What's New in This Release

A number of new features are provided in this release of TIBCO® Product and Service Catalog.

The following table provides a summary of the new feature and links to the relevant parts of the documentation where it is described. For a detailed description of each new feature, see "New Features" in the TIBCO Product and Service Catalog 5.0.0 Release Notes.

TIBCO Product and Service Catalog
New Feature Summary
TIBCO Product and Service Catalog KeyValue repository A new tab for KeyValue is introduced in the Offer and Price Designer UI. This repository establishes a relationship between product-keyvalue, discount-keyvalue, rule-keyvalue, and price-keyvalue. The repository defines a key-value pair.
New relationship attribute for ProductComprisedOf relationship The Attribute Based Decomposition relationship attribute is added to the ProductComprisedOf relationship of the Product repository. Hence attribute-based decomposition can be defined for each ProductComprisedOf relationship individually and not just on the child level.
New relationships for the PlanFragment repository The CompensatedBy and RedoneBy self relationships have been added to the PlanFragment repository. Modeling of the Compensate and Redo configurations is possible at PlanFragment level.
Typical Duration UoM and Maximum Duration UoM The Typical Duration UoM and the Maximum Duration UoM relationship attributes are added to the MileStoneToMileStone relationship of the MileStone repository. The repository attributes Typcial Duration UoM and Maximum Duration UoM are added to the PLANFRAGMENT repository.
Upgrading of full export data The upgrade utility has been enhanced so that you can now perform full export of data from TIBCO Product and Service Catalog 4.0.2 and 4.1.0 to the current version (5.0.0). This migrated data is compatible for import to the enterprise of TIBCO Product and Service Catalog 5.0.0.
Publish category records TIBCO Product and Service Catalog has a new feature for publishing category records. The published records are displayed in TIBCO® Order Management.
New states added to the order lifecycle The Retire and Obsolete states have been added to the order lifecycle.