Talend Open Studio

for MDM
Release Notes

5.4.0
 Talend Open Studio for MDM

Publication date October 28, 2013

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Table of Contents
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
MDM: New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. MDM Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
MDM: Bug Fixes / Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1. Bug Fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
MDM: Known Issues and Known Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. You need to restart the Studio after
installing required third-party libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Important manual steps needed if
migrating system data from XML to
relational database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Changes to MDM Groovy scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Redundant container JCAAdapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
MDM: Hints and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Installing required third-party licences . . . . . . . . . 5
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1. Revised documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Open issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
 System Requirements

System Requirements
Users should refer to the Installation and Upgrade Guides on the Talend Help Center (http://help.talend.com) for
more information on Installation and System Requirements.

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 MDM: New Features

MDM: New Features

1. Studio
• Transaction control has been introduced for all tMDM* components.

• All tMDM* components can now optionally run under the same transaction when linked to a
tMDMConnection. However, the tMDMConnection component can still be used in auto-commit mode as
before.

• Two new components, tMDMCommit and tMDMRollback, have been created to allow users to control the
transaction in their Jobs.

• Changes have been made to how items are deployed to MDM Server. In particular, users can now define a
strategy for resolving deployment conflicts and can undeploy objects from the MDM Server.

2. MDM Server
• When MDM Server is configured to run securely on an HTTP server using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
protocol, a new preferences page has been included for setting the keystore and other details.

• Changes have been made to how MDM Server is deployed into JBoss. As a result, the mdm.conf and
datasources.xml files are now found in <$INSTALLDIR>/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/conf/.

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 MDM: Bug Fixes / Change Log

MDM: Bug Fixes / Change Log

1. Bug Fixes
In addition to the above new features a number of minor improvements within the entire product and significant
bug fixes have been made.

See the corresponding Change Log on our bug tracking system for more details on the individual issues:

• https://jira.talendforge.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=16487

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 MDM: Known Issues and Known Limitations

MDM: Known Issues and Known

Limitations
We encourage you to consult the JIRA bug tracking tool for a full list of open issues and to see which issues will
be fixed in the upcoming release:

http://jira.talendforge.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=16489

1. You need to restart the Studio after

installing required third-party libraries
After you install any required third-party libraries, you need to restart the Studio for your updates to be taken
into account.

2. Important manual steps needed if

migrating system data from XML to relational
database
In this release, users still have the option of migrating from an XML database to a relational database, although
XML database support is now deprecated. Existing users who chose to take advantage of this possibility will need
to explicitly redeploy their projects and migrate important system containers in order to do so. See the Installation
and Upgrade Guide for more details.

In particular, make sure you process the ACTIVE and FAILED queue before performing any migration, since the
migration procedure will cause ACTIVE, FAILED and COMPLETED queues to be lost.

3. Changes to MDM Groovy scripts

Talend MDM scripts were previously packaged in a folder named talend, which meant that the corresponding
Groovy package was also named talend.

Now that Talend MDM scripts have been relocated to the providedscripts folder, any workflows that are based on
these scripts must also be updated manually to reflect the new package.

4. Redundant container JCAAdapers

Owing to a typographical error in a configuration file, Talend MDM creates a redundant container named
JCAAdapers that users must manually delete from the server after running the dbmigration tool.

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 MDM: Hints and Notes

MDM: Hints and Notes

1. Installing required third-party licences

Users must now manually install certain required third-party libraries using the Modules View for Talend Open
Studio for MDM to work correctly.

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 Documentation

Documentation

1. Revised documents
In addition to updates to the content across the documentation set, the following specific documentation changes
have been made.

• Talend Open Studio for MDM User Guide now includes parts describing how to work with the Integration and
Profiling perspectives. This information is the same as the information contained in the Talend Open Studio for
Data Integration User Guide and the Talend Open Studio for Data Quality User Guide.

• Talend Big Data Studio Getting Started Guide has been renamed to Talend Big Data Getting Started Guide.

• A new chapter "Getting started with Talend Big Data using the demo project" has been added to the Talend Big
Data Studio Getting Started Guide. This chapter provides short descriptions about the sample Jobs included in
the demo project and introduces the necessary preparations to run the sample Jobs on a Hadoop platform.

• Talend Open Studio for ESB Mediation Components Reference Guide and Talend ESB Mediation Components
Reference Guide have been merged into one guide, Talend ESB Mediation Components Reference Guide.

• In the ESB Getting Started Guide, the chapter "Downloading and installing Talend ESB software" is now called
"Getting started with Talend ESB", and the demo chapters are now split into two categories ("Basic deployment
and runtime use cases" and "Advanced deployment and runtime use cases with SOA Governance").

• In the ESB Infrastructure Services Configuration Guide and the STS User Guide, some conceptual information
has been added that was previously found in the ESB Getting Started Guide.

2. Open issues
We encourage you to consult the JIRA bug tracking tool for a full list of open issues:

https://jira.talendforge.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=16490