Altair® Panopticon

 

Features Added in Version 16.6.0

  • Data Connectivity

    • New Solace connector

    • New Order Book Reconstruction Transform

    • Ability to switch from Serpent to Pickle when connecting to Python

    • Support for time zone mapping in the RabbitMQ connector

    • Support for time zone mapping in the Kafka connector

    • Support for star schema in the JDBC Database connector

    • Support for GZIP and Deflate content encoding with HTTP header

    • Support for time zone fields and ability to parameterize them in the JSON, Text, and XML connectors

    • Support for spaces to be allowed for the generated column names in the JSON connector

    • New Ignore Empty cells option in the XMLA and XMLA On-demand connectors

    • Updated LiveView connectivity to minimize memory footprint

    • Updated LiveView connectivity to support reconnection after failure

    • New Save and Load column schema options in the AMPS connector

    • Support for longer SQL queries into the JDBC Database connector

    • Improvement in the ElasticSearch query performance

 

  • Visualization

    • New Shapes variable for Scatter Plot, Time Series Scatter Plot and Timeseries Combination visualizations

    • New Size variable for the Numeric Needle and Numeric Stacked Needle Graphs (to Display Tick Size)

    • Pivot Table/Heat Matrix visualization supports Totals & Sub Totals

    • Support for WebGL rendering for all Needle graphs

 

  • Dashboard

    • New Shape Legend

    • New JavaScript dashboard part

    • New Target Dashboard default value for the Parameter mode in Action controls

    • Support for the reset of visual filtering specific to each visualization

    • Leaf based Rank filtering to improve performance

    • Free Entry filter type in the Action Dropdown control and ability to type ahead to select from the matches

    • Support for QoD Calculated columns to be displayed when added to the Reference Line

 

  • Designer

    • Notification when deleting a data table that is referenced in Actions

    • Stop the reloading of data queries when changing calculations, display formats or display titles

    • Stop the reloading of data queries when changing parameters not impacting these queries

    • Stop the reloading of data query when opening Database data source

    • Stop the unnecessary reloading of data queries by improving Designer caching

    • Ability to set the BTF Cache In-memory Cache Limit

 

  • Server

    • Support for Tomcat 8.5

    • Support for OAuth 2.0 authentication

    • Expired Tokens are deleted on Server start up

    • New userSearchAsUser and roleSearchAsUser properties to enable the LDAP and Active Directory realms to use each user to extract their own details

    • Support to load workbook asynchronously during startup

    • Hide Login button through Server properties file

    • Add Dashboard name to data queries to support improved monitoring

 

  • Web Client

    • Support for the Numeric Stacked Needles visualization

    • Ability to disable the creation of multiple pages to show all data items when generating the PDF output

    • Improvement in the Single Selection Drop Down List filter summary text

    • Improvement in the Bookmarks panel styling

    • Support for On-demand loading in the Free Text Filter and Action Dropdown to minimize network bandwidth and server CPU

    • On-demand loading of Details to minimize network bandwidth and server CPU

    • Limit the resending of aggregate statistics to minimize network bandwidth and server CPU

    • Improvement in the serialization of time values statistics to minimize network bandwidth and server CPU

 

 

In addition, deprecation of the following:

  • Support for Tomcat 8.0