Date: August 30, 2016
To: CA PPM Customers
From: The CA Technologies CA PPM Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA PPM 14.4 Cumulative Patch 3 (14.4.0.3)

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 14.4 Cumulative Patch 3 (14.4.0.3) 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 14.4.0.  Customers with CA PPM 14.4.0 install this patch if you are interested in obtaining resolutions to the issues identified in the README.

Patch Content:

This is a cumulative patch with fifteen 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: 14.4.0.234 03 (14.4.0.3)
Documentation: README
On Premise General Availability: August 30, 2016
SaaS Service Availability: August 30, 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-80837: Securability Fix
CLRT-80635: Task ETCs are not getting set to zero if ETC less than 1
CLRT-79233: Non-locked task assignments affected by the "Schedule assignments on locked tasks" option
CLRT-80581: "Unable to process request - Server Error" popup when IE/Chrome throws exception "XMLHttpRequest status code = 0"
CLRT-79306: Issue with the process start condition when an OBS structure is involved for starting condition and it got changed
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-80681: In MSP New driver, when exporting a project from PPM to MSP, incorrect settings in File-> Options are being exported (TEC1003284)
CLRT-80287: Error exporting Investment Hierarchy with Export to Excel Data if hierarchy contains an investment that has its own children hierarchy (TEC1582282)
CLRT-80294: ETC Cost does not get recalculated when ETC becomes 0 (TEC1947353)
CLRT-80586: XOG will fail when the Department OBS attribute for the Project Object has a default value
CLRT-80395: Adding certain portlets to a Content Package, an "Error 500 - Internal Server Error" is thrown
CLRT-80546: Load Data Warehouse job crashes the BG server with OutOfMemoryError during Dynamic Domain Updates
CLRT-78975: Page Linking Issue - Resource Requisition
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-80647: Portlets developed using Portfolio System provider (portfolio provider) is very slow

Issues Resolved in Prior Patches:

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-79898: Browser auto complete should be enabled for non-password text fields
CLRT-80498: Gel Script process fails to validate when comments are inside of gel script tag
CLRT-80217: PRESTSUM calculated wrong in Task assignment
CLRT-80075: MSP New Driver, ETC on TSV changes when saved back from MSP
CLRT-80066: Copy cost plan creates mismatch between newly created cost plan details and source plan cost plan details
CLRT-79504: Cost Plan, Benefit Plan, or Budget Plan TSV cells do not align with label key column
CLRT-79759: The Fiscal Time Slices get reset when the System Options screen is saved
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-80115: Securability Fix
CLRT-80117: Securability Fix
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-80230: SKIP Level argument in XOG ignores the custom information
CLRT-80368: Securability Fix
CLRT-80165: Securability Fix
CLRT-80214: Securability Fix
CLRT-80116: Securability Fix
CLRT-80118: Securability Fix
CLRT-80319: Securability Fix
CLRT-80183: XOG Performance while updating a Project
CLRT-80008: Resource Allocations and Assignments report - 'Assignments' row is not exported to excel for some or all investments (TEC1677496)
CLRT-80100: Data Warehouse: Facts do not get carried over to Data Warehouse FACTS tables with Incremental Job if subsequently updated

Download Instructions:

On Premise customers can download CA PPM 14.4 Cumulative Patch 3 (14.4.0.3) from the Download Center on CA Support https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/DownloadCenter. SaaS customers can contact CA Support to request patch installation.

Need More Help?

• CA Support in North America: +1-800-225-5224
• CA Support outside North America: http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country or to open a customer care case.
• CA PPM Community: https://communities.ca.com/community/ca-clarity
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