Application Integration
This section describes some of the new features and enhancements added for the December, January, February, March, and April Cloud Application Integration (the Informatica Cloud Real Time service) releases.
For additional details, see the Release Notes published with the monthly releases of Cloud Application Integration.
Secure Agent Version 33
Cloud Application Integration customers benefit from the capabilities offered by Secure Agent version 33.
The Process Server service is a new engine of the Secure Agent platform that executes independently to help overall resilience. Process Server executes Cloud Application Integration processes deployed to the Secure Agent.
Cloud Application Integration customers gain the following additional benefits from the latest Secure Agent version:
- •PostgreSQL Replaces H2: The new underlying database, PostgreSQL, can handle a larger amount of data than H2, the earlier underlying database. You will also see performance improvements.
- •HTTPS Listener Support: You can run processes published to a Secure Agent from within the enterprise through HTTPS/REST or HTTPS/SOAP calls in addition to JMS and AMQP queues and topics.
- •Agent Group Awareness: Use the Agent Group feature to logically group agent-based Process Servers and distribute the load across each member of the group. You can use this feature to scale.
- •Agent Clustering: You can cluster two or more Agent Group members into a single logical Process Server instance. You gain many advantages with the Agent Clustering feature. For example, if a node failure occurs, a process instance failover kicks in to recover the instance.
New API Management Capabilities
You can use the API management features delivered with Informatica Cloud Real Time Advanced and Informatica Cloud Premium editions.
Use the Informatica Cloud Real Time service to create REST/XML, JSON, or SOAP/WSDL composite or OData data service APIs. You can expose the managed APIs you created to partners, customers, and internal consumers through the Informatica Cloud API Gateway. Together with the API Manager, you can use the API gateway to control and secure access to the APIs you expose.
New Connectors
Workday and OData connectors are available to customers that license these capabilities.
Service Connector Timings
You can see the HTTP Execution Time, the HTTP Response Parsing Time, and the Redirect Count of a service connector on the Test Results tab of the service connector UI.
Process Tracing Level 'Terse' maps to Logging Level 'Fault'
The Terse tracing level maps to the Fault logging level. At the Fault logging level, Process Server logs only fault information, which decreases the size of the log file and improves processing speed. To improve processing speed, perform no logging or minimum logging. Informatica recommends that you use the None or Terse logging levels.
Bulk Retry on the Process Console
You can retry multiple faulting suspended processes on the Active Processes page. Earlier, you could only retry a single process at a time.
Scheduled Deletion of Server Log Data
You can specify a Server Log Retention period. Process Server deletes Server Log data that is older than the time you specify. For more information, see the Scheduled Maintenance topic in the Administer section of the Cloud Application Integration online help. Previously, you could not schedule Server Log data deletion. You had to manually delete Server Log data when needed.
Limit on Attachments Size
Informatica enforces a maximum attachment size for API requests made on the Cloud Server. Previously, Informatica enforced a maximum message payload size of 5 MB. Now, if you have attachments to a message, the maximum total size of attachments is also 5 MB. This only affects processes that you deploy to the Cloud Server. If you deploy processes to the Secure Agent, the default size remains 5 MB for both payload and attachments. There is no upper size limit.
Swagger 2.0 Specification for Processes
You can get the Swagger 2.0 JSON specification of the API exposed by a process that you create in Informatica Process Designer. Service consumers can now use Swagger 2.0, JSON Schema, and WSDL interface documents to introspect endpoints for processes developed in Process Designer.
Max Wait Value for Service Call Step
When you use the Service Call step to run Informatica Cloud applications, you must enter a cannot enter a Max Wait value greater than seven days.
Improved XQuery Expression Syntax Support
The following enhancements support XQuery expression syntax:
- •Improved handling of spaces, tabs, and new lines.
- •Removal of limits on the complexity of supported XQuery expressions.
- •Comments and strings can now include temporary fields.
- •Improved field references processing.
- •Improved local and process variable support.
- •Improved expression predicate handling.
- •Corrected array handling.