Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 4 includes the following capabilities:
Platform
PAM Certifications:
- Java is upgraded to 1.8.0_72. Tomcat is upgraded to 7.0_68
- IBM DB2 10.5 Fix Pack 7 support
- MS Excel 2013 support (PowerCenter)
- MS Access 2013 support (PowerCenter)
- Oracle : 12cR1
- MSD CRM 2016 Certification
- Chrome 49.x is supported
- REST WebServices, SOAP Web Services for HP-UX & Solaris 10 (Informatica Developer) – PowerExchange Applications
Security Enhancements:
- Upgraded several security-critical Third Party Libraries (TPLs)
- Ability to work with JRE; JDK no longer required
- Support for TLS v1.1/v1.2 – TLS v1.0 blocked
- Ability for customers to choose custom cipher configuration
Connectivity Enhancements:
- Data driver upgrade 7.1.5.Hot Fix
- TLS 1.2 certification of relational DB’s (Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 ) connectivity.
- Note: TLS 1.2 connectivity to Oracle is not certified on AIX platform for all 9.6.x and 10.x versions
- DB2 – User can filter out schema objects based on schema name provided in connection string in Mercury platform
- Native bulk connector for PowerCenter
Administrator Tool:
- License expiration warnings and errors
- For self-compliance, Administrator tool now shows warning messages in case license is about to expire or shows error messages in case license has already expired
Reporting & Dashboard Services:
- Announcement: Reporting & Dashboard Services is on a deprecation path
- New installs of 9.6.1 HF4 will not contain RDS service anymore
- Upgrades from earlier versions to be supported until end of life
- SQL queries for all out of the box RDS reports are documented, customers are encouraged to use the reporting tool of their choice and build reports as needed
Business Glossary:
- Audit trail Migration support from MM-BG 951
Metadata Manager:
- Support added for SAP BO 4.1 SP6
Profiling:
- Advanced profiling enhancements: Added a custom flag to optionally disable staging of drill down data
PowerExchange (Mainframe & CDC)
- Certification of z/OS 2.2
- z/OS CDC Adapter enhancements
- Potential performance improvements by utilising additional IFI 306 object filtering
- Ability to Identify either User/PSBName as DTL__USER in IMS synchronous capture
- LUW CDC Adapter enhancements
- Oracle CDC
- Oracle Direct Path Load support for Insert operations
- Capture resilience supporting Oracle Kill Session events
Data Quality
Address Validation transform integration with Address Doctor 5.8.1 engine
- Eircode (postal code) support for Ireland addresses
- UK address enrichments
- Delivery point type and Organization enrichments
- South Korea address enrichments
- Address ID
- Germany address enrichments
- Street Code
Exception management
- Search and replace enhancements
- Synonym support for exception tables
Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 4 Release Notes
PowerExchange Adapters for Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 4 Release Notes
PowerExchange Adapters for PowerCenter 9.6.1 HotFix 4 Release Notes
Informatica PowerExchange 9.6.1 HotFix 4 Release Notes
PAM for Informatica 9.6.1 HotFix 4
You can download the Hotfixes from here.