22 February 2024

February 22, 2024: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

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New SAP ODP Connector

We have expanded our support for SAP with a new SAP ODP Connector for Qlik Cloud Analytics. This connector provides connectivity to the SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework which includes many benefits to SAP users vs. previous, existing SAP connectors including:

  • Simplified access to CDS Views and HANA Views

  • Access to Extractors, without the use of standalone network service

  • Usable with a SAP Runtime license

  • Does not require any separate Qlik SAP Connector license

  • No need for an SAP transport installation, particularly useful with an SAP managed cloud system

  • Up to 25% faster performance vs. Qlik’s existing SAP connectors

Qlik Cloud Analytics – SAP ODP Connector

This new connector is separate from an SAP ODP Connector that is already available in Qlik Data Integration Client-Managed.

New Qlik Application Automation connectors for Qlik Cloud Government

Qlik Application Automation now supports the following Qlik Application Automation connectors:

  • Basic Authorization

  • Amazon Lambda

  • Amazon Redshift

  • Amazon S3

  • Azure OpenAI

Application Automation Connectors

Now supported in Qlik Cloud Government.

Qlik Cloud Government now supports Qlik Data Gateway – Direct Access version 1.6.3

Direct Access gateway 1.6.3 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Data loss prevention

    In previous versions, to prevent potential data loss, Direct Access gateway did not automatically reconnect to the data source during a reload. From this version, Direct Access gateway will now automatically reconnect to the data source as needed. To prevent data loss, the completed reload summary will be verified before reconnecting. If data loss is detected, the reload will fail.

  • Timeout for reload sessions

    In rare scenarios, the reload session would stay alive indefinitely. To prevent such occurrences, this version introduces a three-hour timeout for reload sessions.

  • Timeout extension for load requests

    Reloads would sometimes fail with the following errors:

    Connector error: The session does not exist (DirectAccess-1509)

    Connector error: The stream session expired for the load data request (DirectAccess-1012)

    To mitigate this issue, an EXTEND_FIRST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT parameter (for extending the load request timeout) was added to the configuration.properties file. The default is “0”. Customers who frequently encounter these errors should try setting the timeout to 5-10 minutes.

  • Support for detailed connection error messages

    Added support for viewing detailed connection error messages when using ODBC-based via Direct Access gateway connectors. Customers can now set the ShowErrorDetailMessage parameter in the Advanced connector settings to “true” to see the full error returned by the ODBC driver. The detailed error message will be show in the Data load editor.

    The error message is provided in its entirety by the data source you are using. Qlik does not append any additional information to the error message or edit it in any way.

  • Handling multiple reloads with the same reload ID

    From this version, the engine session ID will be used to distinguish between multiple reloads with the same reload ID. This will prevent potential conflicts, resulting in reloads failing with the following error:

    Connector error: data loading error (DirectAccess-4008

To benefit from the enhancements and resolved issues, customers are encouraged to upgrade at the earliest opportunity. For upgrade instructions, see Upgrading the Direct Access gateway installation.

Now supported in Qlik Cloud Government.

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