DCM 26.04 (6.5) Release Notes

Introducing a new “System” type of audit message that can be used to highlight system-level issues that occur during an audit.

Remediation tasks in the Data Quality Workspace now follow the same navigation flow as certification tasks. Clicking “Remediate” on the task grid opens a task-scoped remediation page with appropriate labels, filters, and instructions.

Sometimes, a single audited record can refer to thousands of other records, and this can cause issues at audit runtime. Usually, these records are not defined according to the planned model, or there’s a logical issue in the blueprint. Therefore, we added a limit that will ignore this link for the record, produce a system-level message, and continue auditing other records.

Read more from the related knowledge article describing audit limits.

The Audit Results Viewer now displays the record filter that was applied when the audit was run, giving auditors immediate visibility into the scope of the audit results.

Renamed the “Task Configurations” related list on the Blueprint Version form to “Remediation Task Configs” and added a new “Certification Task Configs” related list for easier access to certification-related configurations.

Data Certification Entries now have a descriptive name combining the audited record name and the blueprint element, making them easier to identify in list views.

The certification page can now show details of a referenced record on the side panel. This is now available for Reference fields and we plan to implement something similar for relationships, too.

Data providers can now edit and update data on compliant certification entries, not just on non-compliant ones. This allows corrections or updates to already-compliant data during the certification process.

The certification page now displays the task number and current status, so data providers can see which task they are working on and track its progress. Reopening a closed task no longer resets its status.

Added Table/Class and Status dropdown filters to the Certification Task grid. Filters show user-friendly display names and only include tables where the current user has tasks.

Fine-tuned the Data Certification Configuration form: adjusted assignment field alignment, updated the default audit message condition, and added a “Managed by” reference field.

Renamed “My Open Tasks” to “My Remediation Tasks” under My Work in the Data Quality Workspace, and merged the personal and group task views into a single, filterable list.

A refresh button has been added to the Certification Task grid, allowing task assignees to reload the list with a single click and see the latest task information without navigating away.

Added Table/Class filter to the Remediation task grid.

“Certify” action is now disabled for non-compliant elements. The user must update the value before certifying it.

Certification Tasks and Remediation Tasks now have the exact same status values.

The “Remediate” link in task notification emails now opens the task-based remediation page directly, instead of the audited record’s remediation page.

The “Remediate” action in DCM task form view now opens the task-based remediation page directly, instead of the audited record’s remediation page. The action was also relabeled to “Remediate in Workspace”.

Various minor improvements to DCM reports and dashboards for better usability and accuracy.

Updated list and form views for the Audit Result-to-CI and UAM-to-CI database views, so data visualization drilldowns now display meaningful columns instead of defaults.

Added data visualizations based on system audit messages, giving auditors visibility into audit issues and anomalies directly from the dashboard.

Workspace users can select one of their groups to filter the My Records list.

Non-compliant certification entries now display a visual tag indicating the deviation level (e.g. Critical, Warning), making it easy to distinguish them from compliant entries on the certification page.

The remediator component now supports removing many-to-many relationships during both remediation and certification. Previously, users could only add new related records but not remove existing ones.

Fixed an issue where audit messages containing Unicode characters were displayed as raw hex values instead of human-readable text.

All times on the Audit Home page should now show in user’s local time.

Blueprint version on a Scheduled Audit gets automatically updated to the latest published blueprint version when a new version is published.

This only applies to audits where the “Use latest published version” is selected.

“Data Management Group” reference added to Audit Categories. These groups can be used to assign tasks or identified as a data provider group using default options.

Fixed an issue where the Blueprint Preview no longer warned users about incorrect audit directions (e.g. after changing the root class). The preview now correctly detects and reports these configuration errors.

Fixed a remediation failure that occurred when trying to update Life Cycle Stage and Status fields from the certification page. These dependent fields are now handled correctly during certification.

Fixed an issue where the Certified/Open/Rejected counters on the certification page were not updated after using “Update & Certify” on link elements that were scrolled out of view.

Fixed remediator component action buttons that were non-functional on the certification page for unsupported field types. The actions now work correctly, or are hidden when the field type cannot be remediated inline.

Fixed an issue where Reference List fields appeared empty on the certification page even when they contained values. Reference List fields are now rendered correctly, consistent with many-to-many relationships.

Fixed a bug where the certification task frequency setting was ignored, causing new certification tasks to be generated on every audit run instead of respecting the configured interval (e.g. 30 days).

Fixed the Blueprint Element picker on the Certification Guidance form so it only lists elements belonging to the selected blueprint, instead of showing elements from all blueprints.

NA since this is something new in this release

Some certification entries, or blueprint elements, leaked from previous blueprint versions to the new certification tasks created with a different blueprint version. This should not happen anymore.

The issue was caused by a blueprint that included elements that are not available in the instance. For example, a field condition for a field that doesn’t exist.

At first, we fix this by adding additional validation checks to the Blueprint Designer, so that users cannot publish blueprints that include non-existent fields.

The certification page had an issue when a blueprint included the same reference multiple times, for example, a Parent reference on a location hierarchy. This has been fixed.

Fixed unnecessary horizontal and vertical scroll bars appearing on the DCM Home Page, even when sufficient screen space was available.

Updated Blueprint Version’s related lists for certification and remediation task configurations.

When a record that previously had critical or minor deviations open, but are now fixed, it will show as Compliant even if it still has Info messages open.

Improved the display field resolution logic to ensure a valid and consistent display field is always selected for a table, even when the table configuration is incomplete or contains multiple display fields.

Fixed an issue where the class filter was unavailable when the My Records query limit was exceeded. The class filter now works as a server-side filter, allowing users to narrow results even when the total record count exceeds the limit.

Added support for URL field types in the Remediator component. Previously, URL fields could not be edited inline during remediation.