New Features in Quantum Fabric V9 Service Pack 1

In this release, the following features have been introduced to provide a better Quantum Fabric experience.

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File Storage Adapter
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, a new File Storage Adapter has been added. The File Storage Adapter is an out-of-the-box adapter that can be used to store and retrieve files from a default storage system. The adapter uses S3 (Simple Storage Service) as the back-end storage.

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Timer Task in Fabric Workflow
A new Timer task has been added to Fabric Workflow. By using the Timer task users can configure a delay between tasks for a fixed period of time or a delay based on an expression.

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Added support for Fabric Admin Adapter in Integration services.
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, the Fabric Admin Adapter allows the use of administrative APIs on the Quantum Fabric runtime server. This allows external systems to invoke these APIs to read or modify settings on the Fabric server.

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Workflow Designer Usability Enhancements
App Versioning Enhancement
You can now version Fabric applications even when they have defined Engagement artifacts in the application.
Upgrade mechanism for apps on EAS
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, you can define upgrade policies for child apps published to the Enterprise App Store.

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Added a Retry Task in Workflow
A new feature is added with the capability to manually retry a failed task in Workflow. Users with admin access can view the error details of the failed task and do a read-only Retry of that task. After the task is successfully executed, the workflow will resume and proceed to execute the next task.

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Added options to the GDPR Policy settings
Personally Identifiable Information(PII) data like User ID and IP address will be encoded in Metrics when client requests originate from GDPR countries. From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, a new option has been added to the GDPR Policy Settings in the Integration Server that enables encoding PII data for all the requests and stop logging PII Data into Integration Server.
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Invoking Object Services from Service Manager
A new interface has been provided to invoke Object Services from the Service manager. If an Object service is invoked by using this interface, the pre-processors and post-processors of the Object services are executed.

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Added Custom Code Profiling
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, users can measure and profile the performance of the custom code that is used in their applications using New Relic.
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UI Enhancements in OAuth Provider
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, the consent screen for the OAuth Provider Identity service can be customized to take permissions from users and has the ability to remove the permissions from users.

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Device Filtering
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, support has been added to create device pools by using filters. By using the new search capabilities, you can filter the devices to run your test scripts on by manufacturer, model, OS version, and availability.

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SonarQube Integration with Visualizer
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, you can integrate your projects with the SonarQube server to run quality analysis on the codebase of your Visualizer projects.

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Added support to add Sonar token as credentials for projects.
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Added support to import, build, and export the Java assets
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, you can import any version of your Fabric applications and their custom Java code from source control, compile them, bundle them, and deploy them to your target environment.

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Added support for app versioning in Fabric App Configuration.
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Added support to run CustomHooks for Fabric jobs.
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Added the ability to send Voice SMS
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, you can send Voice SMS by using Twilio and Nexmo providers.

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Added the ability to create Segments for the Web channel
From Quantum Fabric V9 SP1, support has been added to select Web channel in the OSType field while creating segments.

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Deprecated Blackberry related code, UI features, and subscriptions.

Command Line Installer
Installation of Fabric via the command line installer on Liberty v20.0.0.4.

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