What's New
The tables below describe the functions released in each ROMA Connect version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.
November, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Custom output data structures |
All connectors support custom output data structures. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
New connectors |
GaussDB 100, ActiveMQ, Kafka, and Tencent Questionnaire. |
Commercial use |
October, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Optimized canvas |
Nodes with wrong configurations are automatically marked on the editing canvas; node copy and paste are supported. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Call duration statistics in scheduling logs |
The time consumed by the plug-in and data source is displayed in scheduling logs to optimize data source performance problem locating. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
FDI private IP address on the details page |
The private IP address of the FDI instance is displayed on the instance details page, facilitating private IP address authorization. |
Commercial use |
September, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
New connectors: DingTalk, Feishu, and Polarion |
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Commercial use |
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2 |
Enhanced smart assistant |
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Commercial use |
August, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
ROMA Snap |
AI enabled integration assistant. It captures the requirements for service integration based on user's natural language inputs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) machine learning, and generates a composite application.
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Commercial use |
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2 |
Launch of the online debugging function |
Task flows support online debugging with operations such as adding breakpoints, single-step execution, and resumption. Breakpoint running data and error information can be displayed in real time. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Launch of the data mapping processor |
The data mapping processor quickly maps data from the source to the destination. |
Commercial use |
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4 |
Launch of the new ROMA Connect |
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Commercial use |
May, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
MQS Kafka v2.3.0 discontinued and v2.7 now available |
When creating an instance, MQS engine v2.3.0 is no longer supported and replaced by v2.7. |
Commercial use |
December, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
APIC access control by account ID |
APIC supports access control by account ID. |
Commercial use |
November, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Up to 50 instance routes |
A ROMA Connect instance supports up to 50 routes. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
false value supported by MQTT device connection parameter cleanSession |
When an MQTT device connects to LINK, cleanSession can be set to false. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Modifying the number of partitions of MQS topics |
The number of partitions of MQS topic can be modified. |
Commercial use |
August, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
FDI flow tasks |
Flow tasks can be easily created on the console. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Passthrough from HL7 to Kafka |
Passthrough is supported for data integration tasks from the HL7 data source to the Kafka data source. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Topic import/export in XLS or XLSX format |
MQS topics can be imported and exported in XLS or XLSX format. |
Commercial use |
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4 |
Data backend column conversion from nvarchar2 to string |
The instance configuration parameter data_api_column_types_converted_to_string is added to specify whether a data backend supports the data column conversion from nvarchar2 to string. |
Commercial use |
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5 |
DEFAULT group accessed by IP addresses that are not inbound access addresses of the current instance |
The instance configuration parameter default_group_host_trustlist is added to specify whether APIs in the DEFAULT group can be accessed by IP addresses that are not inbound access addresses of the current instance. |
Commercial use |
July, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
BFS EDI Processor |
The new BFS component EDI Processor exchanges and automatically processes data using a standard format between two computer systems. |
Commercial use |
June, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
FDI monitoring information |
An entry for viewing monitoring information is added to the FDI task management page. Click the Monitor button to switch to Cloud Eye to view task metrics of the current instance. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
APIC HTTP/2 compatible |
APIC API calling using HTTP/2 |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Description of OPC UA devices |
On the ROMA Connect page, custom description for OPC UA devices is supported for easier node path management. |
Commercial use |
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4 |
OPC UA device data subscription |
For devices connected to ROMA Connect using OPC UA, their data can be collected in subscription mode. |
Commercial use |
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5 |
ROMA 20.0 asset compatible |
ROMA Connect supports ROMA 20.0 asset import. |
Commercial use |
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6 |
Oracle 19c |
The Oracle data source supports 19c, which can be used for common and composite tasks. |
Commercial use |
May, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
HANA data source supported by APIC |
Supported custom data backends of the HANA data source. |
Commercial use |
April, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
RocketMQ data source |
Supported real-time read and write for the RocketMQ data source with SSL authentication disabled. RocketMQ is message-oriented middleware that delivers low latency, high reliability, high throughput, dynamic expansion, easy management, and abundant messaging functions. |
Commercial use |
March, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Parameter COOKIE for API policy backends |
Added the COOKIE parameter as a condition for API backend policies on APIC. |
Commercial use |
February, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Metadata generation for the API/Kafka/MQS data sources in FDI tasks |
Supported the feature that JSON character strings can be automatically parsed into metadata when API/Kafka/MQS is used as the FDI task source. |
Commercial use |
January, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Enhanced task scheduling logs of composite tasks |
Supported viewing real-time progress and latency of composite tasks every 5 minutes in the task scheduling logs. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Enhanced FDI capability for interconnecting with the SAP data source |
Supported on-demand integration using user-defined functions (compatible with RFC_READ_TABLE2), time segments, and search criteria. |
Commercial use |
November, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Circuit breaker plug-in |
Added the circuit breaker plug-in to the plug-in management module so that a backend service can be protected once it becomes abnormal. |
Commercial use |
September, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Certificate management |
Added the certificate management function to APIC. SSL certificates can be uploaded and managed independently. |
Commercial use |
June, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
HTTP response header management plug-in |
Added the HTTP response header management plug-in to the plug-in management module for HTTP response header customization. |
Commercial use |
April, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
API plug-ins |
Provides flexible extension capabilities for APIs through plug-ins. |
Commercial use |
March, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Business flows |
Provides the no-code integration capability to integrate data and services across regions, instances, and applications. |
Commercial use |
January, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Client access control policies for APIs |
As a protection mechanism for backend services, client access control policies control the client IP addresses that can access APIs. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Optimized data integration page |
The Task Management page of Fast Data Integration was optimized for better user experience. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
MQS data sources |
The MQS data source type is added to separate the MQS data source from the Kafka data source. |
Commercial use |
December, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
API cascading |
Two ROMA Connect instances in the same region or different regions can be cascaded. API calls between cascaded instances use a dedicated authentication channel to avoid authentication conflicts. |
Commercial use |
November, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Gauss100 data source |
The Gauss100 data source is added and used for data integration tasks. |
Commercial use |
September, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
New data source types |
The Gauss200, FTP, FI HDFS, FI Hive, FI Kafka and MRS Kafka data sources are supported and used for data integration tasks. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Client quota policies for APIs |
As a protection mechanism for backend services, a client quota limits the total number of times that an API can be called by a client in a specified period. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Product management configuration optimization |
The product configuration function of LINK is optimized to allow you to define services, attributes, and commands for a thing model. |
Commercial use |
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4 |
Simple authentication for APIs by using AppCode |
APIs that use App authentication in APIC support simple authentication for API calling by using AppCode. |
Commercial use |
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5 |
Real-time incremental data synchronization based on SQL Server CDC |
A composite task can synchronize incremental data from the SQL Server database to other data sources in real time based on the SQL Server CDC capability. |
Commercial use |
August, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Renaming from ROMA to ROMA Connect |
The name of the application and data integration platform is changed from ROMA to ROMA Connect. |
Commercial use |
May, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Access parameters and green channels for API authorization |
Access parameters can be added to the backend signature authentication information and sent to a backend service. The backend service then returns different response parameters based on the carried access parameters. After the green channel function is enabled, addresses in the whitelist can call APIs without being authenticated, whereas addresses in the blacklist cannot call APIs. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Creating API groups by integration application |
An API group can be created by integration application. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
DB2 data sources |
The DB2 data source type is supported and used for data integration tasks. |
Commercial use |
April, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
IAM fine-grained authorization |
ROMA supports fine-grained authorization on IAM to grant different ROMA permissions to IAM users. |
Commercial use |
March, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Real-time incremental data synchronization based on MySQL CDC |
A composite task can synchronize incremental data from the MySQL database to other data sources in real time based on the MySQL CDC capability. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Customization of the data writing format when the destination is Redis |
You can customize the format of data to be written when the destination of a data integration task is Redis. |
Commercial use |
February, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
A composite task supports the Kafka data source type as the destination. |
The Kafka data source type can be used as the destination in a composite integration task. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Configuration management added for custom backends |
The configuration management function is added to the custom backend of APIC, which allows you to configure private data such as passwords, certificates, and variables or global data, and reference the configuration in backend API scripts. |
Commercial use |
January, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Page optimization for creating a data source |
The page for creating a data source is optimized to improve user experience. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Partition-based storage of MRS Hive data sources |
You can set partition fields so that data can be written by partition when the destination of a data integration task is MRS Hive. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
HL7 data sources support SSL authentication and whitelist. |
SSL authentication can be enabled for data transmission between HL7 databases. When the HL7 functions as the data source, a whitelist can be configured to receive only data synchronized from the addresses in the whitelist. |
Commercial use |
December, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Real-time incremental data synchronization based on Oracle CDC through composite tasks |
The composite task function is added to FDI to support synchronization of multiple data tables. With the Oracle CDC capability, FDI can synchronize incremental data from the Oracle database to other data sources in real time. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Writing data to the MRS Hive data warehouse in overwrite mode |
The service logic of data synchronization used when MRS Hive is used as the destination. By default, data is written to MRS Hive in append mode during incremental synchronization, and data is written to MRS Hive in overwrite mode during full synchronization. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Oracle CDC independent of OGG license |
The Oracle CDC function can be implemented in LogMiner mode, which does not depend on the OGG license. |
Commercial use |
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4 |
HANA data sources |
The HANA data source type is supported and used for data integration tasks. |
Commercial use |
November, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Unified data sources of APIC and FDI |
A data source you created can be used by both FDI and APIC. In this way, you do not need to create the same data source on FDI and APIC separately. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
SFTP, ActiveMQ, and ArtemisMQ data sources |
The SFTP, ActiveMQ, and ArtemisMQ data source types are supported and used for data integration tasks. |
Commercial use |
Connecting to an FTP Data Source |
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