Release 28.0
- Dima Urban (Unlicensed)
- Vladimir Garkusha
Dec 27, 2023
Release Overview:
Introduction of UsageMate for Accelario Masking and Virtualization Services
We are excited to announce the launch of UsageMate, our internal new statistics and usage service, as part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing the Accelario Test Data Platform. UsageMate is a centralized analytics and monitoring solution designed to provide in-depth insights into utilization patterns and operational performance, streamlining support for our clients.
Key Features of UsageMate:
Near Real-Time Analytics: UsageMate offers near real-time analysis of data operations within the Masking and Virtualization services, enabling a deeper understanding of usage patterns and system efficiency. UsageMate is engineered to send action-related event data almost instantaneously, ensuring that critical operational information is relayed without delay.
Data Collection with Privacy Focus: Respecting client privacy, data collection is secured and optional. Users can opt-in through the system parameters (option "Allow sending statistics to statistics server" ). Detailed information about the collected statistics and data protection measures are available in our documentation.
Prerequisite for Activation: To fully benefit from UsageMate's capabilities, it is essential to enable the IP address of the UsageMate server from the instance of the installed Virtualization or Masking service. This step is crucial for activating the service and ensuring a seamless data flow between your systems and UsageMate.
Operational Monitoring: The service includes robust monitoring capabilities, tracking running jobs, job statuses, and errors. This covers user actions, refresh, sensitive searches, and masking jobs.
UsageMate represents a significant advancement in our support infrastructure, offering near real-time analytics and enhanced operational monitoring. This service is a testament to our commitment to continuous improvement and client-focused innovation in database virtualization and masking solutions.
Overview:
Appendix. The new features tickets details:
Epic/Module | Story/Task | Description |
Accelario statistics | POC consider AS implementation architecture | |
Accelario statistics | Implement new AS service core components | |
Accelario statistics | Send Masking configs to AS (Accelario Statistics) storage | |
Accelario statistics | Send Masking events to AS (Accelario Statistics) storage | |
Accelario statistics | Masking opt-in flag for sending statistics | |
Masking Engine | Refactoring of the Masking process with breakdown | |
Small enhancements | Add HELP link | |
Small enhancements | Masking Configurations. Show existing tags during modifying MC | |
Small enhancements | Environments. Execute refresh automatically after changing the XML/Json toggle from ON to OFF | |
Small enhancements | Data sources. Preset the default port for each DB type | |
Small enhancements | Change the info message about specific refreshed DS on Privacy Dashboard | |
Small enhancements | Add filter+sorting on the "masking rule" column in masking editor>table>columns grid | |
Small enhancements | Add search field for column names to masking editor page | |
Small enhancements | Put the message about necessity of finish the refreshing process of env |
Appendix. Important fixed bugs details:
Epic/Module | Bug | Description |
Small enhancements | Masking editor. Error 'Cannot read properties of underfined (reading ‘map’)' appears after applying all rules after sensitive search | |
HotFix | MSSQL Masking fails with connection error - (Eldan customer) |
The list of new known issues found since the previous code freeze:
Issue key | Summary | Include to release notes red mark (from previous notes) |
IM-2517 | Masking editor. Possible to start masking with empty required filed 'Parallel processes' |
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IM-2513 | Intagration/Environments. Environment importing failed with error 'DocumentNotFoundException: Document to update was not found' |
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IM-2512 | UsageMate. ObjectId is absent for some actions |
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IM-2504 | Masking editor. Scroll is jupming down in the tree of tables during filtering |
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IM-2502 | Masking editor. Attempt to start masking without rules finishes with 500 error |
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IM-2499 | Data Sources. Incorrect port is shown for a user in Port field. |
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IM-2498 | Data Sources. DS with incorrect credentials to connect dissapears from data source list |
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IM-2497 | Remove real licenseid from example request of UsageMate |
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IM-2495 | Environments. Schemas become unchecked after launching the refresh after interrupted one |
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IM-2494 | Masking editor. Masking fail for Oracle with some Israeli rules with an error Cannot map Unicode to Oracle character |
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IM-2483 | Environments. Refreshing starts after first renaming of the environment |
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IM-2480 | Fixed size file with character set ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew) is returned from masking in UTF8 |
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IM-2477 | Jobs. When connection to DB is failed, running job still stays running |
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IM-2476 | Environments. Impossible to create environment after editing DS to one with incorrect port. |
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IM-2470 | Privacy Dashboard. DS, which was updated stays in the list of present Privacy Data Sources (FLOAT) |
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IM-2469 | Masking editor. Preview masking. Error "java.sql.Timestamp cannot be cast to java.lang.String" appears when do preview with incorrect rule for date columns |
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IM-2466 | Environments. API. Environment doesn't see schemas, tables when it created via API |
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IM-2465 | Masking editor. Calculated Field. Column cannot refer to itself using Calculated Field |
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IM-2463 | Environments. Performance. 500 error appears during the refreshing of more than 20k tables in 'Select tables' popup |
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IM-2455 | Sensitive search. Different amount of sensitive columns after sensitive and privacy search (in comparison) |
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IM-2454 | Environments. Long schema name overlaps table name in Select tables popup |
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IM-2453 | Sensitive search. During Search operation 0/0 tables is shown during REFRESHING status |
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IM-2447 | Environments. Modify button doesn't react to the first click |
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Testing status:
The manual regression tests - completed
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HUZOXP3eCKGH9kzF6RyTK9FHSm50fYbwjVn9qmNkPQQ/edit?pli=1#gid=0 Connect to preview
All critical bugs found during regression testing have been successfully fixed.
The automated smoke tests - completed
All supported versions have been tested and work as expected:
MongoDB v3.6/5/6
DB2 LUW v11.5
DB2 z/OS v11
Oracle v12cR2/19c RDS
MSSQL v2019/2016 RDS
PostgreSQL v13.2/14.3 RDS
MySQL v5.7/8 RDS
MySQL Aurora v5.7
SAP HANA v2.00.05
Fixed/CSV files
Post-release action items
Refer to the description of action items here https://accelario.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDLC/pages/2024505345
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| 1 | Release notes | @Vladimir Garkusha | 26/12/2023 | Done |
| 2 | Release notes, overview | @Dima Urban (Unlicensed) |
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| 3 | Internal dev demo | @Vladimir Garkusha |
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| 4 | Update user manual | @Dima Urban (Unlicensed) @Vladimir Garkusha |
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| 5 | Product demo | @Dima Urban (Unlicensed) |
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| 6 | Update installation and upgrade guides | @Alexey Sosnovskih |
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| 7 | API changes that break the previous version, add to release notes | @Andrew Shalimov |
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| 8 | Update sandbox version | @Maksym Halytsia |
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