CA PPM 15.1 Cumulative Patch 6 (15.1.0.6) General Availability Announcement

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21 June 2017

08 August 2016

Date: June 21, 2017
To: CA PPM Customers 
From: The CA Technologies CA PPM Product Team 
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA PPM 15.1 Cumulative Patch 6 (15.1.0.6)

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 15.1 Patch 6 (15.1.0.6) 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 15.1.0. Customers with CA PPM 15.1.0 should install this patch if you are interested in obtaining resolutions to the issues identified in the README file.

Patch Content:
This is the sixth patch for CA PPM 15.1 with thirteen new fixes added in this patch version.

IMPORTANT: Before applying this cumulative patch, we recommend that you go through the README file available at docops.ca.com (specific links are given below). This file has a list of all the fixes provided in this patch version and all previous patches. 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 provided by this patch 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:  15.1.0.149 06 (15.1.0.6)
Documentation: README file (login required):

On Premise General Availability: June 21, 2017
SaaS Service Availability: June 21, 2017

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:

DE33790: MSP New Driver: Task Durations are incorrect if the PPM Base Calendar is not set to 8 hour days (TEC1518734)
DE32353: Issue with 'Accept Pending ETC for the selected task' in Open Workbench
DE29606: Since PPM 14.4, clicking on the Browse icon of departments on a new project or NPIO instance requires administration rights (TEC1021783)
DE29610: If an aggregation row is present on a list view, when on a page greater than 1, the save of any edit returns you to Page 1
DE32651: XOG of a resource to an NPIO takes a large amount of time to complete
DE29587: Default values are not populated in filter portlet fields when persist checkbox is enabled on more than one tab
DE32407: Inserting a new task from the Gantt page into a project with more than 20 tasks or lines does not position the line for the new entry box
DE32441: New UI: Timesheets issues
DE32458: Capacity vs Demand by Role report is missing the Demand label on the results when exported to Excel
DE29593: Cannot delete the attachment field even when the user has access rights for Create, Edit All and Navigate
DE28835: Time Zones Are Missing from the TimeZoneConstants.properties file
DE33976: New UX UTC Timezone - Unable to log in to the new UI after upgrading to PPM 15.1
DE30494: Emails are not being sent from the Process "Notifications" sections

Issues Resolved in Prior Patches:

DE33307: Only one predecessor task is downloaded from CA PPM to Microsoft Project
DE32192: Duplicated notifications after rejection of a resource requisition
DE31529: Securability Fix
DE33275: Securability Fix
DE33237: Securability Fix
DE33311: Securability Fix
DE32333: Associating a portfolio page tab with resource/group/obs access granted results in inability to access the portfolio when using the Default Tab action from the portfolio list page
DE33080: Not able to add/book any resource from the team tab of a project
DE32327: Team Availability Start and Finish dates are no longer blank after two roundtrips with MSP using New Driver
DE32167: Clicking on 'New' button on Task list page displays the properties page of a previously opened task (TEC1223655)
DE32194: Empty notifications when a project manager uses "Create and open" resource requisition
DE32794: Rally synchronization job passed successfully even after agile integration owner status is deactivated
DE32807: Rally Synchronization job fails when portfolio item types include spaces in their names
DE32860: Proxy Server support for Agile Central Integration
DE31898: Autoschedule does not complete for some projects
CLRT-81758: Securability Fix
CLRT-81759: Securability Fix
CLRT-81416: Securability Fix
CLRT-81720: Securability Fix
CLRT-81296: Securability Fix
CLRT-81379: Securability Fix
CLRT-81380: Securability Fix
CLRT-81415: Securability Fix
CLRT-81011: Load Data Warehouse job fails with database lock ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified or timeout expired (TEC1028652)
CLRT-81589: Restore Domains as a PPM job
CLRT-81736: Provide an option to monitor Application Health
CLRT-81737: Provide an option to perform an analysis on the nature of all customizations in a customer environment
CLRT-80614: CA PPM is not exporting dependencies to MSP predecessors column when is setting to Spanish language (New Driver)
CLRT-81658: Resource termination date cannot be removed via XOG
CLRT-81083: 'Financial Budget vs. Forecast by Period Detail' report only returns data for Project Investments
CLRT-81445: Project Storyboard Report shows Equipment Actual Qty in Labor Hours
CLRT-80333: Capacity vs Allocation by OBS - Demand does not match the data in Capacity Overview portlet
CLRT-81533: Securability fix
CLRT-80971: XOG Error: Some values are not allowed for XOG In
CLRT-80541: Time Compliance report not grouping by correctly
CLRT-81032: Resource Time Summary and Detail report not showing correct hours
CLRT-81113: Investment Hierarchy not populating after 2 levels of hierarchy
CLRT-81068: Microsoft Project (new driver) replaces non-Latin characters with question mark characters when importing the project
CLRT-81494: Long hyphen is removed in MSP
CLRT-81543: Process definition for project subobject that is linked to the project object which is linked to another object through a lookup fails
CLRT-81135: Integration Adaptor - Resource manager field not getting updated through OTB integration file loader
CLRT-81350: Material and Expenses roles change their ETC when opened in MSP
CLRT-80429: Incorrect Job Schedule link in Email notification
CLRT-81099: Securability Fix
CLRT-81414: Securability fix
CLRT-81298: Securability fix
CLRT-81485: CA PPM SaaS New UX users using SSO cannot view PPM documentation
CLRT-81268: Generate Invoice Job creating GL transactions with null invoice id
CLRT-81353: security.logs does not display app-ca.log file
CLRT-81429: The Beacon service throws a ClassNotFoundException upon upgrade
CLRT-81330: Timesheet displaying dates in US format instead of UK format
CLRT-80768: Timeslicing rollover for odf slice requests from DWH can take many hours to rollover on MSSQL
CLRT-81346: MSP - Project does not save back into CA PPM from MSP
CLRT-81427: MSP XML Driver does not honor task dates for a fixed duration task with 0hrs work
CLRT-80899: Timesheet process with linked resource object ignores post condition on Resource availability rate
CLRT-80841: Gel Script process fails to validate when &&amp is utilized and comment present in the script
CLRT-81086: OBS XOG performance decreased after upgrading to 14.3 and above causing CPU to spike on application server
CLRT-80474: CA PPM 14.3 SaaS Should Not Force Users to Log into public DOCOPS.CA.COM pages When they click Help
CLRT-80417: DWH_PROJECT_V does not get updated for new attributes when ODF_PROJECT_V cannot be recreated, which fails the Load Data Warehouse job with invalid column name message
CLRT-81172: Task List in New UX gets removed when navigating away from the task list page or collapsing and expanding the task list
CLRT-80987: Exception in parent calendar are not shown in Parent calendar of MS Project interface
CLRT-80393: Securability Fix
CLRT-81096: Securability Fix
CLRT-81100: Securability Fix
CLRT-79804: Financial status of project can be opened even when the project is inactivated
CLRT-80681: In MSP new driver, when exporting a project from CA PPM to MSP, incorrect settings in File -> Options are being exported (TEC1003284)
CLRT-62402: You do not get an error when you attempt to xog-in a resource with date of termination that is earlier than the date of hire (TEC573884)
CLRT-80617: Time-scaled values (TSV) fields do not align with the key column
CLRT-81244: Task deletion via new user experience causing API-1004 error
CLRT-80647: Portlets developed using Portfolio System provider (portfolio provider) are very slow
CLRT-81389: CSA bind address is not working
CLRT-80941: MSP New Driver does not respect Standard Calendar when having resources using mixed Calendars

Download Instructions:

On Premise customers can download CA PPM 15.1 Patch 6 (15.1.0.6) 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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