EDM v18.2.29.1 is now available

EDM v18.2.29.1 is now available

Release Date: 3rd April 2020

This release brings some of the following improvements:

1. The Bloomberg Bulk fields Data Porter Plugin, with improved error handling, is now available part of the standard Plug-in list. // via EDM-22369
2. Repeated runs of the Audit & Archive wizard succeeds. No SQL failure is encountered. // via EDM-22442
3. The Number KPI element now renders when the Number field is Zero. //via EDM-22362
4. Save of Data Generator grid works correctly. Previously on save, validation error shows even if there are no erroneous records among the list of changes. // via EDM-21972

For a complete list of the resolved issues, refer to the release notes: https://supportlibrary.ihsmarkit.com/display/EDM/EDM+v18.2.29.1

EDM v19.2.23.8 is now available

EDM version 19.2.23.8 is now available.

Release Date: 20th March 2020

This release brings some of the following improvements:

1. The save button in the Data Generator form view is correctly enabled when record change occurs via field input parameters. Previously record changes in such manner disabled the save button. //via EDM-21527
2. The new Setup Installer Wizard to install EDM runs successfully even when the temporary folder is named differently than TEMP or TMP. // via EDM-22376
3. A new output parameter - 'Save Enabled' is added for Data Generator related UI elements (Generator Inbox Grid, Generator Form view, Multi-column Form Style). This Boolean parameter gets triggered when there are pending changes in the Data generator. // via EDM-17632
4. Checkbox fields in the Data Generator Form view renders the tick mark correctly when checked. // via EDM-21973

For a complete list of the resolved issues, refer to the release notes: https://supportlibrary.ihsmarkit.com/display/EDM/EDM+v19.2.23.8

EDM v19.1.28.9 is now available.

EDM version 19.1.28.9 is now available.

Release date 6th February 2020

The major issues resolved in this release are:

‘Audit and Archive’ functionality captures logs of Core Matcher, Rule Builder, Process Run Service Logs and Web user activity.

Data Porter source de-duplication works successfully when the source query is from an external database.

Data Manager within dynamic element, loads correctly on initial display itself. User doesn't have to switch tabs to get the data to load.

All EDM released .exe files are digitally signed 


For a complete list of the resolved issues, refer to the release notes

EDM v19.2.22.19 is now available

EDM version 19.2.22.19 is now available.
Release date 7th February 2020

The major issues resolved in this release are:

The Data Generator correctly shows the visible columns based on rule result evaluation passed to the 'Override Visible fields' input parameter

For a very complicated workflow setup, the WebUI has been modified to suppress error pop up messages that repeatedly show. The errors continues to show in the browser console logs

All EDM released .exe files are digitally signed

For a complete list of the resolved issues, refer to the release notes

EDM v19.2 Release Notification

IHS Markit is pleased to announce the v19.2 release of our Enterprise Data Management (EDM) software which is now generally available.

The highlights of this release are:

EDM Setup Wizard

• New Setup Wizard provides simplified EDM installation and upgrade process.
• Ability to install or upgrade the EDM thick-client application, web server, SQL database and Version Control database. 
• EDM installation can also be modified, repaired or removed if required.
• EDMInstaller.exe is available in the EDM installation folder alongside the MarkitEDMSetup.exe.

 For more details, refer to the Setup Wizard guide.

Add Attribute Wizard

• Ability to prevent wizard from continuing when processes haven't been checked-in for version control.
• Total number of Illustration Templates found by the wizard displays when no common template can be found.
• Rows are highlighted when selected and color codes are used to define the component status at the Configuration step.
• Complete list of run components displays along with the component type and status.
• Ability to remove attributes from a set of tables. 

 For more details, refer to the Add Attribute Wizard guide.

Core Matcher Service

• The Core Matcher queue is now automatically configured and existing queues are automatically migrated during upgrade.
• A new Solution service has been created to support one single or multiple Core Matcher services.
• The Core Matcher service has been separated from the primary EDM code base and is independently versioned.

 For more details, refer to the Core Matcher Service guide.

Energy Plug-ins

Kingdom

• Ability to read well data such as digital logs and curves, as well as deviation survey points from EDM to Kingdom via the Data Porter.
• Ability to write well data such as deviation survey points, formation tops, digital logs, zone attributes, as well as monthly and cumulative production data from EDM to Kingdom via the Data Porter.

Petra

• Ability to write well data from EDM to Petra via the Data Porter, such as well location, formation tops, zone attributes, digital logs, monthly production data and directional survey data.

Blue Marble

• Ability to pass XY or longitude/latitude coordinates from a Data Flow Sequence to Blue Marble and retrieve the appropriate convergence factor to correctly position data. 

 For more details, refer to the Energy Plug-ins guides.

Map UI Element

• Zoom functionality within the Map UI element has been improved to allow users to zoom in/out of the map center point immediately once they click the zoom icon.
• Ability for users to control clustering via a new Clustering Zoom Level input parameter.

 For more details, refer to the Map UI Element guide.

Multilingual Support

• EDM users with multilingual content enabled are able to define a language key in a Data Generator Function in order to support data sets where a record exists per language.

 For more details, refer to the Data Generator guide.

Web UI Administration

User Group Management

• Child groups of Active Directory groups will be automatically added to an EDM group when a parent Active Directory group is added. The number of levels of the child Active Directory groups can be set via a new database parameter: MaxADGroupTreeLevel, the default is 5 levels.
• For Active Directory groups in the web UI, a new column will display either the User or Group type, with all columns in the grid now sortable. 

Application Analytics

• New area in the web UI administration area allows users to review the results of all metrics and best practice monitoring test results gathered by the system so they can optimize their EDM configuration as required.
• Statistics display controlled by new Schedule Daily Application Statistics SQL Job checkbox in Database Upgrade Wizard and new /scheduleapplicationstats command line parameter for silent installation.

 For more details, refer to the Web UI Administration guide.

Data Generator & Manager

• If populated in a linked Data Illustration Template, a field description will display as a tooltip when hovering over the field name in the Generator and Manager Form View elements. The tooltip will also display when hovering over a column caption in the Data Manager and Generator Inbox grids.
• Data Generator Value Distribution in the web UI now displays the decoded values from the Data Generator Function, instead of the values stored in the database.
• The Auto Resize Columns option in the Generator Inbox UI element is now enabled by default.

Other Changes

• Ability to search in drop-down box UI elements.
• When importing configuration, the process will automatically remove database connection strings which no longer exist in the incoming configuration, apart from those used by the database version control system.
• For charts with multiple series, series without data will not be shown in the chart legend in the web UI. This applies to the Line, Bar/Column, Area and Combo chart types.
• NavigationConfiguration.xml timestamp of the export datetime has been removed so the file structure remains consistent with each export.
• Original Id is no longer recreated when importing configurations. EDM now checks all the entries marked as deleted and whether the Original Id already exists.

For additional information about this release, please see the EDM v19.2.21.4 GA release notes and the EDM v19.2 version note.

Please contact your client manager if you are interested in upgrading to this release.

EDM v18.2.25.6 is now available

EDM version 18.2.25.6 is now available.

Release date 27th November 2019

The major issues resolved in this release are:

• Ability to prevent potential Core Matcher data loss by automatically dropping custom user indexes.
• Enhancements to Data Porter Internet Utilities plug-in to support multi-service requests.
• When added and enabled, a new ConnectionSchemaMethod feature flag allows source data from storedproc and table-valued function to work for all versions of SQL server. 

For a complete list of the resolved issues, please refer to the release notes.

Changes to MorningStar web service call on 4th December 2019

If you are a MorningStar customer you will have received a communication from them stating that they are changing their web service call from HTTP to HTTPS, effective on 4th December 2019. 

If you are using the EDM plug-in CADIS.DPMorningStarPlugin.dll, this will be affected as a consequence. 

For customers who use the MorningStar plug-in and who have already contacted us, we have provided a test version of the new https plug-in.

Customers will need to obtain a new MorningStar plug-in from EDM Support to test and promote that along with minor configuration changes in any affected Data Porter(s).

If you have any concerns around this, please contact EDM Support at MEDM-Support@ihsmarkit.com.