The ValueOps ConnectALL team is proud to announce the availability of ValueOps ConnectALL 3.8.0. In this release we have improved the Orphans Management capabilities with auto synchronization of restored artifacts, improved troubleshooting capabilities to expedite the Mean Time To Repair when synchronizations fail, and added some Telemetry capabilities to better understand and serve our customers.

Highlights of this announcement

• ValueOps ConnectALL 3.8.0 General Availability

• Orphans Management Improvements

• Value Mapping enhancements  

• Improved Troubleshooting Capability

• Adapter updates (Jira/Clarity/Rally)

• Enhance Telemetry

 New features in ValueOps ConnectALL 3.8.0

• Orphans Management Improvements: 
• Force automatic resync when records are restored and re-enter the integration flow. The orphaned record will be updated with the exact values from the restored record. All field mappings will be applied, fully updating the orphaned record.
• In case of conflicts set in the configuration, the most recent update (last write) will always be considered. 
• An additional one-year schedule has been added to the Orphan Strategy, allowing ConnectALL transacted records from the past year to be identified as orphaned and restored based on user actions.
• In the Automation - Orphan Strategy - additional Schedule has been added, Users will see:
• 24 hour Schedule to scan last 3 Months data
• 7 day Schedule to scan last 2 Year data

• Value Mapping Enhancements 

• Extended support for multivariate value mapping to include additional adapters: Azure DevOps, Flat File, GitHub, Logic Gate, Micro Focus ALM, ServiceNow, Universal Adapter
• Multivariate mapping allows logical mapping operations including multiple fields, which can support project mapping between applications with different project hierarchy models and dependent mapping where values in one application determine or require the values of multiple fields in the other application
• Multivariate mapping is designed to save customers time and money by seamlessly integrating applications with different data structures, automating complex data transfers, and aiming to provide data consistency across systems

• Improved Troubleshooting Capability

• • Related Artifacts

• • The Related Artifacts in the Dashboard will now display ALL records transacted by ConnectALL across all automations.
  • Include Export capability allowing to export filtered data to a CSV file to speed up offline troubleshooting
  • Include new filtering options, ex: specific source and/or destination applications or groups, records processed within a specific date range to find faster issues and reduce Mean Time To Repair.
  • Support pagination and display limits (100, 500, 1000, or ALL records) 
  • Two new date columns available, Record Updated Date and Transacted Date to better understand when records are synchronized compared to modified/created on solutions
  • Perform batch action (ex: retry) with Select/Unselect all rows in the Artifact list 

• Formatted Email

• Improved email content and layout for synchronization failure notifications
• Include relevant information, like Date Time failure, Automation name, Tenant Name, Environment URL, encrypted formatted payload and summarized failure reason.

• Adapter Enhancements

• • Jira

• Support for Inline Attachment synchronization between Jira and Rally/Clarity for RTF field type to ensure that embedded images and attachments within rich text fields are fully retained across systems, preventing data loss or hidden content during synchronization.

• • • Support for mapping Jira Status by default status categories, enabled mapping status for teams with disparate and changing status values
      
      
    • Support for clearing issue relationships in Jira (when syncing with Rally or another Jira environment)
      
    • Rally
      • Configuration options for syncing to timeboxes (iterations, releases, and milestones) when the synced values are not available in the target project

• Enhanced Telemetry
  • Include new Telemetry capabilities to better understand customer usage and to make more informed prioritization decisions 
  • Customers can set their SiteID in the license page, and/or the SiteID will be automatically updated once a new license file is uploaded from this version

• Customer Voice:

• ​​Fixed the issues related to AND/OR logic gate connections in both Connections and Automations.
• Addressed the Audit Logs issue in v3.7
• Resolved SaaS Production CPU Hike Issues
• Addressed the Purge job issue in ConnectALL 3.7 for MYSQL
• Fixed Multivariate Configuration Error between Rally & Jira
• Addressed the issues while enabling orphans management in a multiproject automation (Rally)
• Addressed in SAAS - Automation Sync failures notifications and password reset mails not received when tls/ssl is enabled
• Export/Import data migration, Import data failed to import the business scripts
• Added additional schedule period to identify Orphaned records for the last one year from the Sync Period.
• Support of Postgres SQL Certificate Auth and MTLS 
• Handled the behavioural difference with Issue Linking across the projects in 2.11 vs 3.5 version between Jira & ALM
• Addressed the Attachments sync fails from ServiceNow to Jira Service Desk
• Error while attempting to log in too quickly after the last attempt
• Flat file adapter connection creation failing in SaaS
• Fixed the 3.6 to 3.7 upgrade on MS SQL
• Orphan management is throwing an exception dealing with Rally date
• Removed ALM API Key is shown in Comment Author
• ALM HTML  text not rendered on desktop client
• User Name creation limits too Restrictive, not allowing to create UserName with . (dots) and @.
• Fixed the downloading usage issue (“Download Usage”) in Windows
• Fixed the SAML login failure issues

Noteworthy Pointers

•  Documentation:
• New ValueOps ConnectALL 3.8.0 Documentation: Link
• Broadcom Software Academy:
• ConnectALL Training Courses: Link
• ConnectALL Academy Home Page: Link
• ValueOps ConnectALL Community: Link

How to Subscribe to receive GA Letter automatically: Link

Scheduled Upgrades

If you are an On-Premise customer, you can download your copy of ValueOps ConnectALL Release 3.8 online at Broadcom Support where you can also utilize Broadcom’s case management system. To install your product, follow the installation procedures for your product at Tech Docs. If you are a SaaS customer, your environment will be automatically upgraded to the new release at a scheduled time following the 3.8 GA release date. Customers can expect a follow up communication with additional details related to automatic upgrades. If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact Broadcom Support.

For a list of free Education courses, please visit Broadcom Academy. We update courses based on functional impact as well as high demand; therefore, courses created from previous releases may apply to the current release. 

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