CA PPM 14.3 Cumulative Patch 8 (14.3.0.8) General Availability Announcement

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24 May 2019

Date: August 09, 2016
To: CA PPM Customers
From: The CA Technologies CA PPM Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA PPM 14.3 Cumulative Patch 8 (14.3.0.8)

On behalf of CA Technologies, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated patches for our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that CA PPM 14.3 Cumulative Patch 8 (14.3.0.8) is now available for On Premise and SaaS customers.

Summary:

We recommend upgrading your CA PPM implementation to the latest release to take advantage of all current features and improvements. If you are unable to upgrade to the latest release, CA has made a patch available for CA PPM 14.3.0. Customers with CA PPM 14.3.0 install this patch if you are interested in obtaining resolutions to the issues identified in the README file.

Patch Content:

This is a cumulative patch with four new fixes added in this patch version.

IMPORTANT: Before applying this cumulative patch, we recommend that you go through the README file. This file has a list of all the fixes provided in this patch version, as well as in the prior versions. By applying this patch, you will receive all cumulative fixes.

Instructions:

Patches are intended to be timely fixes and are not fully regression or integration tested. They are only tested against the issues listed in the README file. CA feels confident that this patch will resolve the addressed problems, but customers should be aware that a patch could have adverse side effects to the function of their CA PPM application. Customers should not apply patches directly to production systems without first verifying in a test environment. If any issues arise in the installation or use of this patch, please contact CA Support.

A list of the fixes resolved in this patch and prior patch versions can be found in the README attached to this article. The README file is also included in the 'jar' package, but the README file attached to this article may identify updates not included in the 'jar' package.

Version/Build: 14.3.0.298 11 (14.3.0.8)
Documentation: README
On Premise General Availability: August 09, 2016
SaaS Service Availability: August 09, 2016

NOTES:

  • Please be sure to read the 'SPECIAL INSTRUCTION' section within the README file for important information regarding Jaspersoft Reports and Data Warehouse fixes.
  • After applying the patch, remember to download and install updated client applications such as the connectors for the schedulers, XOG or other client applications.
  • The installation of any patch may impact Studio Views. Please be sure to implement in a non-production environment and test the impact on the views you have configured in Studio.

Cumulative Issues Resolved

Issues Resolved in This Patch:

CLRT-79254: Jaspersoft Report (Resource Time Review by Manager) days of week are incorrectly labelled
CLRT-80334: Input type code set on Timesheet page of a resource gets set to a blank value when Timesheet is adjusted and subsequently gets submitted (TEC1978005)
CLRT-80837: Securability fix
CLRT-79816: The Capacity vs Allocation by OBS report does not include Unstaffed Roles even when the 'Include Unstaffed Roles' check box is checked on the filter parameters
CLRT-80734: AdHoc reports that make use of "Assignment EAC Measures" time out
CLRT-80324: Capacity vs Demand by Resource Report shows incorrect Demand values
CLRT-79233: Non-locked task assignments affected by the "Schedule assignments on locked tasks" option
CLRT-80635: Task ETCs are not getting set to zero if ETC less than 1
CLRT-79199: MSP Legacy Driver: After round trip of a project with Roles (having 0 ETC) to MSP, if a Role replace is done in CA PPM after this, the task Dates that this role is assigned to change to the project dates, and the ETC changes to 100% availability (TEC1823528)
CLRT-79306: Issue with the process start condition when an OBS structure is involved for starting condition and it got changed
CLRT-80287: Error exporting Investment Hierarchy with Export to Excel Data if hierarchy contains an investment that has its own children hierarchy (TEC1582282)
CLRT-79372: Timestamps on Milestone Dates created from Project Template are not the same as the Milestone on the Template
CLRT-80586: XOG will fail when the Department OBS attribute for the Project Object has a default value
CLRT-80294: ETC Cost does not get recalculated when ETC becomes 0 (TEC1947353)
CLRT-79792: CA PPM allows the creation of a Department OBS Unit or Location OBS Unit ID value to contain a comma symbol and this causes display issues
CLRT-80498: Gel Script process fails to validate when comments are inside of gel script tag

Issues Resolved in Prior Patches:

CLRT-80110: Jaspersoft: Remove empty user folders as part of Create and update Jasper Users
CLRT-80183: Xog Performance while updating a Project
CLRT-80217: PRESTSUM calculated wrong in Task assignment
CLRT-80230: SKIP Level argument in XOG ignores the custom information
CLRT-79316: DWH: Calendar changes causes Capacity reporting hours to go missing
CLRT-80008: Resource Allocations and Assignments report - 'Assignments' row is not exported to excel for some or all investments (TEC1677496)
CLRT-79504: Cost Plan, Benefit Plan, or Budget Plan TSV cells do not align with label key column
CLRT-80153: Data Warehouse: Enabled custom/OOTB Object with a large amount of instances crashes the BG server with OutOfMemory error when updating Jaspersoft Domains
CLRT-79232: Wrong Value of Task Finish Variance
CLRT-77380: In OWB, unable to edit notes you created for tasks (TEC1306084)
CLRT-79690: Not all notifications will correctly link to the External URL in the properties.xml file. The external URL resolution is required for SaaS customers using Federated SSO
CLRT-78800: Deactivated values of the NOTIFICATION_TYPE lookup remain visible on the notifications settings page
CLRT-79490: Delete the cost plan marked as plan of record (with no other cost plans in place), the total amount in the financial subpage is greater than zero
CLRT-79242: Increasing project object custom attribute's string length causes Load Data Warehouse job to fail with error "Couldn't execute SQL: MERGE INTO DWH_INV_PROJECT TGT"
CLRT-79557: Data Warehouse Attribute with Data Type URL will always get added to DWH with default length = 255, which fails Load DWH job if value is >255 (TEC1484877)
CLRT-79697: Load Data Warehouse fails with error "cannot insert NULL into "DWH_CMN_MV_LOOKUP"."LOOKUP_VALUE_KEY") (TEC1791406)
CLRT-78820: PMO upgrade/install causes issues with Load Data Warehouse job when customized DWH Required OOTB attributes could not be updated
CLRT-79485: Adding a Static Lookup attribute to an object such as Department fails the Load Data Warehouse job with error message ORA-00904: "LAST_UPDATED_DATE": invalid identifier (TEC1040847)
CLRT-79130: PRTASK.PRWBSLEVEL should not be NULLABLE: causing Load Data Warehouse job to fail on DWH_INV_TASK insert (TEC1011943)
CLRT-79628: Data Warehouse: PPM.PRJ_OBS_ASSOCIATIONS allows for duplicates on record_id and unit_id and PPM_DWH.DWH_INV_OBS_MAPPING does not
CLRT-79354: MSSQL Data Warehouse Stored Procedures has DBLINK hardcoded as parameter default
CLRT-80368: Securability Issue
CLRT-80319: Securability Issue
CLRT-78953: Performance issue - Project/Idea properties page taking more time
CLRT-77362: MSSQL: Instance rights query runs for too long and does not return any data, causing DWH_INV_SECURITY_V to return 0 rows
CLRT-80118: Securability fix
CLRT-80117: Securability fix
CLRT-79989: Securability fix
CLRT-79477: Securability fix
CLRT-80116: Securability fix
CLRT-80089: Securability fix
CLRT-80115: Securability fix
CLRT-79844: Not everything in the reports in Jaspersoft Advanced Reporting are translated to other languages, some data is in English (language translation problem)
CLRT-79927: App service cannot be reached, Could not retrieve a valid tenant message thrown in logs (TEC1241682)
CLRT-79642: CA PPM does not allow username with forward slash when integrated with AD/LDAP (TEC1340142)
CLRT-79588: When a milestone is changed to Task from OWB and then again changed back to Milestone from CA PPM UI, the Finish date of the Milestone appears earlier than Start Date as it gets set to midnight (TEC1272182)
CLRT-79497: Object instance XOG read in 14.2 when there are 3 layer objects involved with virtual attribute with Referenced Item Master Object (TEC1760351)
CLRT-79475: Some uppercase characters causes Resource Name to appear blank in MSP (TEC1343782)
** NOTE ** this fix requires a re-installation of the MSP Interface (not Schedule Connect)
CLRT-79418: The "Project - Enable Financial" access right allows a user to inline edit and save changes to the tasks even if he does not have any task editing access right (TEC1856175)
CLRT-79355: Load Data Warehouse performance on large datasets is slow (TEC1996475)
CLRT-79236: Portlet based on Task object not implementing Security
CLRT-79219: Pending ETC column displays zero in OWB Status Update View (TEC1209641)
CLRT-79077: Load Data warehouse Access Rights job fills up TEMP tablespace for large dataset (TEC1242746)
CLRT-78878: Users cannot navigate back to CA PPM correctly from Jaspersoft reports by clicking on hyperlinks in the report (TEC1563189)
CLRT-78312: Every project external dependency is deleted when trying to save the project plan in OWB if a partial-subproject task has been deleted in CA PPM while the master is open (TEC1016206)
CLRT-79397: 'SSL is used but processed externally' setting in the CSA breaks the ability to run a report in Advanced Reporting (TEC1021234)
CLRT-79496: Updating start and/or finish date of proxy task does not update the parent start and/or finish date(s) (TEC1555501)
CLRT-79214: Performance with Jaspersoft against large data set (TEC1006997)
CLRT-78908: Inconsistent Y Axis of Chart Portlet when a minimum and maximum value of the Y axis is set (TEC1481463)
CLRT-78444: Advanced Reporting shows dates in US format despite all users having their locale set to UK format (TEC1045744)
CLRT-79389: Change to the Transfer Assignments dialog where we will change the check box "Keep Baselines" to be checked by default (TEC1537306)
CLRT-79149: Adjust Button Not available in the Timesheet when the project is closed for time entry
CLRT-79059: Creating new baselines can fail if multiple external dependencies point to the same task (TEC1860187)
CLRT-79058: Time-phased percentages for availability is incorrect when in the context of a master and the resource is on multiple subs (TEC1966305)
CLRT-79057: Actual Thru Date in OWB is one day later than CA PPM (TEC1169472)
CLRT-77207: OWB - Auto schedule ignores the resource availability when using priorities (TEC1773667)
CLRT-79194: PPM 14.3 Process Escalation Tab Error - 401 Unauthorized (TEC1207982)
CLRT-79118: FireFox v41 and higher causes some PPM URLs to work incorrectly (TEC1040434)
CLRT-79064: Firefox javascript error when filtering tasks under "Add task" in a Timesheet (TEC1381667)
CLRT-78948: Department Resource Filter: Error 500 - Internal Server Error. The server could not retrieve the document due to server-configuration or other technical problems. Contact your site administrator (TEC1430376)

Download Instructions:

On Premise customers can download CA PPM 14.3 Cumulative Patch 8 (14.3.0.8) from the Download Center on CA Support https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/DownloadCenter. SaaS customers can contact CA Support to request patch installation.

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