We are delighted to announce the July 2021 release of Cloud Application Integration.

The release is being rolled out as per the schedule mentioned in the following link: https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/place-calendar.jspa?container=2…

Read on to know about the new features and changed behavior in the release.

Application Integration - Upgrade

You can upgrade the PostgreSQL database of Process Server from version 9.5.2 or 12.4 to version 12.6. Version 12.6 offers security fixes.

You can choose to upgrade at your own convenience by manually running scripts provided by Informatica. The scripts take a backup of the existing database version so that you can restore to the old database version in case of any upgrade issue.

For more information about upgrading the PostgreSQL database, see the following community article:

https://network.informatica.com/docs/DOC-18945

Application Integration - Changed Behavior

The July 2021 release contains the following changed behavior:

All the Application Integration panels that show process metrics exclude processes that were suspended at any point of time in their lifecycle.

Taskflows - New Features

The July 2021 release contains the following new features and enhancements:

• Create taskflow inputs and run a taskflow with taskflow inputs

After you publish a taskflow, you can create one or more taskflow inputs. You can run the taskflow with the taskflow inputs from the taskflow designer. You can create taskflow inputs in the JSON or XML format.

• New taskflow functions

When you work with taskflows, you can use the following new functions in the Expression Editor:

• Character function: lpad()
• Conversion functions: toDecimal(), toInteger()
• Data cleansing function: in()
• Date function: lastDay()

• Support for system variables in Command Task step

Taskflows - Changed Behavior

The July 2021 release contains the following changed behavior:

Taskflow connection parameter

We are delighted to announce the February 2021 release of Cloud Application Integration.

The release is being rolled out as per the schedule mentioned in the following link: https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/place-calendar.jspa?container=2…

Read on to know about the new features and changed behavior in the release.

Application Integration - New Features

The February 2021 release offers enhanced resiliency for communication between Agents and Cloud.

Application Integration - Upgrade

You can upgrade the PostgreSQL database from version 9.5.2 to 12.4. Version 12.4 offers performance enhancements and new features.

You can choose to upgrade at your own convenience by manually running scripts provided by Informatica. The scripts take a backup of the existing database version so that you can restore to the old database version in case of any upgrade issue.

For more information about upgrading the PostgreSQL database from version 9.5.2 to 12.4, see the following community article:

https://network.informatica.com/docs/DOC-18945

Taskflows - New Features

The February 2021 release contains the following new features and enhancements:

• Developer Productivity
  • Support for new functions in the Expression Editor:
    • Asset detail functions: getAssetLocation, getAssetName, getInstanceStartTime
    • Date functions: ADD_TO_DATE, DATE_DIFF, GET_DATE_PART, TRUNC(Date)
    • Character functions: LTRIM, RTRIM, INSTR
    • Conversion functions: TO_CHAR(Number), TO_CHAR, TO_DATE
    • Test functions: DECODE, IIF, ISNULL
  • Introduction of new Published and Published On columns on the Explore page to view the publish status and publish date of taskflows.

• Taskflow-level Parameterization Support
  • Ability to override the parameter file directory and parameter file name of a mapping task at the taskflow level
  • Ability to override the values of input parameters and in-out parameters of a PowerCenter task at the taskflow level

• Improved Taskflow Execution Resume Options
  • Ability to resume a suspended taskflow from a step that faulted, skip the faulted step, and proceed with the subsequent steps

• Deferred Taskflow Termination
  • Ability to fail a taskflow on its completion if the task associated with a Data Task step does not run or complete successfully

Taskflows - Changed Behavior

The February 2021 release contains the following changed behavior:

• Taskflow Scheduling
  • A scheduled taskflow runs only if it was manually published or run at least once
  • If you schedule an outdated taskflow that contains unpublished changes, the last published taskflow version will be scheduled
  • Unpublishing a scheduled taskflow will affect the scheduled taskflow runs

• Privilege Check for Status Resource
  • The Monitor - View Job Results privilege is required for users to view the taskflow status using the status resource

Please see the What's New Guide attached with this post for more information.

For the complete Cloud Application Integration documentation, see the documentation portal.

See also: CAI February 2021 Major Release Updates

As part of 2021.02.M release effective February/March 2021, there are updates being made to the CAI and Taskflow services.

App Integration Meters for Operational Insights

App Integration meters for Operational Insights are being reinitialized for the 2021.02 release to improve performance of analytics reports. This affects customers of the USW1 and USE4 PODs and specific customers activated in other North American, EMEA and APAC environments.

The App Integration Meters for Operational Insights are being enabled over the next two months on this schedule:

• US West1 (USW1): 13^th Feb, 2021
• US East4 (USE4): 20^th Feb, 2021
• EM West1 (EMEA1), US East2 (USE2): 6^th March, 2021
• US West3 (USW3), AP Southeast1 (APJ): 13^th March, 2021
• US West5 (USW5), US East6 (USE6): 20^th March, 2021

Taskflow Service We continue to make improvements to the service. Please review the Release Notes. We would like to share changes you need to be aware of. 

• Taskflows now need to be published to be scheduled. This new behavior does not affect previously scheduled Taskflow. Updates to a Taskflow will no longer take effect in a scheduled job until the Taskflow is re-published.
• The Resume icon is renamed to Resume from faulted step and moved from My Jobs page in Data Integration, and the All Jobs and Running Jobs pages in Monitor to the corresponding taskflow status page.
• The “Monitor - View Job Results” privilege is now required to view a Taskflow’s status using the Status API. This privilege can be enabled / disabled through Administrator -> User Roles (Click on a role) -> Services (Monitor) -> Features -> Job Results - view

App Integration Service Process Server’s PostgreSQL Database The latest version of the PostgreSQL database upgraded from version 9.5.4 to 12.4. Below are some of the benefits that come along with this. 

• Improved security features and security vulnerability fixes
• Better performance owing to features such as parallel table scans, parallel query support, parallel joins, and aggregates
• Support for parallel index scans
• Performance improvements for queries on tables with partitions
• Better indexing and auto vacuuming

Customers can choose to upgrade at their convenience by manually running a script provided by Informatica. For details about these scripts, please refer https://network.informatica.com/docs/DOC-18945

We are delighted to announce the Fall 2020 October release of Cloud Application Integration. This release is being rolled out across regions according to the following schedule:

The Fall 2020 October release contains new features and enhancements in the following areas:

Developer Experience

Service connector import

When you create a service connector by importing a WSDL or Swagger file, you can view the progress and status of the import. If an error occurs during the import, you can also view the details of the error and warnings.

Eventing

Change Data Capture support for Salesforce Connector

You can use Salesforce Connector to subscribe to change events in Salesforce and synchronize the corresponding data in an external data store.

High availability and load balancing support for listener-based connectors

We have improved our message and file listeners. No longer can there be race conditions from multiple and competing readers in a cluster listener for message and file events. Process Server on premises now elects a listener on a per connection basis. Connections are now autonomically distributed across agents in a cluster ensuring that a single listener is elected to handle a connection. Should a node in the cluster fail, a listener on another is automatically elected. This not only improves resilience to failure but also eliminates duplicate processing.

If the Process Server uses a Secure Agent Cluster configuration, the following listener-based connectors support high availability and load balancing:

• Amazon S3
• Amazon SQS
• AMQP
• File
• FTP
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• Salesforce

API Improvements

Taskflows

Taskflows include the following new features and enhancements:

Support for PowerCenter tasks

You can use a PowerCenter task in the Data Task step of a taskflow to control the execution sequence of the task and perform advanced orchestrations.

Taskflow suspension on fault and email notification

You can configure a taskflow to suspend on a fault that occurs at the taskflow level. You can also configure the taskflow to send an email notification to specified recipients when it is suspended on a fault.

Support for taskflow scope in parameter files

In a parameter file, you can define parameter values at the taskflow scope and linear taskflow level. You can use the same task and parameter file across different taskflows and linear taskflows to provide different parameter values in different taskflow and linear taskflow sections.

Please see the What's New document for details (also attached with this post). For more information, see the Release Notes. For the complete Cloud Application Integration documentation, see the documentation portal.

The Spring 2020 April release of Application Integration includes the following new features and enhancements:

Operational Insights for Application Integration

You can view analytics for Application Integration assets using Operational Insights.

Operational Insights offers several charts that help you quickly and visually assess the status and usage of your Application Integration assets and take appropriate corrective actions if needed. You can view analytics related to API calls, processes, connections, and licensing.

Note: Informatica is introducing Operational Insights support for Application Integration in phases. Operational Insights will be enabled first on a regional basis and then to specific customers upon request before enabling it broadly for all Application Integration customers. If you would like to use Operational Insights with Application Integration before it is broadly released, contact your Customer Success Manager.

OAuth2 authentication for processes

You can enable OAuth2 authentication for a process and configure the API to accept only HTTP authorization requests from the API Gateway.

The API provider must create an OAuth2 enabled managed API for the process in API Manager and generate an OAuth2 client. The API provider must then send the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services OAuth 2.0 server URL and the client credentials to the API consumers.

API consumers must authenticate against the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services OAuth 2.0 server and use the OAuth 2.0 client credentials to generate an OAuth 2.0 authorization token. API consumers must then use the OAuth 2.0 authorization token to invoke the API.

Asset dependencies

You can view asset dependencies for a process, service connector, app connection, guide, and process object from the corresponding asset designer page. You can view a list of objects that the asset depends on and a list of objects that the asset is dependent on.

You might want to view dependencies before performing certain operations on an asset. For example, you cannot delete an asset if another object depends on the asset. You must first delete the dependent objects and then delete the asset. You can find out the dependent objects by viewing the asset dependencies.

For more information, see the Release Notes.

For the complete Cloud Application Integration documentation, see the online help.