• Project Overview
• Recent Email Activity (Last 90 Days)
• Recent Concurrent Licene utilization by Type
• Rollback Segments
• Rollback Contention
• Rowcache Statistics
• Session UGA Usage
• Session UGA Max Memory Used
• Session UGA Memory Used
• Shared Server Count
• Tablespaces
• Tablespace Free Space
• Users in EE_USER Role, but not as default role
• Users in History with no User Record
• Users with no Named Text Privileges
• Users with Privs but no User Record

Enhanced Filters / Reports

• Tablespace Fragmentation
• Oracle Rollback Segment Statistics now shows inline percentage meters.
• Oracle Wait Analysis now shows inline percentage meters.
• Oracle Event Analysis now shows inline percentage meters.
• Unsent Emails (All) now shows Email that was initiated by the System, and a color for each Status.
• Email by Recipient (All) now shows Email that was initiated by the System, and a color for each Status.

Enhanced Portals

• Several new filters and portals have been added to the Repository Administration main portal.
• The Database Management > Database Runtime portal has been enhanced to provide much more performance related content.
• A new subportal called My Repository now groups many more subportals and filters related to the local instance of the repository.
• A new subportal called Portal Management is now available to contain Portal related filters and reports.
• The Task Management portal now contains additional subportals with related content.

Elements Explorer

• The Folder Properties now contains a new tab called Hierarchy that shows where the folder is used.
• An operating system file can now be dropped on any class that has an Artifact as a target for a SQL Picklist. This should create the Artifact element, and link it to the record.

Import / Export

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Class Manager

• Any errors generated when defining an Element Label definition will now be shown at save time in addition to runtime.

Import / Export

• No Changes

User Manager

• A friendlier alternative message is now provided for the possible exception: 'ORA-01935: missing user or role name' during user account approval when the user requested a login name that contains a period.

Link Manager

• The Link Manager now supports command line arguments that allow the user to specify a starting class_id and 2 filters to use to populate the grid.

Elements Installer

• No Changes

Backup and Recovery (DR)

• Improved the error and warning messages that may occur during Backup procedures.

Technical Updates

• HTML Form inputs are now filtered to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.
• Logging has been enhanced surrounding Connection Pool creation, destruction, and reset.
• Exception messages have been enhanced when a user fails to log in.
• The EE_CLASS_MANAGER role now has privilege to set values in the STATE_MACHINE_TRANSITION_PRIVS table.
• Deletes are now cascaded to include type 90 parameters.
• The structure of Wizards has been modified to remove the left hand status panel, and instead include the status as a breadcrumb style header. This was done to maximize horizontal space in the wizard itself.
• The method of calling DBMS JOBS has been changed to minimize resulting SQL Parse requests.
• Many background SQL statements have been refined to minimize resulting SQL Parse requests.

Elements.Core Package

• No Changes

Bugs Fixed

• The font size has been improved on the Horizontal Thermometer Gauge when the browser only supports SVG 1.1.
• Cut and paste of Class Data tab records now handles Tab and CR characters appropriately.

Solution Pack Upgrades

Common Schema Components

• No Change.

Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM)

• No Change.

Enterprise Architecture Portals

• No Change.

Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)

• No Change.

Northwind Traders Demo

• No Change.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

• No Change.