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.

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