CloverETL 3.3.0 M2 / 3.2.1 - Changelog

What's new in CloverETL 3.3.0 M2:

April 18th, 2012

· Support for list and map fields in metadata (container types)
· CTL2 change in assignment operator '=' (now it assigns by value, not reference)
· Webservice client: added "Timeout" attribute + ability to print SOAP request/response in DEBUG mode

What's new in CloverETL 3.3.0 M1:

March 8th, 2012

· Now in the Excel is the ability to read or produce enormous Excel spreadsheets - as the new Excel works with millions of rows.
· Mapping of Excel headers and records is made easy and intuitive through a brand new visual editor.
· The creation of metadata is automated.
· To generate standardized Excel reports and files, users can take advantage of Excel templates or overwriting and appending to existing files.

What's new in CloverETL 3.1.0:

June 21st, 2011

· New component ComplexDataReader (commercial only)
· for reading structured and unstructured flat files
· similar to MultiLevelReader, yet more powerful and user-friendly
· Redesigned component XMLWriter (EXT_XML_WRITER)
· brand new mapping (incompatible)
· old XMLWriter still available as a deprecated component
· supports disk caching for large amounts of data
· XML components visual redesign
· brand new XMLWriter interface with visual and source editors
· XMLExtract improvements
· automatic data denormalization
· metadata creation out of XMLExtract dialog
· ability to add ports and assign metadata
· annotations
· improved error reporting
· AddressDoctor component (commercial only)
· Lotus Notes Domino Reader/Writer/metadata extract (commercial only)
· New component EmailReader (commercial only)
· Graph editor visual improvements
· handy description bar
· component autosize for component name
· improved edge handling
· DnD in graph editor improved
· drag'n'drop features for dragging files to graph, outline, etc.
· New CTL2 functions - xml2json() and json2xml()
· Support for WebDAV and Amazon S3 protocols
· DBInputTable supports reading SQL queries from input port
· Java class wizard intergration into Transform Editor
· View data is not modal any more
· multiple View data windows can be open at the same time
· Graph zoom and scroll information is preserved
· Cobol CopyBook format metadata extract wizard
· Primitive sequence support (no file required)
· Alt-drag note does not work as a container drag
· Auto-mapping in Transform Editor is case-insensitive
· Binary parsers for integer and long, double (little/big endian, packed decimal)
· New component Pivot
· New component MetaPivot
· PervasiveDB support
· Firebird is has now built-in support
· Trash multiple input ports
· Trash can simulate a writer (Performance/Validate records modes)
· New component DataSampler
· New attribute for Denormalizer - group size
· Performance of CTL randomfunctions improved
· Performance of CTL String.indexOf() improved
· Fixed handling of paths with spaces
· ParallelReader improvements
· Performance of Concatenate improved
· Truezip is now used for handling zip files (append, excel)

· [CloverETL Server]

· WebDAV API
· Web GUI: manual task execution
· tasks now can be executed manually instead just by the scheduler
· Support for JBoss 5.1
· Digest HTTP Authentication
· SOAP WS API added to the manual
· "graph version" attribute added to the executions history
· Launch services requests are logged to the "[tmp]/cloverlogs/launch" by default
· Fix: NPE is not thrown when the specified launch service is missing
· debug_mode config parameter fixed
· better tracking data persistence

What's new in CloverETL 3.0.2:

March 31st, 2011

· new format for boolean data field - e.g. /man|m/female|f/
· new Dictinary types: integer,long,number,decimal,boolean,date,byte
· new RunGraph component attribute "paramsToPass"
· dedicated graph property name "PROJECT_DIR" (absolute path to project home directory) was substituted by attribute at GraphRuntimeContext.contextURL
· new command line attribute -contexturl should be used instead of -P:PROJECT_DIR=""
· equalNulls attribute of Merge component was removed - value of this attribute was fixed on 'true' value
· list of components in tracking log (in console) are topologically sorted
· new attribute 'quotedStrings' on DataWritter component - all written data can be quoted
· new attributes for SystemExecute component - workersTimeout, charset
· new attribute 'Collator sensitivity' on DataRecordMetadata
· Joda date formatter is now default formatter (java formatter is still available with prefix "java:" in format string)

What's new in CloverETL 2.9.5:

August 24th, 2010

· fix of #4252 RunGraph component - GraphNotFound on the server
· Fixed incorrect resolving of special characters in transforms specified by URL
· Reset fix in InfobrightDataWriter

What's new in CloverETL 2.9.3:

June 3rd, 2010

· Fix of exception propagation during sending of JMS message

What's new in CloverETL 2.9.2:

April 22nd, 2010

· Fix of exception propagation during sending of JMS message

What's new in CloverETL 2.9.1:

February 20th, 2010

· JMS Writer - Fix of exception propagation during sending of JMS message

What's new in CloverETL 2.7.2:

July 2nd, 2009

New features:
· simplified JMSWriter - method DataRecord2JmsMsg.createMsg(r) is called for all records (event for last record) and DataRecord2JmsMsg.createLastMsg(r) is called just once after last record
· DBOutputTable converts to string all values with unknown data type

Bug fixes:
· ExtSort does not sort correctly with Null values in key
· SimpleCache used in DBJoin caches many records with same key in a wrong way
· JMSReader/Writer: attributes processorCode and processorURL are ignored
· DBExecute - if input port with parameters is connected but no record come, procedure should not execute
· classpath resolving problems in RunGraph component
· input file is not closed when graph fails (http://forum.cloveretl.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=810&sid=57ac7cf7f854d09b590535717dc0efb6)