Announcing ConnectALL 4.1: Enhanced Capabilities and User Experience

We are excited to announce the general availability of ConnectALL version 4.1! This release is packed with new features, UI improvements, and adapter-specific enhancements designed to streamline your workflows, improve usability, and provide greater control over your data synchronization.

Highlights

• Conditional Mapping: Value mapping now includes conditional logic, allowing you to create checks for specific data that will change how ConnectALL manipulates fields during synchronization, including configuring different LLM augmentation depending on the source data.
• Workflow Orchestration: Automated Test Execution and Print Report Synchronization using trigger-based orchestration of Tosca Execution Lists..
• Exact Date Time Synchronization: You now have more control over how date and time fields are synchronized. Choose between "Application Time" (the default) to synchronize dates based on the destination application's time zone, or "Exact Date-Time" to preserve the exact value from the source application.
• Import and Export of Automation Templates: Easily move automation templates between different ConnectALL instances, perfect for migrating from a development to a production environment.
• New "Other" Alarm Type: A new alarm category has been added to catch issues that don't fall into existing categories, providing a stack trace for easier debugging.

UX Improvements

• Clickable "Modify" Links: The "modify" buttons for automations are now hyperlinks, allowing you to open them in a new tab or window for easier multitasking.
• Advanced Mapping Sort and Reorder: You can now sort tables in value mapping by clicking on the column headers. You can also add new rows anywhere in the list and reorder rows by dragging and dropping.
• Searchable Dropdowns: The value dropdowns for many adapters are now searchable, including project selection, making it faster and easier to find the option you're looking for. For Rally, search filters  the hierarchical tree structure of projects.

Adapter-Specific Updates

GitHub Adapter Enhancements

• Added support for Github Onprem..
• GitHub Issues Support: ValueOps ConnectALL now extends GitHub adapter capabilities to support GitHub Issues as an entity for both GitHub Cloud and GitHub On-Premise.

Tosca Adapter Enhancements

• Automated Test Execution and Print Report Synchronization: ConnectALL now supports trigger-based orchestration of Tosca Execution Lists from Octane. This allows you to automatically initiate Tosca test execution, monitor completion, and synchronize results and reports back to Octane.
• Trigger Rule Configuration: A new user interface allows you to define, enable, and manage trigger conditions for your Tosca-based automations, giving you precise control over your testing workflows.

Gen AI Adapter

• 'Standard System Prompt' Field: A new field allows you to specify the behavior of the LLM (Large Language Model) by providing statements that will always be included and given higher priority.
• Automated PII Redaction: A new option has been added to the Gen AI Connection setup to request redacting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from your data with a preconfigured system prompt.

Other Enhancements

• Concatenation and Multivariate Mapping: Support for multivariate mapping and concatenation has been added for Atlassian Confluence, Logic gates, Jama, Micro Focus ALM Octane, Micro Focus Service Manager, Salesforce, and VCF.
• Updates to Proxy Configuration: The configuration process for proxy server settings has been consolidated into the connection creation workflow.

 Customer Voice:

• DE179764: Full sync will force record linking syncback 
• DE179017: When the reference field is empty or has no value, sync will continue with translation record id configuration.
• DE179010: Fixed the retry count getting reseted on retrying of a partial failure,
• DE178947: Fixed the Pagination ending up in Infinite loops.
• DE178656: Fixed the Dynamic linking not working for self governing automation
• DE178520: Orphan management not running due to "unexpected error in scheduled task" error
• DE178077: Multi-variant Automation not synchronizing work items due to incorrect issue type
• DE177960: Connectall Jira calls back from Rally when it is only a one way sync from Jira to Rally
• DE177672: v3.9.1 upgrade failed
• DE176797: Fixed the errors reported in the logs as "rs" is null error and added actual failure information
• DE176293: Jama Adapter - rich text data type is incorrectly set to TEXT as default
• DE176291: Jama Adapter - table formats in rich text are corrupting
• DE176268: Jama Adapter - comment author shows an internal number instead of a username
• DE176267: Jama Adapter - ID of paired application mapped to custom Jama field fails on creation syncback
• DE179095: Resolved OwningGroup field sync issue in Tosca. 
• DE179481: Fixed sorting by the Project column in the Automations list view. 
• DE179627: Fixed an issue where Automation - Reload Fields was taking longer than expected.
• DE180002: Fixed the “No field configured for Create” error when syncing ServiceNow Incidents to Jira Defects
• DE180081: Addressed the unresponsive message while adding teams in Rally. 
• DE180171: Fixed Value Stream dashboard refresh and canvas icon drag-and-drop issues.
• DE180255: Addressed the issue where Activity Monitor showed records as skipped even when the “Create” sync option was disabled.
• DE180261: Support for EDB (Enterprise Postgres)
• DE180319: Fixed retry count not incrementing after partial failure with inline attachment. 
• DE180461: Fixed an issue where reloading fields on Multi-variate automations updated existing object IDs when using a template project. 
• DE180936: Issue links to non-synced entities are deleted 
• DE180974: Fixed slow syncing that caused delays in updating records at the destination.
• DE181065: Addressed the issues where, during synchronization retry operations, records are not being properly normalized through the toModel() conversion process. This causes incorrect suffixes in field lookup and incorrect data being synchronized.
• DE181163: Resolved the issue that caused Rally records to be unnecessarily reprocessed back to Jira after a partial failure, even when no updates were made.
• DE181219: Resolved an issue where the application inserted unintended line breaks (//) into descriptions, leading to synchronization issues for subsequent field updates (e.g., sprint changes).
• DE181530: RallyAdapter skips Remove operation of Collections when both Add and Remove of items are needed. 
• DE181633: Translate Record ID fields incorrectly force VALUE_CHANGED, ignoring actual NO_CHANGE result
• DE181654: Odd behavior during Team/Project updates from Rally to Jira
• DE181728: In Jira, issue links to integrated work of the different issue type are being removed by Rally
• DE181770: Fields with ResultType NO_CHANGE incorrectly included in update payload when source project changes without destination project change 

Noteworthy Pointers

• Documentation:
• New ValueOps ConnectALL 4.1.0 Documentation: Link
• Broadcom Software Academy:
• ConnectALL Training Courses: Link
• ConnectALL Sim Lab:  Link
• ConnectALL Academy Home Page: Link
• ValueOps ConnectALL Community: Link
• ConnectALL Solution brief: Link
• Legal Notices:
• SaaS Listing: Link
• Specific Program Documentation (SPD): Link
• How to Subscribe to receive GA Letter automatically: Link
• ConnectALL to stop support on MYSQL, MSSQL, Oracle databases from Dec FY26. Contact support for Migration to Postgres.

Scheduled Upgrades

If you are an On-Premise customer, you can download your copy of ValueOps ConnectALL Release 4.1 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 4.1 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. 

Best Regards,

ConnectALL Team