April 16, 2024: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

Custom security roles

Exciting news! Qlik is introducing a much-anticipated feature: custom security roles.

What can custom security roles accomplish? These roles offer precise management over data export and access permissions within Qlik apps. This empowers you to customize permissions according to your unique requirements, bolstering data security and compliance.

Our initial release includes the ability to regulate content export permissions. Following this, we’ll be rolling out further capabilities, such as control over data connection creation, report generation, and more. Stay tuned for these enhancements!

• Managing custom roles | user-based subscriptions

• Managing custom roles | capacity-based subscriptions

• Creating custom roles in Qlik Cloud

Table improvements

We continue to improve on the new Straight table and Pivot table. The Straight table columns can now become more narrow and the new Pivot table gets measure formatting, text alignment and dimension limits.

Straight table (Visualization bundle)

Pivot table (Visualization bundle)

SAP ODP connector

Qlik Talend Data Integration provides multiple methods of capturing data from your SAP system. This release enhances existing capture methods with support for SAP ODP. The ODP connector provides connectivity to the SAP ODP framework, enabling data capture from multiple types of data artifacts such as Extractors, CDS views, BW objects, and SAP HANA Information views.

SAP ODP connector

Extended DDL capture support to PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server

Replication tasks provide support for handling DDL changes (schema evolution). When using PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server (using MS-CDC) as your data source, the task will create DDL artifacts in the source databases to enable DDL changes to be captured. You can also define a specific schema to hold those objects, which allows users to isolate Qlik Cloud created objects from source data objects.

Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft CDC based) connector

PostgreSQL connector

Support for SAP HANA as a backend database for the SAP Application connector

Qlik Talend Data Integration now includes support for SAP HANA as a backend database for the SAP Application connector. SAP HANA continues to be supported for direct access using the SAP HANA connector. This release adds the SAP Application connector functionality where you are running SAP on HANA and provides business group management capabilities. Business groups allow SAP users to create groups of tables that are recognized by Data Movement gateway, providing additional context when selecting data artifacts to be replicated..

SAP (Application) connector

New Direct Access gateway version

Direct Access gateway 1.6.5 introduces new functionality as well as enhancements to existing functionality.

New features and enhancements

Direct Access gateway 1.6.5 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• Support for the SAP ODP connector

  This version introduces the ability to access a SAP ODP source via Direct Access gateway. To facilitate this, a new Data gateway field has been added to the SAP ODP connector. The new field allows customers to choose which gateway to use to access their SAP ODP source.

  See also: SAP ODP Connector

• Extended logging capabilities

  This version introduces a new logger that Qlik Support can use to troubleshoot issues with specific gateway components.

• Newly supported region

  Japan is now supported as a Qlik Cloud tenant region.

• Performance enhancement

  Improved memory allocations for encrypted sessions.

Resolved issues

Direct Access gateway 1.6.5 resolves the following issues:

• Security vulnerability

  Secrets would be written to the DCAAS log when working with the ODBC connector.

• Process isolation performance

  Processes would take a long time to start under heavy load.

• Incorrect installation path

  Installing Direct Access gateway would always set Qlik as the root folder, even if the user chose a different folder in the setup wizard.

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.