What's New

API Management

• Policies:
  • JWT and JWS (Verify JSON Web Token and Verify JSON Web Signature): Option to revoke JSON Web keys (JWK).
  • XML to JSON: Option to skip root element during payload transformation
  • OAuth: Policy to verify the OAuth access token issued by a third party IAM service.
  • Monetization: Custom attribute as the rating parameter in API Monetization.
• Option to add custom request filter class and response headers to every request at the API gateway level.
• Swagger: Option to set content type in request body configuration.

API Dashboard

• Option to group client subscriptions based on client ID.

Developer Portal

• Developer Portal is upgraded to use Drupal 9 framework to include all the latest security and functional fixes available.
• Option to invoke SSL-enabled APIs from OpenAPI/Swagger documentation using HTTPS scheme.
• Option to create multiple developers under one client.

New Microservices

• Fiorano ISO 20022 Accelerator:
  • Fiorano has provided translations from MT to MX and vice versa based on the usage guidelines provided by SWIFT CBPR+ (September 2020).

Complex issues involved in bi-directional mapping between MT and MX formats are solved with the help of these translations and migration to ISO20022 has been made easier.

• ISO20022Validator: Support to validate ISO20022 messages based on SWIFT CBPRPlus specifications.
• ExcelReader Microservice:
  • Supports reading data directly from Excel file formats. Excel binary workbook formats can also be read directly using this microservice.

Features in Microservices

• FTP Put/Get:
  • Option to move a file to Processed Directory if monitoring is not enabled.
  • Support for elliptic curve cipher suite algorithms while using SFTP and FTPS protocols.
• REST Consumer:
  • Support for Token-based (JWT/OAuth) authentication.
  • Support for application/PDF mediatype to download documents.
  • Support File parameter for Multipart/Form data type.
• REST Stub:
  • Support for PATCH method.
  • Support parameter parsing for Multipart/Form data type.
• Encryption/Decryption:
  • Added support for password-based encryption in AES, RC2, DES and TripleDES algorithms.
  • Support to get Private Key Password from input for RSA algorithm.
• Websocket:
  • Option to take connection URL and parameters from an input message.
  • Option to close and recreate tunnel based on input message parameters.
• HL72XML: Option to generate empty element nodes for empty or null values in HL7.
• MT2XML/XML2MT: Named configuration support for Message Schema directory configuration.
• T24Outbound:
  • Support to use connection details from input.
  • Option to create a new connection soon after Idle Timeout without waiting for the next request.
• JMS Requestor: New error destination port to handle messages to error destination.
• JMS Replier: Option to ignore ReplyTo header in incoming messages.
• HTTP Adapter: Option to enable HTTP transport layer level logs.
• B2B: Support to configure scheduling interval in runtime argument of microservices.
• XMLVerification: Support for XSD 1.1 specification
• Feeder/Timer: Option to provide application context

ESB

• Option to create extended services which run entirely inside a single JVM on peer server or peer server group.
• Option to auto deploy services, part of a server group, on a newly added peer server.
• Option to mask sensitive data before storing it in the document tracking database.
• Option to import an event process in a zip file as an extended service.
• Provided REST APIs for all ESB operations. This helps in monitoring and managing Servers and Applications by invoking REST APIs.
• Option to send callout error messages to an error queue after a configurable number of retries.
• Addition of periodic health events to monitor memory and CPU usage, and overall downtime.
• Pagination support while fetching logs of service instances.
• Option to display multiple user-defined document IDs in the SBW workflows panel.
• Option to set secure headers in the HTTP response.
• Configurable option to enable or disable batching in the connection factories used by microservices.
• Option to store API Keys in a central Cassandra/Scylla database.

eStudio

• Option to open extended service editor in multiple peer deployment views.

 

ESB Dashboard

• A revamped ESB dashboard using REST APIs to communicate with the Fiorano ESB Server to assist in maintaining event processes and extended services.
• The revamped dashboard, which is built on the Angular framework, is more user-friendly, intuitive and helps in configuring and maintaining ESB artifacts.

What's Changed

API Management

• Analytics: Updating PROXY_RESOURCE_PATH to PROXY_RESOURCE_BASE_PATH while inserting in analytics DB.
• Policies: Complete stacktrace is logged for exceptions in OAuth policies for an effective diagnosis of issues.
• Option to set cookies httpOnly and secure for response from the API gateway server.
• Product, client, subscriptions and organization names are made case insensitive.

Microservices

• Aggregator: Added new message property AGG_CLOSE_EVENT in the output to identify the first and last message when grouping is used and multiple messages are sent on the output port.
• JMS In 4.0/5.04: Acknowledgement mode option which are used only for receiving messages is removed from the configuration.
• HTTPReceive: Port number range extended from 1-9999 to 1-49151.

ESB

• Upgraded log4j version to 2.17.1
• Advanced Features in GIT integration such as cloning, pushing, and fetching revision history.
• Option to add secure headers to HTTP responses at both peer server and API gateway server.
• Configurable option to enable/disable batching in the connection factories used by microservices.

Resolved Issues

API Management

• Enable Debug - Throwing error when SSL is enabled.
• Unable to delete partners from ESB.
• HTTPS scheme not visible in swagger project.

Policies

• Message Logging API policy: Configuration not retrieving correctly from AMS .
• The variable prefix feature not working when multiple Service Callout policies are added.
• Parameters set in the Build message policy appended with null string.
• Time to live option in Populate Cache policy not working as expected.
• Proper error not thrown for JSON Threat Protection policy.

Developer Portal

• Resource URLs shown in OpenAPI/Swagger documentation of API projects should be based on the selected server group.

Microservices

• WebServiceConsumer:
  • Few requests not processed when JMS transport is enabled during high load.
  • Runs out of memory while configuring for some recursive element definitions.
  • Not getting output when a microservice gets launched in a group process where WSSecurity is used.
• HttpReceive/HttpStub: Pre/Post processing XSL configuration not working.
• HttpReceive: HTTP Receive creates single session for a context irrespective of input port configuration.
• XSLT: Issue when application-context contains white spaces

 

• RESTStub:
  • Header parameter request getting enclosed with []
  • Allow configurations when service name has underscore characters.
• RestConsumer:
  • If there are any bytes data generated as part of previous microservices like SocketAdapter, then RestConsumer does not work properly and tries to invoke application/Octet-Stream irrespective of the representation type configured.
  • SSL configuration not working with IBM java.
  • Issue with Load WADL when SSL configuration is used.
• DB: Processing output as CDATA does not work.
• WSStub: Unsecured (HTTP) requests getting blocked even when 'Default Connector' is enabled in the SSL mode.
• LDAPLookup:
  • Change password returns false positive result.
  • Issues in Modify and Bind operations performed on Microsoft Active Directory.
• MSMQSender/MSMQReceiver/EventLogwriter: Service details missing in message properties.
• HL7Sender: Few messages remain unreceived when multiple sessions are used.
• HL72XML: Blank repeating fields missing in the response XML.
• EBMSAdapter: Not getting launched when the execution type is set to In Memory.
• ExcelWriter: Issues in launching when the execution type is set to In Memory.
• KafkaConnector: By default, all options are disabled in Error Handling configuration.
• Websocket: Empty message sent upon connection creation.
• Decryption: Validation error 'Transformation value cannot be empty' thrown in CPS when decryption algorithm name is set to 'PGP_RFC4880'.
• Group Process: Unable to start multiple instances of a microservice in the same event process.

ESB

• Continuous defragmentation of admin.dat resulting in slow performance of server.
• Analytics adding data to AMS even after disabling Analytics.
• Application Documents failing to load in a specific case when Oracle 19c is used as the database.
• Extended service logs not getting cleared.
• Improper behavior when ES launched with 'Service launch order' for multiple peer deployment.
• Issue with SBW DB creation when FES is configured for MSSQL in a specific case.
• Unable to remove breakpoint when SUN_SSL protocol is enabled for JMS in FES and FPS servers.
• Route creation taking more time when FES secondary is active.
• Service instance details not tracked in source context if it is already present.
• Slowness of Dashboard when more users are added to either ESB or API.
• Peer server failing to start if any property is added to a handshake message.
• SBW records getting lost if there is an issue while inserting messages to an intermediate queue.
• Messages not reaching the subsequent breakpoints after reapplying the breakpoint.

ESB Dashboard

• Document tracking not working when SBW is configured with Oracle19c.

eStudio

• Unable to login to Enterprise server when RDBMS-based security is used.