adTempus 4.6.0 Release Notes

4.6.0

Released December 21, 2018

Enhancements

General
Allow viewing of console output before step finishes

When a step is configured to capture console output from the program being run, you can now view the partial capture results while the step is still running. Each time you open the file from the job history, it will display the current contents of the console output. The view of the file will not refresh automatically. If the job is running on an Agent, you still will not be able to view the file until the step completes, as the file is not sent to the Master until then.

Further enhancements will be made in adTempus 5.

 

Add Comments column to job instance list
In a job instance listing (Job Monitor, History Query, history tab of job list), the Comments for the instance can now be displayed as a column. To choose the columns to display, right-click a column heading to show the list of available columns.

Fixed Issues

Actions
When "Restart limit exceeded" event triggers a Restart Job action, service crashes

If a Response that uses event "Restart limit exceeded" has an action to restart the job, the response evaluator goes into an infinite loop, causing the adTempus service to crash with a stack overflow exception.

This was corrected so that Restart actions are ignored when triggered by Restart Limit Exceeded events, as this configuration doesn't make sense anyway.

Console
Job Monitor may continue to show jobs as active after they have finished
The Job Monitor may continue to show jobs as active even though they have completed. This happens if the option to show past jobs is not selected. The problem was corrected to remove inactive instances.
General
Inline function evaluation fails
In some cases evaluation of inline scripts fails. This does not cause the job to fail, but an error message is reported in the Job Log ("Inline script evaluation failed") with no error reason.
Checkpoint utility adtchkpt fails with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error

For more information see Knowledge Base article K00000564.

adTempus may fail to start when running under non-English version of Windows

For more information see Knowledge Base article K00000573.

When using the Go To Job command, the job list should be scrolled to bring the selected job into view
Import/Export
Importing a job may not remove deleted steps or other objects
A job exists on server A and server B. On server A, you delete a step from the job, then export the job and import it on server B. After import, the deleted step is still present on server B; it should have been removed by the import. The same problem may occur with other parts of the job (triggers, conditions, responses, etc.). This problem was resolved.
Installation
Database Configuration Wizard and Database Utility fail when TLS 1.0 disabled

For more information see Knowledge Base article K00000562.

Scripting
Script or Script Library compilation fails with file access error
If two jobs run at the same time that use the same Script or Script Library, and that script or library has been modified since it was last used, one of the jobs may fail with error "Script compilation error: Unable to write output file..." If the job is rerun it works correctly.