The following is a list of all changes made to the product family of MDCMS version 8.4 for sub-release 0.
| Date | Category | Description |
| May 4, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Release of version 8.4 |
| ENHANCEMENT | Within the MDXREF view in MDOpen, you now have the ability to view all object system attributes for:
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| ENHANCEMENT | From the Object History view, you now have the option to view the current source for the historical object request | |
| ENHANCEMENT | The RFP Compare with Branch function also now performs comparisons for *IFS objects | |
| ENHANCEMENT | New React framework for vastly improved Deployment Flow Diagram
When the Deployment Flow Diagram option is now taken, the diagramming is handed off to the MDCMS Rest API server running on the partition and the result is displayed in a browser. This provides for much improved drawing, scaling and printing of the diagram. The MDCMS Rest server must be defined and running for this to work. It can be set up in MDCMS from the Setup Menu→Interface Settings→MD REST API Server |
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| ENHANCEMENT | Trace Request view from any view with objects | |
| May 14, 2021 | FIX | fix RFP copy in MDOpen when IFS object resides in a relative path |
| FIX | fix retrieval of remote information in the Deployment Flow Diagram | |
| FIX | some users were not able to open source in LPEX any more | |
| May 23, 2021 | FIX | cosmetic improvements to the Deployment Flow Diagram |
| May 30, 2021 | FIX | Fix the display of report output |
| FIX | allow Git passwords to be up to 128 characters in length | |
| FIX | Fix the cleanup of MDRapid workfiles when the RFP is reset back to status 01 or lower | |
| June 6, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Azure User Mapping view and Project Mapping view from Pipeline Server view |
| FIX | Fix deletion of cloned Git repository in the IFS when a Git location is deleted in MDOpen | |
| June 20, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Azure Project Webhooks view, Status Export view and Status Mapping view that can be opened from Pipeline Server view |
| ENHANCEMENT | Connection Log view from Pipeline Server view | |
| July 5, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Rich Text editor for Project, Task and Subtask descriptions |
| ENHANCEMENT | ability to save filter values to reuse them | |
| ENHANCEMENT | ability to filter Projects, Tasks and Subtasks by a custom field value | |
| ENHANCEMENT | new option for SecureAS400 connection with flag in repository editor | |
| FIX | fix ability to refresh IFS log views | |
| FIX | fix removal of prior object in developer library when trying to create multiple objects at the same time | |
| July 12, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Ability to find object requests inline within Projects, Tasks, Subtasks and RFPs by pressing on the binoculars icon in the Object request header |
| ENHANCEMENT | When MDOpen detects a URL in the RFP deployment log, it can be clicked on to open the page in a browser | |
| August 2, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | When New RFP button is clicked in request dialogs, and a Project, Task or Subtask number already entered in the dialog the description will be applied by default to the new RFP. |
| ENHANCEMENT | Report Output Copy – Close button added to the dialog to the right of the Copy button. | |
| FIX | Report Output Copy – field LIBTYP removed from the function, but it still shows up in the dialog for some reason | |
| FIX | In MDXREF-IFS, where there aren’t any filters so that just all the folders and files that are directly under the root are shown when pagedown is required because of more than 100 items.
Pagedown does not work as expected. |
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| FIX | When the user right-clicks on the Object header, the full option list is shown.
Instead no option list at all should be shown. |
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| FIX | When I have the RFP Status set to 05-RFP Complete and refresh, the first frame is fine, showing the entries as historical.
But, when I load the next frame, they show as active even though they aren’t. |
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| FIX | F1ST showing as filter field in MDXREF->Files used view, even though the field has visible=false | |
| August 4, 2021 | FIX | Import source view labels show all import definition – label provider fix |
| August 13, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Filter fields in Filter lists with content assist ability have a content assist icon now after the field. CTRL+SPACE still works on the field or pushing the content assist icon does the same. |
| FIX | In dialogs and views, checking/unchecking checkboxes do not resize the columns any more | |
| FIX | Open RFP and Submit does not show up any more as option for completed RFP’s | |
| FIX | Trace request view → RFP Icon and Level Icon are not being shown any more to open with left click when application not available. RFP not found message should not come any more. | |
| August 22, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Trace Request provides now if request code DIAGRAM is sent a button to open the diagram for the trace request |
| ENHANCEMENT | Continuous Integration new field Pipeline Attribute with Content Assist. | |
| ENHANCEMENT | Repository View and Repository add, copy, edit, delete handling change. | |
| FIX | Dialog fixes, Pipeline Server, Project Mapping | |
| FIX | IFS View refresh load handling | |
| FIX | When requesting object and trying to open History view fix | |
| August 23, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Change of read of dataqueue |
| September 9, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | View, dialog fields and most editor fields with content assist ability have a content assist icon now after the field. CTRL+SPACE still works on the field or pushing the content assist icon does the same. Other editors that not have it implemented yet will follow. |
| ENHANCEMENT | Saved filter collection values will now also be shown as child of the appropriate view in the MDCMS Repository view. Click on it will directly open the view filtered with the stored values. | |
| ENHANCEMENT | In the MDOpen preferences logging section it is now possible to set the log level to none. This will not write any logs. Therefore not use diskspace and also not decrease performance. | |
| FIX | Some of the dialogs have been changed. When screen was too small they did not show all content. | |
| FIX | Backwards compatibility with text editors. MDCMS core is older than MDOpen and richtext editor is not yet supported. | |
| September 19, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | Saved filter can now also be just for repository and not only global. |
| FIX | Ctrl+Space in MDCMS attribute doesn´t work in Import Library. Application and Level now propagated to object | |
| September 29, 2021 | ENHANCEMENT | MDXREF Objects export to excel change. Subgroups have now indention to have a better overview. |
| FIX | When a new status code for project, task is beeing added or a status is beeing deleted, the codes are beeing updated immediately and are available or removed right away. | |
| September 30, 2021 | FIX | Application Hierarchy not opening. |
| October 6, 2021 | FIX | MDOpen crashes in some RDI’s |
| FIX | In some RDI versions the member opened in edit instead of view (readonly) mode. | |
| FIX | Project and Task statutes are not beeing updated in drop down lists after a change (add/delete). The views, editors need to be reopened though after a change. | |
| November 8, 2021 | FIX | Add, Copy, Delete not available in context menu of DistributionLevelView, FTPServerView, OS400LocationView |