Highlights

The SnapLogic® March 2024 Release includes the following:

Admin Manager

• User account list includes how many groups the user belongs to

API Management

• Improved pipeline structure when you generate an API version from an OAS specification

• New public API for API version import/export

AutoSync

• HTTP Client source endpoint

• Infer schemas from CSV files

• Apply transformations to CSV files

Monitor

• New Insights page available to admin and non-admin users

Platform

• The OpenAPI option in Manager now provides options for format and version

Snaps

• Anaplan OAuth2 Account

• The Anaplan Snap Pack's SDK is replaced with direct REST API calls—a lightweight way to interact with the SnapLogic platform

SnapGPT

• Added support for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

• You can now leverage SnapGPT to generate SnapLogic expressions within the expression field in a Snap

• Added an independent settings dialog for SnapGPT

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Dot Releases - Snaps

Admin Manager

New Features

• From the Users list, you can now see how many groups a user belongs to. Click the user to view the group names. Use the Groups page to add or remove users from groups. Learn more.

Behavior Changes

• When an Environment admin deletes the last maintainer from a team account, the admin becomes a maintainer. Learn more.

API Management

New Features

• APIM now maps all endpoints from an Open API Specification (OAS). When you create an API version from a specification, the pipeline that is generated automatically routes all endpoint paths. Before this release, you had to configure all of the endpoints in the pipeline through the expression language and pipeline parameters.

Before

Open

March Release

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Enhancements

• You can now use the public API to import and export API versions between control planes and Orgs.

• Enhanced error handling for incorrect reference JAR files and automated update of reference assets, error pipelines, accounts, and associated JAR files across various folders or directories on API creation from an existing project. Learn More.

Fixed Issues

• The HTTP Cache Response policy can now have multiple cached entries per policy.

• Fixed an issue where expressions did not work in the HTTP Cache Response and HTTP Retry policies.

Known Issues

• Lint issues occur when working with reference accounts, associated JAR files, and error pipelines in older versions of the Snaplex.

  • Workaround: Update the Snaplex to the latest version to resolve the lint issue.

AutoSync

New Features

• The new HTTP Client endpoint enables you to use REST calls to load data from sources that are not natively supported by AutoSync. Learn more.

• From the Monitor Execution overview screen, you can now copy a data pipeline name or open the data pipeline to edit it. To edit, in the execution row, click the three dots in the Actions column and select Open in AutoSync. Learn more.

Enhancements

• You can now configure transformations for a CSV file endpoint. If you later select files with the same names as the previous load, AutoSync applies the same transformations. You can also edit them. Learn more.

• The CSV file endpoint now supports transformations. Learn more.

• If a source supports negative decimal values and the target does not, AutoSync uses the precision and scale supported by the target to avoid loss of precision. For example, Oracle and PostgreSQL support -99000 → 99000, a precision and scale of (2, -3). Target systems without negative decimal values would normally use (5,0) for this precision. Instead, AutoSync uses in the target a precision of (2,-3), which supports -99000 → 99000. Learn more.

Fixed Issues

• The documentation previously stated that a last modified column was required for SQL-based source endpoints such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server. It now correctly describes the requirement as applying only to the Incremental load type. For Full load, you do not need a timestamp column. For an example, refer to the Oracle endpoint overview.

• For the Generic JDBC endpoint, you can now select a database type.

Known Issues

• Records can be updated incorrectly in a data pipeline using Incremental load with a Snowflake target if the credentials were created in AutoSync Manager or Classic Manager and they do not specify a Timezone Url Property. Without this property, the timestamp in the source and target can differ. Credentials created in AutoSync handle this automatically so that Incremental load works correctly.
  Workaround: To create Snowflake credentials in AutoSync Manager or Classic Manager, in the Advanced Properties section, click to add a Url Property. Enter Timezone as the name and UTC as the value.

GenAI Builder

• Updated the suggest-field for Deployment ID in the Azure OpenAI LLM Snaps to use a current API endpoint.

Monitor

New Features

• The new Insights page in Monitor is available to admin and non-admin users. You can now view your environment use at a glance. Learn more.

Enhancements

• In the Execution overview, the Actions menu now contains an option to open AutoSync data pipelines in the AutoSync Edit page. This menu is only available for the execution row of the parent pipeline.

Platform

New Features

• The OpenAPI option in the Manager projects dropdown provides specification options of OAS version 3.0 for YAML and JSON formats identical to those in APIM. Learn More.

Enhancements

• You can now receive notifications for the Failed to Start task status for tasks that did not start.

• Changes to SSO settings are captured in the Activity Log.

• Enhanced the UltraKeeper's handling of Ultra Tasks by enabling immediate preparation of regular Ultra tasks after FeedMasters are online, eliminating the previous 5-minute delay.

• You can now directly access specific patterns in the public pattern catalog through hot links. Click on the hotlink received to navigate to the needed pattern page, ensuring a seamless browsing experience.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue with the Update a user Public API where the created_by parameters of a service account did not return the password reset email to the specified new admin email.

Known Issues

• The SnapLogic Git Integration:

  • Azure Repos and GitLab display an internal server error if you try to discard changes to a tracked asset with the Removed status.

  • When you check out a repository for a project space, the Discard changes option is not available from the Git menu or the project menu for individual project folders.

Snaps

Upcoming

New Snaps/Accounts

• Added the Anaplan OAuth2 Account to the Anaplan Snap Pack.

Enhancements

• The Anaplan Snap Pack's SDK is replaced with direct REST API calls—a lightweight way to interact with the SnapLogic platform. The Anaplan SDK is no longer supported.

• Enhanced the AWS S3 Account for Hadoop with the External ID field that enables you to access Hadoop resources securely.

• Added support for Model configuration in the OpenAI Embedder Snap.

• Upgraded the Box Java SDK from v2.56.0 to v4.7.0.

• Enhanced the PDF Formatter Snap to support case-insensitive letters from the upstream Snap.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue with the Amazon S3 Snaps that displayed a null pointer exception when the Access Key ID or Secret Key field was empty while using the S3 Express Bucket in the S3 Account. The Snaps now throw the configuration exception if either field is empty.

• Fixed an out-of-memory error with the Aggregate Snap. This Snap no longer performs the presort for the input documents. Learn more about presorting unsorted input documents to be processed by the Aggregate Snap.

• Fixed an issue with the ASB Producer Snap that could not set the key-value pairs in the Custom Properties field when configuring the Topic or Queue fields to  the Azure Service Bus.

• Binary Snap Pack:

  • Fixed an issue with the File Poller Snap that displayed an exception when an unauthorized character ':' was used in the Windows Snaplex.

  • Fixed an issue with the File Writer Snap that partially wrote the file for some FTPS servers by pausing for seconds before closing the output stream as specified in the global property ftpsDelayBeforeClosing.

• Fixed an issue with the Marketo Bulk Import and Bulk Lead Extract Snaps where the timeout was not disabled when the Timeout was set to 0.

• Fixed an issue with the recurring bulk import operation for the Recurring Integrations API integration type in the Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Bulk Import Snap, which previously displayed an intermittent error at the preprocessing step.

• JDBC Snap Pack:

  • Fixed an issue with the Generic JDBC-Select, Insert, Update, and Table List Snaps that incorrectly displayed the Schema Name suggestions with the Cassandra driver connection.

  • Fixed an issue with the Generic JDBC-Select Snap that displayed an empty result with the MariaDB driver connection for output 1.

• Fixed an issue with the Salesforce Mutual Authentication Account where the 8443 port was not used while authorizing the account. Now, the access token request uses the 8443 port for authorizing the Mutual Authentication Account.

• Fixed a null pointer exception in the Public Key Account for Binary Snap Pack when the Public Key field value is null. Now, the account displays a configuration exception for a null value.

SnapGPT

• Added support for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG is a natural language processing (NLP) technique that combines the strengths of both retrieval- and generative-based AI models. Here, the user can select pipelines to use to retrieve the required information.

• Added settings for SnapGPT that helps you select a specific LLM model, choose mode for RAG (retrieval augmented generation), and others. The SnapGPT settings in User Settings is deprecated. Click the settings icon on the SnapGPT panel to open the Settings dialog.
  
  

   

• You can now detach the SnapGPT panel, resize, and move it wherever you need it in the SnapLogic UI. Click the detach icon to move SnapGPT.
  
  

• You can now leverage SnapGPT to generate SnapLogic expressions within the expression field in a Snap. Therefore, the Generate SnapLogic expressions prompt is deprecated from the Suggested Prompts section.

Documentation Enhancements

Improvements

• Updated example showcasing the Import of Project using Public API and added an error handling section to resolve common issues. Learn More.