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Qlik Data Integration Client Managed November 2024 General Availability Release
November traditionally brings many celebrations, from Diwali and Guy Fawkes Day to Thanksgiving, just to name a few. Another celebration to add to that long list is the General Availability of the November 2024 releases of Qlik Replicate and Qlik Enterprise Manager. Our Qlik Replicate customers looking to empower their SAP data will especially want to celebrate, as we now support OData for sourcing data from SAP systems.
Qlik Replicate November 2024 General Availability Release
New Endpoints
Qlik is uniquely placed by offering several methods of replicating data with ease and automation and the added ability to combine it with other data seamlessly. SAP and Oracle continue to be mission-critical systems for many organizations, and two new endpoints have been added to enable the most efficient ways to replicate data from these two powerhouses.
New SAP OData source endpoint
Qlik Solutions has supported SAP as a source endpoint for a very long time. We have deep domain knowledge and expertise, and through this, we offer many different ways to source and extract data from your SAP applications that best match your use cases, latency requirements, and SAP licensing considerations.
In this release, we are excited to announce the addition of the new SAP OData source endpoint. We purposely developed this new endpoint with a keen eye on performance and scalability, and it supports Change Data Capture (CDC). The new OData endpoint uses a secured web service connection to extract data from SAP applications.
The new JAVA source endpoint uses the OData v2.0 protocol, consistent with SAP support, to explore SAP and get data out. All ODP-based services, such as dynamic filters and projection list forwarding, are supported to help reduce the load and impact. Objects supported included CDS Views, Extractors, BW data providers, and SLT. Data movement with CDC can be supported via two options: configurable periodic time periods or running a task on a schedule using Qlik Replicate’s built-in scheduler function.
See the online help for using SAP OData as a source
The OData endpoint is coming to Qlik Talend Cloud soon, through the Data Movement Gateway, stay tuned.
Qlik will continue supporting all our existing SAP source endpoints to serve customers' requirements.
To learn more about all the many ways that we support SAP and other sources in Qlik Replicate and how to use them, check out the online help section on managing sources
New Oracle XStream source endpoint
We are pleased to announce the new Oracle XStream source endpoint, which brings several improvements over using only the Oracle Redo logs for extracting data. This new endpoint interfaces directly with the Oracle XStream API, so now a Replicate task creates an XStream Out Server. With this new method, you will experience better performance, increased reliability, and simplified maintenance. Additionally, by utilizing the API, we can ensure future-proofing the endpoint with later Oracle versions.
See the online help for using Oracle XStream as a source
There have also been several improvements across several other endpoints, such as
Source endpoint improvements
- MySQL sources - LOB performance improvement
- SAP HANA Endpoint – Trigger-based support “Full Record” mode
Target endpoint improvements
- Databricks Delta - new staging option: Databricks Volume
- Snowflake target - Snowpipe Streaming improvements
- IBM DB2 for z/OS target – added new ZLOAD options
- DDL History control table - expanded support for 11 additional target endpoints
Scheduling enhancements
The Qlik Replicate Scheduler is used to schedule Replicate task operations such as running, stopping, reloading, and resuming tasks as one-time or recurring jobs. Schedules can be configured to occur once, daily, weekly, or monthly.
This release introduces two new options, monthly and every, to make scheduling even more flexible.
Monthly – gives you more granular options to schedule tasks to run on the <nth> <weekday> of every month and at the specified time.
Every - This lets you schedule tasks to run at regular intervals. This new option allows you to control the interval, starting on the specified date and time.
Note: The minimum interval is 5 minutes, and job intervals are always calculated according to the original start time.
Security and Compliance
Qlik has always taken trust and security seriously, implementing security and privacy by design in our products for a long time. We offer a world-class architecture and experience to meet your security, compliance, and privacy needs confidently.
The following endpoints have enhanced access and authentication methods
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL – New Azure AD authentications
Added two new Active Directory authentications- Service Principal – when Qlik Replicate is running on-premises
- Managed Identity – when Qlik Replicate is running on Azure VM
- IBM DB2 for z/OS target – added SSL
Supports encrypted communication between Replicate and DB2, applies to both ODBC and JDBC connections - Snowpipe Streaming improvements - Support for OAuth authentication
Qlik Enterprise Manager May 2024 General Availability Release
Enhanced API Support - We continue to extend the Qlik Enterprise Manager APIs by now supporting the ability to resume change processing from a position in the log (SCN or LSN) using the RunTask method. (RESUME_PROCESSING_FROM_POSITION)
We have also enabled API authentication using access tokens via JSON Web Token (JWT).
⚠️ Note: the requires JWT to be setup and configured ⚠️
All our APIs can be used as REST, .NET, and Python. More details can be found on Qlik Help. Qlik Enterprise Manager API guide
As always, each new release is fully supported for two years. To check the status of support for your currently installed version, please see the relevant product lifecycle pages.
- Qlik Replicate Product Lifecycle
- Qlik Compose Product Lifecycle
- Qlik Enterprise Manager Product Lifecycle
We hope you enjoy using Qlik Data Integration products and would love to hear your feedback and success stories, especially in any improvement gains you achieve.
To get the latest versions, please visit the Downloads and Release Notes section on Qlik Community.
To learn more about what is included in these releases be sure to check out the Release notes which are available here
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