Release Notes

Toad® Intelligence Central 6.4

Release Notes

Thursday, January 9, 2025

About Toad Intelligence Central

Toad® Intelligence Central enables enterprise users to be far more productive with their tools including Toad Data Point by centralizing automation workflows, accessing data directly, collaborating and sharing on datasets, queries and Toad files and providing a secure and established way to manage your data sprawl.

• AUTOMATE - Toad users can schedule the regular automated execution of Toad Data Point automation scripts on Toad Intelligence Central.

• ACCESS - Toad users can access Toad files and basic data files published to Toad Intelligence Central that have been shared with them. An additional data connectivity license extends Toad Intelligence Central to work across a wide range of data stores including relational database models, data warehouses, No SQL and Business Intelligence data sources like OBIEE and SAP®.

• SHARE - Objects can be shared amongst users and groups and organized collectively in a familiar folder structure, assigned tags and given a description for easy search retrieval. Administration of users and groups can be managed locally or users and groups can be imported from Active Directory®.

• SECURE - Toad Intelligence Central provides a centrally managed, secure, stable and accessible system.

Distributions of Toad Intelligence Central include a Web Server for administrative and general user access. In addition, Toad Data Point and other collaborative Toad products can directly access Toad Intelligence Central. Data on Toad Intelligence Central can be accessed via a third party product such as Tableau for further data processing and visualization.

Data Connectivity

A valid data connectivity license supports the following Business Intelligence Data Sources.

• Google Analytics™
• Oracle^® Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10g and 11g
• SAP^® Business Objects Query as a Web Service (QAAWS) XI 3.0, 3.1 and 4.1
• Salesforce.com^®
• SharePoint^® Lists using Data Services over SharePoint Server 2010 and later via OData. Also, SharePoint Online.
• Hive™
• Microsoft^® Analysis Services
• OData - Generic for any OData service versions 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Intelligence Central 6.4 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality. See New features.

New Features

This release of Toad Intelligence Central includes new features and enhancements.

Custom List of Values for Bind Variables

This feature allows you to define a list of specific values for bind variables, providing you with predefined options to choose from when generating reports. It ensures data integrity by making sure that valid and relevant variable values are selected, reducing errors in reports.

1. Predefined variable values:

   You can define a list of possible values for bind variables when publishing objects (e.g., workbooks, views, automation scripts) from Toad Data Point or Toad Workbook. For details, see the User Guide of the Toad Data Point 6.4
   

   The predefined list of values is included as part of the published object in Toad Intelligence Central and after publishing users can use these values or refresh the list to access the latest updates.
   
   

2. Using Predefined Variables

   • Variables are displayed in the Details section under the Variables tab, so users can set default values by typing them in, selecting them from the predefined list or loading values from .txt or .csv files

   • When running a published object, simply choose values from the list of predefined options or load variable values from a file

3. Multiple Value Selection and Restrictions

   • Allow Multiple Value Selection - you can select multiple values from the predefined list. Use a semicolon (;) as a separator when entering multiple values manually

   • Restrict Values to the Predefined List - this option ensures user can only select values from the predefined list. Manual typing is disabled for better control

4. Importing Values from Files

   • Load values directly from a .txt or .csv file - each value in the .txt or .csv file needs to be placed in a new line and no other delimiter should be specified
     

User Permissions:

If You’re a Manager of Published Objects, you can:

• Edit default variable values

• Allow Multi-Select to enable multiple value selection

• Set Restrict to Predefined List to limit variable values

If You’re Not a Manager, you can:

• View variable defaults and settings but cannot edit them

• While running published objects, you can select values based on permissions set by the manager

Compatibility: Objects published with older versions of Toad Data Point support most features of the new functionality. However, the Restrict to Predefined List option is not editable for “older” objects.

See Resolved issues for enhancements and resolved issues in this release of Toad Intelligence Central.

Deprecated Features

Integration with Toad for Oracle has been discontinued. The Toad for Oracle Code Quality, Code Analysis, Code Tester, Team Coding, and DB Health Check pages have been removed in Toad Intelligence Central 5.0. Beginning with Toad for Oracle 13.1, you can no longer connect to Toad Intelligence Central and you cannot publish scripts, files, Code Analysis results, and other resources to a Toad Intelligence Central server.

The Admin Console. Beginning with Toad Intelligence Central 4.3, the Admin Console is no longer required and is not included in the Toad Intelligence Central installation. The administrative functionality of the Admin Console is now superseded by the Web Server (Web Console). The activity of mapping/editing data objects is best performed through Toad Data Point.

After installing Intelligence Central 4.3 or later, it is recommended that you uninstall any earlier version of the Admin Console as some functionality may no longer be supported.

Authentication Keys for Views. Beginning with Toad Intelligence Central 4.3, a view can now have only one type of key, personal or shared. This change is designed to simplify the process of Authentication. If you are upgrading from Intelligence Central 3.3 or earlier, please see the Upgrade section of the Toad Intelligence Central Deployment Guide for more information.

Toad for Oracle Installation. Beginning with Toad Intelligence Central 4.3, Toad for Oracle is no longer installed as part of the Toad Intelligence Central installation.

Run in Debug Mode. In Toad Intelligence Central 3.3, the Run in debug mode option was removed from the Web console (Web server). It is no longer necessary to enable/disable debug mode. Debug-level information is always logged and automatically included in the support bundle. This release also includes improved logging strategies and archiving methods.

The use of SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 has been discontinued.

The use of RC4 cipher has been discontinued.

The use of SWEET32 medium strength cipher has been discontinued.

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues and Enhancements

This release of Intelligence Central doesn't have any resolved issues.

Resolved Issues in Toad Data Point—If you are using Toad Data Point to publish objects to Intelligence Central or to run Automation scripts on Intelligence Central, you might want to also review resolved issues in the Toad Data Point Release Notes.