This release contains the following enhancements:

• New command line interface

• Automatic rollback will be triggered when upgrading fails. A rollback also can be manually triggered

and a number of bug fixes for:

• Desktop

• Devkit

• MZSH

• Documentation

• Installation

• FTP

• SCP

• SFTP

• SAP RFC

• SAP CTS+

• SQL

• System Log

• Workflow UI

• Events

• Realtime batch

• Execution Manager

• Configuration Browser

• Conditional Trace

• Azure

• Kafka

• Diameter

• Liquibase

• Audit

• Conditional Trace

• Pico

• Parquet

• JSON Decoder

• Ultra

among others. See Bug Fixes for more details.

Information about where the release can be accessed is available here: Release Information.

Overall user documentation is available at: https://infozone.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MD93.

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We are excited to announce the release and general availability of Usage Engine Private Edition 5.0! 

The key focus areas in this release are related to usability, productivity, and efficiency. It contains enhancements that simplify configuration management, improve visibility into system changes, streamline troubleshooting, and increase DevKit usability. With intuitive tools for comparing configurations, tracking changes, analyzing errors, and managing DevKit agents, you can work more efficiently while reducing manual effort and gaining deeper insights into your system. 

Some of the key features and enhancements are:  

Configuration Tracer 

The Configuration Tracer feature in the Desktop Online, is a powerful tool that you can use to track and manage configuration changes with ease. You can view both active configurations and historical versions, including those that have been deleted, providing full visibility into configuration history. This will improve troubleshooting, compliance, change management, and operational efficiency. 

With the possibility to restore deleted configurations, you can quickly recover important designs and maintain system integrity. It also provides detailed metadata, including ownership, access permissions, version history, and references to related configurations, offering a comprehensive audit trail for traceability purposes. 

Added Functionality in Desktop Online 

In this release we have added the following functionality in Desktop Online, which was previously only available in Desktop Client: 

• Configuration Diff – for easy comparison of configurations with visually highlighted differences, enhancing troubleshooting, auditing and overall system reliability. 

• DevKit – for creating and using your own DevKit plugins with associated documentation, available using the Help button. Configuration agent plugins can be done directly in the workflow editor, and with the notifier plugins you get a centralized interface for managing notifications, improving efficiency. 

• ECS Statistics – for a clear and comprehensive view of error code distributions, helping you quickly identify patterns and troubleshoot issues more effectively. Pie charts display error codes, offering clear visibility into the most frequent and impactful issues; and numerical values within the chart further enhance clarity, making it easier to interpret data at a glance, strengthening error analysis, system monitoring, and operational efficiency. 

Enhancements

Other enhancements included are:

• HTTP/2 Client Agent Support new OAuth2UDR

• HTTP/2 Server Agent Supports Dynamic Public Key

• Running Authorization Server on ECD

All of these are explained in more detail in Usage Engine 5.0 Release.

The release can be accessed: Release Information.

Overall user documentation is available at: Usage Engine Documentation 5.0.

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During the last quarter of 2024, we have released four major enhancements:

Index Join support in Zuora Query

The Zuora Query processor now supports Index Join when querying for data from the Zuora platform. This enhances the query performance to optimize data retrieval across multiple tables, significantly reduce execution times and it is designed for scalability. The Zuora Query function now ensures stable and efficient query performance even in large databases, addressing common issues like slow execution and query failures.

SAP SB Query enhancement

The SAP Subscription Billing (SB) Query function has been enhanced to offer greater flexibility, reliability, and efficiency for your subscription billing workflows. Query options have been updated to include all new query parameters introduced in the SAP API, ensuring full compatibility. We have also added a new query option for the GET_usage-records API, making retrieving and analyzing usage data easier.

Additional capabilities

• Retry on fail - To enhance reliability, you can now set the number of automatic requests to send to SAP Subscription Billing in the event of server errors, ensuring your operations continue smoothly without manual intervention.

• Action on error - You can also determine pre-defined actions when an error occurs in a stream, enabling immediate resolution or logging for faster troubleshooting.

SOAP Client forwarder enhancement

The SOAP Client forwarder has transitioned from Beta to a fully functional component in the pre-integrated library for Usage Engine Cloud Edition. This enhancement brings a reliable and versatile solution for managing web service interactions directly within your streams.

One of the key enhancements is that you can now select to write the request body in JSON, and the function converts it into XML before sending it to a web service or server.

Additional capabilities

• Retry on fail - Automatically reattempts sending requests to the web service or server in the event of server errors, reducing manual intervention and improving reliability.

• Action on error - Initiates pre-defined actions in response to errors detected within the stream, enabling proactive issue management.

• Response handling - Processes responses from the web service or server after sending requests, routing them to subsequent streams for further actions. This allows for accurate status tracking and smoother integration with downstream processes when needed.

Move to option for collectors

We have begun introducing the addition of the Move to option for collectors in Usage Engine Cloud Edition. This update enhances your ability to manage and process source files effectively, reducing manual steps and streamlining file management. With this enhancement, files can be relocated after a collector function has collected them. By enabling files to be moved to different directories, either to organize collected files for downstream processes or to move them to a specific directory for reprocessing, the Move to option simplifies the process and ensures efficient file handling.

Currently, this feature is available for SFTP and Google Cloud Storage collectors, with plans to expand its availability to other file collectors in the Usage Engine Cloud Edition soon.

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We hope you enjoy these new enhancements. As always, we appreciate your feedback. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us through our Self Service Portal.