Release 28.0

15 Dec 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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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:

Appendix. Important fixed bugs details:

The list of new known issues found since the previous code freeze:

Testing status:

• The manual regression tests -  completed 

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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 /wiki/spaces/SDLC/pages/2024505345