Talend Cloud Data Catalog and Talend Data Catalog Bridges - Cloud - 8.0

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Cloud
8.0
Language
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Talend Big Data
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Talend Data Fabric
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Talend ESB
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Talend Real-Time Big Data Platform
Module
Talend Cloud API Designer
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Talend Data Preparation
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Content
Installation and Upgrade
Release Notes
Last publication date
2023-12-07

New features and improvements

Issue Description

Available in

Databricks Unity Catalog: new Data Sampling and Profiling support

Updated description of miscellaneous option.

Updated error message.

Reworked directory structure model/sub-model to support Data Sampling and Profiling.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Snowflake Database (via JDBC): Snowflake expression parser improvements

Added support for connections at Database.Schema level.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Athena Database (via JDBC): redesigned the creation of connection

When using the -location.import option in the miscellaneous bridge parameter, the bridge creates a connection based on the table location information. In turn, the bridge gets the table location from Athena using the "DESCRIBE EXTENDED schema.tableName" statement. The creation of this connection is redesigned.

The case that the table location has "/" at the end and the source folder is located under the bucket is also fixed.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

SAP Business Warehouse 4 HANA (BW/4HANA): support for KeyFigure length

Added length for KeyFigure.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

SAP Business Warehouse 4 HANA (BW/4HANA): support for FIELDNM of InfoObjects

Added FIELDNM for InfoObject as UDP.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Athena Database (via JDBC): updated tooltip

Updated the tooltip for bridge parameters "Access key ID" and "Secret Access key".

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

dbt Core / MicroStrategy: new miscellaneous option

Added miscellaneous option -connection.split.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

SAP Business Warehouse 4 HANA (BW/4HANA): support for Primary Key Field of ADSO

Added support for Primary Key Field of ADSO. This improvement requires an update to the ABAP script.

With regard to backward compatibility:
  • If the ABAP script version is not the latest, a warning will be printed in the log and the bridge uses the script anyway with limited metadata capability.
  • If the ABAP script version is the latest, the bridge uses the script for maximum metadata capability.
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Notable fixes

Issue Description

Available in

SAP Business Suite 4 HANA (S/4HANA), ECC, R/3 ERP: grammar issues in log messages

Improved log messages.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Oracle Database (via JDBC): missing lineages between ConnectionDataSet and their corresponding physical tables

Fixed getting the PDB name from V$PDBS table.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Oracle Database (via JDBC): extra columns in ConnectionDataSet

Improved ambiguous features.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

dbt Cloud: "Illegal Argument: The Folder already contains a FolderContent with this Name"

Improved backup and fixed duplicate file/folder names.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Microsoft Azure Data Factory (ADF): "UnsupportedOperationException: JsonObject or Unsupported activities"

Improved processing of parameter with Object type.

Added ability to select (using browse dialog) and import whole data factory.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Athena Database (via JDBC): the bridge cannot set column length as “NULL”

The bridge now sets the length to "0" for Strings in Athena with length "NULL".

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL Database: "Import failed: No available collections to import"

Used backslash as database separator for Cosmos DB.
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

IBM InfoSphere DataStage / Talend Data Integration export: java.lang.NullPointerException

Fixed processing of CallTransformation to resolve the NullPointerException.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

QlikSense: repository browse dialog is empty when the number of applications is very large

Increased incoming buffer size for WebSocket connection. This helps with big JSON response, for example if there are too many applications.

Updated the miscellaneous parameter to include documentation for -websocket.timeout to specify how many seconds the bridge waits for a WebSocket response.

Added fix candidate (second call "GetDocList" if the first returns an empty list).

Added debug messages in WebSocket client.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL Database: missing Semantic Flow

Removed top array object for NoSQL bridges.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (via JDBC): the columns under the synonym are showing “*”

Fixed the case where a synonym points to an internal view but the bridge builds it as an external one.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Looker Server: miscellaneous parameter -restore does not work

Changed parameter name "Project filter" to "Models".

Removed the bridge parameters Incremental import and Offline metadata directory. The bridge now uses the -cache.clear and -restore options instead.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Microsoft SQL Server Database (via JDBC): Databases option is mandatory

Fixed import of all database instances if the Databases parameter is empty.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

QlikSense Cloud: miscellaneous parameter -log.notavailable does not work

Added a demarcation of Qlik specific options to the bridge documentation.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Looker Server: error connecting to URL "https://hrblock.looker.com:443/api/3.1/users"

Added support for -cache.clear and -restore options. The read timeout is set to 10 minutes.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Talend Data Integration: "Operation starting error: java.io.FileNotFoundException"

Fixed processing of the components that failed to import and caused consistency problems.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) (via UML 2.x XMI): failed with "This file may not be a valid UML2 file."

Added fail message if incorrect format is passed to the UML bridges.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

QlikSense Cloud: "MITI.MIRException: java.lang.NullPointerException results in an empty model"

Fixed the NullPointerException for the case when the bridge cannot get the script from the QlikSense server because of an access denied error.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Snowflake Database (via JDBC): failed to generate lineage for IADWH_STAGING_PROD.WATS.HEADER table

Added a fix for the DESCRIBE PROCEDURE implementation and added debug message.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Tableau Prep Builder: some connections and lineage are missing

Improved the Limitations section of the bridge documentation.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

MicroStrategy: "MITI.MIRException: The Model is not consistent" when "Import schema only" is set to False

Improved the documentation about providing an MMP backup.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

MicroStrategy: case sensitivity stitching issue

Added support for case sensitivity for Oracle connections.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

SAP HANA Database (via JDBC): lineage based on tables/synonyms is not imported

Improved calculation view parser.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

SAP BusinessObjects: technical name of SAP BW query is not captured

Added support for connection type SAP BW, including BW/4HANA and S/4HANA.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Snowflake Database (via JDBC): no view lineage because of TABLE function parsing error

Resolved lineage through FLATTEN and TABLE functions in expression parser for Snowflake.

Available in:

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Cloud Data Catalog Standard Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Edition

Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition

Data Catalog Standard Edition

All Talend Data Catalog licenses

Microsoft Azure Power BI: java.lang.NullPointerException

Sorted unnamed DashboardTiles because REST API does not return them in consistent order.

Improved support for dependencies and links (dataset/report/dashboard) across workspaces.

A warning will be printed for dataset SchemaRetrievalError.

A debug message will be printed for response headers X-PowerBI-Error-Info and X-PowerBI-Error-Details.

Improved data flow error handling.

Fixed encoding problem.

  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Edition
  • Talend Cloud Data Catalog Advanced Plus Edition