What's New in Fix Packs 5 and earlier

Learn about the new and updated features and functions available with the fix packs for the Product Master 12.0.

IBM Product Master Version 12.0 Fix Pack 5 (October 2021)

Pagination support for Multi-occurrence group attributes
  • Ability to enable pagination for multi-occurrence grouping attributes by setting the value of the multiOccGrpPaginationView property to true in the config.json file.
  • Ability to switch to any page by using the navigation buttons like first, last, next, and previous.
  • The user is navigated directly to the last page when a new occurrence is added.
  • Ability to jump to any page by providing the page number in the pagination section.
License update to address the high capacity restriction for IBM® Db2®
A new eAssembly enables users to deploy IBM Db2 on higher hardware configurations.
Release notes
IBM Product Master, Version 12.0 Fix Pack 5 release notes

IBM Product Master Version 12.0 Fix Pack 4 (August 2021)

Persona-based UI enhancements
  • Category management including the ability to view, add, edit, or clone the categories. For more information, see Using Explorer.
  • View categories attribute details from the Explorer page. For more information, see Using Explorer.
  • Create, modify, or delete Attribute collection. For more information, see Using Attribute collection console.
  • Lookup Table management with the ability to create Lookup spec and add or edit Lookup table values. For more information, see Using Lookup table console.
  • Availability of docstore to view the files and folders. For more information, see Using File explorer.
Other enhancements
  • Import and export items directly in a catalog from the Explorer and Search pages. For more information, see Export and Import feature (catalogs and hierarchies).
  • Visualization view for the Relationship and Linked entries on the single-edit page. For more information, see Tabs for an entry.
  • API to show step and collaboration areas in the Persona-based UI.
    • UIHelper interface APIs provide the URL for the Persona-based UI for a specific set of screens or operations.
  • Support to view changes on the multi-edit page.
  • Ability to view or download import, export, and other logs from the Job Details pop-up window.
  • Support for the unit of measure (UOM) as a new spec schema facet in the Admin and Persona-based UI.
  • Ability to customize sample Vendor code according to the business requirements. For more information, see Using the sample Vendor code.
Release notes
IBM Product Master, Version 12.0 Fix Pack 4 release notes

IBM Product Master Version 12.0 Fix Pack 3 (June 2021)

Dockerization and deployment
  • Support for the WebSphere® Liberty Images for containerized setup.
    • Lightweight Java™ runtime environment images for Cloud.
    • Images are highly composable, start fast, use less memory, and scale easily.
    • Full support for the Operator Lifecycle Management for containerized deployments.
    • For more information, see Installing the product by using Operators.
  • Support for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server port configuration and service authentication.
  • Support for SAML 2.0 Just In Time (JIT) provisioning for the Admin UI and Persona-based UI.
    • JIT enables more efficient integration of SAML to provide a seamless login experience for users.
    • JIT automates user account and group creation and does not need a local LDAP. You need to reconfigure the existing SAML configuration.
    • For more information, see Configuring SSO.
  • Database JAR files are now included as part of the application package. Reduced deployment efforts since no need to install IBM Db2 or Oracle database client before product installation.
Security enhancements
  • Enhanced password security by using the SHA-256 with salting mechanism.
    • To mitigate password attacks and industry standard security practices for cloud, password has been made more secure by forcing uniqueness and increasing the complexity. Thus, you need to update the existing passwords.
    • For more information, see Installing password security update.
  • Admin UI support for password strength, password expiry, and user lockout.
    • New properties provided in the common.properties file enable an enhanced password restriction and security for all the users.
    • For more information, see common.properties file parameters.
Business UI enhancement
  • Improved usability in the workflows.
    • Better user experience - Actions to be taken on the entries in the current workflow step are now moved to the right of the toolbar as separate buttons for each action.
    • Easy navigation - Navigate to any step of the workflow by using a drop-down list for all the available steps, from the multi-edit page of the workflow step.
  • Custom theme
    • Improved support for custom theme.
    • Enhancing user experience by providing support for custom themes.
    • For more information, see Customizing theme.
  • Performance improvements
    • Caching capability is added for the String Enumeration rules and Lookup table values.
    • A caching mechanism added to the Rest APIs to avoid too many database calls.
  • Import and Export enhancements on workflow processing.
    • Ability to export selected items and selected attributes to a Microsoft Excel file from a workflow step.
    • Map items to categories through the import.
    • All available Enumeration and Lookup table values are provided in the Microsoft Excel file as a drop-down list.
    • Secondary specification attributes add or update is provided through the import.
    • For more information, see Export and Import feature.
  • Ability to refresh the collaboration area items count on the dashboard.
  • Ability to expand all, collapse all, and show more options added to the Multi-occurrence type of attributes.
    • Improved the UI performance by displaying 10 occurrences on load and then providing the flexibility to show more occurrences.
    • All the occurrences can be expanded and collapsed on a single click.
  • API support is added to export items from the catalog.
    • Users having direct access on items can export items by using the API. UI support to be provided in the next release.
  • Added capability to publish spec from the Product Master to the Watson Knowledge Catalog as an asset. For more information, see Publishing specs to the IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog.
Stack upgrade
  • MongoDB upgraded to version 4.0.22.
  • Hazelcast Platform upgraded to version 4.1.
Release notes
IBM Product Master, Version 12.0 Fix Pack 3 release notes

IBM Product Master Version 12.0 Fix Pack 2 (December 2020)

  • Added support for expressions predicate type in the Rules engine.
  • Implementation of redirection to linked or related items from Linked items or Related items tab for the Single-edit page.
  • Implementation of the Flag Attribute as a radio button on the single-edit page.
  • Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML v2.0) support for the Persona-based UI and Admin UI with windows and form authentication methods.
  • Operator-based product deployment with container images. For more information, see Deploying on the Kubernetes cluster.
  • Official support of the Microsoft Edge browser for both the Admin UI and the Persona-based UI.
  • Magento connector support upgrade from version 2.0 to version 2.4. For more information, see Magento2 connector.
  • Persona-based UI and custom sample library supports Angular version 8. For existing custom components, upgrade your custom sample library. For more information, see Upgrading the existing custom sample library.
  • Authentication is mandatory for MongoDB, thus you need to correctly enable authentication for Digital Assets Management and Machine learning. For more information, see Enabling MongoDB authentication.
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support is available for MongoDB. For more information, see Enabling SSL for MongoDB.
  • Persona-based UI supports password strength check, password expiry, and user lockout features. For more information, see common.properties file parameters.
  • Admin UI supports a password strength check feature while creating or updating user information.
IBM Product Master, Version 12.0 Fix Pack 2 release notes

IBM Product Master Version 12.0 Fix Pack 1 (August 2020)

GDS Supply-Side implementation through Persona-based UI
Using GDS Persona, you can access the GDS feature in the Persona-based UI. The GDS feature is accessible to the Full Admin role and GDS Supply Editor Role. GDS feature supports the GDS Supply Editor role that gets loaded when you run the loadGDSDatamodel script.
Data completeness feature
  • Data completeness feature allows you to track the completion percentage of any item. The completion is calculated based on the preselected attributes in an attribute collection.
  • Completeness tab in the single-edit page for the Data completeness.
  • Completeness indicators on the single-edit, multi-edit, Search, Explorer, and Free Text Search pages.
For more information, see Using Data completeness.
Improved data visualization through Data Sanity and other dashboards
  • “Data Completeness by catalog and channels” and “Data Quality by Rules” metrics provide key indicators around data quality and completeness.
  • Ability to drill down to the detailed view and open an Item or a Category from dashboards.
For more information, see Using Dashboards.
Saved Templates as Quick Links on the Home page
For more information, see Using Search.
Fuzzy search support in Free Text Search
  • Ability to enable Free Text Search fuzzy search to search for a list of results based on likely relevance even though search argument words and spellings might not exactly match.
Documentation updates
Release notes
IBM Product Master, Version 12.0 Fix Pack 1 release notes