TIBCO® Data Virtualization (TDV) 8.8.0

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The TIBCO® Data Virtualization (TDV) 8.8 release has three distribution types:

1. On-premises installations that utilize our platform specific installer binaries or patch archives.
2. Container and Kubernetes runtime environments that use our container distribution (i.e. Docker files and Helm charts). The container distribution can be used in private and public cloud environments (for example, Azure).
3. AWS Marketplace offering for those that don’t want to manage nor host a TDV installation.

For more information on the products and components included in TDV, refer to the TDV Installation and Upgrade Guide. For more information on the products and components in Business Directory, refer to the TDV Business Directory Guide.

TDV 8.8 is a Long Term Support Release. For information about the TDV LTS Support refer to TIBCO Data Virtualization Long-Term Support (LTS) Releases.

TDV 8.8 includes features and enhancements in the following areas.

Web-UI Enhancements

• Improved User Experience
  - Updated Filter Node’s design to be more intuitive and user friendly

• Undo/Redo Flow Changes
  - Users can undo or redo the changes to the flow with the provided buttons or through keystrokes.

Adapter Enhancements

• Added support for Dynamic Relational DataSource Configuration
  - A callback TDV procedure, that is implemented in SQL Script or as a custom Java procedure (CJP) and owned by TDV administrators, can be registered with a relational data source to apply runtime customizations to the data source properties configuration before a connection is used by the TDV server to establish a new session with the data source. All customizations are transient. Their scope is limited to the specification of the JDBC properties to be used by data source connections.

• Vertica - text index
  - Added support to create and drop text index in Vertica driver
  - The source table on which the index is to be created must have a primary key and an associated
  projection. It must also be both sorted and segmented by the primary key

• File System Adapters Date Inference - File System Adapters such as LFS, S3, Azure Data Lake, and GCS now infer the data type of file columns carrying date values as DATE.

Query Engine Enhancements

• Introduced new functions WEEKNUM, BYTE_SUBSTR, SUBSTR, CONVERT_TO and CONVERT_FROM
  - CONVERT_TO and CONVERT_FROM are supported only for Postgres

Security Enhancements

• Enhanced OAuth2 support for REST Adapter for fetching Access Tokens

• Support for Opaque OAuth Tokens
  - This enhancement introduces supports consuming the opaque OAuth tokens for JDBC, ODBC, and ADO.NET drivers

• Enhanced AzureAD as IdP

• Improved Log Out experience for OAuth logins

Studio Enhancements

• Review CDATA adapter version in Studio
  - The adapter version for CDATA Adapters can now be viewed in the Info Panel of the CDATA Adapters in Studio.

• Multi-table cache table privilege inheritance
  - A checkbox to “Copy Privileges

Miscellaneous

• Support for XQuery 3.1
  - XQuery 3.1 introduces support for consuming JSON data and supports maps & arrays.

• Language Selection during Login
  - Users can now select the language (default English) while logging in through Studio, WebUI, Manager, Deployment Manager, and Business Directory

• Upgrade to Java 17
  - This version of the product uses Java 17

• Upgrade to PostgreSQL 14
  - This version of the product runs on PostgreSQL 14

• Kubernetes Deployment to use micro-services
  - Kubernetes deployment has been refactored to use separate containers for TDV server, cache and repository

Supported Platforms

For the complete list of supported platforms, refer to the Installation and Upgrade Guide.

This release adds support for -

• Oracle Enterprise Linux 8
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Rocky Linux 8
• AlmaLinux 8
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
• IBM AIX 7.3
• Windows 11
• Ubuntu 22 (Docker and Kubernetes Distribution)

Dropped support for:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• IBM AIX 7.1
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 6