PowerConnect SP 8.02 Release notes (ABAP)

Upgrade

Upgrade steps are described in the following KB: Upgrading PowerConnect ABAP 8.X to latest release

Known problems

• Group Definition upload filter by Data Kind is not working

Changes

New

• New event filter by data kind (logs, traces);

• New OpenTelemetry trace extractor based on STATS data (STATS_TRACE);

• New Application log error message throttling functionality;

• New Application log retention period config parameter;

• New HDB certificate list extractor (HDB_CERT_LIST);

• New POS interface monitor Extractor (WPER);

• New SM20, SM21, SLG1 events can now use trace_id field to link logs data to traces;

• New upload streams implementation;

• New LOGS dev_rfc.log format parser;

• Splunk REST endpoint is not supported anymore;

Improvements

• LTRC_CHECK: Pulls only error messages by default;

• TREAD_DYN: Can accept character date and time fields in the filter definition;

• SM37: Enhanced for new Filter options for Finished jobs;

• SMMS: Enhanced with few message server parameters;

• SE16N_CD: Enhanced to set the right event time (when the event happened in the system);

• S416N_CD: Enhanced to set the right event time (when the event happened in the system);

• USER_AUTH: Reference user search;

• SLM Control panel got an option to refresh system state;

• LOGS: stability improvements and binary file determination;

• CDPOS: Performance improvements for multiclient extractor;

Bug fixes

• ST03_TIME invalid append order dump fix;

• ST03_TIME_TOTAL invalid append order dump fix;

• LTRC compatibility fixes;

• LTRC_CHECK compatibility fixes;

• SUIM IDENTITY changes extraction dump fix ;

• SM59 Data not collected when filter not saved fix;

• HDB_DBCC_RECLOCK Bug Fix & new logic to get process ID;

• HDB_DBCC_OBJLOCK Bug Fix & new logic to get process ID;

• Extractor missing class error handling fix;

• Control Panel 0 divide dump fix (can be raised in case of misconfiguration);

• Upload lock is not set fix (happens in limited circumstances);

• DB6_DB02_ACTVT system log message fix;

• TABLE_COUNT row count fix (Sybase);

• PC_METRIC_QUEUE row count fix (Sybase);