What's New for This Release

IBM® WebSphere® Cast Iron® version 7.0 delivers new and enhanced features.

IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Version 7.0 contains new features and updates for the following components:

Note: From Cast Iron version 7.0 onwards, Cast Iron uses IBM Java™ 7.

SP800-131a compliance

  • Cast Iron version 7.0 supports the requirements that are defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications 800-131a. SP 800-131a strengthens security by defining the algorithms that can be used, and the minimum strengths.
    • All passwords that are stored in Cast Iron are encoded using a stronger SHA256 hashing algorithm.
    • Key and Certificate strength made greater than or equal to 112 bits, which means that new RSA/DSA certificates that are generated by Cast Iron has a minimum key length of 2048.
    • SP800-131a-compliant cipher suites are supported by Cast Iron.
    • Support for TLSv1.2 protocol by Web Management Console (WMC), connectors, and Studio.
    Note:
    • Cast Iron Studio and connectors can be configured to use only TLS v1.2 secure protocol.
    • For compatibility with an earlier version and to support external endpoints, the default behavior is same as the earlier versions of Cast Iron.

Studio

This section describes new features and updates for Studio. For more information about connector new features and updates, see the Connectors section.

  • Support for connecting to endpoints that are behind a firewall on one network, and the appliance running on another network. This is achieved by the Secure Connector support in Cast Iron Studio.
  • From version 7 onwards, there are two versions of the Studio installer present - one uses the 32-bit JRE 1.7 and the other uses the 64-bit JRE 1.7.
  • Cryptographic activities
    • Support for PGP encryption and decryption at the orchestration level.
    • Support for AES encryption and decryption as mapping functions.
  • New connectors are available for download. For more information about the new connectors, see the Connectors section.
  • Download TIPs from Studio without registration. Log on with the default user name and password that is already hardcoded in the login page.

Live

This section describes the updates and improvements made for Cast Iron Live.
  • Cast Iron Web start studio and Secure Connector now support Java 7.
  • Stability improvements from the upgraded components.
  • Secure Connector client installer support for 64-bit machine (Linux and Windows).
  • New Secure Connector installer that upgrades without having to uninstall the earlier version.
  • Large data volume support through Secure Connector.

Connectors

Along with updates to the existing connectors, Studio now supports the following:

  • The new connectors added to the list are:
    • MSDynamics CRM connector - Allows you to create, update, retrieve, and delete entities on MSDynamics online CRM.
    • SugarCRM REST API connector - Allows you to interact and exchange information with the SugarCRM server via REST API call. You can create, update, delete, get objects, get user information, get server information, get reports, and search for objects.
    • ServiceMax connector - Allows you to create, modify, and retrieve objects within the ServiceMax application using the ServiceMax connector. The connector also supports polling of updated and deleted objects.
    • Oracle E-Business Suite connector - Allows you to create, update, delete, and retrieve objects as outbound activities; and get updated, get deleted, and get created objects as inbound activities from the Oracle database using the Oracle E-Business Suite connector.
  • Security Token Service - Allows you to send a request for a SAML 2.0 token/assertion, which is compliant with WS-Trust specification.
  • Enhancements in Force.com Bulk API connector version 2.1:
    • Support for Salesforce.com SOAP/ReST API version 28.0.
    • Support for additional Salesforce.com data types such as, encryptedtext and geolocation.
    • Support for relationship fields for standard and custom objects.
  • Domino® connector now supports:
    • Version 9.0 of the Lotus® Domino server.
    • Query Views - new outbound activity that is used to query views from the Lotus Domino database.
    • SubForms (a form statically included in the main form during form design time).
    • Handling dynamically added fields, which are part of the Domino document but not generated in Map Inputs and Map Outputs.
    • Querying of data based on the last modified and created time stamps, in the Query Documents activity.
    • Polling multiple databases in inbound activities.
    • Passing connection parameters dynamically as part of the request.
  • SAP connector now supports:
    • Single Sign-On (SSO) - user authentication process that permits you to access multiple SAP applications with one token.
    • Secure Network Communications (SNC) - strengthens the security of your SAP system.
    • Passing connection parameters dynamically as part of the request.
  • HTTP connector supports:
    • OAuth 2.0 Authentication - connect to resource server endpoints through OAuth 2.0 authenticated access.
    • Basic authentication support is added for HTTP Receive Request activity.
  • Web Services connector - Basic authentication support is added for Provide Service activity.
  • The JD Edwards (JDE) connector now supports JDE tools version 9.1 for Invoke Business Function activity.
  • The NetSuite connector now supports NetSuite version 2014_1.
  • The Salesforce.com connector now supports Salesforce.com version 29.
  • The Force.com Bulk API connector is enhanced to handle the CSV data directly. This increases the performance of the connector.

Management Console

The following section describes new features and updates for the Web Management Console (WMC):

  • Single unified user interface in WMC to manage other appliances.
  • Enhanced configuration details - The configuration details now display the name of the publisher in the Summary section.
  • Enhanced configuration filter - Now, you can view projects that are published exclusively by you through the Configurations Filter on the Project Configurations page.
  • Published project details - The appliance administrator can now view all the projects, users who published the projects, and the time the project was published.
  • Project permission - The appliance administrator can grant permissions to particular users to access certain projects.
  • Login history - The appliance administrator can check the history of all the users, the number of times they logged on, the logon time, and the time that they logged out.
  • System logs and Job Logs - You can now customize/edit columns that you would like to view, in the System log and Job log pages.

Maestro

The following section describes new features and updates:

  • Support for connecting to endpoints that are behind a firewall on a different network, and the appliance running on another network. This is achieved by the Secure Connector support in Cast Iron Appliance.
  • Secure Connector client installer support for 64-bit machine (both Linux and Windows). Now, 32-bit and 64-bit Secure Connector installers are available.
  • Serviceability Improvements - Additional system logs get generated during orchestration deployment. Non-orchestration-related events specific to users and groups, also get generated in the system logs.
  • A new management API to get the resource utilization details of the appliance, has been added.



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