New Features

This topic lists the main new features since Redwood Server up-to version 2023.2.0.

New Features in 2023.2.0

  • Improved session management in the SAP BusinessObjects connector
  • on-site-related topic New AlternativeJobContextURL process server parameter to enable platform agents to bypass proxies and firewalls to access the central Redwood server

New Features in 9.2.11

  • File Searches now allow GLOB wildcards in file names
  • You can now get the InputStream of SOAP responses directly
  • PeopleSoft connector has been improved to import multiple process definitions into separate process definitions

New Features in 9.2.10

  • Managed Service Accounts support for Windows Platform Agent
  • Support for ARCHIVE_ARCHIV_ID parameter in SAP ABAP definitions

New Features in 9.2.9

  • Catalog with new components
  • Windows Managed Service account support in platform agents
  • RedwoodScript thread monitoring in the support servlet
  • Support for JSON arrays in the REST interface

New Features in 9.2.8

  • Events and event preconditions on chain call level
  • Inline debugging support for Web Services
  • Parameter mapping improvements for Web Services
  • Usability improvements for Promotion and Housekeeping Dashboard
  • Mail Connector: supports OAuth2.0 authentication on IMAP(S) and POP3(S) connections
  • Mail Connector: supports MS Graph API connection
  • New Azure Data Factory connector

New Features in 9.2.6

  • New Housekeeping Dashboard
  • New Maintenance Mode option
  • New Process definition to collect process output files
  • Support SAP HANA (non-BTP) as a database for Redwood Platform
  • SAP: support of BEx parameters in the BOBJ connector
  • AS400: allow disabling spool file retrieval
  • Chain improvements
  • IntelliSearch improvements
  • Platform agent: keep detecting file events during server shutdown or failure

New Features in 9.2.4

  • New Monitoring Dashboard configuration options
  • New option to promote content of an export list
  • New UserMessage_History parameter allows to track actions on user messages
  • Support SAP HANA (non-BTP) as a database for Redwood Platform
  • SAP: new option to set a fail-over spool host for SAP system connected from SaaS
  • System_ForceJobStatusUnkown allows to submit a list of process IDs

New Features in 9.2.3

  • New Monitoring Dashboard
  • Unlimited restarts have now a default delay
  • Additional operator message when a kill is performed on a remote system and Redwood does not receive a successful return in time
  • Keep Clause processor now writes a message per 1000 deleted jobs for visual indication
  • SOAP calls now use HTTP 1.1
  • SAP Inbound can now connect via message server
  • SAP IBP connector now uses credentials of type "SOAP"

New Features in 9.2.2

  • Time Window: now observes US Independence Day
  • Documentation has been placed to the end in tool-tip in the real time view of a chain
  • New option "HTTP/REST" in the wizard dialog when creating new process definitions
  • Support for basic authentication in HTTP jobs
  • Peoplesoft transport to enable passing parameters to Peoplesoft jobs now available in software download section of the product
  • Table definition columns now support 'password' mode, values are hidden
  • Table definition columns now support default values
  • Mail Connector now has "Start on startup" option
  • SAP: allow setting SAP job to error through a parameter if the spool was too large
  • SAP IBP connector supports HTTP proxy configurations which do not need user/password authentication

New Features in 9.2.1

  • IE11 is no longer a supported browser
  • Platform agents have the capability of running the Java script type
  • New Mail Connector
  • New process definition statistics for minimum/maximum runtime
  • New "Merge" import mode for table import

New Features in 9.2.0

  • Full Java 11 support
  • Redwood Platform based on Apache Tomcat 9
  • Support for database foreign keys
  • Support for database blob columns
  • Extension point to extend the Process Runtime View
  • New integration options with AWS, Azure, Service Now

New Features in 9.1.5

  • AdoptOpenJDK, Eclipse Adoptium Temurin, and IBM Semeru support
  • Java 11 support (no Java 11 features in RedwoodScript)
  • User Interaction API - User_Administration global privilege
  • "Get support files" improvements
  • Operator Message improvements
  • Audit improvements, amongst others, now possible to audit Registry Keys, Users, Grants, Partitions
  • Usability improvements on process restart and killing processes
  • SAP - Job parameter improvements, BOBJ reports with longer names than 80 characters now supported
  • JDBC - Snowflake database support

New Features in 9.1.4

  • New Global Privileges
  • New process definition type R
  • New process definition type HTTP/REST
  • New process definition type SOAP
  • Internal definitions set as Maintenance (available under Custom maintenance process filter)
  • Disable at submit functionality on calls within a chain
  • Additional scripting features and API calls