Features Added in Version 16.2.0

• Data Connectivity

1. • New InfluxDB connector

   • New RabbitMQ connector

   • Support for deferred synchronous in the history query component of Kx kdb+ Tick

 

• Visualization

1. • New Donut Gauge Chart visualization

   • Ability to invert Y and Height in Numeric axes

   • Ability to move Dashboard parts in Designer using keyboard shortcuts

   • Force visuals to have a fixed filter

   • Additionally fix level of visible detail to 4 or 5 levels

   • Support to display the Grand Total or Sub Totals above the rows in the Table visualization

   • Transparent background for Text Labels

   • Needle Widths can be set to more than 10 pixels (i.e., 20, 30, 40, 50, 100) for visualizations such as Needle Graph, Stacked Needle, Grouped Needle, Numeric Needle Graph, and Numeric Stacked Needle

   • Request Body now enabled for both HTTP and ws:// POST requests sent to the WebSocket Server

 

• Designer

1. • Input validation now with tool tip popup instead of message boxes

   • Ability to add other visualizations inside a Panel and drag only works on the Header bar

   • Bitness is displayed in the About dialog

   • Text values in the Categorical filter list are now sorted

   • New Title Bar in the Filter dashboard part

   • New Action Date Range Picker dashboard control

   • Action Button supports data types including lists

   • Nanosecond precision support in time series and Date/Time fields

   • Support for Input Validation to Acton text boxes and Interactive parameters

   • Support Auto Divide By thousand/million/billion format on Variables

   • Support for Namespaces in the Kx kdb+ connector

   • Ability to open Designer even without access to CommonDocuments

   • Added new (How to Filter and NanoExecutions) and updated (VizGuide) example workbooks that ship with Designer

   • Support to filter on NULL values with static filter

 

• Server

1. • New Logs tab

   • Ability to upload and publish workbooks directly to the web client

   • Support to shut down the externally started kdb cache plugin when the Server is stopped

   • The cache.plugin.id default value is now removed/empty in the DatawatchBackendServer.properties file

   • View page source improvement in the Thin Client API examples

   • Support in the Back-end to force the application of userid parameter

   • Support in the Back-end to allow the option to periodically stop orphan data plugin subscriptions

   • SubscriptionThread logs errors thrown

   • Ability to set which SubscriptionTransport to use (Web Sockets or Long Polling) in the DatawatchFrontendServer.properties file

   • Ability to disable WebGL in the Server Front-end Properties file

   • Plugins.xml is now moved out of the pcli.jar and packaged in the Back-end Server for easier editing

   • Support to add failed user authentication name (userid) to the logs

   • New standalone JSP page for Server to validate authenticated credentials

 

• Web Client (Client-side Rendered)

1. • Grouped Needle Graph

   • Ability to drag snapshot line in the visualization

   • Support for Scatter Plot visualization to render Best Fit Line

   • Ad hoc PDF report generation

   • Support for Copy Raw Data

   • Support for Copy to Clipboard in the Copy Data export

   • Ability to drag snapshot line in a time series visualization

   • Ability to sort Table by the Text Axis column headers

   • Support for changing snapshot axis lines and playback in Ticks play mode through time series visualizations

   • The wait animation (loading spinner) is disabled whenever the playback is started through time series for non-time series visualizations

   • Support for multiple lines in the Action Text Area box

   • Support for Bookmarking

   • Support for iPad horizontal swipe

   • Support for the Shade Area Below Line in the Line Graph visualization

   • Rendering of Show Grid Line Through Dots in the Dot Plot visualization

 

• Web Client (Server-side Rendered)

1. • Ability to change breakdowns by adding, removing, or swapping columns

 

• Visualization SDK

1. • Support to allow change of dimensions in breakdown in the Java RDK

 

 

In addition, deprecation of the following:

• DataDirect connectors such as Amazon Redshift, Cloudera Impala, IBM DB2, Greenplum, Hadoop Hive, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Spark SQL, SQL Server, Sybase IQ, Teradata

• Vertica (ODBC-based connector)