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In this section, you can see information about the new features and functionality in this release.

Accessible Desktop Interface

The new Desktop has been enhanced with more functionality from the Legacy Desktop to ensure that more of the overall functionality is fully accessible. More screens have been made responsive to allow users to zoom in to up to 400% while still accessing all the functionality.

Support for Subfolders

You can now use subfolders in the Configuration Browser. The subfolder feature is enabled by adding and setting the property mz.subfolder.enabled to true from within the Platform.conf file. See section Subfolders in the Configuration Browser on page Build View for more information.

IPDR SP Agent

In MediationZone there is now an IPDR SP agent available for real-time workflows.

The IPDR SP agent can process UDRs with Python in real-time by defining a consume block. It also uses an Interpreter profile that is used to configure the Python executable. If you have created several Interpreter profiles, you may also set which one you want to be the default one. If this is done, you will not have to select a profile in the agent configuration, as the default profile is used by default.

The IPDR SP (Internet Protocol Detail Record Streaming Protocol) agent is used to collect IP based service usage information, performance and usage measurement of cable modems and multimedia terminal adapters.

The IPDR SP agent also comes with an IPDR SP Template profile.

The profile allows the selection of the fields present in the DOCSIS 2.0 SAMIS, DOCSIS 3.0 SAMIS-TYPE-1 and DOCSIS 3.0 SAMIS-TYPE-2 specifications. This allows the IPDR SP agent to identify the format that the agent is receiving the data in.

See IPDR SP Template Profile and IPDR SP Agent for more information.

HTTP/2 Agents Support Multiple Open API Services

Both HTTP/2 Service and Client agents are now supporting the selection of multiple Open API profiles. This can be done by selecting the Open API profiles in the agent configuration dialog.

See HTTP/2 Agents for more information.

Open API Profile Schema Allows “Additional Properties”

In the Open API profile, the “Add “additionalProperties: false” to component schemas” checkbox is added in the Advanced tab to allow the injection of the value in the schema file.

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See Open API Profile for more information.

PCC Extensions with PCF Rules Model for 5G

Included in the Development Toolkit, there is now an example of a data model for setting up 5G PCF Session Management Policy Rules included. Once compiled and committed into the system, the different parts of the data model will be available in the PCC Extensions section in the Desktop Online interface.

See PCC Extensions for more information.

KPI Management with Distributed Storage

KPI Management can now be used with a Spark cluster as a distributed storage as an alternative to the non-distributed in-memory storage.

See KPI Management - Distributed Processing.

MySQL Cluster as Data Repository for PCC

You can now use MySQL Cluster as a data repository for all parts of PCC. See Installation of MySQL Cluster for more information.

Upgrade of Jetty, Apache CXF, and Vaadin

Jetty has now been upgraded to 11, Apache CXF to 4, and Vaadin to 24 which eliminates a number of CVEs.

UI Builder Agent

In MediationZone there is now a UI Builder agent available for real-time workflows. This agent allows you to create customized UIs without using DTK.

With the UI Builder agent and UI Builder UDR components, you can create HTML pages to be viewed in a Web browser. To view a page created using UI Builder you must have a write access to the UI Builder.

See UI Builder Agent .

Reference Data Management

The Reference Data Management application is now available providing the capability to query and edit specific table sets in relational databases while schema permissions remain unaltered. 

A Reference Data Management profile has been added where you can select the tables that should be available for query and editing. The profile configuration enables access via a web GUI or RESTful API. 

You can then use the Reference Data Management dashboard in the Desktop to query, edit, import, or export data in the database tables specified in the Reference Data Management profiles.

In addition, a DB Ref Event is triggered when you commit changes to a database table or perform import operations in Reference Data Management.

Reference Data Management is exclusively available in Desktop User Interface.

See the Reference Data Management User's Guide for more information.

Access Controller on Desktop

The addition of the access controller in the Desktop User Interface now allows users to add new users and set permissions from the Desktop. With this update, the documentation for both Desktop and Legacy Desktop has been restructured. The information for LDAP Authentication, SCIM and Single Sign On (OIDC) are now found on their separate pages. Subsequently, we now have a section for Enhanced User Security Properties under Platform Properties for ease of reference when locating properties that relate to enhanced security for the access controller.

See the Access Controller for more information about how to use the access controller on Desktop.

See the Legacy Desktop Access Controller for more information about the existing access controller feature on our Legacy Desktop.

Telco agents for FTAM and FTP

In MediationZone there are now four new batch agents, FTAM Ericsson IOG, FTAM Siemens EWSD, FTP Nokia DX200 and FTP Nokia NMSC.

Streaming Telemetry

In MediationZone there is now a new real-time agent, Streaming Telemetry. It is a push-based mechanism for collecting network performance data. The Streaming Telemetry agent retrieves router information (OSS data) through streaming using the gRPC protocol over HTTP/2.

See Streaming Telemetry Agent for more information.

Data Masking Algorithm Enhancements

The Data Masking profile has been enhanced to allow users to specify the algorithm to be used for generating random characters via the Random Algorithm field. Currently, it supports Default, UUID 4 and Custom algorithms.

This field is only applicable to Database Storage, Hash and Hash/Database masking methods.

See Data Masking Profile for more information.

ADLS File Agent Supports Parallel Transfers

An "Advanced" tab is added to the ADLS File Forwarding agent configuration.

This tab contains the settings to configure the parallel transfer options appropriate for different file sizes. 

See ADLS2 File Forwarding Agent Configuration for more information.

Proxy Support

Proxy support has been added for:

• Web Service agents

See HTTP Proxy Support, and Web Service Agents for more information

Support for “wfexport” and “wfimport” mzsh Commands

With the wfimport command, you can update the specified workflow configuration by importing workflows that are defined in the export file. While using the wfexport command creates a file of the data that is stored in the Workflow Table.

See wfimport and wfexport for more information.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 Support

Due to the retirement of ADLS Gen 1 on February 29th, 2024, the Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) agents now support ADLS Gen 2, see ADLS2 File Agents.

MZSH Command For Shutting Down Desktop and Legacy Desktop

With the, mzsh desktopadmin command you can shut down all Deskops and Legacy Desktops connected to the Platform, see desktopadmin .