Infor OS CE: Feature Rollout for March 2021

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March 9, 2021

Infor OS update logo

This month marks the following new feature roll-out to users of Infor OS Cloud Edition (CE).


Release Highlights

Release Highlights screenshot

Enterprise UX

  • Show Footer in Infor Go:
    • The Infor Go footer will now show by default on every application/screen, hide when the user scrolls down, and reappear when the user scrolls up.
Screenshot of Infor Go showing in the footer
  • Maintenance Window/Outage Messaging:
    • Added a hyperlink to Infor Concierge in maintenance/outage notifications.
Screenshot of the alert list
  • Search for Users with Infor-SuiteUser Security Role When Adding to a Context Application:
    • Added the ability to search for users with Infor-SuiteUser role.
Screenshot of searching for Users with Infor-SuiteUser

Intelligent Digital Assistance

  • Improved “Try It Out” Debugging Events:
    • Added more detail to the debugging events shown in the “Try It Out” section.
Screenshot of Coleman Digital Assistant
  • Optimized Skill Lookup API:
    • Made improvements to skill lookup API.
  • GDPR Enhancements:
    • Implemented STOP_PROCESSING handling.

Enterprise Application Integration

  • Farm Level APIs:
    • Some suites like “Infor Concierge” have same APIs for all tenants in a farm. Gateway now supports this.
Screenshot of Infor AIP available APIs
  • Mutual SSL Policy Support via EC:
    • The ION API Hybrid Service via Enterprise Connector supports Mutual SSL based target authentication policy.
Screenshot of Infor IONAPI available APIs
  • HTTP Patch Request Support in API Flows:
    • API Flows now support using the PATCH verb in an IONAPI call via an API flow.
Screenshot of Infor IONAPI API flow
  • UX Improvement on Export API Suites:
    • User experience to select credentials and deployment details are improved while exporting non-Infor API suites.  
Screenshot of exporting API Suites
  • IMS Protocol Improvement:
    • When ION sends an IMS message and the application returns a protocol mismatch (https status code 426), ION will refresh its cache by retrieving the protocol definition from the application again, and resend the message.
Screenshot of Infor IONAPI IMS messages
  • Register Metadata Models from Testing:
    • Developers may use their testing outputs to drill-down into the Data Catalog wizard and step through model registration.
Screenshot of drilling-down into the Data Catalog wizard

Data Fabric

  • Compass Editor Row Numbering:
    • The Compass query editor now features non-deterministic row numbering to improve readability of relational data sets.
Screenshot of the Compass query editor
  • Compass Support for LTRIM/RTRIM:
    • Compass developers can now use LTRIM() & RTRIM() functions to truncate leading and trailing spaces.
Screenshot of using LTRIM() & RTRIM() functions
  • Compass Cache Cleared on Atlas Purge:
    • When users purge one or more files within Atlas, Compass cache will be cleared to ensure subsequent queries return accurate results.
Screenshot of Compass Cache Clear
  • Improved Color Palettes for Widgets:
    • The color palettes used for Data Lake widgets have been refreshed to improve usability and compliance for color blind consumers.
Screenshot of Data Lake widgets
  • Rolling Year Introduced for Ingestion Widget:
    • Users may now set the period of time for Data Lake ingestion widgets to the ‘Last 12 months’.
Screenshot of Data Fabric Administration

A similar set of features will be available in the next on-premise release of Infor OS. A full list of new features, bugs fixed, and other documentation can be found on the Infor Support Portal.  Learn more about Infor OS here or contact us anytime.

Don't see a feature you want?  Log into the Infor Support Portal and click on Resources > Enhancement Requests.  You can enter your own and vote for others.

For more information on product updates, please see the release training that is available to customers on Infor Campus.

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