What's new and changed in OpenPages
OpenPages® updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.
You can see a list of the new features for the Cloud Pak for Data platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Cloud Pak® for Data.
Installing or upgrading OpenPages
- Related documentation:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.7.3
A new version of OpenPages was released in September 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.3.
Operand version: 9.000.0
- New features
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The 9.000.0 release of the OpenPages service includes features and updates from OpenPages Version 9.0.0.0. Some of the highlights include:
- New service integrations and use cases for custom machine learning models
- You can now use the following AI services when you configure your model in OpenPages:
- Watson™ Machine Learning on IBM Cloud Pak for Data
- Watson Machine Learning on IBM® Cloud
- Natural Language Understanding on IBM Cloud
You can use this integration for features such as classification, entity extraction, and text summarization/
The enhanced integration supports the following use cases:- Insight, which displays information for models such as cognitive controls and personally identifiable information (PII).
- Set Fields, which uses classification models that set fields.
- Set Tags, which uses models to suggest tags to set on an object.
- Custom error messages for workflows
- Administrators can now create custom messages that display to users when a validation is triggered within a workflow. Instead of relying on auto-generated messages, administrators can now provide targeted guidance to users about the actions that they must take to advance the workflow.
- More options for filtering objects
- The Version 9.000.0 release includes many enhancements to object filtering:
- You can now create ad hoc and private filters for ancestor and descendant objects in dashboards and grid views.
- You now have more operators to choose from when you create filters.
- When administrators define Add, Copy Recursive, or Set Primary Parent actions in a task view, they can now prevent users from removing the filters that are set for these actions.
- With the new shared relationship filter option, administrators can limit users' options for Association or Copy Recursive actions. An administrator can choose to allow users to select only objects with a shared ancestor or descendant to the current object.
- New version of the OpenPages REST API and a new Developer Guide
- The OpenPages GRC REST API V2 offers
the following benefits:
- Conforms to IBM Cloud API guidelines, which provides consistency with other IBM Cloud products.
- Compatible with SCIM.
- Improved ease of use.
The new Developer Guide contains all the documentation and samples that developers need to interact programmatically with OpenPages. The Developer Guide includes detailed information about the following topics:
- The V1 and V2 versions of the IBM OpenPages GRC REST API
- IBM OpenPages GRC Java™ API
- API Samples
- Triggers
For information about these new features and other updates in OpenPages Version 9.000.0, see New features in Version 9.0.0 in the OpenPages documentation.
- Fixes
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Version 9.000.0 of the OpenPages service includes various bug fixes and security fixes.
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.7.0
A new version of OpenPages was released in June 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.0.
Operand version: 8.302.2
- Bug fixes and security fixes
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- Fixed: Issues when upgrading to 4.6.x with Db2 11.5.8
- Fixed: Some OpenPages pods do not have labels that are used for scheduling and monitoring
- Fixed: Cannot connect to Watson Discovery when it's on a different cluster
- Fixed: Limit of 19 characters for instance names
Instance names can now contain up to 25 characters.