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

New Features

The following new functionality has been added in this release:

FTP EWSD Agent

Issue number(s): XE-11688

This release supports FTP EWSD Agent. This agent enables the collection of cyclic files from the Siemens EWSD switches into the workflow, by using the FTP protocol. See FTP EWSD(4.0).

Microsoft Message Queueing Agents (MSMQ Agents) for Real-Time Workflows

With the MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) agents you can configure a real-time workflows to act as an MSMQ client communicating with an MSMQ server. MSMQ is a messaging protocol that allows applications running on separate servers/processes to communicate in a failsafe manner. There is one collection agent and one processing agent.

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See MSMQ Agents (4.0) for more information.

Authorization Server

Issue number(s): XE-10744

Authorization Server is now running on Platform by leveraging the PlatformServletProvider. Its properties have been converted from Topo properties to Properties file format. Ouath2, and moved to the main packages folder “…/mediationzone/packages”. Additional support is enhanced to enable authorization server through helm values yaml. Both bootstrap keystore and basic auth credentials can be enabled through either helm values or kubectl create secret.

See Authorization Server User's Guide(4.0) for more information.

Support for System Landscape Directory (SLD)

Issue number(s): XE-10785

Support for System Landscape Directory (SLD) has been added. Using the mzsh command sldreg, you can generate the SLD configuration data required for registry in the SAP Solution Manager. It is optional to enter the sld.conf file as an argument, but if you do not enter the sld.conf file, it is assumed that the relevant file is the default, namely,  MZ_HOME/etc/sld.conf. The sld.conf file provides the static information for the output generated.

Usage: sldreg [<sld.conf file>]

You must run this command from the machine where the Platform is running, see sldreg (4.0).

Enhancements

The following enhancement of existing features has been included in this release.

Http/2 Server Agent Supports Proxy During Registration in NRF.

Issue number(s): XE-10000

The Http/2 Server agent can now use the HTTP proxy if required to reach NRF servers.

See HTTP/2 Server Agent for more information.

Database Support in Inter Workflow

Issue number(s): XE-10997

In this release, you can now use Inter Workflow without using a filesystem. Inter Workflow also supports SAP HANA.
You can now choose storage types either FileSystem or Database. Using storage type as Database, you now get the corresponding database SQL scripts for creating the required tables in the database and also, provide a possibility to recover in case of a filesystem crash.

See Inter Workflow Profile(4.0).

Support of Amazon S3 in System Importer and System Exporter

Issue number(s): XE-6360

The system importer and exporter is now enhanced to support Amazon S3 using Desktop Online interface. You can import and export data and configurations from and to Amazon S3 as shown below:

See System Exporter(4.0), and System Importer(4.0) for more information.

Download Page for Desktop Launcher and mzcli

Issue number(s): XE-10621

A new dialog with downloadable items have now been added to make it easier to download the Desktop Launcher, mzcli client and DevKit.

You can open the dialog from the User Settings menu, see User Settings (4.0).

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Support

Issue number(s): XE-11861

Due to a deadline where ADLS Gen 1 will be retired on February 29th, 2024. Our Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) agents now support ADLS Gen 2.

See ADLS2 File Agents Overview(4.0) for more information.